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Local organizations share in $2.5 million Pallottine Foundation Healthy Communities funding
CITIZEN STAFF REPORT The Pallottine Foundation of Huntington has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 172 organizations across West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio through its 2026 Healthy Communities Initiative, funding projects aimed at improving health, nutrition, housing stability, recovery support and quality of life throughout the tri-state region. The annual initiative provides grants of up…
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Frontier Housing to bring jobs, modular homebuilding to Martin County
BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN DEBORD — A Kentucky homebuilding company is expanding to Martin County, with plans to open a factory in the Eastern Kentucky Business Park in Debord. Frontier Housing signed a lease Tuesday for the county’s 55,000-square-foot speculative building on Honey Branch, formerly occupied by Boxvana. Martin County Judge/Executive Lon Lafferty was…
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Eastern Kentucky towns fight to recover from opioid epidemic, with help from newcomers and recovering addicts, national author reports
BY SAM QUINONES REPUBLISHED BY KHN FROM THE FREE PRESS In early 2020, Mandi Fugate Sheffel, 42, opened a tiny bookstore in her hometown of Hazard. Everyone thought she was crazy. Downtown Hazard was a forbidding place to start any business, much less a bookstore. Most coal mines that once supported the area had closed.…
