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Danville City Commission hears parks projects updates

The Danville City Commission heard an update at their meeting on May 9 about four city park project ... Read more

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Looking Back: Judge John Kincaid

(Editor’s note: Information for this article came from a Boyle County history about the Centennial Celebration of the ... Read more

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Looking Back: James Payne Mitchell

(The gravestone photo and research for this article was compiled by local genealogist Carolyn Crabtree.) James Payne Mitchell ... Read more

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Looking Back: Civil War letter

Charles H. Talbot of Danville wrote a letter Sept. 20, 1862, from Covington to his Edwards cousins in ... Read more

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Danville’s Joshua West served proudly

(Editor’s note: Information in this article came from The Advocate archives and Find-A-Grave site.)   Danville native Joshua ... Read more

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Looking Back: Welsh immigrants settle in Virginia and head for Kentucky

(Editor’s note: Local genealogist Carolyn Crabtree, who has done extensive genealogist and historical research in Boyle and surrounding ... Read more

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Looking Back: Train wrecks were common in the early 1900s

(Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series about train wrecks in Danville and – ... Read more

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Mrs. Stratton was a winning crappie fisherman

(Editor’s note: Information for this article was gathered from the Advocate-Messenger archives. Her granddaughter Sharon Stratton furnished the ... Read more

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Looking Back: Three Dunn brothers went to war for their country

Editor’s note: Information for this article came from articles in The Advocate-Messenger archives.   Three Dunn brothers from ... Read more

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Looking Back: Westmoreland

  Editor’s note: Research for this article was taken from The Advocate-Messenger Archives.   Many of Kentucky’s earliest ... Read more

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