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Kentucky people, papers in the news News-Enterprise hires advertising manager Steve Wheatley was named advertising manager of the Elizabethtown News-Enterprise in August. Wheatley has been with the newspaper’s parent company, Landmark Community Newspapers, Inc., for seven years as sales development manager at the corporate office. At the Elizabethtown paper, he will be responsible for a 32-person department that sells and produces advertising for the daily paper, Inside the Turret, online ventures and other print products. Wheatley has a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Kentucky. Richmond Register names Williams to ad manager’s post The Richmond Register hired Clarissa Williams as its new advertising director. Williams comes to the Register from Clinton, Tenn., where she was advertising director for The Courier News. Williams has also worked for the Times Tribune and the Tri-County Shopping Guide in Corbin. Marshall joins news staff at Mt. Sterling Tom Marshall was hired as the new general assignment reporter at the Mt. Sterling Advocate in August. Before coming to the Advocate, Marshall worked at The Daily Independent in Ashland. He has also worked at The Benton County (Ark.) Daily Record, The Glenpool (Okla.) Post and The Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith, Ark. Marshall is a native of Mt. Sterling and an Eastern Kentucky University graduate. Hannan retires after 30 years at Berea Citizen After nearly 30 years of writing for The Berea Citizen, Joyce Hannan is leaving her job. Hannan said she is moving to Joilet, Ill. to be closer to her son. News-Outlook hires Kramer as reporter Sunny Kramer was hired as the new reporter at the Bath County News-Outlook. Kramer graduated in December from Morehead State University, where she earned a degree in communications, with an emphasis in journalism and a minor in philosophy. Big Sandy News goes to twice a week The Big Sandy News in Louisa moved from a weekly to a twice weekly paper in September. The newspaper, which launched its regional edition in May, published its first Friday edition on Sept. 7. “We had anticipated adding a second edition early next year,” said publisher Scott Perry, “but we have found during our first three months of regional publication that we just can’t wait that long. The supply of news in the four counties we cover now — Lawrence, Martin, Johnson and Magoffin — is so great that we just can’t fit it all in one issue, and we don’t want to leave anything out.” Graham takes sports editor position at Somerset daily G. Michael Graham was named sports editor of the Commonwealth Journal in August. Graham has a journalism degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. While in college, Graham was a sports reporter and sports editor at the school’s newspaper, BG News. Graham comes to Somerset from The Baytown (Texas) Sun, where he covered seven high schools, Division I junior college and the Houston Astros. News-Democrat hires Smith as staff writer Julie Smith was hired in August as a staff writer at the News-Democrat in Carrollton. Smith has a business degree from Campbellsville University. Smith recently completed the KPA Journalism Boot Camp. Tungate joins news staff at Adair Progress, Columbia News Steven Tungate has joined The Adair Progress and The Columbia News as a staff writer and photographer. He replaces Sue Clark, who left the paper to take a position with the Marion County School System. Tungate attends Lindsey Wilson College, where he is earning a degree in English. Bolin promoted at Journal-Enterprise Journal-Enterprise reporter Gwen Bolin was promoted to assistant news editor in August. Bolin has been with the Providence paper since December 1998. Before coming to The Journal-Enterprise, she was a free-lance writer covering feature stories for The Times Leader in Princeton. Love hired as reporter at Sentinel-Echo Lorie Love, a former Laurel County reporter, joined the staff of The Sentinel-Echo in September. Love began her journalism career in 1996 after graduating from North Laurel High School. She worked full-time for the Laurel News-Leader. She has also worked for the London-Laurel News Journal and the Corbin News Journal. At age 20, she became one of the state’s youngest managing editors, when she took the position at the Mountain Advocate in Barbourville. Love is a full-time student at the Laurel campus of Somerset Community College. Big Sandy News hires two new reporters Reporters J.D. Charles and Paul Gary Ward joined The Big Sandy News staff in September. Charles will take charge of features for the Lousia paper, covering business and human interest topics. Ward will concentrate on sports coverage in Martin County. New Era reporter part of Balkans media pool Kentucky New Era Features Editor Michele Carlton was part of a pool of reporters that traveled to Kosovo to tell the stories of soldiers assigned to Task Force Falcon in September. About 4,000 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell were involved with the six-month peacekeeping mission in the Balkans. They are scheduled to return home in November. The trip was sponsored by the Department of Defense. Kentucky Standard makes donation to scholarship fund Employees of The Kentucky Standard in Bardstown donated $100 to each of the area’s three high schools in memory of Ron Greenwell, the paper’s long-time associate editor and sports editor. Bardstown, Bethlehem and Nelson County high schools honor students each year with scholarship in memory of Greenwell, who died of cancer last year. The scholarship fund was set up after Greenwell’s death to carry on his love of young people and sports in Nelson County.
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