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The UK Game Delays School In KY

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In Kentucky, school gets called off, delayed, or ends early for many weather related events.  My kids have missed more school this year than I think I ever missed in one year during my time as a student in K-12.  It has been a crazy winter for KY and my kid's school has actually extended each day by 15 minutes to make up the lost time!  I also saw just last week that the school in my hometown was put on a 1-hour delay because of a rainstorm (which presumably caused some roads to flood).  But today I witnessed another first, that is, delaying school tomorrow (Tuesday) because of the UK Wildcats game tonight (Monday)!  Check out the note to the left, which I just received from my kid's principal/school!  (No, this is not a joke!)  Yeah, the rumors are true, we're pretty hardcore about our college basketball around here!  Go cats!  #bbn

1 More Reason To Consider Asbury Theological Seminary

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Nicholasville, KY, the bedroom community of Lexington and the sister town of Wilmore, where Asbury Theological Seminary is located, was voted by "Money Magazine" as the "Most Affordable" place to live in the whole United States!!! Here's the entire article (courtesy: LKR ): According to a recent report done by Money magazine, Nicholasville Kentucky has been named the most affordable small city in America. You can read the entire article in the August 2008 issue of Money magazine in the Top 100 Best Places To Live article. Some accolades in the article given to the area include its proximity to Lexington (its essentially a bedroom community), as well as a home town atmosphere, and a 3 bedroom home starts at approximately $100,000, while a median home price of approximately $70,000 (With a value of $70,000 as a median single home price, its likely that when compiling the data that the analysts considered townhomes as part of the contributing source data.) A ...