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🌱 Patch AM: How Bowling Green schools are gearing up for measles and COVID-19

And on the Bowling Green Patch calendar - Ghost Hunters' Steve Gonsalves Live: A Life With Ghosts

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Good morning Bowling Green! We're back again in your inbox, keeping you updated with what's happening in and around town. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Bowling Green schools are gearing up for measles and COVID-19
  • World Trade Center steel makes a powerful stop in Bowling Green
  • Why a Bowling Green lawsuit could reshape online sports prediction markets

Also on today's calendar: Ghost Hunters' Steve Gonsalves Live: A Life With Ghosts and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a neck but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 92 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Sunday: Mostly sunny and hot, temps: high: 92, low: 71.
  • Monday: Hot with sunshine, with a high of 94 and low of 73 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• How school health officials are keeping students safe this school year (wbko.com) — Bowling Green Independent Schools are leaning on in-school clinics and telehealth to keep students healthy as measles cases rise statewide and COVID-19 ticks up nationally. Every BGIS campus has medical staff who can run rapid tests, connect students to a nurse practitioner, and help spot outbreaks early so families get quick guidance on when to keep kids home.
   

• Steel Across America display stops in Bowling Green in remembrance of Sept. 11 (wnky.com) — A powerful 9/11 memorial is rolling through Bowling Green, carrying a steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center's South Tower. Spotted off Scottsville Road, the Steel Across America display honors the nearly 3,000 people killed, those lost to related illnesses, and the first responders and everyday heroes whose actions still resonate 25 years later.
   

• Kentucky sues Kalshi over sports prediction markets (wnky.com) — Filed out of Bowling Green's attorney general is suing prediction-market company Kalshi, arguing its sports-based contracts amount to unlicensed sports betting under state law. The dispute has now sparked dueling lawsuits between Kentucky and federal regulators over who controls these markets and how they should be taxed, with no final ruling yet on whether Kalshi can legally operate in the state.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Bowling Green

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    Monday August 31
  • Boys JV Football @ Owensboro High School
    Warren County 1800 Frederica St, Owensboro KY 42301
    6:00 pm
    • Tuesday September 1
  • Girls Freshman Volleyball @ Bowling Green High School
    Warren County 1801 Rockingham Ave, Bowling Green KY 42104
    5:30 pm
  • Girls JV Volleyball @ Bowling Green High School
    Warren County 1801 Rockingham Ave, Bowling Green KY 42104
    6:30 pm
  • Girls Varsity Volleyball @ Bowling Green High School
    Warren County 1801 Rockingham Ave, Bowling Green KY 42104
    7:30 pm
    • Wednesday September 2
  • Girls Varsity Soccer @ Warren Central High School
    Warren County 559 Morgantown Rd, Bowling Green KY 42101
    5:30 pm
  • Boys Freshman Football @ Elizabethtown High School
    Warren County (unknown) (unknown), (unknown) (unknown) (unknown)
    6:30 pm
    • Thursday September 3
  • Girls Freshman Volleyball @ Warren East High School
    Warren County 6867 Louisville Road, Bowling Green KY 42101
    5:00 pm
  • Boys JV Soccer vs Henderson County High School
    Warren County 8140 Nashville Road, Bowling Green KY 42104
    6:00 pm
    • Saturday September 12
  • Ghost Hunters' Steve Gonsalves Live: A Life With Ghosts →
    Plaza Theatre, 115 E Main St, Glasgow
    6:00 pm

🗓 Events Nearby

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Ok Bowling Green! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A bottle (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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