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Ben Costigna and his son dig a hole with a dibble bar during Reforest the Bluegrass, a community tree planting festival at Jacobson Park on Saturday, April 19, 2025 in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Casey Sebastiano | Staff

‘It’s beyond just tree planting.’ Volunteers plant new trees across Jacobson Park

Kenley Likins, Reporter April 23, 2025

The city of Lexington hosted the 26th annual Reforest the Bluegrass tree planting event. This event gives volunteers the opportunity to plant new trees across different parks in Lexington. Held on Saturday,...

A Quest for Trash

Katherine Duckworth, Reporter May 22, 2023

While walking through the pine forest of Jacobson Park in November 2022, Cliff Jaggie, Liz Otto, and their 12-year-old beagle, Scrappy, noticed something concerning lurking among the trees . No matter...

HauntedHouseCover

We came, we saw, we ran away screaming

Kernel Staff October 26, 2017

Waiting in line for a haunted house can be a little uncomfortable.The nervous folks in line have to watch and wonder as other shrieking customers burst through the exit doors to the steady hum of chainsaws...

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