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I voted eight times — I’ll explain that later — last Tuesday morning for McCain.

Needless to say I was disappointed that evening when Obama claimed victory and McCain accepted defeat.

Losing only matters, though, when you examine what went wrong and fix the errors of your ways.

Here’s where I went wrong.

I admit being a bit dubious at first about McCain, and was struggling to consider voting for him once, let alone eight times.

Squeezing Linda Apple for her lemonade secret is a waste of time.

Not that her fellow Anderson County Fire Department Auxiliary members haven't tried.

"Oh, they've tried," she said, taking a break from serving Lemon Shake Ups during last weekend's Burgoo Festival. "They've tried everything known to man and woman to get that recipe out of me, but I'm not saying."

When "Scare Fest" opens at Lexington's Heritage Hall on Sept. 12, it will be the largest horror and paranormal convention ever held in the Southeast, according to one of the event's organizers, Jeff Waldridge, an Anderson County native.

"In terms of space and guest list, it will be the largest," Waldridge said, who along with Patti Starr is event manager and co-creator.

He also hopes the turnout will be large.

Its peers stand as high as an elephant's eye this time of year, their silk-covered ears ready for husking.

But not this lonely stalk of corn. It likely sprang to life accidentally when its seed fell from a passing truck and settled into a crevice on the shoulder of North Main Street.

So far, the little fellow has defied the odds, finding just enough soil beneath the pavement and water above it to eek out a life.

For Stanley Baldwin, it's this simple: the Bluegrass Ultra-transit Service, or BUS, is one of the reasons he's still alive.

This October will make four years since Baldwin, 60, learned that his kidneys had started to fail him. And this October will make four years since Baldwin started riding the BUS, sponsored by the Bluegrass Community Action Partnership, to his dialysis treatments in Frankfort.

And Tuesday, the BUS helped make his life even better.

After a 10-year coast-to-coast sojourn, Lawrenceburg native son Jason Cubert is back home, law degree in hand, and has opened an office in Lawrenceburg.

Like many youngsters, Cubert had little interest in staying in his hometown after he graduated from Anderson County High in 1992. And by the time he earned his Georgetown College degree, he was convinced that his future lay beyond the borders of Kentucky.

So heeding Horace Greeley's famous admonition to "Go West young man," Cubert loaded up his car and headed to Portland, Oregon.