Author: WNKY Staff

Cultivate Kindness celebrates son’s life

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A local family is celebrating the life of two lost loved ones by helping better the community. Cultivate Kindness was created by the Loid family after they lost their daughter McKenzi to a drunk driver. This past spring, they also lost their son Tommy after a horse back riding accident. Earlier this week, they celebrated his…

Strode named Director for regional campuses

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Western Kentucky University announced Thursday  that Dr. Derick B. Strode has been named Director for Regional Campuses. Strode has worked at WKU for 17 years and has extensive experience in student recruitment, advising, and academic services. He began his WKU career in 2004 as an admissions counselor, later becoming an international student advisor. In 2008, Strode…

WKU education professor completes Fulbright project in Colombia

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Dr. Beckie Stobaugh, professor in Western Kentucky University’s School of Teacher Education, recently spent 15 days in Colombia as part of the Fulbright Specialist Program. Dr. Stobaugh’s project at the University of Colombia in Cartagena centered on two goals: developing asynchronous learning modules to help their university faculty fully implement formative assessment and conducting a training…

Bluegrass Dedicated LLC expanding fleet

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – July 8th, 2021 – Bluegrass Dedicated LLC announces the purchase of twenty-five new semi-trailer trucks to further expand its growing fleet and capacity for customers in the area. “We are making over a three-million-dollar investment to further facilitate the growth of our company, and to accommodate the need in our area. Because of the tremendous influx…