JUNE

ARTICLES

Bardstown Paper Marks 100 Years

The Kentucky Standard in Bardstown is honoring 100 years of publishing with a yearlong celebration that includes a look back at what the paper has been, as well as what it has become.

The biggest part of the festivities is a weekly series by a local historian, Dixie Hibbs, who has written a number of books about Bardstown and Nelson County.

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Family's printing heritage started 75 years ago
J. Frank Nolan entered printing business as a teenager

J. Frank Nolan was only a teenager when the president of Oneida Baptist Institute came to him one night and told him his tuition had run out.

He’d been learning the printing business there, and rather than feel indebted to the school, he left without warning and walked throughout the night until he caught a train to Hazard.

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Papers offering perks to keep, attract employees

WANTED: Quality news staff for dinner train rides, inexpensive weekends at the lake, cash prizes and free meals.

Travel reporters aren’t the only ones getting a taste of the good life these days.

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2000 Summer Convention fast approaching

If you haven't made plans yet to “Come Early and Stay Late” at the 2000 KPA Summer Convention in Owensboro, it's not too late.

The room reservation deadline at the Executive Inn has passed (May 31) but rooms are still available. Deadline to register for the convention itself is June 8.

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AG Opinions

• The State Journal/Finance and Administration Cabinet
• Meade County Messenger/ Meade County Fiscal Court

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Court awards legal fees to paper in open record's battle

It finally happened. A Kentucky circuit court has awarded legal fees to a newspaper forced to sue for access to public records.

The Kentucky Open Records Act permits — but does not require — courts to award attorney's fees to prevailing parties in open records litigation where the court finds that the records were willfully withheld. That part of the Act provides:

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Better Newspaper Contest Awards

General Excellence winners were announced in the Kentucky Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest during an awards banquet at the KPA 2000 Summer Convention in Owensboro.

The top winners were:

The Spencer Magnet; Laurel News-Journal; Jessamine Journal; Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville; The Winchester Sun; The Gleaner, Henderson; Lexington Herald-Leader, The Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro; and the Kentucky Kernel, University of Kentucky.

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