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Growing your business with government contracts

If you’ve ever filled out a request for proposal for a government contract, you know those RFPs require some I dotting and T-crossing expertise. Enter PTAC.The Kentucky Procurement Technical Assistance...

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Getting in early and waiting for downtown area to launch

When Ron L. Brown decided to open his wealth management business in downtown Lexington, he never imagined that the building’s paint job would be what caused a stir.For a better...

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National Provisions expands with European-style grocery

Andrea Sims and Krim Boughalem, the owners of Table Three Ten and National Boulangerie, have expanded their National Provisions operation yet again with its fourth phase: the opening...

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Alltech’s Pearse Lyons: REBELation with a cause

Few can imagine the topic of yeast as entertaining, powerful or motivating. Yet the story of this microscopic organism in the life of Pearse Lyons’ Alltech empire is one for the business books: a tale...

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Great American Fitness Challenge urges everyone to ‘get in the game’

The Kentucky Horse Park’s renowned steeplechase course, usually reserved for elite equines, will become the exercise playground of fitness enthusiasts from across the region in June,...

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Banking on industrial hemp

Industrial hemp is getting a lot of ink, air time and social media attention in Kentucky lately.In the second year of the state’s hemp pilot program, 121 farmers were selected to grow a total of 1,740...

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Grammar Gourmet: We saw her duck

Here’s a literary Rorschach test. Read the following sentence slowly and decide what it means to you: I saw a man at CentrePointe with a telescope.If you’re like me, you interpret it this way: There’s...

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Keene Trace combines two courses to tee up championship-caliber golf experience

When the Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville was created last year, the goal was to make it something more than the sum of its parts.Formed — and named — by combing the...

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Kentucky Bancshares set to grow with purchase of Richmond-based Madison...

Paris-based Kentucky Bancshares Inc. expects final approval by the third quarter of this year for an acquisition of Richmond-based Madison Financial Corp., the parent company of Madison Bank.“In our...

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Freakonomics authors take readers’ train of thought off the tracks

You’ve just completed the training period for your new job when you receive “The Offer.” You can quit your job, get paid for training time and even get a bonus roughly equal to your first month’s pay....

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Who's Who for June 2015

New Hires & PromotionsElectrical company AES Louisville has opened a new office in Lexington, and Carter Wasson will be heading...

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Dozens of Lorillard Lofts unit sold at auction

More than two dozen units in a debt-ridden Lexington lofts project have been sold at a court-ordered auction to satisfy loans made by a bank to a local developer.Lorillard Lofts, named for the tobacco...

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Sumitomo breaks ground on expanded Lexington facility

Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems Inc. broke ground Monday on a new 440,000-square-foot facility in Lexington.The company, which supplies wire harnesses, components and electronics to the automotive...

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Michler's opens 'neighborhood oasis' Kentucky Native Cafe

Robin MichlerSomething new has sprouted at Michler’s Florist, Greenhouse and Garden Design, the 113-year-old Lexington nursery on East Maxwell Street.Kentucky Native...

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National Avenue area becomes 'Warehouse Block'

The National Avenue area, the burgeoning urban corridor east of downtown near the popular Kenwick and Mentelle neighborhoods, is being rebranded as "Warehouse Block," complete with signs...

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American Founders Bank sells Lexington branches

American Founders Bank Inc. has sold three Lexington branches to City National Bank of West Virginia, City National’s parent company has announced.City Holding Company said City National will pay...

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Pete’s Properties: Southsider Real Estate Sales June 2015

Recent arm’s length residential sales for this magazine’s distribution area. Information compiled by Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator David O’Neill. For more information on any of these...

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Pete’s Properties: Chevy Chaser Real Estate Sales June 2015

Recent arm’s length residential sales for this magazine’s distribution area. Information compiled by Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator David O’Neill. For more information on any of these...

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Observations: Losing your driving rights

Ask anybody who is dealing with the aging process what the hardest change to adjust to is, and I’m sure the answer will be, hands down, having to give up driving! If we think the current generation is...

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Mother’s Little Helper: Mommy workouts with baby in tow are on the rise in...

For many new mothers, the day-to-day demands of taking care of a baby might make getting to the gym seem like more of an unobtainable luxury. But thanks to a growing number of local fitness...

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