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Just Ask: How do I stop the telemarketers from calling?

I seem to be getting a lot of telemarketing calls. I signed up for the no call list. Do I need to sign up again? Does it expire?

The numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007 which became law in February 2008. First, make sure you are registered. After about a month, you can file complaints about telemarketing calls.

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Through snow, rain, thank a mailman

The United States Postal Service has no official creed or motto. An inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City reads: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

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Elections indeed have consequences

My friend, Wayne, and I often talk politics. It’s a safe zone for us because we have similar views and expectations. He recently reminded me of a notable quote from January 2009.

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Memories of old dogs and children last a long, long time

Last Friday, I said goodbye to one of the best friends I’ve ever had.

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LETTER: Baseball fundraiser was successful

Baseball fundraiser thanks

The LaRue County Hawk Baseball team would like to express their appreciation to the community for their support at the Jan. 19 spaghetti dinner.

We would like to express a special thank you to Coach Beauford Sanders of Campbellsville University, Stevie Delabar of the Toronto Blue Jays, Jody Thurman, The Sweet Shoppe, Save-A-Lot, IGA, Lincoln National Bank, Bank of Buffalo, Magnolia Bank and The LaRue County Herald News.

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JUST ASK: Why don't fire departments offer report to county?

Why don’t the county fire departments give monthly reports to Fiscal Court like the city fire department gives to City Council?

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Down with noodles, chili snobs unite

I am a chili snob. I admit it.

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BILL HAYES COLUMN: A View From the Mountain

Four years and a few months ago, before the Obama/Biden ticket decided it couldn’t win in Kentucky and the rest of the coal producing states, I was in Frankfort sitting around the Governor’s Office of Local Development with Dick Prelopski, the Director and Leo Haggarty, East Kentucky field rep one afternoon. A call came in from National Public Radio, NPR. John Hockenberry, NPR news show host, wanted to talk to someone in Kentucky about what the Obama campaign had to do to be competitive in Kentucky.

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