By Leigh Landini Wright, The Paducah Sun, Ky. Jan. 30--MARION, Ky. -- Anyone who drove through the south years ago can remember seeing the tops of barns painted with the words "See Rock City." Those hand-painted signs came well before Internet advertising, direct mail and promotional brochures.

By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky. Aug. 3--MARION, Ky. -- A Hopkins County firm needing 300 coal miners is among 20 employers slated for a Crittenden County Economic Development Corp. career fair from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Marion Baptist Church Family Life Center. Alliance Coal Co.

WE WOULD LIKE to be happy for Crittenden County, which has been designated by the federal government as the nation's first "clean air economic development zone." The designation should make it easier for new industries in Crittenden to get air quality permits, which should help the region's economy.

By The Paducah Sun, Ky. Nov. 6--That sound coming from the fields of Crittenden County is the sound of the market correcting an expensive imbalance between supply and demand. An Oklahoma-based company was scheduled to begin drilling for natural gas last Friday near Tolu.

WAYNE County trainer Steve Sullivan says his horses are 11 airplane proof." They graze just yards from the runway at Monticello's Wayne County Airport where, at the peak of the summer tourist season, 40 aircraft - including private and corporate turbo jets - land or take off weekly.