I was in the Beaver Dam City Building on Monday to purchase a business license (Who knew?), when I was informed the city had thought about having a kickball tournament during the Strawberry Festival at the Beaver Dam Family Park. Apparently, there was an issue with getting the word out to the parties who might be interested and thus the tournament is not to be. The city’s plan would have different tournamen ...

The school year is nearing its end and that means students will be taking their KPREP (Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress) tests. The KPREP test will assess what a student has learned during the school year and will enable the state to give the school system a "report card," so to speak, on how well they taught the students. But enough talk of the tests, let's get to the fun stuff. Each ye ...

I'm watching Hurricane Isaac coverage on the Weather Channel and they are talking about the Army Corp of Engineers potentially breeching a levee to help flood waters drain from New Orleans.  For those that don't know, New Orleans is a very old city that was actually built below sea level. Any time a big storm heads that way following Hurricane Katrina, it's devastating since the city is essentially a bowl. ...

Last Friday night I attended the first Movies in the Park at the Ohio County Park. This event was put on by the Kentucky Music Park, which is the brainchild of Dr. Susan Matthews. Movies in the Park is exactly what it sounds like. A large screen was on the stage of the amphitheater and a DVD projector was used to screen Friday the 13th parts one and two. Why did it take so long for someone to think of this ...

Thought I would drop a quick OTB post about an app I stumbled upon recently that gives you a ton of information you didn't even know you had or at least couldn't access quickly, until now. A company called Xobni (yes, it's a weird name) has created an app called Smartr contacts that is really almost too good to be true. See, we all have address books on our computers, contact lists in our phones, friends li ...