Author: WNKY Staff

WKU Tickets Hosts Basketball Select-A-Seat Event

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The WKU Ticket Office hosted a Men’s and Women’s Basketball Select-A-Seat event inside E.A. Diddle Arena tonight. Current and prospective season ticket holders for men’s and women’s basketball were welcomed to the John O. Oldham Court in Diddle Arena to purchase new season tickets, upgrade current season tickets and/or refer friends and family to season tickets for…

UPDATE: KSP Post 3 phone service repaired

Update BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Kentucky State Police says all phone lines for Post 3 are back in service. The Use of alternate numbers has been discontinued. Original Story  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Kentucky State Police Post 3 is currently experiencing an outage with local, administrative and emergency 911 phone lines. Emergency 911 lines have been routed to and…

Clinic to teach the basics of responsible babysitting

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Does your child need a summer job but has no experience with a classic job like babysitting? You’re in luck – The Medical Center at Bowling Green is hosting a babysitting clinic on June 14 and July 20. During the clinic, children and teens ages 11 through 17 learn about responsible babysitting, including basic tips like…

It’s National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

Photo source: CNN(CNN) – With the weather warming up, what better time is there to celebrate National Chocolate Ice Cream Day on Wednesday? Chocolate-flavored ice cream has been around America for more than 100 years. It’s also the second most common flavor after vanilla. You can enjoy the day with a chocolate ice cream cone or sundae, and you can…

Car ends up in pool following fatal shooting

Photo source: WAVELOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Louisville police say a man was shot while driving his car then crashed it into a swimming pool. Police say people hot him out of the submerged vehicle and gave him medical aid. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition but later died. No one was in or around the pool at…

What to know about road changes for Duncan Hines Days

Photo source: City of Bowling Green BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – There will be some changes to parking and road closures in downtown Bowling Green for Duncan Hines Days events on Thursday, June 8. Here are the upcoming events and respective closures to expect: At 1 p.m., drivers can expect a closure at the intersection of Park Row and College Street…

Duncan Hines Days to serve up celebration in downtown Bowling Green

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Duncan Hines Days is taking over Bowling Green, and you can catch some fun events starting Thursday right here downtown. On Thursday, June 8 at 3 p.m., the classics roll into town for the Vintage Car Cruise-In. Later that evening at 5 p.m., you can join the community for Uncle Duncan’s Walk n’ Wheels Parade. The…

Community Driven: Jackrabbit Jog 5k

For this week’s edition of Community Driven, we sat down with Ryan Dearbone. He spoke to us about how this year’s Jackrabbit Jog went. This is Ryan’s eighth-year organizing the jog, honoring his late mother, and raising awareness for Polycystic Kidney Disease. This race happens annually and raised $20,000 for research into the illness this year alone. If you want…

Dr. Lyndsey Thomason named as new principal of Richardsville Elementary

Photo source: Warren County Public SchoolsBOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Dr. Lyndsey Thomason has been selected as the next principal of Richardsville Elementary. In a release from Warren County Public Schools, the district says Thomason has served at Richardsville Elementary for the past four years, first as the student services coordinator and then most recently as dean of students. Before starting…

Kentucky Mesonet at WKU adds station in Russell County

Photo courtesy of WKUOno, Ky. – The Kentucky Mesonet at Western Kentucky University is branching out. On Tuesday, a ribbon cutting celebrated a new weather and climate monitoring site in Russell County. According to a release from WKU, the station includes a 33-foot tower with instrumentation that measures air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation and solar radiation….