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Kroger has rules that are easy to miss, and some can cost you a little every trip. Kentuckians who shop there can avoid most of those surprises by knowing where to look. Here’s what to check before you pay. 1. Estimated Pickup Totals. The total at Kroger’s pickup checkout...
One farmers market on this list started out with just six vendors. Today it counts more than 90. I love that kind of glow-up, because it means a whole town kept showing up on Saturday mornings. Another market here pairs local chefs with nearby farmers for special tasting events. A...
Crumbl Cookies may be closing locations, but things are looking a little sweeter for Jersey Mike's. The sandwich chain knocked Chick-fil-A from the top of the fast-food customer-satisfaction rankings, ending an 11-year streak. Jersey Mike's debuted at No. 1 in the 2026 American Customer Satisfaction Index , edging Chick-fil-A by one point. The ranking comes as restaurants face tougher competition for increasingly cost-conscious customers. Here's what helped Jersey Mike's take the crown and where to find the chain in Ohio and Kentucky. Why is Jersey Mike's ranked higher than Chick-fil-A? Jersey Mike's earned a score of 84, topping Chick-fil-A at 83 and emerging as the new leader in customer satisfaction among fast-food chains. The ranking is based on 16,464 customer surveys conducted between April 2025 and March 2026. Chick-fil-A remains the top-rated chicken chain, but Jersey Mike’s stood out for freshness, menu variety and value, the report said. The chain added 238 locations in 2025 and reached $4.2 billion in systemwide sales. The report notes the sub chain has maintained quality while expanding rapidly. How many Jersey Mike's locations are in Ohio and Kentucky? Jersey Mike's has 141 locations in Ohio, including 13 in Cincinnati, six in Columbus and two
You know that moment when you open the freezer and find nothing but ice cubes and a lonely bag of peas? It happens to the best of us. Feeding a family these days can feel like a part time job. Grocery prices keep climbing, and your cart seems to shrink every week.
Horse-drawn buggies share the two-lane roads here with pickup trucks, and nobody seems to mind. Hand-painted signs point down gravel lanes toward farm stands, furniture shops, and bakeries run by Amish families. The community here ranks among the larger Amish settlements in Kentucky. Shops sit on family farms instead of...
Greg Davenport says he’s not opposed to progress. But he has serious misgivings when it comes to a proposed 16-inch natural gas pipeline that a public agency wants to run through his family’s Christian County farm, property his family has owned since the 1940s. “Basically, they said, ‘Sign...
Drought conditions heading into winter are significant for much of the Southeast as shown on the drought map below. Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi are good examples of the geographical differences for drought conditions. These three states have about 2.2 million beef cows total. The chart below shows each state’s share of beef cows by drought category over the past year.
Norfolk Southern used one 26-hour maintenance window on the W Line for six major projects in southern Indiana and Kentucky. The railroad describes the work as a recent window on a line that carries intermodal and automotive traffic between Midwest and Southeast markets. The account is dated October 27, 2026. It does not give the calendar day the window occurred.
One Kentucky dairy says its milk comes from a herd of mostly Brown Swiss cows, and you won’t find another single-sourced cream line milk in the state. I had to read that twice. Cream line means the cream rises to the top, the old-fashioned way. That little detail sent...
Sazerac plans to invest more than $605 million across four Kentucky facilities, including a major expansion of a recently acquired distillery in Lancaster and a new bottling operation at Buffalo Trace, Louisville Business First reported Monday. The projects, outlined in filings with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority, include investments in distilling capacity, bottling operations, […]
Old Finchville Rd. — Approximate Site of Proposed Warehouse Project. A sprawling industrial development is taking shape on a 309-acre site in Shelbyville, where Blue Steel Development plans to build two Class A distribution centers aimed at logistics, manufacturing and warehouse tenants. The project, called Steel 64, sits along Old Finchville Road, less than a mile from Interstate 64, putting it squarely in the path of the industrial growth reshaping the Louisville metro area. Construction is set to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026.
CRG Residential is celebrating an exciting milestone after unveiling three multifamily communities, representing $167.5 million in investment across three states. Three multifamily communities by CRG Residential have added 600 apartments across Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, the Indiana-based developer announced this week. At least one of the communities, The Slate Apartments...
OWENSBORO, Ky (November 2, 2026) — For her efforts in support of electric reliability and affordability, Kentucky Electric Cooperatives announced that Rep. Suzanne Miles has been recognized with its 2026 Power Partner Award. “Rep. Miles is a long-standing advocate for the consumer-members of electric co-ops,” said Chris Perry, president...
Federal officials are setting up two new disaster loan outreach centers to help Kentucky business owners, community organizations, and residents impacted by deadly storms and flooding in June.
- Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) has named Brandon and Taylor Henning of Breckinridge County as its 2026 Outstanding Young Farm Family. This annual award honors a young couple or individual who demonstrates exceptional management skill, innovation and leadership in production agriculture while remaining deeply involved in their community and the Farm Bureau organization. The Hennings placed second in the 2025 contest.
In Kentucky's former coal country, data centers are a welcome sight as people hope they will bring in money. Data centers have generated opposition all over the country. In eastern Kentucky, though, some communities are actively pursuing them, or at least they're open to them. They hope data centers can make up for the decline of coal and counter rising electricity prices. Curtis Tate with member station WEKU has the story.
The distillery in question is MB Roland, the Pembroke craft operation in Christian County that helped put western Kentucky on the craft whiskey map, and it is headed to an online auction rather than
Campari and MGP report their latest sales, Sazerac plans nearly $606 million in Kentucky projects, and Green River offers a limited number of $20 game-day refunds. We also have giving programs from Wild Turkey and Crown Royal, distribution news from Bacardi, a new Whiskey House customer portal, a 15 STARS single barrel program, and more, including Diageo’s quarterly results, Sazerac’s purchase of Full Sail Brewing, Redwood Empire’s appointment, Larrikin’s Arizona expansion and Whiskey Thief’s new Guild House events space. Read this week's Bourbon and Distillery News to learn more!
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A forum on electricity bills, rates and initiatives coming to the area that could affect utilities aimed to provide clear and reliable information Thursday night. Jenna Rector, with Bluegrass Greensource, said that Kentucky is trending back toward using more coal while using it in new ways.
November is a special and noteworthy month for Appalachian Wireless, the regional provider of telecommunications services. "It was November '91 when we had the first calls placed by the public. That's when we were first accessed by the public officially," Appalachian Wireless CEO Mike Johnson said as he reflected on the company's history. "At that time when they went online, they had six towers."
