February 15, 2021 A creative solution to a traffic snarl Something needs to be done about the intersection of Colby Road and McClure Road. This junction, about a block off the Bypass near Kentucky Bank…
February 1, 2021 Should Winchester emulate Hamburg? The population of Winchester and Clark County has remained stable over the last few decades, particularly since 2010. The latest estimates put the population…
October 22, 2020 Main Street can be our ‘rising tide’ Many years ago, before I began my career in IT, I worked for several years in restaurant management. I started as an assistant manager at a brand-new fast…
October 9, 2020 The best is yet to come This week is National Newspaper Week, a time set aside to recognize the service of newspapers and their employees across North America. It seems like…
October 2, 2020 A map geek looks at Winchester I’m a map geek. As a kid, I used to spend hours studying road maps. I also drew them. I would invent entire cities by carefully drawing lines on…
June 12, 2020 On Juneteenth, let’s be ‘better together’ This week, I was educated on an American holiday known as “Juneteenth.” Before this, about all I knew about the holiday was that it occurred in…
March 19, 2020 Winchester is far from perfect, but it’s perfect for me This article appeared in The Winchester Sun on Thursday, March 19, 2020. Recently a social media correspondent sent me a series of messages bemoaning perceived corruption in…
February 28, 2020 Back on the trail of Winchester’s black history This article appeared in The Winchester Sun on February 27, 2020. Today we’re concluding last week’s column about my recent visit to the African…
February 21, 2020 On the trail of Winchester’s black history This article appeared in The Winchester Sun on Thursday, February 20, 2020. Recently I decided to finally do something I’d been meaning to do for some…
January 16, 2020 What is civic pride? Since moving to Winchester over four years ago, I’ve noticed longtime residents tend to fall into two distinct camps. On the one hand, many…