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Credit Taylor Inman, WKMS / Fancy Farm   A former Kentucky secretary of state and former state auditor will emcee this year’s Fancy Farm picnic in Graves County, known for charged speeches and zingers from politicians across the state. Picnic organizers are planning for a more normal event after last year’s gathering was scaled down due to COVID-19 restrictions.    Bob Babbage of Lexington in a statement Monday said he was “humbled and honored” to be this year’s emcee for the picnic, planned for August 7. The annual picnic has served as a fundraiser for St. Jerome’s Catholic C...

FANCY FARM — With what organizers describe as “cautious optimism,” plans are being made to have the 141st St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic in its traditional entirety on Aug. 7, 2021. The first Saturday in August is the annual date for the picnic, once dubbed the “largest picnic in the world” by the Guinness Book of World Records, and which still attracts family of current and former residents from across the country to the small Graves County community. The event is perhaps more widely known for the lively political stump speeches given by local and state officials as we...

Last modified on Tue 22 Dec 2020 11.02 EST Set in Mexico, this is about a British former special-ops warrior once known as Nero (martial-arts movie veteran Scott Adkins) endeavouring to save his kidnapped adolescent son (Matthew Garbacz). With its one-word past-participle title, it’s as if the makers weren’t even trying to hide that this is basically a knock-off of Taken, with much lower-wattage stars and cheaper locations. That said, there’s a bit of satirical wit in the dialogue, particularly from Mario Van Peebles as the villainous – but not completely evil – maste...