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Kroger Pulls Jalapenos
The nation's largest traditional grocery chain removed all jalapeno peppers from its stores as a precaution.
WLKY.com – 9 hours, 28 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Louisville
The nation's largest traditional grocery chain removed all jalapeno peppers from its stores as a precaution.
WLKY.com – 9 hours, 28 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Louisville
Kroger removes jalapenos
The nation's largest traditional grocery chain has removed all jalapeno peppers from its stores as a precaution.
WFIE - 14 – 9 hours, 45 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Indiana: Evansville
The nation's largest traditional grocery chain has removed all jalapeno peppers from its stores as a precaution.
WFIE - 14 – 9 hours, 45 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Indiana: Evansville
Kroger Yanks Jalapenos From Shelves As Precaution
The nation's largest traditional grocery chain removes all jalapeno peppers from its stores as a precaution.
WLWT.com – 10 hours, 57 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Cincinnati
The nation's largest traditional grocery chain removes all jalapeno peppers from its stores as a precaution.
WLWT.com – 10 hours, 57 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Cincinnati
Grocer removes jalapenos
The nation's largest traditional grocery chain has removed all jalapeno peppers from its stores as a precaution.Kroger Co. spokeswoman Meghan Glynn says the Cincinnati-based company decided to halt jalapeno sales after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported Monday that a Texas distributor was recalling jalapenos because they had the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. She says Kroger removed jalapenos the next day, even though none of its supply was from the distributor.The government is warning against eating fresh jalapenos or products made from them while it continues to investigate a national salmonella outbreak initially linked to tomatoes.Kroger operates almost 2,500 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 31 states.
Kentucky.com – 11 hours, 4 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
The nation's largest traditional grocery chain has removed all jalapeno peppers from its stores as a precaution.Kroger Co. spokeswoman Meghan Glynn says the Cincinnati-based company decided to halt jalapeno sales after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported Monday that a Texas distributor was recalling jalapenos because they had the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. She says Kroger removed jalapenos the next day, even though none of its supply was from the distributor.The government is warning against eating fresh jalapenos or products made from them while it continues to investigate a national salmonella outbreak initially linked to tomatoes.Kroger operates almost 2,500 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 31 states.
Kentucky.com – 11 hours, 4 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Kroger Removes Jalapenos From Shelves
The government is warning against eating fresh jalapenos or products made from them while it continues to investigate a national salmonella outbreak initially linked to tomatoes.
WCPO.com – 11 hours, 10 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Cincinnati
The government is warning against eating fresh jalapenos or products made from them while it continues to investigate a national salmonella outbreak initially linked to tomatoes.
WCPO.com – 11 hours, 10 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Cincinnati
Local Kroger store getting beauty department upgrade
Four Kroger Co. stores in the Dayton and Cincinnati region are getting face-lifts in their health and beauty departments. (KR)
Dayton Business Journal – 11 hours, 20 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Dayton
Four Kroger Co. stores in the Dayton and Cincinnati region are getting face-lifts in their health and beauty departments. (KR)
Dayton Business Journal – 11 hours, 20 minutes ago ¦ comment?
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Shawnee Estates traffic issue continues
Should longtime residents of a quiet neighborhood be able to block troublesome traffic, or should they have to accept it as the inevitable consequence of growth - or is there some middle ground? Those issues were debated for years in and around Shawnee Estates, a residential area near the corner of Nashville Road and Campbell Lane. They died to a murmur with the closing of Navajo Drive, blocking one entrance to the neighborhood, but may burst out again as that closing is re-examined.Longtime residents of the 40-year-old neighborhood have watched traffic swell and new businesses mushroom nearby. Though that increased surrounding traffic, residents’ real complaints came in the past few years from being nearly encircled by apartment complexes that each house hundreds, mostly college students.Across from long-established Regency Park Apartments on Thoroughbred Way is the entrance to College Suites. That complex is surrounded by a wall that backs up to many houses on Thoroughbred and Edgefield Way.Closer to Nashville Road, Western Place sits on Patton Way, and next to it Campus Pointe has gone in. That complex links to Fields Drive near the former exit from Navajo, and the surrounding area is already cleared for more development along Fields.City-sponsored public meetings in 2004 drew dozens of Shawnee residents who blamed incoming young renters and cut-through drivers for speeding and littering problems. They asked to pinch off one access point, so in December 2005 city commissioners voted to close part of Navajo Drive and Shawnee Way for at least two years. The city approved a 1,500-foot extension of Fields Drive from Patton Way to Campbell Lane in August 2006.Shawnee Way resident Henry Thompson asked commissioners July 15 to reconsider their closing of Navajo. That closing didn’t just affect traffic coming from outside Shawnee Estates, Thompson said. It impacted residents, too, creating new backups at traffic lights they’d been able to avoid before, he said.“What I’m trying to do is get an easy way for Shawnee people to get over to Kroger and Dairy Queen without having to get out on Campbell Lane,” Thompson said.Thompson said he’s heard no more from the city since his request. Though he lives just around a curve from the subdivision entrance, seeing perhaps 70 percent of incoming traffic pass his house, Thompson wasn’t bothered by it even before Navajo closed, he said.“And I’ve lived here ever since the subdivision opened,” Thompson said.He’s not sure that most of his neighbors were either, suggesting that the city responded to “squeaky wheels” rather than a real majority. Thompson notes that based on their traffic-flow analyses, both city Public Works and the City-County Planning Commission recommended leaving Navajo open; with two new faces on the commission now, he doesn’t know how a renewed vote would go, he said.Public Works director Emmett Wood recommended waiting two or three months for people to get used to using Fields Drive, and commissioners said they’d notify area residents of the reconsideration at that point.Many of Thompson’s neighbors, however, are determined to stave off traffic however they can, for as long as they can.“We’re all for keeping this thing closed off, but it probably won’t last forever,” Philip Brent said.Traffic around the apartments is lower now that Western Kentucky University isn’t in session, but the installation of speed bumps last year apparently cut down on student use, he said.“That stopped a lot of the cut-through traffic,” Brent said.Brent said he and a few others are also trying to promote extending Paddock Way to Fields Drive, offering another alternative to cutting through Shawnee.He’s lived on Shawnee Way for 40 years, and while the big student complexes have intensified traffic woes, the neighborhood has felt some impact from nearby complexes for two decades, Brent said.“These situations come and go,” he said. “Sometimes you have good neighbors, and sometimes you don’t.”But those problems have never been enormous, and have tapered off lately, Brent said. A couple of busts by the drug task force seem to have quashed the local drug trade, but the struggle against minor annoyances will certainly go on, he said.“If I have to call the police every day, I’ll do it,” Brent said.In the long run, traffic is just a symptom of a problem for which there is no real solution: more people, he said. Brent appreciates the concern the city has shown so far in dealing with what can be managed.“They could have just said ‘Buzz off,’ but they did step in and help us solve it,” he said.The Fields Drive extension created a loop behind the Kroger shopping center on the corner of Nashville and Campbell, city engineer Jeff Lashlee said.“Part of the idea of that loop was to divert traffic easier on out to the main roads,” he said.With Fields handling traffic, even if Navajo reopened it shouldn’t be chosen by as many apartment dwellers as a cut-through route, Lashlee said. Fields would provide them easier access to a major road, without passing through the neighborhood, he said.Public Works took traffic counts on Navajo and surrounding streets before it was closed, and those can serve as a baseline for determining the effect of Fields if Navajo reopens, Lashlee said. Those earlier studies did find a considerable speeding problem in Shawnee, he said.Mayor Elaine Walker said she’s already heard from two residents since the July 15 meeting, with both asking for Navajo to stay closed. She voted to close it in 2005, and since then the development pressures on the area have only increased.“If we’re still taking about having a negative impact on the residents from cut-through traffic, then my position hasn’t changed,” Walker said. “But I’m willing to look at the information on it.”
Bowling Green Daily News – 12 hours, 12 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Bowling Green
Should longtime residents of a quiet neighborhood be able to block troublesome traffic, or should they have to accept it as the inevitable consequence of growth - or is there some middle ground? Those issues were debated for years in and around Shawnee Estates, a residential area near the corner of Nashville Road and Campbell Lane. They died to a murmur with the closing of Navajo Drive, blocking one entrance to the neighborhood, but may burst out again as that closing is re-examined.Longtime residents of the 40-year-old neighborhood have watched traffic swell and new businesses mushroom nearby. Though that increased surrounding traffic, residents’ real complaints came in the past few years from being nearly encircled by apartment complexes that each house hundreds, mostly college students.Across from long-established Regency Park Apartments on Thoroughbred Way is the entrance to College Suites. That complex is surrounded by a wall that backs up to many houses on Thoroughbred and Edgefield Way.Closer to Nashville Road, Western Place sits on Patton Way, and next to it Campus Pointe has gone in. That complex links to Fields Drive near the former exit from Navajo, and the surrounding area is already cleared for more development along Fields.City-sponsored public meetings in 2004 drew dozens of Shawnee residents who blamed incoming young renters and cut-through drivers for speeding and littering problems. They asked to pinch off one access point, so in December 2005 city commissioners voted to close part of Navajo Drive and Shawnee Way for at least two years. The city approved a 1,500-foot extension of Fields Drive from Patton Way to Campbell Lane in August 2006.Shawnee Way resident Henry Thompson asked commissioners July 15 to reconsider their closing of Navajo. That closing didn’t just affect traffic coming from outside Shawnee Estates, Thompson said. It impacted residents, too, creating new backups at traffic lights they’d been able to avoid before, he said.“What I’m trying to do is get an easy way for Shawnee people to get over to Kroger and Dairy Queen without having to get out on Campbell Lane,” Thompson said.Thompson said he’s heard no more from the city since his request. Though he lives just around a curve from the subdivision entrance, seeing perhaps 70 percent of incoming traffic pass his house, Thompson wasn’t bothered by it even before Navajo closed, he said.“And I’ve lived here ever since the subdivision opened,” Thompson said.He’s not sure that most of his neighbors were either, suggesting that the city responded to “squeaky wheels” rather than a real majority. Thompson notes that based on their traffic-flow analyses, both city Public Works and the City-County Planning Commission recommended leaving Navajo open; with two new faces on the commission now, he doesn’t know how a renewed vote would go, he said.Public Works director Emmett Wood recommended waiting two or three months for people to get used to using Fields Drive, and commissioners said they’d notify area residents of the reconsideration at that point.Many of Thompson’s neighbors, however, are determined to stave off traffic however they can, for as long as they can.“We’re all for keeping this thing closed off, but it probably won’t last forever,” Philip Brent said.Traffic around the apartments is lower now that Western Kentucky University isn’t in session, but the installation of speed bumps last year apparently cut down on student use, he said.“That stopped a lot of the cut-through traffic,” Brent said.Brent said he and a few others are also trying to promote extending Paddock Way to Fields Drive, offering another alternative to cutting through Shawnee.He’s lived on Shawnee Way for 40 years, and while the big student complexes have intensified traffic woes, the neighborhood has felt some impact from nearby complexes for two decades, Brent said.“These situations come and go,” he said. “Sometimes you have good neighbors, and sometimes you don’t.”But those problems have never been enormous, and have tapered off lately, Brent said. A couple of busts by the drug task force seem to have quashed the local drug trade, but the struggle against minor annoyances will certainly go on, he said.“If I have to call the police every day, I’ll do it,” Brent said.In the long run, traffic is just a symptom of a problem for which there is no real solution: more people, he said. Brent appreciates the concern the city has shown so far in dealing with what can be managed.“They could have just said ‘Buzz off,’ but they did step in and help us solve it,” he said.The Fields Drive extension created a loop behind the Kroger shopping center on the corner of Nashville and Campbell, city engineer Jeff Lashlee said.“Part of the idea of that loop was to divert traffic easier on out to the main roads,” he said.With Fields handling traffic, even if Navajo reopened it shouldn’t be chosen by as many apartment dwellers as a cut-through route, Lashlee said. Fields would provide them easier access to a major road, without passing through the neighborhood, he said.Public Works took traffic counts on Navajo and surrounding streets before it was closed, and those can serve as a baseline for determining the effect of Fields if Navajo reopens, Lashlee said. Those earlier studies did find a considerable speeding problem in Shawnee, he said.Mayor Elaine Walker said she’s already heard from two residents since the July 15 meeting, with both asking for Navajo to stay closed. She voted to close it in 2005, and since then the development pressures on the area have only increased.“If we’re still taking about having a negative impact on the residents from cut-through traffic, then my position hasn’t changed,” Walker said. “But I’m willing to look at the information on it.”
Bowling Green Daily News – 12 hours, 12 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Bowling Green
Agricultural diversity continues to unfold in Kentucky
Kentucky continues to invest millions in diversifying its agriculture markets, and some of those investments are paying off. This month, the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board approved funding for nearly $1.5 million for projects across the state, including in Warren County.Since January 2001, when the program was founded using tobacco settlement funds, more than $265 million has been distributed for ag-related programs.The Logan County dairy owned and operated by the Willis and Edna Schrock family was the beneficiary of a nearly half million dollar forgivable loan in November.The Schrocks are installing their new equipment this week and it should be up and running by Aug. 5, with the ability to produce a variety of products. Now they mostly sell whole milk in old-fashioned glass bottles under the label Rebekah Grace.The Schrocks did have plans to sell their milk to Kroger for its Private Select label but Edna Schrock said that fell through when Kroger experienced problems with glass bottles it used from another company on the East Coast.Dealing with empty glass bottles also was proving to be an issue for such a large store, she said.Now the Schrocks are planning on bottling some of their milk in clear sturdy plastic that will have the look of a glass bottle. Edna Schrock said she hopes Kroger will give them another look once that happens.But they won’t abandon glass markets.“There is a niche market for those,” she said.Also when the new production lines are installed, they will be supplying all the milk for the University of Kentucky campus under the Rebekah Grace label.Locally, their milk can be found at the Bowling Green farmers market off U.S. 31-W By-Pass from 7 a.m. to noon and at the Fatted Calf on U.S. 31-W By-Pass as well as Country Side Bakery in Auburn. The milk is also in stores in Louisville and Lexington.Edna Schrock said when they start producing 1 percent milk, low-fat chocolate milk and other items, probably the first place they will be available locally is at the farmers market.Bowling Green businessman Sam Lawson, a member of the board that approves such projects, said the Schrocks’ project will hopefully serve as a model for others in the state.“Once this gets up and running and we see that it is a success, we can take the information and apply it elsewhere in the state,” Lawson said.“We try to identify the projects that have merit and anything that points toward value added is,” he said. “Back when Bill Ray (Smith of Bowling Green) was agriculture commissioner, all he talked about was getting the farmer closer to the supper table.”The state has been moving closer to that with its Kentucky Proud program, which markets agriculture products to retailers.Sen. Joey Pendleton, D-Hopkinsville, is on the legislative oversight board for the development board.“I think it is just like anything,” he said. “We’ve had some great success stories and some that haven’t been so good, but that’s what made us stronger.“Look now what we’ve done with the tourism part of agriculture, with wineries all over the state and the ethanol plan in Hopkinsville that has been a big success,” he said. “The cattle genetics program has made the biggest improvement for farmers as has the cattle-handling facilities program.”In the latest round of funding, Edmonson County Cattleman Association received $55,000 to administer funding for Cattle Genetics Improvement, Cattle Handling Facilities, Dairy Diversification, Goat and Sheep Diversification and Hay, Straw, and Commodity Storage projects.The association received $40,000 in additional funding for poultry and other related projects.Hart County Goat Producers received $50,000 to continue its goat and sheep diversification programs. Hart County also received $95,000 for forage improvement projects.Warren County received $55,000 for various programs and Logan County received $30,000.Since January, Warren County has received a total of $201,000. Other counties and their totals:Allen County $242,000; Barren County $500,572; Butler County $34,500; Edmonson County $141,500; Logan County $128,700; and Simpson County $121,700.
Bowling Green Daily News – 12 hours, 12 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Bowling Green
Kentucky continues to invest millions in diversifying its agriculture markets, and some of those investments are paying off. This month, the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board approved funding for nearly $1.5 million for projects across the state, including in Warren County.Since January 2001, when the program was founded using tobacco settlement funds, more than $265 million has been distributed for ag-related programs.The Logan County dairy owned and operated by the Willis and Edna Schrock family was the beneficiary of a nearly half million dollar forgivable loan in November.The Schrocks are installing their new equipment this week and it should be up and running by Aug. 5, with the ability to produce a variety of products. Now they mostly sell whole milk in old-fashioned glass bottles under the label Rebekah Grace.The Schrocks did have plans to sell their milk to Kroger for its Private Select label but Edna Schrock said that fell through when Kroger experienced problems with glass bottles it used from another company on the East Coast.Dealing with empty glass bottles also was proving to be an issue for such a large store, she said.Now the Schrocks are planning on bottling some of their milk in clear sturdy plastic that will have the look of a glass bottle. Edna Schrock said she hopes Kroger will give them another look once that happens.But they won’t abandon glass markets.“There is a niche market for those,” she said.Also when the new production lines are installed, they will be supplying all the milk for the University of Kentucky campus under the Rebekah Grace label.Locally, their milk can be found at the Bowling Green farmers market off U.S. 31-W By-Pass from 7 a.m. to noon and at the Fatted Calf on U.S. 31-W By-Pass as well as Country Side Bakery in Auburn. The milk is also in stores in Louisville and Lexington.Edna Schrock said when they start producing 1 percent milk, low-fat chocolate milk and other items, probably the first place they will be available locally is at the farmers market.Bowling Green businessman Sam Lawson, a member of the board that approves such projects, said the Schrocks’ project will hopefully serve as a model for others in the state.“Once this gets up and running and we see that it is a success, we can take the information and apply it elsewhere in the state,” Lawson said.“We try to identify the projects that have merit and anything that points toward value added is,” he said. “Back when Bill Ray (Smith of Bowling Green) was agriculture commissioner, all he talked about was getting the farmer closer to the supper table.”The state has been moving closer to that with its Kentucky Proud program, which markets agriculture products to retailers.Sen. Joey Pendleton, D-Hopkinsville, is on the legislative oversight board for the development board.“I think it is just like anything,” he said. “We’ve had some great success stories and some that haven’t been so good, but that’s what made us stronger.“Look now what we’ve done with the tourism part of agriculture, with wineries all over the state and the ethanol plan in Hopkinsville that has been a big success,” he said. “The cattle genetics program has made the biggest improvement for farmers as has the cattle-handling facilities program.”In the latest round of funding, Edmonson County Cattleman Association received $55,000 to administer funding for Cattle Genetics Improvement, Cattle Handling Facilities, Dairy Diversification, Goat and Sheep Diversification and Hay, Straw, and Commodity Storage projects.The association received $40,000 in additional funding for poultry and other related projects.Hart County Goat Producers received $50,000 to continue its goat and sheep diversification programs. Hart County also received $95,000 for forage improvement projects.Warren County received $55,000 for various programs and Logan County received $30,000.Since January, Warren County has received a total of $201,000. Other counties and their totals:Allen County $242,000; Barren County $500,572; Butler County $34,500; Edmonson County $141,500; Logan County $128,700; and Simpson County $121,700.
Bowling Green Daily News – 12 hours, 12 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Bowling Green
Kroger Co. removes jalapenos
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Jackson Sun – 12 hours, 38 minutes ago ¦ comment?
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Jackson Sun – 12 hours, 38 minutes ago ¦ comment?
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Kroger removes jalapenos from stores
The grocery chain has decided to halt jalapeno sales after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported Monday that a McAllen, Texas, distributor was recalling jalapenos because they had the potential to be contaminated with salmonella.
WNWO NBC24 – 15 hours, 3 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Toledo
The grocery chain has decided to halt jalapeno sales after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported Monday that a McAllen, Texas, distributor was recalling jalapenos because they had the potential to be contaminated with salmonella.
WNWO NBC24 – 15 hours, 3 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Toledo