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And since fish swim in schools, no pun intended. But those two schools of thought revolved around swimming pools and lakes. I have friends who will not swim in a lake and I have friends who will not swim in a swimming pool. Me? Im right smack dab in the middle. In the same way that I support both UK and U of L, I like em both. I just like to swim. But if pressed, I might actually pick lakes over pools. That has a lot to do with swimming at Miller Lake, Windy Hollow Lake, Fish & Game, and Traila...

Alyssa Trombetti  Contributing Writer atrombetti@murraystate.edu The Murray-Calloway County pool will be closed to the public this summer due to insufficient funds for indispensable modifications and updates.   Parks Director Ryan Yates said the pool reached the point of where simple fixes were not going to cut it for the 2021 summer…

It's a plane! It's an ambulance! It's aliens! No, it's the Brood X cicadas emerging after 17 years underground. In the next LBL Wildlife Report, Woodlands

A repurchase agreement (repo) is a form of short-term borrowing for dealers in government securities. In the case of a repo, a dealer sells government

Senator McConnell says he’s trying to better understand the administration’s position on funding for the Land Between the Lakes and acknowledges it may be time to revisit what federal agency should oversee LBL—whether that should continue to be the U.S. Forest Service or possibly the National Parks Service or another agency. McConnell says he and other Republicans he’s spoken with will not support President Biden’s proposed multi-trillion dollar infrastructure bill or the tax increase...

U.S. Representative James Comer calls budget news concerning Land Between the Lakes a “miscommunication” between local government leaders and the USDA Forestry Service and said there will be no upcoming budget cuts to the 170,000-acre recreation area. The Kentucky congressman said the chain of events that saw the budget line item for recreation and heritage for LBL in 2021 and 2022 should never have happened.

7:15 Tracy Ross and John Pollpeter, lead naturalist at LBLs Woodland Nature Station, discuss box turtles. Box turtles are common throughout the Land Between the Lakes area. The turtles have a "growth pattern thats very similar to aquatic turtles, though theyre mainly based on land," Pollpeter explains. "They get the name box turtle because they can completely pull their entire body, head, tail, legs, and back legs into the shell and close it up behind them." "The shell is kind of a dark brown w...

Amy Bushatz 0:00 If youre anything like me, the second those military move orders, or even the rumor of military move orders hits your radar, youre researching the heck out of your next duty station. Where should you live? What schools should your kids attend? Where is the nearest Target? And is it or is it not a Super Target? In short, only the important stuff. But of course, youre also doing this from afar. On the one hand, nothing is better than the feeling of knowing youve got housing all l...

  As budget questions concerning Land Between the Lakes continue to linger, Stewart County, Tennessee Mayor Robin Brandon wonders if the recreation area’s management shouldn’t be passed on to another federal agency. Leaders of the counties that comprise the 170,000-acre recreation area recently received budget information for the next fiscal year that appeared to indicate a reduction of the recreation and heritage line item on the budget from $1.8 million last year to $77,000 for the upcom...

Joe Nunley, 75, passed Friday, April 23, 2021 after an extended illness. Mr. Nunley was born to the late Dr. Joe and Jessie DePriest Nunley in Durham, NC while his father was stationed there in the U.S. Army. They later moved home to McMinnville, TN where he attended elementary and middle school. By the early sixties, they had moved to Murfreesboro where he became a graduate of Central High School. Mr. Nunley went on to attend Middle Tennessee State University where he met his future bride, Ann...