Physicist who grew up in Letcher Co. is part of ATLAS experiment at CERN
      To the Editor: People will be interested to know that with the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, our hometown boy Austin Napier is involved with the ATLAS experiment at CERN. The website http:// atlas.
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Cowan Community Center receives award
      On October 1, staff and friends of the Cowan Community Center were in Frankfort to accept the 2007-2008 Governor's Folk Heritage Award for their role in promot- ing and conserving Kentucky's traditional arts.
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Council to meet
      The Letcher County Central High School School Based Decision Making Council will hold its regular meetings at 5:15 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month at the school library. The next regular meeting will be Oct. 23.
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Radiography conference is scheduled for Oct. 15
      Hazard Community and Technical College and Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College will hold a pre-admission conference for the radiography program in room 235 of the Belinda Mason Building on the Whitesburg Campus of SKCTC at 3 p.m., Oct. 15.
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SKCTC receives grant for x-ray machines
      The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has given a $94,352 grant to Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College (SKCTC) to purchase two digital x-ray machines, according to Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers.
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Letcher Central council to meet
      The Letcher County Central High School School Based Decision Making Council will hold its regular meetings at 5:15 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month at the school library. The next regular meeting will be Oct. 23.
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Part-time enrollment falls slightly at SKCTC; full-time enrollment up
      Fall enrollment at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College is expected to be at 4,805, once all students are enrolled by the October 31 deadline, according to college officials. This is a decrease of 44 stu- dents from the same period last year, a drop of just under one percent.
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Lawyers try to halt online gambling suit
      Lawyers from around the country packed a Franklin County courtroom Tuesday asking a local circuit judge to dismiss Kentucky's attempt at blocking residents' access to numerous online gambling Web sites. Gov.
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Letcher board votes to move ahead on plumbing renovations, sidewalks
      The Letcher County Board of Education approved moving forward on two construction projects at a special-called meeting Monday night. The board approved financial plans for plumbing renovations at Fleming-Neon Elementary School and for the construction of sidewalks near West Whitesburg Elementary School.
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Building may be done by March
      Construction of the new Letcher County Health Department is on track to be completed by March 2009, says the department's director Lana Mullins. Workers have been laying brick near a balcony of the building facing East Main Street in Whitesburg. The balcony is being constructed in front of a second floor boardroom, which will have hardwood floors.
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