December is the busiest month for the UPS Worldport in Louisville, as the facility processes over 4 million packages a day during the holiday shipping season.
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Maysville is celebrating a new employer, Precision Pulley & Idler (PPI), which it expects to create 100 full-time jobs over the next ten years.
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The long-awaited Logan Street Market is now open in Louisville’s Shelby Park neighborhood.
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Massive flywheels. Spiral staircases. Arrays of dials.
In 1919, Louisville Water Company’s “Quiet Giant” was an engineering marvel – a 100-foot-tall steam engine that could move millions of gallons of water from the Ohio River.
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UPS has announced $750 million in upcoming projects, creating about 1,000 jobs. The largest of the projects is a $220 million maintenance facility that will allow UPS to more quickly service its fleet.
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Apple’s newest gadget – the iPhone 11 – just hit the market, but did you know a Corning plant in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, has been supplying glass for every generation of iPhone?
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Louisville’s NuLu neighborhood will soon be home to the headquarters of Truman’s – a company specializing in direct-to-consumer cleaning products that offer an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic waste and wasteful distribution processes.
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James Monroe was the first sitting president to visit Kentucky – exactly 200 years ago. Then, most Kentuckians wouldn’t know what the president looked or sounded like. Communication and travel were slow.
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I can still remember the crunch of those little beads of Dippin’ Dots. The stick-to-your-tongue, cryogenically frozen ice cream was all the rage growing up in the ‘90s.
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No more snappy beer cheese, fried chicken or deli lunches in downtown Frankfort. Bryant’s Pic-Pac, a five-aisle grocery by the Singing Bridge, closed in July.