These photos capture the 2-week transformation of an individual caterpillar into a monarch butterfly. Monarchs lay eggs on milkweed plants because milkweed is the only food baby caterpillars eat; and this hungry caterpillar ate every leaf before forming its chrysalis. By eating milkweed, monarchs ingest cardenolides, steroid compounds that make
August 24, 2025
New school superintendent, Ryan Neaves, shares his thoughts on Berea and 'righting the ship'
August 22, 2025
Plus, property taxes to rise a teensy bit
August 20, 2025
Brown thrashers are year-round residents in some parts of Kentucky and offer loud, lively, and varied songs. Watch them wildly forage for insects in dried leaves and it is easy understand how they earned the name “thrasher.” If you get close to one, you can’t help but marvel at
August 17, 2025
Officials appeal to public for a new shelter
August 15, 2025
During the summer, it’s easy to spot robins hopping, and sometimes running, across the grass busily foraging for insects. Both parents diligently bring food to their young and can nest up to three times during the summer. Yet robins still find time to usher in the day with their
August 10, 2025
MADISON COUNTY—It’s been a year now since a group of residents living in the Indigo Run subdivision off Jacks Creek Road and those living near the Whitehall property, first sued the County. Their complaint named the Fiscal Court and its Board of Adjustments for changing its land use
August 8, 2025
Plus, a new store to open in Old Town, news about The Edge
August 7, 2025
Council briefs No more nerve gas There will be no more nerve gas in Kentucky as of November, according to the man who spearheaded the decommissioning of all chemical weapons previously stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot. Craig Williams, Chair of the Governor’s Commission on Chemical Weapons Demilitarization,
August 6, 2025
Plus, Blue Grass Army Depot chemical weapons plant to be demolished next summer
August 6, 2025
The 'bee bird' breeds in Kentucky
August 3, 2025
New school superintendent lays out agenda for fiscal stewardship in the new school year
August 1, 2025
