V-J Day celebration in Lexington, 1945 TAGS: Downtown Lexington | V-Jay Day | Victory over Japan Day | WWII
February 5, 2025
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- Local brewery opening 2nd Lexington taproom, barbecue restaurant in pickleball venue
- If the US Department of Education is abolished, what happens to KY education funding?
- Police arrest ‘armed and dangerous’ man hours after fatal shooting in Central Kentucky
- Lexington grand jury declines to indict man charged with murder, plus other court updates
- Lexington sushi restaurant opens another location with Wagyu, grilled Japanese dishes
- Journalist who helped shape Lexington for the better dies at 71
- Best romantic restaurants in Lexington: 14 dining spots to celebrate Valentine’s Day
- ZZ top guitarist’s trio the BFGs bringing ‘the whole enchilada’ back to Lexington
- A gruesome Lexington murder: What happened to Michael Turpin?
- C.M. Newton’s work on race relations, basketball and UK sports ‘continues to this day’
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