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  • Well paid should never complain about wages

    As a way of sparking some potential interesting letters to the editor, I would like to offer up the conversation regarding the current situation in the NFL.
    Referees!!!
    Love them or hate them, they are just as much part of any game played as the athletes are.
    Take referees out of a game and we would be stuck watching a variation of the ultimate fighter in most cases... which could prove to be interesting in some cases.

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  • Using dowsing technique to determine melon’s ripeness

    Sometimes I’m left scratching my head and feeling like perhaps somewhere there is a camera filming my reaction to some silly situation.
    As I’ve said before, this is my second year growing a box garden in my backyard.
    Last year it was tomatoes and herbs. This year, tomatoes, watermelon and cantaloupe.
    I didn’t know what to expect when I planted the melons. Certainly not that they would overflow the box and stretch into my yard.
    But they did.

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  • Crossword Puzzle

    ACROSS
    1. Put to the metal?
    6. British rule over India prior to 1947
    9. Gas giver
    13. Grooves in rocks, e.g.
    14. Flightless bird
    15. Mr. in Mexico
    16. Arm-__-___
    17. ___ Kempner, famous socialite
    18. Speak one’s mind
    19. From times long ago
    21. *”Anna Karenina” author
    23. ___ date
    24. C&H crop
    25. Pacquiao move, e.g.
    28. a.k.a. “The Biggest Little City in the World”
    30. Preserve, as in body

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  • From White Castle to fine finger foods

    “It’s time for football in the Bluegrass!!!”
    I never get tired of hearing that chilling phrase or the jets flying over after the National Anthem is played.
    Kentucky football, support it or not, is here again.
    During my college days, which were highlighted by watching players like Andre’ Woodson, Jacob Tamme, Keenan Burton, Wesley Woodyard, Rafael Little and of course Steve Johnson, I had an opportunity to experience some of the best UK football ever played.

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  • Company's coming, put on the shine

    When Cynthiana City Commissioner Billy Grayson took office he began a campaign to clean up the city.
    He asked business owners and residents to take pride in their property.
    “Company’s coming,” he has been heard to say numerous times at city commission meetings.
    He explained that if visitors come to Cynthiana, we want to put our best foot forward, much like you would at home if you knew guests were coming.

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  • Crossword Puzzle

    Across
    1. Writer _____ Asimov
    6. *Quality of a football lineman
    9. Shakespeare, e.g.
    13. Stallion’s cry
    14. University of Rhode Island
    15. Used in printing
    16. Gymnast Comaneci
    17. Man’s tasseled hat
    18. Unlace
    19. FEMA help, e.g.
    21. *He’s now a Bronco
    23. *Defensive ___
    24. Deal with it
    25. *It airs Sunday night football
    28. Silage holder
    30. *Last year’s BCS runner-up
    35. Having wings

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  • Not exactly a David vs. Goliath but pretty close

    Well, I made it through my first-ever strongman contest and it wasn’t a total bust... other than my head.
    Those who know me well, know that I have been working with a local talented strongman competitor.
    I met Rob McCann a few years ago when he held Harrison County’s first Kentucky’s Strongest Man competition at Lenono’s parking lot.
    I went to take pictures of the event and you know how the story goes, I was hooked on the idea of lifting really heavy things like the pros did.

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  • Crossword Puzzle

    Across
    1. Results of too much credit card use
    6. French lake
    9. Short for Theodora
    13. *Frost over, like an old refrigerator freezer
    14. “Much ___ About Nothing”
    15. Early morning sound
    16. “Sex and the City 2” destination Abu _____
    17. Eric Stonestreet on “Modern Family”
    18. *Done before drying
    19. Larry Ellison’s company
    21. *Make sure the top of this is on
    23. Romanian money
    24. Crucifix
    25. Actors’ group

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  • I’m livin’ a tomato dream; don’t wake me

    Last year I elaborated on the woes of my “garden” and the tomatoes it didn’t produce.
    It’s only fitting that I come back with my Year Two assessment.
    As you may or may not remember, my son made an 8-by-8 raised bed for me last year as part of my Mothers’ Day gift.
    I planted possibly too many plants in the limited area. That, combined with too much rain and water from the hose, made for less than desirable produce.

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  • Crossword Puzzle

    Across
    1. Like a tasteless remark
    6. Precedes Nov.
    9. Wood file
    13. Slow in music
    14. _____ Beta Kappa
    15. Historic 66
    16. One with a healthy appetite is often called a good _____
    17. Even, to a poet
    18. Relating to sight
    19. *Author of the “The Feminine Mystique”
    21. *Woodstock site
    23. Mammoth excavation site, e.g.
    24. Youngster
    25. *____ and Dean
    28. Opposite of talker?
    30. Ultimate goal
    35. _ ___ course, as in college

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