Opinion

As the school year has ended and nicer weather is here, it is time to get your children outside to play.  There are many advantages for children engaging in outside play, including reducing their screen time. All winter they have spent their free time connected to a screen —TVs, smartphones, video games, notebooks, etc. This is a habit that may have long term results. 

As many of you have already heard, Hodgenville Fire Chief Wally Sparks passed away on Wednesday, May 17 and his funeral was on Monday, May 22.

A lot of people have shared their memories of Wally on social media sites. When someone has served in a community for almost three decades, a lot of memories have no doubt been made by many people.

I came to know Wally really well after I started working at The LaRue County Herald News in June 2015. Actually, he was the first person I talked to on the first day of my job.

We feel more energized by the longer days and warmer temperatures of spring. UK Eldercare reminds us now may be a good time to consider a spring cleaning with your loved one in their home.

It may provide valuable insight into how your loved one is managing as they age. It also provides a chance to improve the safety of your loved one’s home; increase the ease of their living condition by reorganizing and replacing worn out items; and evaluate the quality of your loved one’s life and assess if additional help may be needed.

For those of you who actively use your browser thinking that you are secure because you use anonymous sites or anonymous browsing, where your history is erased when you exit, be ready for the new world.

Last November 2016, it was disclosed that the FBI operated a child porn site using what is called an anonymous Tor (think dark web, untraceable – used to be) network called Playpen for almost two weeks in 2015.

I am now a married man.

I married the love of my life, Danielle Sexton, on April 22. Despite the rain, the wedding was everything that we both dreamed of it being.

We decided to do a common ritual that couples often do before they say “I do.” We didn’t see or talk to each other on our wedding day before the ceremony, but we wrote each other a letter. We had decided to write it in a way to where our children could read it years later and know what their parents were thinking before they said their vows.

Last week, it was an honor to be invited and to attend the Campbellsville University media appreciation luncheon.

Print and broadcast media from around the state were in attendance for the event that took on a global traveling theme around the adventures of the guest speaker, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Bill Luster. I sat in awe listening to him recant his journeys and seeing the images that could move mountains, and I found myself wondering just how I got here and what difference am I making in this world.

If you have not already, you will begin hearing your voice and data provider telling you that 5G is on the way. Oh my, 5G! Is that a good thing and what will it cost me?

Since this is the period of the Legislative Session when the Governor has his veto days and the Senate does not meet, I wanted to discuss the issue of making health care more accessible and more affordable for all Kentuckians. As the former CEO of a rural hospital, improving health care was a major factor that drove my decision to run for public office.

After a successful Winter Gala everyone wants to know what happens next? What’s the next big thing? We have had more than one person ask these questions.

We are in full swing at the Chamber and we are attempting to visit our current members while also visiting potential members. If we haven’t visited you, don’t worry we will get by to see you very soon.