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Solar job fairs between January and June
Solar project ‘on the home stretch’ BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The Martin County Solar Project is on the home stretch, according to Savion director of development Erich Miarka. Miarka gave a project update Thursday during the Martin County Fiscal Court meeting. “We build and operate utility-scale solar projects all over the country,”…
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Parking impacts, delays for Inez
Asphalt resurfacing project begins Tuesday BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The Kentucky Department of Transportation will begin work Tuesday on an asphalt resurfacing project in the City of Inez. Inez Street Commissioner Dennis Hall said the project would impact parking and create delays. There will be no parking on the shoulder along Route…
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Second tire cleanup of Tug River in Warfield-Kermit
Hundreds of tires removed from water BY KYLE LOVERN MOUNTAIN CITIZEN WARFIELD-KERMIT — Volunteers waded the Tug Fork River in the Warfield and Kermit area to clean up old tires — some that had been in the water for many years. John Burchett, a member of Friends of the Tug Fork River and a commissioner…
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Kermit approves $400 million settlement
Tempers flare on dilapidated property BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN KERMIT, W.Va. — The Kermit Council approved a participation agreement for the $400 million settlement that West Virginia cities and counties reached in a lawsuit with three major U.S. drug distributors in August. Tish Chafin, legal counsel from Williamson, W.Va., joined the Kermit meeting Monday…
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Inez searching for alleged agreement on creek dredging
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The City of Inez is seeking an alleged agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Martin County whereby the county purportedly received a grant to channel the creek in town for flood control. In exchange, the county allegedly agreed to keep the creek banks free of brush…
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Kermit raises water rate
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN KERMIT, W.Va. — Kermit is raising its water rate. Customers will pay about $7.70 more monthly. Mayor Charles Sparks and the Kermit Town Council conducted the second reading of the ordinance setting the new rate in a public hearing Monday at Town Hall. The minimum bill for 3,000 gallons of water…
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Kermit Council ready for Fall Festival
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN KERMIT, W.Va. — Council members hammered out details on the upcoming Kermit Fall Festival in a meeting Monday at Town Hall. Councilwoman Tammy Preece Hodge told members that events were in order for the Oct. 1 festival as she passed the clerk an envelope from Councilwoman Anna Mae Sartin Wellman containing…
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A sweet salute to first responders
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Cash Express reflected on 9/11 with a sweet salute. Workers delivered desserts last week to area first responders. Garry McNabb, Cash Express CEO, said there was nothing to celebrate in the extraordinary tragedy of 9/11, but there was one memory that he wants to hold on to – the…
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Pigeon Roost residents live in fear of next big rain
Timber harvesting operation creates flood threat BY LISA STAYTON, ROGER SMITH and RACHEL DOVE LAURA — Residents of Pigeon Roost Fork live in fear of the rain as entire hillsides are being clearcut of trees. During heavy rainfall, the creek rises above its banks, forcing the rushing water to spread out, bleeding onto residents’ land…
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Hardinville sewer fixed
Christine Maynard was glad Friday to see Martin County Sanitation repair the sewer lift station at Hardinville Road in Inez. The sanitation department had discharged raw sewer into Maynard’s yard and the stream behind her home since January while residents’ complaints went unanswered.
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