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This week Kentucky lost a native son, and the great outdoors lost one of its staunchest advocates.

1 of 3 Ernie West waves along the Pegasus Parade route in Louisville Thursday as one of four Medal of Honor recipients to be named Grand Marshals. John Flavell/The Independent The Independent The public is invited to help celebrate Congressional Medal of Honor Day today at the Wurtland Volunteer Fire Department at 10 a.m. Medal of Honor recipient Ernie West will be the guest of honor. Matt Potter will be guest speaker. PHOTO BY TOM CLAY Ernie West speaks with Cindy Bayes, right, a Wurtland city commissioner in 2014. THE DAILY INDEPENDENT FILE PHOTO featured...

The Pavilion at the former OLBH is seen.  The Greenup County Fiscal Court met for its regular meeting in April to discuss both old and new business. Old business consisted mainly of paying bills, and new business included a proposal by County Judge-Executive Robert Carpenter of establishing a fund with a portion of the money the county received through sale of the Bellefonte Pavilion property. Carpenter initially proposed that $1 million be set back in a fund accessible to the Industrial Development Authority to be used to help new businesses set up on the Industrial Parkway. The nominated...

Nature Journal: It's time for morel mushrooms to be popping up George Ellison It's morel time. The succulent spring-fruiting fungi that are the most sought after mushrooms in North America are popping up in woodlands across Western North Carolina. The only problem is spotting them. I can do pretty well in the fall seeing the various milky mushrooms (those in the Lactarius genus) or orange-colored chanterelles or the shining white oyster fungi, and so on. But morels are difficult, for me. Their pitted tan fruiting bodies seem to blend right in with the leaf litter. There are those -- my wife i...