By Nicholas Wagner A Bowling Green Police Department squad car crosses the tracks into a neighborhood known as Little Mexico on Saturday, May 6, 2016, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Across the tracks in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Mexican nationals are celebrating Cinco de...
Life of mother and pub owner changed by drunk driving
By Michelle Hanks Johnetta Pryor, 56, said it was a normal Friday evening for her at her bar, Johnetta’s Pub on Scottsville Road in Bowling Green, while she was waiting for her son. Jeremy Pryor, Johnetta’s son, was supposed to be on his way to DJ at the pub after he...
Bowling Green residents react to confederate statue removal
By Abby Potter As passerbys hustled about their days, Walter Wilkerson, 77, sat with his thoughts in the crisp September air. Wilkerson, of Adolphus, who boasted of long southern lineage, said he believed the removal of Confederate monuments was unacceptable. “Leave...
Jimmy with Asperger’s: The Early Years
By James Humphrey It was a typical preschool classroom in Hendersonville, Tennessee, on a hot August day in 1997. Four-year-old kids were playing with toys and socializing with one another as they waited for someone to pick them up. There was one boy who didn’t have...
Traveling through a failing memory
By Emily DeLetter “I’ve been to Java, Batra, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, enzoorvort…” I’m fiddling with my napkin. I watch my sister and mom make eye contact. At the end of the table, the Cracker Barrel waitress smiles and...
Debating Marijuana in Kentucky
By Yasmine Sadrinia In the lobby of a crowded doctors office, Lisa Howard, a 53-year-old waitress from Bardstown, is patiently awaiting her appointment with her eye doctor. Howard suffers from glaucoma, a disease that damages the eye’s optic nerve. The Glaucoma...
Revamping a community favorite
By Nicole Leonard The neon lights above Bowling Green’s Capitol theater used to signify that a social event for the community and its guests lied just beyond the double doors of the building. Recently, though, those glowing letters gleam on a venue trying to establish...
A Little Taste of Bosnia in BG
By Casey McCarthy On the corner of Old Morgantown Road and Parkhurst Drive, between slender white, wooden columns, in mesh black chairs, hazed by cigarette smoke and steamy espresso, two older gentleman converse, speaking softly, in a language I don’t recognize....
Kim Greene: Chasing Dreams
By Casey McCarthy In the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, near Cherokee Park, down a tree-lined hilly lane, sits a beautiful two-story home where dreams are tended. Up the steps, the client walks into a sea-foam green nook, the word DREAM in gold...
My small, black suitcase
By Kacie Brockman I remember the continuous packing. Every Friday afternoon I would gather up my clothes for the coming school week and my ratty, stuffed golden retriever, Shadow, who was my riding companion from house to house. I would cram my belongings into my...
Domestic Violence Shelters Struggle to Meet Needs
By Olivia Mohr Domestic violence shelters in Kentucky and nationwide are struggling to meet a growing need for services. In Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Barren River Area Safe Space (BRASS) is at or above capacity most of the year. Tori Henninger, executive director...
Marijuana a solution for Kentucky’s pension crisis?
By Kaitlyn Craft For Heather Mendez, 38 of Glasgow, the pension crisis in Kentucky hits close to home with her brother being a teacher at Grapevine Elementary School in Madisonville, Kentucky. Mendez’s brother, along with thousands of other Kentucky public employees,...