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Lawsuit filed in Magoffin County bus crash
BY RACHEL DOVEMOUNTAIN CITIZEN SALYERSVILLE — A Nov. 14 school bus crash in Magoffin County that sent 18 students and the driver to hospitals is the subject of lawsuits filed Wednesday in Magoffin Circuit Court by the parents of two of the children. Pikeville attorney William R. Johnson filed the suits on behalf of mothers
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Sheriff warns residents about phone scam
INEZ — Martin County Sheriff John Kirk is warning residents about a phone scam. Kirk says the caller claims to be the electric company and asks for payment over the phone, telling residents their service will be disconnected if they do not pay. The sheriff says residents should not give payment information to these callers.
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Special meeting Jan. 4
INEZ — The Martin County Fiscal Court has called a special meeting for 2 p.m. Jan. 4 in the courtroom on the second floor of the Martin County Government Center. The meeting will be broadcast live on the Martin County KY Fiscal Court Facebook page. The agenda includes the following: Discuss and take action on
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Judge declares state of emergency as winter weather cripples Martin County Water District
BY RACHEL DOVE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County has declared a state of emergency due to ongoing widespread water outages in the county. Judge/Executive Lon Lafferty declared the emergency Friday evening following days of frigid weather that ruptured a 14-inch main line near the water treatment plant on Turkey Creek, emptying the plant’s clear
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CAP will accept walk-ins for LIHEAP beginning Jan. 9
Big Sandy Area Community Action Program announced Thursday that it will accept walk-ins for the Crisis component of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) beginning Jan. 9. Applications will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis until March 31 or until funds are exhausted. The LIHEAP Crisis component assists low-income households experiencing heating emergencies.
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Three men arrested for copper phone wire theft
BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Copper wire thieves continue to destroy infrastructure in Martin County, knocking out phone service for weeks or months at a time in some areas and costing AT&T thousands of dollars. But the Martin County Sheriff’s Office made gains in arresting three men for stealing copper phone wire from
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Warning: Movie money being passed around as real money
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is warning businesses and individuals to be on the lookout for phony movie prop bills being passed off as real money. Chief Deputy Chris Kidd said the sheriff’s office received a report Thursday of a woman receiving motion picture prop money when she sold
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Wolf Creek woman strangled, assaulted and imprisoned after interrupting boyfriend’s Xbox game
BY RACHEL DOVE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN PILGRIM — A Wolf Creek woman was strangled, assaulted and imprisoned after interrupting her boyfriend’s Xbox game to tell him she was going to bed. Martin County Dispatch received a call Dec. 20 from a woman who identified herself as Constable Bradford Preece’s wife, Linda. The caller requested a deputy
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Sheriff’s office gets new ballistic vests
BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — In law enforcement, no matter how well-trained, officers can sometimes find themselves in dangerous situations. With that in mind, Martin County Emergency Management Director Kayla May secured a grant to pay for 10 level III ballistic vests that the Martin County Sheriff’s Office received last week. The grant
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2022 Entertainment Year in Review
Local artists made global impact BY PHILL BARNETTMOUNTAIN CITIZEN The slowed production of the first two years of the pandemic made for an explosive year for entertainment in 2022 at both a local and national level. While some of the best TV, music and movies we’ve seen in years were released from artists around the
