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Charles Covell spent early Saturday morning preparing to engage in an expedition studying wildlife in the wooded, hilly terrain of the Horner Wildlife Sanctuary near Brownsboro.

Ferocious, stalwart carnivores? No. Slimy, slithering reptilians? Hardly.

Try colorful and graceful. Elegant even. For Covell, a biology professor emeritus at the University of Louisville, and 29 other participants, Saturday morning was his time to count 

butterflies.

An 11-year dream became reality June 24, at least, part of it did.

La Grange Mayor Elsie Carter and Oldham County Judge-Executive Duane Murner, above, are among many who celebrated cutting the ribbon on the first section of the Oldham County Greenways. 

The section stretches from the Oldham County Public Library in La Grange 1.2 miles down Commerce Parkway.

The asphalt has been down for a couple weeks and in steady use, Oldham County Planning and Development Director Louise Allen said, but was painted a few hours before the ceremony. 

A nervous dog helped save her family's home Monday as she tipped off a nearby painter of her burning house.

When painter William Hahn arrived to paint a house on Allgeier Lane near Crystal Lake this morning, he smelled smoke next door but chalked it up to a grill or a meat smoker.

But the dog kept darting in and out of a dog door looking nervous, Hahn said. And then he saw smoke creeping out of the garage, attic and windows.

FRANKFORT, KY – Workers in Kentucky who are currently paid at a minimum wage of $6.55 per hour will see an increase in their paychecks after July 1. That is when the state’s minimum wage rate increases to $7.25 an hour. Although the federal minimum wage mandated increase doesn’t become effective until July 24, 2009, the Kentucky General Assembly voted to have the wage hike take effect earlier.