Welcome to Richmond, Kentucky

South of Lexington, Kentucky is a the nice small town of Richmond. If you ever drive by here, stop, relax and visit the beautiful sites, such as the White Hall Historic House, or take a swing at the Arlington Golf Center.

The White Hall Historic House is a beautiful 44-room mansion which was built back in 1799 and later remodeled in the 1860’s. Much of the old furniture remains in the house, which gives the house an antique feel as you walk through it.

The Arlington Golf Center was built in 1970 and is open all year long. The dress code requires you to wear collared shirts and bermuda shorts or slacks.

Richmond is home to a couple of newly recognized Blue Ribbon elementary schools as well as Eastern Kentucky University. They have a wide variety of academic programs ranging from biology to theater arts.

City Hall maybe another place you may want to visit where all elected officials seem friendly and are willing to help. Try to get in touch with Mayor Connie Lawson, who always goes out of her way to make you feel welcome to Richmond.

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Mayor: Connie Lawson – 8590623-1000 ext. 2008 (Work) , 859-661-0285 (Cell)

Total Population: 27,142 – Male 12,895 (47.5%) , Female 14,257 (52.5%)

Race: White – 23,976 (88.3%) , Black or African American – 2,246 (8.3%) , Asian – 297 (1.1%)

Housing Size: Avg. Household size – 2.14 , Avg. Family Size – 2.78

Housing Units: Total – 11,857 , Owned Units – 3,802 (35.2%) , Rented Units – 6993 (64.8%) , Vacant Units – 1,062 (9%)

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Online Review Sites Beneficial to Aspiring Jounralists

Many of the different kind of online review sites help up and coming journalists in many ways.  A great review on YELP or Amazon could catch the eye of an editor of a newspaper or magazine.  You know creditably would be established by aspiring journalists because they already wrote personal and insightful reviews on these online sites they were noticed by thousands of people.

Since we are moving into a time where all our news and reviews are moving away from the newspapers and on to the internet, it much easier to find a review of something you want than it was ten years ago.  Before you have to call someone to ask, how a movie was or how good the food was at a restaurant or you’d have to open the newspaper and find it.  Now you can be on a bus traveling from Chicago to Iowa and find a review of where to eat, where to sleep, where to hang out in Iowa on your very own cell phone.

Kyolo and Blog Sites

With high-tech gadgets taking over the world, blog sites, picture sites, social networking sites are all becoming a big part of everyones lives.  Many large corporations use sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Kyolo to promote their new products, movies or pictures.

With the world going through so many changes, especially all the political history the U.S. is making, it’s a   great time to become a journalist.  Right now news is changing every minute with the on going political conventions and people want to stay up to date on the material.  Another great thing about being a journalist is that your always up to date with current events.  You could enter a room and be one of the most knowledgeable people there.