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Senior Citizens Center to benefit from grants
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The Martin County Senior Citizens Center will put two grants to use. The Pallottine Foundation of Huntington recently awarded the center $20,375, and the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels gave the center $2,490. “The Pallottine grant will be used to hire a meal driver and add 20 new home-delivered…
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New cannabis committee wants to hear from you
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN FRANKFORT — The Team Kentucky Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee wants to hear from you about why cannabis is an important issue to you. The committee will soon travel the state and listen to views on medical cannabis and provide that feedback to Gov. Andy Beshear. Following up on his announcement in…
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MCCC awarded over $200,000
Mountain Comprehensive Care Center has been awarded a $210,960 competitive federal grant to help low-income and homeless veterans obtain employment. U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced the grant June 8. This is a continuation award, building on the $210,960 grant the Mountain Comprehensive Care Center received in 2021. Since 2014, the Senator has…
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Bringing back spirit of 1930s supper club
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — The Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce and Minor Swing are bringing back the spirit of the 1930s supper club July 30 in the Grand Ballroom of the Historic Mountaineer Hotel. Supper Club Concert Night featuring Minor Swing takes us back to Saturday nights spent at supper cubs enjoying dinner and live music…
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Hooked On Fishing, Not On Drugs
CITIZEN STAFF REPORT MILO — A crowd turned out for the annual Hooked On Fishing, Not On Drugs event Saturday at the Martin County Lake on Milo Road. Operation UNITE, Addiction Recovery Care and community members sponsored the event. Organizer Katrina Sansom said about 58 people came out. “It was mostly families that attended,” Sansom…
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Hundreds attend A Day at the Park
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN WARFIELD — The annual A Day at the Park has come and gone, and festival officials say this year’s event was the best ever as hundreds of people converged on Warfield Park. And just like that, the festival brought a community together. Warfield Park was transformed from lonely to full under…
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Six named to MSU dean’s list
MOREHEAD — Six Martin County residents made the Morehead State University dean’s list for the spring 2022 semester. Those students are listed below. Caudill College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences — Harley Elizabeth Spradlin of Inez. Elmer R. Smith College of Business and Technology — Scott Ryan Allen of Inez. College of Science —…
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Baby formula supply expected to remain short through late July
BY MELISSA PATRICK KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS The baby formula shortage continues to worsen in Kentucky, with the state’s out-of-stock rate increasing by 20 percentage points since May 8, according to the retail data firm Datasembly. Datasembly reports that in the week starting May 15, the latest data available, Kentucky’s out-of-stock rate for baby formula increased…
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Stafford named to dean’s list
MIDWAY — Midway University announced that John Stafford of Inez was among the students who were named to its dean’s list for the 2022 spring semester. To be named to the list, a student must be classified as full-time and obtain a 3.60 grade-point average for the semester. There were 326 students who made the…
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