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The Kentucky Theatre hosts “And The Creek Rose,” a fundraising event benefiting Appalshop and the Appalachian Media Institution (AMI) on Sept. 16, 2022, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Rayleigh Deaton | Kentucky Kernel

‘Not a building.’ Kentucky Theatre hosts benefit event for Appalshop in wake of flooding

Rayleigh Deaton, Editor-in-Chief September 26, 2022

The Kentucky Theatre hosted “And The Creek Rose,” a fundraising event benefiting Appalshop and the Appalachian Media Institution (AMI). Held on Sept. 16, the evening featured local musicians, a...

Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, Doug Boyd, poses for a portrait on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Abbey Cutrer | Staff

Humans of UK: Dr. Doug Boyd preserves the future of the past

Emily Girard, Features Editor August 25, 2022

Dr. Doug Boyd had seen pictures of flooding in Eastern Kentucky before he drove to Letcher County, but when he got there, Boyd said pictures didn’t do the situation justice. “Seeing houses that...

We are there. UK offers resources to students after eastern KY flooding

‘We are there.’ UK offers resources to students after eastern KY flooding

Emily Girard July 31, 2022

UK’s Office of Student Success has mobilized to provide support to eastern Kentucky after floods brought on by heavy rain Wednesday and Thursday.  UK president Eli Capilouto explained in an email...

Estill County resident Joey Dobson surveys the yard of his aunts house, which was damaged by flooding in 2021 floods in Kentucky. Photo by Brooklyn Kelley | Staff

Left with little, one Kentucky county slowly picks up the pieces after record floods

Brooklyn Kelley March 11, 2021

With no way in and no way out, citizens of Estill County in Eastern Kentucky were left to watch as floods destroyed the fabric of their lives.According to the National Weather Service, on March 3 the Kentucky...

The walls of the Bolivar art gallery in the School of Art and Visual Studies were cleared of artwork after the SAVS buildings second floor bathrooms flooded on the morning of Monday, March 26, 2018. 

No artwork harmed in SAVS sewage flood

Rick Childress March 26, 2018

UPDATE: Classes will resume tomorrow, SAVS said via email Monday afternoon. Plumbing in the building has been repaired.Students and faculty rushed to move endangered artwork after 10 toilets on the second...

Members of the UK Physical Plant Division watched as the parking lot and walkway outside Funkhouser was flooded with ankle deep water due to a broken water line on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

Broken water line caused ankle-deep flooding in walkway, parking lot at Funkhouser

Kernel News Staff November 29, 2017

Hundreds of gallons of water filled part of the parking lot and walkway in front of Funkhouser on Wednesday morning due to a broken water line. UK spokesperson Kathy Johnson said the water line that feeds...

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