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Inez announces Students of the Month
INEZ — Inez Elementary School announced its Students of the Month. Star students include: Kindergarten, Mrs. Cain — Kingslee Copley. Kindergarten, Mrs. Moore — Uriah Moore. First Grade, Mrs. Bevins — Ashton Haney. First Grade, Ms. Haney — Jasmine Reeve. Second Grade, Mrs. Preston — Jaxson Burgess. Third Grade, Mrs. Mills — Isaiah Harmon. Third…
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Gov. Beshear, First Lady announce Eastern Kentucky Christmas toy drive
Mail gifts to Jenny Wiley State Resort Park FRANKFORT — Gov. Andy Beshear and First Lady Britainy Beshear hope to make this Christmas season a little easier for those working to rebuild their lives after the historic floods in Eastern Kentucky this summer. Last week, they announced a new toy drive for children impacted by…
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Rural Kentucky schools tackle childhood trauma
BY NADIA RAMLAGANKENTUCKY NEWS CONNECTION Russell County teachers, staff, counselors, and bus drivers have received intensive training on the effects of childhood trauma on kids’ mental and physical health since 2019. Today, elementary school suspensions have decreased by 50%, and more kids report feeling safe, cared for, and feel they “belong” at school. Amalia Mendoza,…
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There is no vaccine for hepatitis C, so all adults should get tested
BY TAKAKO SCHANINGERUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY The hepatitis vaccines you receive as a child don’t protect you from getting hepatitis C, a serious disease that can have fatal consequences including liver damage, cirrhosis and liver cancer. Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver most often caused by three viruses: hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis…
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Parents send kids to school sick, citing as reasons their need to work, concerns about missing class and pandemic weariness
Schools in Kentucky and across the nation have been hit hard by a slew of respiratory viruses, and some parents are sending their children to school sick or sending them back to school while still infected. They cite an inability to take more time off work, concern about their children missing in-class instruction and a…
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Youth suicide rates are higher where mental-health providers are scarce, study of all U.S. counties says
All but three in Kentucky rated short BY MELISSA PATRICKKENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS Counties that have shortages of mental-health providers tend to have seen their rates of youth suicide increase in recent years, a study has found. The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found that after adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, counties with a mental-health…
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Happy name week to the Mountain Citizen
The Mountain Citizen is celebrating the 32nd year of its name this week, even though the publication derived from two newspapers – The Martin Countian, which began publishing in August 1975 and The Mercury, which was published first in 1970. The Martin Countian and The Mercury became The Martin Countian and Mercury near the end…
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Christmas is in your heart
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Christmas once started for me when the JC Penny and Sears catalogs came in the mail. They came early in the Fall and I wore them out looking at the toy section. By December, the catalogs were in shambles. My mother used to order clothes and other stuff from those catalogs.…
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#leavingtwitter is tiresome performance art
BY THOMAS L. KNAPP Have you ever encountered a klansman at the grocery store? I have. I instantly recognized him as a member of the Ku Klux Klan because I’d seen him speak (sans hood) at a Klan rally (I was one of the protesters, not one of the klansmen) and on local TV repping…
