Joe Arnold

4 weeks ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris |Joe Arnold

ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES ARE MORE than just utility providers; we are the champions for the communities we serve. Because you and your neighbors own your local co-op, we take this role as consumer advocates seriously. “The halls of power are filled with many voices,” explains Chase Crigler, vice president of government affairs for Kentucky Electric Cooperatives.

1 month ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris |Joe Arnold

Tate uses art to spread smiles RICHMOND Inside the Madison County home he shares with Emma Lee, his wife of 68 years, Mitch Tate has another lifelong love—painting. His passion for fine art started with a correspondence course while he was a teenager. The hobby has been a constant companion “when I could or had some time,” Tate recalls. “And I love to do it.” “It took a back seat to my jobs, paying the bills and raising our three children,” says the Air Force veteran of the Korean War.

1 month ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris |Joe Arnold

WHEN THE MURAKAMI CORPORATION broke ground in Taylor County 25 years ago on its first North American factory, the company had already been in existence for more than a century. Based in Shizuoka, Japan, Murakami’s long history started in 1882 with founder Isaburo Murakami I and three apprentices fashioning metal ornaments and tin work. Not long after, the company’s entry into the glass and mirror industry set the course for its future.

2 months ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris |Joe Arnold

WHEN EDITOR SETH THOMPSON sat at his typewriter 75 years ago to write for Kentucky’s electric co-op magazine (which would later become Kentucky Living), he probably could not have imagined how advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence and electric vehicles would someday tax the power grid.

2 months ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris |Joe Arnold

The largest economic development project in Shelby County history is projected to begin operations later this year manufacturing utility-scale batteries. Shelbyville Battery Manufacturing, a subsidiary of e-Storage, plans to invest $712 million on a 1 million-square-foot plant to be served by Shelby Energy Cooperative.