Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People call Leon Buford-Kelly, the associate principal at Leestown Middle School, “The Cookie Man.” It’s not just because he gives ...

DOWN THE BALLOT. ALSO BREAKING AT FIVE, THE FOUNDER OF BARKSDALE COOKIES AT THE IOWA STATE FAIR HAS DIED. JOE BARKSDALE WAS KNOWN AS THE COOKIE MAN. HE STARTED BARKSDALE IN 1994, AND AFTER 27 YEARS, ...

A Lexington educator known to his students as “the cookie man” now has a brick-and-mortar store where he plans to teach others about baking. Leon Buford-Kelly, an associate principal at Leestown ...

Joe Barksdale, known as the "Cookie Man," finally saw his dream of a permanent building for his famous chocolate chip cookies at the Iowa State Fair come to fruition. After years of perseverance and ...

BK’s Cookies & More opened just off Southland Drive with a rotating lineup of hand-made cookies in unique flavors such as the Twix cookie with chocolate and caramel icing on a shortbread cookie.

People call Leon Buford-Kelly, the associate principal at Leestown Middle School, “The Cookie Man.” It’s not just because he gives the cookies he bakes to students for good work or that he donates his ...