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Yesterday | State Journal

Art student puts a good face on it

Photo By Hilly SchifferDavid, an art graduate from Transylvania University, took a semester to sculpt a oeTherea s something that aina t quite right with Sheriff Buford.a The sculpture, which now watches the shoe section at Mitchella s Clothing Store, is better known as a oeSheriff Buford.a Photo By Hilly SchifferDavid Kring sells face mugs at ...

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Tue Dec 15, 2009

WKYT-TV Lexington

Mayor Jim Newberry calls for an end to "tempting fate"

Mayor Jim Newberry is again warning Lexington citizens about the dangers of fire code violations.

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Related Topix: Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY

Sun Dec 13, 2009

Lexington Herald-Leader

Transy grad mined her activism

Lafayette High School and Transylvania University graduate Stephanie Pistello has combined environmental activism and theater.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Appalachia, VA

Fri Dec 11, 2009

The Advocate

Volunteers promote further learning to area students

NEWARK -- Jena Pugh and two fellow AmeriCorps VISTAs spent Tuesday morning the same way they've spent the previous six: At the library assisting Newark second-grade students during a visit.

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Related Topix: Newark, OH, Denison University, Ohio State University, DePauw University, Columbus Metro

Wed Dec 09, 2009

Lexington Herald-Leader

Building condemned after Transy students escape fire

Seven Transylvania University students escaped injury early Tuesday morning when the house where they lived at 438 North Broadway caught fire.

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Related Topix: Fire, Kentucky

Tue Dec 08, 2009

KLEX TV

Fire Displaces Transy Students

A fire early Tuesday morning in a house on North Broadway in Lexington displaced as many as seven Transylvania University students.

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Related Topix: Fire, Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY

Mon Dec 07, 2009

Kentucky.com

Take a vacation from your job hunt this month

Editor's Note: Continuing our new series of occasional columns by Central Kentucky business experts, Michael J. Cronk, assistant director of career development at Transylvania University, will write about the job hunt.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY, Scott County, KY

Sat Dec 05, 2009

WKYT

Campus police chief wants to reach out

Joe Monroe has a stack of business cards on the edge of his desk that he needs to get rid of.

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Related Topix: University of Kentucky, Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY, Cynthiana, KY, Carson-Newman College

Tue Dec 01, 2009

Library Journal

Executive Director

JOB TITLE: Executive Director COMPANY: Lexington Public Library POSTDATE: 12/1/2009 LOCATION: Lexington, KY DESCRIPTION: The Board of Trustees of the Lexington Public Library - serving a combined city-county population of more than 270,000 through a central library and five branch facilities - seeks a creative and innovative director, who will ...

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Related Topix: Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY, Lexington-Fayette, KY, University of Kentucky

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Lexington Herald-Leader

Transy sets a course to find new president

The pending retirement of Transylvania University's longtime President Charles L. Shearer has set into motion a process that hasn't occurred on the Lexington campus in nearly three decades: a presidential search.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Lexington, KY, Lexington Metro

Fri Nov 27, 2009

KLEX TV

People Attend Lexington Christmas Tree Lighting

People braved the cold weather tonight to attend the downtown Lexington Christmas parade and tree lighting.

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Related Topix: Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY, Weather

Tue Nov 24, 2009

UK College of Medicine News

Dr. Jacob Yunker Joins Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

LEXINGTON, Ky. University of Kentucky HealthCare is pleased to announce that Dr.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Ophthalmology, Lexington, KY, University of Kentucky, Maysville, KY, University of Louisville

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Lexington Herald-Leader

Priceless gifts for jobless friends

With the national unemployment rate above 10 percent and Kentucky's even higher, it's a fair bet that most people this holiday season know someone struggling to find a job in our slowly recovering economy.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Kentucky Governor's Office

Governor Beshear announces funding for preservation of pioneer-era historic area in Clark County

Gov. Steve Beshear today announced the award of $601,000 in federal Transportation Enhancement funding for the Lower Howard's Creek Nature and Heritage Preserve in Clark County - a protected area that once was part of the pioneers' gateway to central Kentucky.

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Related Topix: Clark County, KY, Kentucky, Winchester, KY, Boonesborough, KY, Eastern Kentucky University

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Columbia Magazine

John Chowning is new chairman of Long-Term Policy Board

John Chowning is new chairman of Long-Term Policy Board New leader is a native of Cumberland County, KY who still heads farming/oil production operation on KY 704 near Amandaville.

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Related Topix: Cumberland County, KY, Lindsey Wilson College, Eastern Kentucky University, Columbia, KY

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Dialogic

Social Justice Happening: November 19 - 23

Monday, November 16, 2009 Social Justice Happening: November 19 - 23 Thursday, November 19: 7 pm in the Campus Center Gym, Transylvania University: Mountaintop removal icons Larry Gibson, Teri Blanton, Marci Smith, and Dave Cooper will speak after a showing of the great new documentary Coal Country.

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Related Topix: Lexington, KY

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Examiner.com

The art of awareness.

In a few short weeks Denmark will be the center of global attention. December 7th through the 18th the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in the Bella Center, in Copenhagen.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Lexington Herald-Leader

Log house renovated in Lexington

Logs put in place more than 200 years old were pulled off the front of a small cabin at 318 West Third Street earlier this week, as part of a major renovation of one of the earliest houses in downtown Lexington.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Lexington Metro, Home, Lexington, KY

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Kentucky.com

20091020_RockyHorrorShow_AG

Student Edwin Schiff stars as the character Frank-N-Furter in the fall production of The Rocky Horror Show.

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Related Topix: Berea College, Horror Movies, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Richard O'Brien, Berea, KY

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Lexington Herald-Leader

Well-earned retirement

Charles L. Shearer has certainly earned a nice retirement. Like many in Lexington, though, we hate to see him go.

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Related Topix: Lexington, KY, Opinion

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