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NGAS Announces Stock Offering

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Lexington-based NGAS Resources, which explores for and produces natural gas, announced Wednesday that it has priced a stock and warrants offering that should generate $5.2 million. The company said in a news release that the offering of 3.96 million units will be priced at $1.31 per unit. Each unit consists of one share of the [...]

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Three Receive Honorary Doctorates at UK Commencement

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 8, 2010) − Newspaper editor Judith G. Clabes, architect Daniel Libeskind and alcoholism researcher Robert Straus received honorary degrees today at the University of Kentucky's 143rd Commencement. Clabes, a 1966 UK graduate with a bachelor of arts in English and journalism, was recognized for being the former chief executive officer of the [...]

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Silberman Wants to Use Pittsburgh Model for Fayette Vocational Center

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PITTSBURGH Efforts to replicate Pittsburgh's famous vocational training center in Lexington hit the fast track Tuesday after founder Bill Strickland spoke to visiting chamber of commerce delegations from Lexington and Louisville. Fayette County Schools Superintendent Stu Silberman who had not heard Strickland's presentation about his Manchester Bidwell Corp. at the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington [...]

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Pikeville College to Borrow $25 Million to Expand Medical School

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PIKEVILLE Instead of a $4.5 million renovation of an apartment building to expand its medical school, Pikeville College will borrow up to $25 million in federal rural development funds to build a nine-story building. School officials announced Tuesday they still hope to raise about $5 million in private donations, partly from several foundations, including $500,000 [...]

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Postal Service Bringing Some London Work to Lexington

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The U.S. Postal Service has announced that some of the work involving mail collected in and around London will be moved from its London Processing & Distribution Facility by July 1 to the Lexington Processing & Distribution Center. Essentially, mail collected around that area will now have a Lexington postmark instead of a London one. [...]

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Ky. Biz Leaders to Learn From Peers in Pittsburgh

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LEXINGTON, KY. (May 10, 2010) - University of Kentucky President Dr. Lee T. Todd, Jr. is one of more than 300 business and community leaders from Lexington and Louisville who are traveling to Pittsburgh to gain insight and study best practices on how to strengthen population centers in the state.   The members of the [...]

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Lexington Leaders to Visit Pittsburgh

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For the first time, Commerce Lexington and Greater Louisville Inc., are teaming up this year for their annual leadership visit to another city. More than 320 business, educational and government leaders will head to Pittsburgh on Monday for the three-day leadership conference. But even though the trip has expanded, the number of Lexington attendees is [...]

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Sullivan Award Bestowed at Commencement

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 8, 2010) − A Habitat for Humanity activist who died in an August 2006 airplane crash and a student who has volunteered both locally and in Latin America are the recipients of the University of Kentucky's 2010 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallions for outstanding community service. The awards were presented at UK's 143rd [...]

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NASA Officials Visiting Lexington

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Officials with NASA will be visiting Lexington on Monday to meet with representatives of Kentucky Space, a public-private consortium that has developed research modules that have been taken aboard space shuttles. Visiting will be Jason Crusan from NASA's headquarters and Marybeth Edeen of the International Space Station National Lab, said Kris Kimel, founder and president [...]

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Commencement 2.0

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 4, 2010) − For the first time in the University of Kentucky’s storied history, the university will broadcast its main commencement ceremony live over the Internet at www.uky.edu/Commencement on May 8. UK will be rolling out the blue carpet with live backstage access with graduates beginning at 1:45 p.m. and the official [...]

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