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How to Bike from Oregon to Kentucky in 19 Days

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Meet the Immigrant Who Runs Old Forester

The beer was a pilsner called Pilsner. This was in Juan Merizalde’s home country of Ecuador, where the legal drinking age is 18. The point is, no bourbon.

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Meet the Woman Who Runs Beecher Terrace’s Community Center

The late-summer air is no longer air. Just a broth set at simmer. Maybe that’s what’s keeping the kids away on this Tuesday. “There’s not one single kid,” René Douglas says, a bit bewildered.

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Meet the U of L Marching Band's Acclaimed Twirler

Before she steps onto the football field at halftime — before she goes leaping off hither and yon, tossing silver batons high into the sky as the U of L marching band plays James Brown’s “I Feel Go

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This Teacher Is Bringing Kendrick to the Classroom

Today, the students are learning about rapper Kendrick Lamar.

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Woman Celebrates 30 Years of Working at McDonald’s

If you’ve been to the Brownsboro Road McDonald’s across from the Holiday Manor Shopping Center at all since 1989, you’ve probably met Tammy Clasby. And she probably remembers you.

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Meet the Teenager Who Started an After-School Mentorship Program for Girls

When Nico Thom was a 15-year-old student at Highlands High School, in Fort Thomas in northern Kentucky — a place where, she says, “the mindset, whether people want to admit it or not, is like, ‘Mar

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The King of Central High School Basketball

“I’ve always been a shooter. That’s a fact,” Ron King says.

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House of Hope, A Home for Women Recovering from Addiction

When talking about House of Hope, a halfway home for single homeless women recovering from addiction, Tangy Hunter-Hughes uses the word “we.” Example: “

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Climber Dru Mack Always Gets Back Up

Dru Mack can’t quite catch the next hold. It’s a small one, about the size and shape of a Little Debbie snack cake, on a climbing route at Climb NuLu.

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On the Court with the President of the West Louisville Tennis Club

By Charles Wolford and Dylon Jones

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Kids Take on the Climate Catastrophe

When Fernanda Scharfenberger, a 17-year-old senior at Presentation Academy, first got involved with environmental activism, she often heard, “Oh,

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Journalism For Teens, By Teens

Weekly staff meetings for On the Record, the student-run magazine housed in the journalism and communications department at duPont Manual High Sch

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She Uses Yoga as a Tool for Recovering From Addiction

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We Will Never Be as Cool as This 100-Year-Old Nun

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