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Kentucky Distillers Bring Class to First Membership Drive

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Making a Big Bet Distilleries across Kentucky have big long-term plans for their main product. “We’re in the largest expansion mode since the end of prohibition,” Kentucky Distillers’ Association President Eric Gregory told ABC News. . — GentlemanDistillery (@gntlmandstllery) August 29, 2014.

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Lessons From 25 Years at One Association

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She had worked as a press secretary and business journalist in Kentucky, and NTA seemed like an intriguing new venue for her writing. “I I stayed in the marketing and communications realm, and that’s where it kept expanding,” she says. I just felt like I was ready for a change,” she says. “Of Know when you’re ready.

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Hemp Industry Brings Momentum to Annual History Week

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For decades, industrial hemp was off the market in the United States. The Agricultural Act of 2014, which was signed into law in February, contains an amendment that allows for the launch of pilot programs in states that have passed laws allowing industrial hemp research. Until last October, that is.