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MCMS announces Students of the Month
WARFIELD — Principal Brent Haney and staff announced Students of the Month at Martin County Middle School. Hunter Dials, Ruby Kitts, James Bentley, Liam May, Harrison Jude, Jacob Bowman, Kaitlynn Mann, Londyn Fraley, Gaven Grace, Drake Bowens, Aaron Horn and Abby Jude made the prestigious list.
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Calls up 26% since 988 launched in July
BY MELISSA PATRICKKENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS In the six months since the new, easy-to-remember 988 suicide and crisis lifeline launched, calls have increased 26%, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday. Beshear said at his regular weekly news conference that the “mental health version of 911” is designed to connect people in a mental health emergency with someone…
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Doctors will no longer have to take special training to prescribe opioid that is used to treat addiction but is short of prescribers
The federal government has lifted extra requirements for doctors who want to prescribe buprenorphine, a partial opioid that is used to help drug users beat addiction. That will be a boon for rural areas, including most of Kentucky, that have a disproportionate share of overdoses and a shortage of doctors willing to prescribe it. Gone…
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AI writing tools are the future; educators must adapt or their students will fall behind
BY PHILL BARNETTMOUNTAIN CITIZEN Artificially intelligent writing tools like ChatGPT, based on the latest language models developed by OpenAI, are taking the world of writing by storm. Professionals and amateurs alike can generate pages of written content in seconds. And it’s really good. Scary good. I asked one such tool, Perplexity.ai to write a summary…
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Classified document stink piles
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE An Old Testament story records an overwhelming infestation of frogs throughout Egypt. There was no place in Egypt where frogs were not present in large numbers. The plague was sent in response to Pharoah’s attitude toward the Israelite people who lived in slavery under his rule. When God ended the plague,…
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Legislative Update: Why lower income taxes?
BY REPRESENTATIVE BOBBY MCCOOL Before I begin this week’s legislative update, I want to thank everyone who took the time to complete my legislative questionnaire. As I read through the responses, I noticed that someone asked, “Why do we want to lower income taxes?” and thought I might answer it in this column. The fact…
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Former industrial waste pit used as sewer disposal site
Environmental questions raised BY ROGER SMITH and RACHEL DOVEMOUNTAIN CITIZEN MILO — Spence Branch residents live in the shadow of a domestic septage disposal site that formerly was an industrial waste pit. Residents say sewage waste is being trucked up the hillside and is finding its way back down in runoff following hard rains and…
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York receives additional child pornography charges
New federal indictment opened Thursday BY RACHEL DOVE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN PIKEVILLE — A Beauty man already under federal indictment for producing and distributing child pornography is facing additional charges following the release of a new indictment Thursday in U.S. District Court in Pikeville. Donald York Jr., 69, was indicted by a federal grand jury in…
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Dr. Fletcher, Gov. Beshear speak on teacher shortage at KASA presser
BY PHILL BARNETTMOUNTAIN CITIZEN FRANKFORT — Dr. Robbie Fletcher, Lawrence County Superintendent and former Sheldon Clark High School principal, and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear were among those to speak in Frankfort Monday at a press event held by the Kentucky Association of School Administrators. The KASA called the press conference to bring attention to the…
