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Widow pleads for help with dilapidated bridge
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN TOMAHAWK — Venida Spence has lived on Rockhouse Fork for 50 years. Her only access to her home is a dilapidated wooden bridge that has become too unsafe for automobiles to cross, so she hopes Martin County Judge/Executive Colby Kirk will help her. Spence, who has lived alone since her husband…
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Failing culverts flooding Rockhouse residents
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN TOMAHAWK — Residents at the head of Rockhouse Fork in Tomahawk are dealing with flooding of their homes, property and the county road due to failing drainage culverts. Johnny and Sofie Marcum’s home gets flooded during heavy rain since Martin County Road and Bridge took their bridge away and installed culverts…
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No virtual option for 2022-2023 school year
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County Schools will offer no virtual option for students in the 2022-2023 school year. Schools Superintendent Larry James told school board members in a meeting Monday that it was best to announce it now so parents would know in advance. Last week, the school district had 74 students…
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Kentucky ‘pretty safe’ from COVID
Beshear expects ‘room for at least some executive order’ for medical marijuana BY MELISSA PATRICKKENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS As the state heads into Kentucky Derby weekend, Gov. Andy Beshear said all the metrics to measure COVID-19 give Kentuckians little to be concerned about. “You’re pretty safe from where the virus is right now, if you’re fully…
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C-J reports on illegal abortions in Kentucky, before Roe v. Wade and asks, ‘Will history repeat itself?’
As the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to abolish the right to an abortion, Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal writes in detail about illegal abortions in Kentucky from 1866 through 1973, when the Roe v. Wade decision created the right. The stories are based on 20 cases decided by Kentucky’s highest court and…
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‘Trigger law’ would end legal abortion in Kentucky if Supreme Court overturns its 1973 Roe v. Wade
BY MELISSA PATRICKKENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS If a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would overturn the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision becomes final, legal abortion in Kentucky would end immediately because of a “trigger law” the state legislature passed to take effect if Roe is overturned. But for now, abortion services…
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Voting underway in Martin County
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Voting in the May Primary is underway in Martin County. Excused absentee machine voting begins today in the Martin County Clerk’s Office, and early voting starts May 12. In-person absentee voting days are May 4-6 and May 9-11. Hours for excused absentee machine voting will be 8:30 a.m. to…
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District 4 garbage service caught up
Workers collect 12.3 tons of trash “We are asking prospective haulers how they would like to address customers who paid in advance in the bid packet. With their input, it should help us come up with a clear solution.” –Judge/Executive Colby Kirk BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — County workers picked up 12.3 tons (24,580…
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