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City gathers input from experts, citizens on how to connect homeless, hungry, and in-need Bereans to service organizations
December 9, 2025Welcome to The Edge, your source for quality local reporting in Madison County and Berea, Kentucky
Postmortem
All's well that ends well
December 7, 2025
Birds of Berea
The purple finch: less common than before
A male purple finch, in the words of naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, is a “sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” While found in Kentucky, purple finches have become less common over the past decades as the population of house finches (next week’s feature) has grown. The National Audubon Society’s
December 7, 2025
Meet Your Municipality
Growth happens. She ensures it follows the plan
Codes & Planning Administrator Amanda Haney knows where everything goes
December 5, 2025
Berea City Council
Council donates 5K to Berea food banks, City plans a night to ask 'How can we help?'
CITY HALL – City Council has voted unanimously to offer a one-time donation of $2,500 each to two food banks that serve Bereans. The vote occurred during the first regularly scheduled meeting of December. Per Resolution 20-2025, the City will purchase $5,000 worth of food from Lexington-based God'
December 3, 2025
Opinion
What in the world?
A new column from Professor José Mora, PhD
December 1, 2025
Birds of Berea
Tufted titmice are storing up for winter
As winter approaches, the tufted titmouse harvests the last berries of the season and transitions from a summer diet of primarily insects to a winter diet of primarily seeds. Common visitors to backyard birdfeeders, tufted titmice prefer sunflower seeds. They tend to choose one large seed and fly to a
November 30, 2025
No exploding turkeys!
Deep frying your bird? Dry it first.
November 27, 2025
Postmortem
Behind the scenes at The Edge
'Postmortem' is an informal chat about the week that was; in this issue, juicy bits from the campaign trail
November 23, 2025
Birds of Berea
Mallards rest easy this week
Male mallards sport a variety of colors, most notably iridescent green heads. While the mottled brown female mallard is not as colorful, she does typically get the loudest say in the relationship, as quacking is the purview of the female mallards while male mallards make quieter rasping or rattling sounds
November 23, 2025
Berea Community KDE scores show significant improvement
Also, Hackett steps down from Board of Ed, replacement sought
November 21, 2025
Saint Joe on solid footing
As some EKY hospitals falter, AI and other efficiencies will keep Berea facility strong, according to leadership
November 19, 2025
Berea City Council
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Council donates 5K to Berea food banks, City plans a night to ask 'How can we help?'
December 3, 2025
Mayor orders citizen forcibly removed from Council meeting
November 5, 2025
911 fee will be on your water bill
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