Category: Kentucky

Benton selected Winchester Sun 2012 Employee of the Year

Winchester Sun 

2012 Employee of the Year 

Rhonda Benton was selected as the recipient The Winchester Sun’s 2012 Fred Baber Employee of the Year Award.

Benton currently serves as a classified sales representative and oversees front office operations. She originally joined the staff in July 2010 as an advertising sales consultant. She is a graduate of George Rogers Clark High Schoo…

Kentucky Group wins 70 awards in contest

The Kentucky Group won 70 awards in the Kentucky Press Association Editorial contest including first place for General Excellence by the Danville Advocate-Messenger and the Jessamine Journal.
The competition was by circulation categories with Danville competing in  the Daily Class 2 division , the Winchester Sun in the Daily Class 1 division, the Jessamine Journal in the Weekly Class 3 division…

Vaught wins Kentucky Sports Media Award

By GARY MOYERS

Danville Advocate-Messenger

Long-time Advocate-Messenger sports editor Larry Vaught has been named the 2013 Tom Hammond Kentucky Sports Media Award winner by the Bluegrass Sports Commission.

Vaught, sports editor at The Advocate since 1996 after working under his father, the late Bill Vaught, since 1975, will be recognized at a banquet along with fellow honorees Dick…

Jessamine Journal wins General Excellence

Kentucky Group receives 56 awards in KPA contest
1:50 p.m. CST, February 22, 2011

The Danville Newspaper Group was a shining light in the Kentucky Press Association Better Newspaper Contest for 2010, three of the newspapers finishing among the leaders in General Excellence in their circulation categories.
The four newspapers won a collective 56 awards, including 16 firsts.
The Jessamin…

Danville’s Vaught Sportswriter of the Year 6th time

9:05 a.m. CDT, April 11, 2011

Larry Vaught, longtime sports editor for The Danville, KY Advocate-Messenger, has been named Kentucky Sportswriter of the Year for 2010 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
This marks the fifth consecutive year Vaught has earned that honor, and the sixth time overall.
Vaught, a 1970 graduate of Danville High School and 1974 graduate of…

Larry Vaught Sportswriter of the Year

10:13 a.m. CST, January 17, 2011

Larry Vaught, longtime sports editor for The Danville, KY Advocate-Messenger, has been named Kentucky Sportswriter of the Year for 2010 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
This marks the fifth consecutive year Vaught has earned that honor, and the sixth time overall.
Vaught, a 1970 graduate of Danville High School and 1974 graduate of…