WUKY Staff
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Severe weather moving through the Commonwealth Tuesday prompted UK officials to cancel afternoon classes.
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The 12th class of the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning has been announced. The award ceremony will take place on Monday March 25th at the Kentucky Theatre.
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The city of Lexington continues to dig out following Thursday night's winter storm. On Friday morning the mayor's office released an updated progress report.
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Fayette County Public Schools has canceled all Monday activities and sports practices. The district has announced that Tuesday will be an NTI (non-traditional instruction) Day due to the harsh weather conditions.
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Kentucky Fish and Wildlife will be accepting evergreen trees at 29 drop-off locations across the state from Dec. 26 through Jan. 15, 2024. Trees should be real, not artificial, and should be free of lights, garland and decorations. Limbs, wreaths, brush or other plants will not be accepted.
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Marty Brennaman was the play-by-play broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds for 46 seasons, from 1974 through 2019. He was named baseball’s Ford Frick Award winner in 2000, making him a member of the broadcasters’ wing of the baseball Hall of Fame. He is best known for his long tenure in Cincinnati, but he was also a prominent college basketball broadcaster. His assignments included two seasons as the television voice of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, 1986-87 and 1987-88. He broadcast NCAA tournament games for 17 years.Before joining the Reds, he called the games of the Triple-A Tidewater Tides. He was also the voice of Virginia Tech football, and of the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association. He was the Virginia Tech broadcaster when the Hokies played Kentucky at the first game at Commonwealth Stadium in 1973. In March of 1992, he called the Kentucky-Duke regional final for NCAA radio.
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WUKY listeners have been asking how Karyn Czar is doing in her recovery from a bone marrow transplant. She told her friend and work colleague Rusty Sharp that she has her good days and not so good days. Here's some of their conversation that originally aired Thursday morning.
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WUKY is celebrating Public Radio Music Day with a FREE, Live Concert at the WUKY Studios on Wednesday, October 25, 2023.
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The longtime Lexington radio news leader has received four Kentucky Broadcasting Association awards, along with two sought-after honors from the Radio Television Digital News and Public Media Journalists associations this year.
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The longtime Lexington radio news leader has received nine Kentucky Broadcasting Association nominations, along with two sought-after honors from the Radio Television Digital News and Public Media Journalists associations this year.