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Today's Features

  • Will Jones: A teacher who will be remembered

    Countless good memories are buoying members of the North Oldham High community after the loss of an inspiring teacher.

    After waging a long battle with cancer, teacher Will Jones, 37, died early March 15.

    Madeleine Ricks, a 2009 NOHS graduate, said she is finding solace in her memories of the human geography and world history teacher.

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  • A pack of 'pacas

    She calls her baby boy for kisses. He runs over, hair flopping, big brown eyes like liquid jewels in a sweet face.

    This baby is the newest addition to Denise Coonley’s alpaca family, currently numbering a dozen. And they all get kisses, not just baby Seven.

    Coonley’s farm, Bluebonnets and Bluegrass Alpaca Farm, is located just off Ky. 22 in Ballardsville and is pretty much a one-woman operation.

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  • Young father battles silent killer

    For four weeks, he dismissed stomach pains as the result of bad food or possibly a stomach bug he could’ve contracted from his young daughters.

    After all, he’d just undergone a routine blood test and doctors saw no irregularities.

    And when his wife, Michelle, urged him to go see the doctor because his skin was turning yellow and he had lost weight, athletically-built Craig Merimee passed it off as bad lighting and fatigue from the self-diagnosed stomach bug.

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  • Cancer changes Christmas for local families

    The holidays are a time to spend with loved ones and be thankful for what we have. The Era featured two remarkable people in recent weeks, and we are grateful to have shared their stories with our readers. As 2011 draws to a close, here’s an update on Craig Merimee and Hayli Nobles — two people in very different situations this holiday season. Craig, a 33-year-old father of three, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer almost 15 months ago.

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  • The finest fillies know Foo Foo’s hats

    Finding the perfect Derby hat is hard — sometimes seemingly impossible. But a Prospect woman is trying to make it much, much easier.

    Lisa Lake Roedemeier launched her first hat line in 2009 after not being able to find the perfect hat. Instead, she crafted her own.

    It turns out Roedemeier has a knack for millinery, so she launched Madam Foo Foo Couture at Rodes For Him and For Her three years ago.

    Roedemeier, a long-time racehorse owner with the Media Thoroughbred Group, named the company after one of her horses.

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  • Meet Derby Harry, a collector with thousands of Derby items

    When he began collecting Kentucky Derby memorabilia 14 years ago, Harry Goldberg though it would be a fun, cheap hobby.

    At the time, the La Grange resident worked for an auction house and would see Derby collectibles come through. 

    Now, Goldberg has more than 4,700 collectibles, including 1,800 drinking glasses and almost every Derby Festival pin.

    “All I’m missing is ‘73,” he says. “It’s the rarest.”

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  • Law enforcement memorial service planned May 21

    A memorial service to honor police officers killed in the line of duty is planned May 21 at La Grange Baptist Church. 

    The church is located at 1139 Commerce Parkway in La Grange.

    The service begins at 7 p.m.

    Participants will honor 130 law enforcement personnel killed in the line of duty during the past year including three canines.

    Two county residents have died in line of duty deaths in the past 189 years. La Grange Police Officers Eddie Mundo and W.D. Porter.

    Mundo died April 16, 2003, and Porter died Feb. 2, 1955. 

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  • Goshen man partners with pregnant 'Jersey Shore' star to market children's products

    Snooki’s slippers may be a Shore thing, but they were an Oldham County thing first.

    That was before Goshen resident Pat Yates struck a deal with Nicole “Snooki” Pilozzi, the diminutive housemate with a larger-than-life personality on MTV’s hit reality show, “Jersey Shore.”

    And now, Pilozzi and Yates expect to strike gold – again.

    Yates owns Happy Feet, a slipper company his family started in 1995, long before Pilozzi hit the reality TV scene.

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  • Little Big Horse Trails offers relaxing ride

    Derby season is approaching faster than a horse down the backstretch, and that means lots of stories about sleek, glistening Thoroughbreds.

    This is not one of those stories, because this is not that kind of riding.

    The horses at Little Big Horse Trails in La Grange are sturdy and calm, used to carrying regular-sized people who don’t know how to ride — not minute jockeys with decades spent in a saddle.

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  • Painted Stone Settlers present 'Daniel Boone: Coming into Kentucky' April 5

    For a long time, Scott New has wanted everyone to see Daniel Boone as a real person.

    While many credit the legendary frontiersman with the exploration and settlement of Kentucky, there is no doubt that he was one of many who opened the doors for future generations to call Kentucky home.

    And there are many who would agree with Kentucky Humanities Council Chautauqua performer Scott New who said he has “always been an admirer of Boone.”

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