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John McGary
ReporterJohn McGary is a Lexington native and Navy veteran with three decades of radio, television and newspaper experience.
John comes to WEKU from The Woodford Sun, where he was editor while covering government meetings, reporting on community events and taking photographs. At the Sun, he won multiple awards for news and feature stories and columns.
At WLEX-TV, John won a Midwest Regional Emmy for an investigative story about illegal dumping and in 2003, was named Best Television Reporter by the Kentucky Associated Press. In the Navy, he was named Print Journalist of the Year once and Navy Broadcaster of the Year twice.
John’s radio experience includes news and starting a radio magazine show at NTC Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and co-hosting a morning news/talk show in Owensboro, Ky. while working for The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer.
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Fayette County Clerk Susan Lamb said when she learned of the cyber-attack that virtually shut down the office of her Jefferson County counterpart last week, she offered to help.
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Black bear sightings in central Kentucky are up, according to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
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Saturday, the Perry County Public Library will hold its second annual remembrance of the flood of ’22.
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Saturday marks the two-year anniversary of the worst of the flooding that devastated much of eastern Kentucky and thousands are still without adequate housing.
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A PGA tour event that’s been played in central Kentucky since 2018 is moving west next year.
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The multi-agency team of rescuers searching for an Ohio man lost in the Red River Gorge for two weeks made national news when they found him.
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During cable network interviews Monday, Governor Andy Beshear said he’d consider an offer to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.
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The City of Lexington’s second annual Solarize Lexington campaign is winding down. The deadline to apply for the program, which offers discounts of up to 15 percent off the wholesale cost of solar equipment, is August 9.
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The young woman who made national news last year when she appeared in a television commercial for Governor Beshear is doing the same for President Biden.
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The University of Kentucky has cancelled plans to build a hospital in Lexington’s Hamburg area.