By Eva McEnrue Customers and vendors of the Lexington Farmers Market have taken keenly to its new Saturday location at the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion in Cheapside Park. The new pavilion holds the Farmers Market on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., replacing the old site on the corner of Maxwell Street and South [...]
Continue reading …With the university unable to provide any increase in pay for most of its employees, the UK Board of Trustees approved a $2.5 billion budget Tuesday that will provide one-time payments of up to $1,000 to eligible faculty and staff earning less than $70,000. In addition to this payment, UK is covering the cost of [...]
Continue reading …Alpha Tau Omega will leave behind its home of more than 50 years as the fraternity moves into a new building in preparation for the fall semester. The fraternity signed a new lease with the university for the building which was formerly the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on Pennsylvania Court, said Gail Hairston, a UK [...]
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By Sarah Pickerel After several years of planning and going through nearly 50 submissions, a volunteer committee announced their decision to place a memorial sculpture in the Arboretum in time for the fifth anniversary of the Flight 5191 crash. The volunteer committee revealed a miniature version of a memorial sculpture last Thursday, which will soon [...]
Continue reading …By Kelsey Thomas UK parking and Las Vegas seem to be an unlikely pair. But this year in Sin City, UK Parking and Transportation Services is being honored for being “more than just parking spaces and buses.” The International Parking Institute named UK PTS the 2010 Parking Organization of the Year. The award was presented [...]
Continue reading …UK journalism senior and Kernel alumna Allie Garza finished second in the national multimedia competition of the 50th annual Hearst Journalism Awards, often called the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism. She won the award for her video and photo slideshow to accompany the Kentucky Kernel article “Cutting its roots: Kentucky crop’s future unclear,” which highlighted [...]
Continue reading …UK faculty, staff, students, alumni and fans can save big on admission to Kings Island on June 12, deemed UK Day at the amusement park. The UK Alumni Association has planned various activities at an all-you-can-eat picnic at Picnic Grove, located between Planet Snoopy and Boomerang Bay. The picnic area will be open from 11:30 [...]
Continue reading …Men’s basketball Hood, Harrellson travel to China UK forward Josh Harrellson and guard Jon Hood recently returned from a two-week trip to China in which they, along with other collegiate basketball players, competed against local basketball clubs as part of the Sports Reach program. The team took part in a cultural exchange program geared toward [...]
Continue reading …Column by Austin Schmitt What does summer mean to you? For most college students, it means working a job you couldn’t when school was in session, laying by the pool or vacationing on some beach. Unless of course you are reading this newspaper in some classroom thinking about doing all of the activities previously listed. [...]
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