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 SHEPHERDSVILLE - In her first Kentucky State Fair competition, Brianna Stallings won by a hare.

 This year at the Kentucky State Fair, John Marsolek Jr. won first place and a blue ribbon in the Junior Culinary division. 

The 13-year-old made a Snoopy cake for his dog-theme entry. 

He also won a third-place ribbon during the Bullitt County Fair for the Chocolate dessert contest. The previous year, he placed second. 

This was not the first time John won at the Kentucky State Fair. In 2010, his "star" themed cake won a blue ribbon for cake decorating. 

 SHEPHERDSVILLE - Bart Padgett is your garden variety Kentucky State Fair blue ribbon winner. Literally.

Padgett received five ribbons from this year's state fair competitions for entries grown in his Shepherdsville home garden.

A Rineyville native, Padgett grew up on a farm, the son of farming parents Joe and Margo. He moved to Shepherdsville in 2006 when he married his wife, Katina, a Bullitt County native.

 CAMPBELLSVILLE - Carrie Wohlschlegel posted her newest favorite quote on Facebook the other day ... a quote from Ibn Battuta: “Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”