by Blair Travis | Feb 1, 2021 | Memories From the Mayor, Your City News
Mr. Lynn Boyd Jones, 71, Mayor of the City of Calvert City, KY, died Saturday, January 30th, 2021 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Mayor Jones began his career in public service as a member of the Calvert City Municipal Water Board. He was...
by Blair Travis | Jan 30, 2021 | Memories From the Mayor, Your City News
“We’re Pulling for you” was a statement Mayor Lynn Jones said countlessly over the last trying year. He pulled for his city and for its people to flourish and he believed in us enough to know that we will. Lynn Jones began his service in city government when former...
by Blair Travis | Jul 6, 2020 | Memories From the Mayor
I remember the first year that I was too old to attend Vacation Bible School. For me, VBS was a welcomed activity that provided fun games, social connections, and learning opportunities. Unlike school, VBS was pressure-free, with no grades, although the...
by Blair Travis | May 19, 2020 | Memories From the Mayor
It was a normal day. The skies were blue, a passing white fluffy cloud floated quietly overhead from time to time. The warm spring wind gave an indication that summer was not far away. It was the kind of spring day that encourage long walks across the pastures, a...
by Blair Travis | Apr 20, 2020 | Memories From the Mayor
Sometimes lessons learned from others are more about what they don’t say than what they say. For instance, when I was ten, my grandfather, Tommie Smith, taught me a valuable lesson with well-chosen words. It all started when he cut the cornstalks in the field after...
by Blair Travis | Apr 1, 2020 | Memories From the Mayor
Elmer and Zen Hall lived in a white frame house where Johnny Harrell’s garage now sits. Elmer and Zen, an elderly couple who were my neighbors when I was a young boy, were more like family than neighbors. I came and went through their back door at will. They...
