Features

When you’re 18, what defines greatness?  That is, how do you stand out in a crowd?  
When I was in high school, like most guys, I wanted to be a standout athlete. Others would want to be the smartest kid in class.
Lots of people would wish to be voted most popular.
Recently we lost an extraordinary young man in our community, John Powell.

Overcoming adversity was the focus of Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear’s message to Oldham County Democrats Friday while promoting the Gov. Steve Beshear gubernatorial re-election campaign.
Jane Beshear told those gathered at the Brownsboro Community Center that her husband has performed admirably considering all that has faced Kentucky during his administration.

A new community park and library branch could be coming to Goshen thanks to a generous donation by the North Oldham Lions Club.
The North Oldham Lions Club proposed a 24.75-acre land donation off U.S. 42 to Fiscal Court July 19.  
In the proposal, land would be allocated by the Lions Club to Oldham County Parks and Recreation and the Oldham County Public Library.

Pretty as a picture and looking more like a homemaker than an FBI agent, Jeanne James – a petite, mere sliver of a woman in a bright yellow dress and high heels – recently enthralled the Prospect/Goshen Rotary Club with stories of mobsters and godfathers.

The event was sold out. Even though the overcast skies threatened rain earlier that afternoon, Yew Dell Gardens’ marketing director, Siofra Rucker, had planned ahead. The 300 guests attending the farm- to-table dinner in support of Slow Food Bluegrass found themselves seated beneath an elegant white tent in the garden.

The public is invited to join a free science project July 9 to help with the national butterfly census.
University of Louisville biology professor emeritus Charles Covell and other butterfly specialists will lead the butterfly count Saturday at UofL’s Horner Wildlife Sanctuary in Brownsboro.

Never in a million years did I think I’d risk my life on behalf of The Oldham Era, but that’s what I did Saturday during a Wild West festival presented by Christian Country Cowboy Church.

USA Weekend received thousands of questions submitted online by fans of country music superstar Taylor Swift.

And one came from Crestwood resident Amber Nichter, a graduate of Oldham County High School from Crestwood.

Editors chose only 27 to ask Taylor Swift in their interview for “What if you could ask Taylor Swift anything?”

Legendary jockey Pat Day told an enticing tale May 26 at the John Black Community Center in Buckner.
As guest speaker for the Homebuilders’ Association of Louisville, he stood before a large group of Oldham County homebuilders and their associates – bankers, framers, manufacturers, plumbers, insurance salesmen, and many other contract professionals.