Paducah

The date of the Olmsted Lock and Dam ribbon-cutting ceremony has been changed from August 29 to August 30 at 10 a.m. to better accommodate members of Congress, announced Waterways… Read More

The Propeller Club of Paducah, Ky., has announced its annual celebration in honor of Maritime Day will be May 19. The ceremony will honor two local industry representatives and memorialize… Read More

Judge Goebel Long Jr., 87, of Paducah, Ky., died February 28 at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah. Long was a riverboat captain for 58 years for multiple companies and a veteran… Read More

Located at the confluence of the Tennessee, Ohio and Cumberland rivers, and just upstream from the Mississippi River, Paducah, Ky., enjoys a long history as an important hub in America’s… Read More

Just prior to opening its new office in Paducah, Ky., Inland Rivers HR had the building blessed. Chaplains Kempton Baldridge and Don Reusch, both with the Seamen’s Church Institute, oversaw… Read More

Capt. Bobby Wilson, a heavy-tow pilot on the mv. Lewis B. Strait, has been on the river for 35 years. That would be close to a career for many people,… Read More

The Coast Guard reported last week that the mv. Virginia Renee, the Terral RiverService towboat that sank near Mile 823 on the Lower Mississippi River on January 24, had been… Read More

With much of the nation in winter’s icy grip, it seems appropriate for the Old Boat Column to observe the centennial of the great Ohio River ice gorge. Unlike the… Read More