Melissa Nipper, on December 10th, 2007 at 4:09 pm Said:
As I travel down Man o’ War Boulevard from Tates Creek Road toward Nicholasville Road, I notice they are moving dirt, staking out land and perhaps getting ready to put in infrastructure on the left (just past Waterford/Clearwater Way). What is planned for this [...]

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Ronald K | rkali0@engr.uky.edu posted December 18th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I want to do cross-country skiing around Lexington. Do you know any trail that I could take?
Catherine Monzingo, member of the Lexington Ski and Sports Club, suggested three locations gathered from other ski club members: Masterson Station Park; Jacobson Park, and UK’s Arboretum. [...]

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Where is the highest point of elevation in Fayette County? I was told once that it was near winchester and New Circle Roads. The view from the overpass is awesome.
In the 1979 Kentucky Geological Survey publication Topography of Kentucky, by Preston McGrain and James C. Currens, the highest elevation in Fayette County is listed as [...]

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I have noticed that the H-L is now using the very trendy double diacritical marks for the spelling of resumé or résumé. It seems to me, that if you use the French spelling of the word, with two accents ague, you should pronounce it (ray zoo may) and not (rez oo may). [...]

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What’s the story about the odd-looking new building on the southeast
corner of Vine and Mill?
The building houses the U.S. Attorney’s office. It was built by JDL Lexington, a real estate company based in Winston-Salem, NC. They lease the building to the federal government. As to its “odd-looking” appearance, David Shannon of JDL, said the building [...]

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Question: There used to be a musical group called the Magnificent Seven from Lexington that played in the 60s. Did they ever make records and are they still playing together as a group?
Answer: I talked to Tony Stallard, who started the group in 1959.  He says the group is no longer playing together and that [...]

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Question: When will the Flying Horse of Gansu ever return to its perch on Main Street?  Also, how much did the repair cost and who will pay for the repairs?
Answer: The flying Chinese horse statue next to Chase Bank on East Main Street is no longer flying. It was noticed in June of this year [...]

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Question: A well-used street in Lexington is Tates Creek Road also once known as Tates Creek Pike. What exactly is a pike and is there a creek that runs near the road?
Answer: The street sign now says “Tates Creek Road” but I don¹t know when the name was changed from Takes Creek Pike. I found [...]

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Question:  How did Race Street get named and was there a race track near the street?
Answer: According to Herald-Leader archives, Race Street got its name because it led to a thoroughbred track, the one run by the Kentucky Association for the Improvement of Breeds of Livestock, and simply called the Kentucky Association track. The track [...]

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Question: Did the person upon whom the charter of George Harris from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ever live in Lexington?

Answer: Yes according to a  December 2, 1895 article on the front page of the Leader that contained this entry under the headling “End is near”:
 Lewis George Clark, the venerable old colored man who is the [...]

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