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Martin County Health Department announces two COVID-related deaths, the county’s first since March 2022
BY RACHEL DOVEMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County has had two additional COVID-19-related deaths, the first reported since March 2022. The two deaths were announced Tuesday, bringing the county’s COVID-19 death toll to 52. The health department reported 64 new COVID-19 cases in the county were laboratory-confirmed from Dec. 20-Jan. 17, bringing the case count…
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TEK Center offering 40 full-ride scholarships
Registration and class start date extended BY RACHEL DOVE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Start your career in the industrial sector in less than a year. The new TEK Center in Inez is offering 40 full-ride scholarships. Enrollment has been extended until summer, and the class start date has been pushed back to July 17 to allow…
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Sheriff’s office honors fallen officers
BY RACHEL DOVEMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Each December and throughout the first week of the new year, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk and his staff decorate a wall in the sheriff’s office dedicated to law enforcement who made the ultimate sacrifice during the preceding 12 months. The wall honors seven fallen officers in Kentucky in…
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Fatal shooting case closed
BY RACHEL DOVE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN LOUISA — A case of a landowner fatally shooting a Tomahawk man who trespassed on his family’s property last year is formally closed after a grand jury failed to indict. The grand jury in Lawrence County met Thursday and heard the case against Tyler Brown, who shot and killed 45-year-old…
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Probation violation leads to drug bust
Police seize crack cocaine, fentanyl, cash BY RACHEL DOVE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — A woman is in jail after a warrant for a probation violation led police to find drugs and thousands of dollars in her apartment. Lauren Mikeala Horn, 21, of Williamson, was arrested Jan. 11 for a probation violation. Police say she…
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Students evacuated following bomb threat call to Martin County Sheriff’s Office
BY RACHEL DOVEMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County High School students were evacuated and bused to Inez Elementary following a bomb threat call to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office around noon Wednesday. MCHS Principal Martha Williams immediately began evacuating all students and staff from the building when the sheriff contacted her concerning the threat. Williams…
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Lafferty on mission to get $60 million to fix Martin County’s water system
BY RACHEL DOVE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County Judge/Executive Lon Lafferty has pledged to make Martin County’s water system his top priority over the next four years. He says he aims to fix it and is already working toward that goal. Following a catastrophic water system failure Dec. 26 that left the county’s population…
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Three arrested for burning vehicle to defraud insurance
BY ROGER SMITH and RACHEL DOVEMOUNTAIN CITIZEN DEBORD — An Inez woman and two Debord men were arrested Jan. 4, accused of burning a vehicle to defraud an insurance company and creditor. Susan Cox, 61, of Inez, and 61-year-old Harold Moore and 28-year-old Jackie Haney, both of Debord, are facing felony charges. Police caught Moore and Haney…
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Bus driver arrested for DUI
BY RACHEL DOVEMOUNTAIN CITIZEN WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. — West Virginia State Police arrested a school bus driver last week who crashed his bus into a utility pole in September, sending six students to the hospital. Police arrested Walter Joseph Collie, 43, of Genoa, W.Va., accusing him of being under the influence of drugs at the time of…
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Residents share New Year’s resolutions
BY RACHEL DOVEMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — New Year’s resolutions are a longtime tradition, said to have started around 4,000 years ago when ancient Babylonians held celebrations in honor of the new year and commitments to the gods to repay debts and return borrowed objects. For early Christians, resolutions became a tradition on the first day…
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