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Mountain Citizen Players of the Week: Martin County Wrestling and Lady Cards Basketball
INEZ — Martin County Wrestling and Martin County Lady Cards Basketball teams are the Mountain Citizen Players of the Week. The Lady Cardinals locked up the 1-seed in the 57th District for the third time in four years with their win last week against Johnson Central. The Lady Cards went 5-1 in district play this…
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Newsome surpasses 500th career coaching win
INEZ — Martin County Hall of Fame Coach Robin Harmon-Newsome joins an elite group of Kentucky High School coaches as she has surpassed her 500th career coaching win. There are just 16 girls basketball coaches in the state of Kentucky listed in the KHSAA record books with 500 or more wins. Newsome began coaching girls…
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Sewer leak stinking up Inez
BY PHILL BARNETT MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The odor is overwhelming at the mouth of Saltwell Road along Route 645, residents say. As the complaints pile up, waste from a Martin County Sanitation District sewer lift station runs into Saltwell Creek, causing untold environmental damage. The lift station has been overflowing nonstop for weeks. Residents…
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Mills accepted to BRECC Commitment Coalition
BY PHILL BARNETT MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County Deputy Judge Carolea Mills has been selected to be a member of the National Association of Counties Commitment Coalition, part of the research foundation’s Building Resilient Economies in Coal Communities (BRECC) initiative. The Coalition is a leadership network of 20 coal community leaders who aim to…
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City agrees to buy picnic tables, pay storage rental for festival
Correction Due to the City of Inez taking a “recess” with a motion to purchase two picnic tables on the table, the Mountain Citizen incorrectly reported that the vote immediately following the informal recess was to purchase the picnic tables. The reporter was unaware that the meeting resumed before she was readmitted and thought the…
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Attention Martin County Water customers: Possible outages for leak detection work
INEZ — Martin County Water District will begin leak detection in the Inez pressure zone starting Friday night around 10:30 p.m. Alliance Water Resources announced Tuesday that the work would be performed at night to limit the effect on customers. The announcement states: “This will be the first time such leak detection has been performed…
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Martin County Courthouse News
Civil Suits INEZ — Martin Circuit Clerk Denise Gauze reported the following civil suits filed in her office:SAC Finance Inc. vs. Ryan L. Gillespie.American Financial Resources Inc. A NewX vs. Brittany McCoy.Cash Express LLC vs. Glen Fletcher.Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Joshua Vaughan.LVNV Funding LLC vs. Russell Penn.Riverside Apartments-Martin County Housing Authority vs. Jeremy Scites.LVNV…
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High school student charged with assault of another student
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — A Martin County High School student was charged with fourth-degree assault Friday morning after attacking and injuring another student in the bathroom, police say.Martin County Chief Deputy Sheriff says he was at the high school on an unrelated call when the victim came in with a bleeding cut on…
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Martin County Arrest Report
INEZ — Martin County Sheriff John Kirk’s office reported the following arrests. Jeremy Harmon, 42, of Warfield, was arrested Tuesday at Riverside Apartments, Warfield, for criminal trespassing. Chief Deputy Chris Kidd responded to a call from the Riverside manager stating Harmon had been barred from the property but was in Apartment 32. Kristin Slone, 26,…
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Martin County wraps up No. 1 seed and conference championship
Lady Cards pluck Johnson Central Eagles 47-39 BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County Lady Cardinals (19-4) plucked the Johnson Central Eagles 47-39 in a home game Feb. 8 to wrap up the No. 1 seed and 57th District Conference Championship for the third time in four years. The Martin County High School…
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