A two-day treasure hunt, billed as the World’s Greatest Studio Tour and Art Sale, was free to the public Saturday and Sunday in Bowling Green and Alvaton. Twenty-one locations displayed the original work of local artists. One-of-a-kind ceramics and pottery in stoneware, porcelain and raku were abundant, as well as hand-crafted jewelry, woven wall hangings, [...]

Martha Schrimsher, 68, still rakes her own leaves outside the home she rents, despite being a great-grandmother.
“I’ll keep going ‘til the Lord takes me,” Schrimsher said.
Though the yard work wears her out, Schrimsher said she does a little bit each day and is able to get by.
“I’ve got to keep working,” she said. “I’ll [...]

Western Kentucky University’s campus remained draped in darkness from the night before. The traffic lights worked tirelessly under a star-filled sky, although no motorists were on the road to abide by them yet.
Micah Brandt, a building services attendant, had been at work in Tate Page Hall since 4 a.m. The long curved hallways of the [...]

James Huntsberry, a senior from Seattle, Wash., and Tedde Harden, a graduate student from Otisville, N.Y., hosted the grand opening of the Saharan Lounge hookah bar in Bowling Green on Friday night.
Huntsberry and Harden decided to start the business together after meeting at a hookah party in 2005.
“Jimmy had the vision,” Harden said. “We thought [...]

It was a slow morning at the restaurant. There were only a few customers as the Rev. Roger Reed looked up from the Colts game to make a quick scan of the tables.

“I just don’t think anybody knows we’re open yet,” Reed said.

This was the first time Reed has opened his restaurant, Shake Rag Reed’s, on a Sunday.

Growing up in a household with a lot of kids — 12 in all — Walter Steele became familiar with doing loads of dirty laundry.

“Momma taught me at an early age, so I had to like it,” he said. “There was a lot of kids in my family, so I had to learn quick.”

In 2001, Hank Hadley had two goals in mind: a great job and an education. When he arrived in the United States, he was determined to achieve his two goals. The 26 year old from Pohnpei, Micronesia, left his $1.35-an-hour job to come to Bowling Green to work as a chef at the Shogun of [...]

Vietnam veteran Chris Goodrow lives under a bridge in Bowling Green, just south of campus, with several others that call themselves “bridge people.”
“This is real. I’m not famous, or the president or anyone too interesting, but this is real life and I won’t put a mask on for you,” Goodrow said.
He said he now suffers [...]