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A Letcher County coal miner claims he has been targeted by the company he works for because he spoke out against unsafe working conditions at one of the company's mines. More ... The Food World IGA grocery store in Whitesburg has collected more than 100,000 tabs from aluminum soft drink cans in the past four months to benefit families who stay at the Ronald McDonald House in Lexington. "A great number of the participants that stay at the Ronald McDonald House are from our part of the world. More ... Police arrested two Whitesburg men believed to be responsible for a stolen vehicle crashing into the Isom Community Pharmacy early Sunday night. More ... The fall semester of the Letcher County After-School Tutoring Program, a one-to-one tutoring program for children with dyslexic characteristics, will begin on August 28 at the First Baptist Church on Madison Avenue in Whitesburg. Training workshops will be held at the James Still Learning Center at Hindman Settlement School on August 17 and 18,. More ... A CPR class will be held at 9 a.m., August 11, at the Cumberland River Fire Department at Partridge. Participants in the class are eligible for a twoyear healthcare provider card. Cost of the class is $45. For more information, call (606) 589- 5930. More ... A training session for electricians and master electricians will be offered by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College at its Whitesburg campus on Saturday, Aug. 18, from 8 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. The class, priced at $60 per participant, will be directed by college faculty. For more information, contact Henry Hughes at 1-888-274-7322, ext. 13193. More ... There are many ways to communicate with others - face to face, by telephone, via e-mail, and more. When it comes to sending a message and making sure it's delivered, it's hard to beat the value of First-Class Mail. Of any basic service offered by the Postal Service, First-Class Mail offers the highest level of privacy protection and preferential handling. More ... If all goes according to plan, the City of Blackey may one day be the home of a new community center, which will be located in the city park. City Clerk Pauline Collins told the Blackey City Council she has spoken with 92nd District State Representative Ancil Smith, who said he would try to get funds for the center placed in the 2008 state budget. More ... WASHINGTON The former director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's Pittsburgh office will run the entire agency. Brent Wahlquist, 65, the agency's acting director since 2005, was confirmed to be its director on Aug. 3 by the Senate. More ... The Letcher County Fiscal Court recently leased two new Mack trucks through the Kentucky Association of Counties. The vehicles will be able to haul 23 to 27 tons of gravels and blacktop compared to the old county trucks that could only haul five to seven tons. More ... A new airport for Letcher County has moved from possible to probable thanks to the hard work of the Letcher County Airport Board. More ... A Letcher County man was honored recently for being the Kentucky Lottery's top salesman for the last fiscal year. Randy Brown, of Whitesburg, was named the "No. More ... GROUNDBREAKING - A groundbreaking ceremony for the Mountain Water District- Jenkins Connector Water Project was held August 1 near the Pike County/Letcher County line. Approximately 8,000 feet of 8-inch water main and a booster pumping station will be installed in the Shelby Gap area of Pike County, and will extend to the Letcher County line. More ... In the past anyone considering a career in forestry had fairly simple issues to address: Helping loggers understand how to most effectively cut timber and plant replacement trees, plotting strategies for helping forests recover from fires, More ... Tickets will go on sale this Friday (Aug. 10) for a concert in Pikeville featuring country music stars Sara Evans and Josh Turner. The concert will be held at the East Kentucky Expo Center on Friday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. Newcomer Luke Bryan will open. More ... PHYLLIS, Ky. The curling dirt road to the home of Rully and Erica Urias, near Kentucky's eastern tip, is a path through a changed landscape. Their home is surrounded by strip mines that remove the tops of mountains to reach the underlying coal seams and push dirt and rock into heads of the surrounding hollows. More ... HUNTINGTON, Utah Hundreds of rescuers struggled with falling rock and debris early Tuesday in a desperate race to reach six coal miners trapped 1,500 feet below ground by a cave-in so powerful authorities questioned if it caused its own earthquake. More ... The Blackey Day festival will begin at 11 a.m., August 11, with a musical performance by Arthur Christon. He will be followed on stage by God's Grace, James Caudill and Walter Bowling at noon, and East KY Tyme at 1 p.m. More ... Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College will offer an AHA/BLS Healthcare Provider workshop at the Whitesburg campus on Friday, Aug. 31 beginning at 9 a.m. This course offers a completion card for participants who receive a score of 84 percent on the written exams and demonstrate AED, FBAO and CPR psychomotor skills. The instructor will be Henry Hughes. More ... |
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