Author: Meghann Stamps

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Bowling Green votes to raise occupational tax for the first time in over 15 years

Business owners, what does this mean for you?
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – In a 3-2 vote, Bowling Green City commissioners have decided to raise the city occupational tax. Bowling Green business owners, this means you’ll be seeing a 0.15 percent occupational tax increase beginning January of next year. This binding vote carries great weight for the city, seeing as Bowling Green’s last occupational tax raise took place over…

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Discover the beauty of SoKY’s outdoors: participate in the Cave Country Trails Challenge for your chance to win big!

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MUNFORDVILLE, Ky. – Outdoors lovers, Cave Country Trails is officially back for its second year in a row, and participants are once again eligible for huge prize packages. Last year in its debut, the challenge encouraged SoKY to get out and enjoy our free outdoor trails with a prize incentive just for posting. This year, once again, you can enter…

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Spring into action: embrace intentional planting: SoKY’s birds & bees need you!

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The University of Kentucky Warren County Agriculture Extension Monarch Waystation is shaping up for springtime. However, these Master Gardeners have a bigger goal than beautifying the area. “Our Monarch Waystation is planted with purpose,” explained Master Gardner Kathee Morgeson. “Everything that we plant here is either for nectar to attract the butterflies or for the host…

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Empowerment and awareness against sexual violence: Bowling Green unites for Hope Harbor’s Take Back the Night

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Bowling Green’s Hope Harbor helped once again brought the community together to raise sexual violence awareness. The nonprofit celebrated its annual Take Back the Night event Friday night at the SoKY Marketplace Pavilion, Hope Harbor united local food trucks, nonprofits, and small businesses to create a platform for empowerment and awareness against sexual violence.  The organization…

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NCM opens McMichael Family Education Gallery: 2,500 square ft. interactive learning experience

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Thursday night, the National Corvette Museum opens doors to a whole new type of interactive learning experience, welcoming lifelong members to check out their new McMichael Family Education Gallery. The 2,500-square-foot dedicated education gallery provides a state-of-the-art educational experience geared directly to the next generation of Corvette enthusiasts, engineers, designers, and other big dreamers. The new…

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6 shotgun shells later: the miraculous recovery of an injured bald eagle from rescue to flight

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GLASGOW, Ky. – Though flying might seem routine for America’s symbol of freedom, one particular bald eagle fought long and hard to be back in the skies Thursday, after enduring a cruel fate. “We came up to him. He was obviously not doing well, so it wasn’t moving real fast,” recalled US Army Corps of Engineers Dam Operator Richard Hatcher….

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Butler Co. archery soars to new heights: Senior Bear clutches 2nd in Girls State Championship

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MORGANTOWN, Ky. – Butler County High School senior Tobin Maxfield is just one of the growing numbers of SoKY athletes turning more and more heads toward archery. Her most recent feat, scoring a 295 to clutch runner-up in the 2023 KHSAA State Championship. “It was honestly really exciting. To see my goals be achieved was really great,” said Maxfield. Maxfield…

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Spring 2023 brings prime birding season for SoKY

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MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. – Spring 2023 is the ideal birdwatching season here in SoKY. “Spring is the time when all of our breeding birds come back from the winter grounds,” Kentucky Ornithological Society Treasurer Steve Kistler. “There’s a lot of really colorful birds that come through like Baltimore Orioles. Of course, a lot of people know Goldfinches and Cardinals and…

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