Society

Tornado victims in Dawson Springs received new plants and trees on their properties last weekend with the help of volunteers, one of several efforts in the western Kentucky to add greenery to places hit by last year’s tornado outbreak.

A newly formed organization is hoping to build a new community center on Paducah’s Southside that honors the memory of what was once the center of Black education in the western Kentucky city.

The Mayfield-Graves County Long-Term Recovery Group is hoping to help fill the rental housing need created in the community in the wake of last December’s tornado outbreak.

Western Kentucky and Tennessee residents went bananas again last week.

The two towns of Fulton and South Fulton along the Kentucky-Tennessee border are capping off their 60th annual Banana Festival with its famous “one ton banana pudding” this weekend. But the communities’ love affair with the fruit wouldn’t be possible without the railroad industry, connecting the rural towns to markets across the globe.

Almost nine months after the December tornado outbreak, 11 Mayfield families displaced by the natural disaster received symbolic pieces of mail with the addresses of their temporary tiny homes serving as transitional housing.

Groups like the United Way of Kentucky are continuing to support the progress communities are making as recovery efforts continue nearly nine months after the December tornado outbreak.

A new Graves County nonprofit focused on housing victims of the December outbreak welcomed its first family over the weekend.

At the state fair, people showcase the best of their hometowns. This year, residents of flood and tornado-impacted communities joined in.

Mayfield residents gathered in the local Chamber of Commerce Friday to discuss the future of the Graves County community as it continues to recover more than eight months after the December tornado outbreak.