Marion Kentucky has a community building that is so much more than a building. It's a 100-year-old icon that has served the town so well since 1926. And the city is paying it back.
16 Oct 2026
Episode Nine: Creatures of Habit
"Creatures of Habit" in downtown Paducah has more than 17,000 costumes. But Halloween is only part of their business; from local theater to Stranger Things to A League Of Their Own, Jack and Natalya Cody have been supplying wardrobes for almost 40 years.
25 Aug 2026
Episode Eight: Fast Food Family
The latest episode of Storytime With Mike Mallory features Jay Page, a third-generation local restaurant owner. The Page family got started nearly 70 years ago with the Noble Park Dairy Queen; Jay now is president of a group that owns restaurants all over Kentucky and Indiana. He jokes that if you cut one of his veins, he may bleed ice cream or hamburger grease...
28 Jul 2026
Episode Seven: Bob's Drive-In
It's the oldest drive-in restaurant not only in Paducah, but in the state of Kentucky. Bob's Drive-In is a southside staple, and the man who bought it in 1978 as a 19-year old talks about how he's enjoyed success in a business famous—or infamous—for failure.
30 Jun 2026
Episode Six: Executive Inn
Paducah's downtown Executive Inn was home to many businesses. They were left in the dark—literally—when the electricity was shut off and the building eventually torn down. One salon owner talks about losing it all, then building it back.
4 Jun 2026
Episode Five: Russ Laney, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
What started out as a raffle for a house in Louisiana has evolved into one the most successful fundraisers in the country. In this edition of Storytime with Mike Mallory, Mike talks to St. Jude Dream Home Senior Director Russ Laney about 35 years—and millions of dollars—worth of homes.
21 Apr 2026
Episode Four: Harold Ross — From Hickman to UK
This week's episode discusses the basketball journey of Harold Ross.
13 Mar 2026
Episode Three: School Consolidation
This week's episode explores the process of combining multiple schools into one over the course of more than a decade- and the impact on students and staff.
13 Feb 2026
Episode Two: Buffalo Barbecue
This week, Mike takes a look at a very special barbecue for legislators more than two decades ago.
27 Jan 2026
Episode One: Prayer in School
In this week's debut episode of Storytime with Mike Mallory, Mike explores a 1976 bill introducing school prayer- and the current discourse on the separation of church and state.
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