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Lady Cards busy summer
BY BRITTNI MCCOYMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County High School girls basketball team has been busy this summer. The Lady Cardinals hosted a camp and workouts and played several games in the tri-state area. The team traveled June 3 and 4 to Greenup County for the Battle of the Borders. The Lady Cards defeated Fleming
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Senior Citizens Center to benefit from grants
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The Martin County Senior Citizens Center will put two grants to use. The Pallottine Foundation of Huntington recently awarded the center $20,375, and the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels gave the center $2,490. “The Pallottine grant will be used to hire a meal driver and add 20 new home-delivered
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Walking trail repairs
Repair work is underway on the Inez Walking Trail, 90 percent of which will be paid for through FEMA. Inez Mayor Ed Daniels says the project should be finished by September.
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BOE accepts bids, contracts for 2022-2023 school year
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The Martin County Board of Education got down to business in a meeting Monday awarding bids and approving contracts for services for the 2022-2023 school year. The board accepted bids for services including insurance, diesel, bus parts and accessories, tires, custodial supplies, water treatment, pest control and cleaning services.
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COVID-19 risk high in Martin County
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The CDC’s coronavirus map shows a higher level of virus transmission and an increased risk of the COVID-19 disease in Martin County. Martin County and 18 other Kentucky counties are red on the latest national COVID-19 risk map, indicating a high level of coronavirus transmission. Twenty-eight Kentucky counties are
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Historic Courthouse will open once permits secured
Occupancy laws prevent open house, weddings, class reunion BY PHILL BARNETTMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The opening of the Historic Martin County Courthouse has hit a delay. The building was due to open officially June 5. Martin County Tourism chairperson Nita Collier announced in a special board meeting May 31 that the Open House, along with
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Grand jury indicts four
CITIZEN STAFF REPORT INEZ — A Martin County grand jury returned indictments Thursday against four individuals. Those indicted include: Nella Webb Maynard, 58, of Pilgrim, was indicted on two counts of intent to defraud/scheme/artifice to obtain benefits over $10,000. The indictment states that from Jan. 1, 2016, through Feb. 29, 2020, Maynard made a false statement or
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Nonpartisan races set
Nine more candidates BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County nonpartisan races are set for Nov. 8 as Tuesday was the deadline to register. Several more candidates filed their paperwork last week in the Martin County Clerk’s Office. Warfield City Commissioners John P. Sammons, Robert David Bell, and Crystal Dawn Bell are all running for
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Cassady Avenue safe again
Cassady Avenue in Inez is safe again after the Martin County Road & Bridge department finished repairs Friday. The road slipped more than a year ago and deteriorated to the point that it was dangerous, according to Inez Commissioner Dennis Hall and Terry Fraley, who reached out to Martin County Magistrate Jarred Goforth for help.
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County increases budget by $765,000
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County Fiscal Court will conduct the second reading of its fiscal year 2022 budget in a meeting June 16. The $10,046,488 budget is a $765,000 increase over last year’s budget. Judge/Executive Colby Kirk conducted the first reading of the budget in the fiscal court’s May regular meeting. The
