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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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Videos show constables beating, dragging man
Commonwealth Attorney could not comment on ‘what may be a pending case, investigation’ BY LISA STAYTON MOUNTAIN CITIZEN PILGRIM — Videos surfaced last week on Facebook showing two Martin County constables beating and dragging a man after they captured him onto the ground and cuffed his hands behind his back. Two videos show Martin County…
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Arrest Report 5/4/22
INEZ — Martin County Sheriff John Kirk’s office and the Martin County Constables reported the following arrests: John D. King, 41, of Louisa, was arrested Friday on Trade Ridge on a Lawrence County indictment warrant charging him with first-degree rape and unlawful transaction with a minor, second degree. Deputy Tyler Lafferty made the arrest. Kimberly Cole,…
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