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With the new year may come a new day that your garbage is picked up. The Letcher County Fiscal Court recently purchased four mini-packer garbage trucks which will cut down on the amount of time, fuel, and workers that it takes to collect garbage throughout the county, according to Letcher County Judge/Executive Jim Ward. More ... Letcher County Deputy Coroner Wallace Bolling Jr. ruled blunt force trauma to the chest as the cause of death of a 78-yearold Whitesburg woman who died from injuries sustained in a single-vehicle wreck at Van. Maxie Mae Thomas Hampton was traveling southbound on KY 15 around 6:20 p.m. More ... Since water from the Whitesburg Municipal Water System has been deemed safe to consume, Letcher County Judge/ Executive Jim Ward said the county is donating 38 pallets of gallon jugs and canned drinking water to Magoffin County, which is now facing water problems of its own. More ... By day, Chuck Anderson runs the financial aid office at Hazard Community and Technical College, but his after-hours time is spent serving the City of Jenkins. Chuck Anderson was reelected this month to his third term to the Jenkins City Council. A total of 12 names were on the ballot for the six-member council. Anderson was the top third vote-getter. More ... Here are some tips for students to cut the cost of a college education. One of the biggest college expenses is tuition. You can save on tuition at many colleges by taking more classes each semester. That's because many schools charge a flat rate if you're a fulltime student, whether you're taking 12 credit hours or 18 credit hours. More ... At the recent Kentucky Career Counseling Association annual conference in Louisville, Helen Brunty of Letcher, was named the Career Counselor of the Year. She is the activity director/retention specialist at Hazard Community and Technical College, where she was formerly student support services transfer and career counselor. More ... 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., Dec. 10. More ... A meeting informing people how they can become foster parents will be held at 1 p.m., Nov. 1, at the Jenkins Family Resource Youth Service Center at Jenkins Middle High School. A representative of the Special Needs Adoption Program will speak. For more information, contact Laura Revis of Machelle Boggs at 832-0009. More ... Eleven Letcher Elementary School students have been named to the All A Honor Roll for the second weeks of school. They are: Caleb Adams, Jesse Roark, Katlyn Jent, Austin Sparkman, Tara Chadwell, Sydney Back, Arianna Nichols, Shelbi Kincaid, Benjamin Cornett, Julie Cornett, and Emilie Nichols. More ... Students at Jenkins Middle/ High School named to the A All Honor Roll for the second six weeks of school are: Bradley Adams, Hunter Branham, Tyler Branham, Hillary Brashear, Kevin Brashear, Sarah Corbett, Erica Creech, Kayla Edwards, Ali Goff, Allison Goodson, Jody Hayes, Michael Kelly, Matthew Little, Courtney Mullins, Jessica Mullins, Tamara Potter, Danielle Powell, More ... A program in which the Letcher County and Jenkins Independent School Districts are participating has been rated an "effective" federal program by the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C. More ... Letcher County and its government officials were prayed for last week by a Winchester man who is spending the rest of this year walking across Kentucky praying for leaders and citizens in each town he walks through. "I'm praying for the leaders in our state from governors to mayors," said Mark Mills. "I'm praying for police officers and firefighters. More ... Independent tests conducted after the report of a petroleum spill at Ermine showed possible contamination in Whitesburg and Letcher County raw water supplies, but tap water tests were inconclusive. The nonprofit watershed group Headwaters Inc. sent two sampling teams out on Nov. More ... Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College is looking for potential students interested in its practical nursing program, commonly known as the LPN program. The college has announced an initiative to provide a "career pathway program" in practical nursing at the Whitesburg Campus beginning in January. More ... A new art exhibit entitled "Wild Blue Yonder" will open this week at Summit City in Whitesburg. The exhibit features paintings by Pam Oldfield Meade, who will be at Summit City for an opening reception on Friday night at 7 p.m. Also on display will be mural Meade painted on the back deck of Summit City, which is located on Main Street. More ... The Letcher County Fiscal Court unanimously adopted a revised schedule for its Coal Severance Tax priority list at its November meeting. The new list will override the previously adopted list to comply with House Bill 410, which maintains that any coal severance tax allocation under $200,000 may not be divided. More ... GREAT FALLS, Mont. As workers scramble to build an $800 million coal-fired power plant on a patch of farmland here, a crisis that began on faraway Wall Street threatens to stretch the nation's power supplies to the brink — driving up prices and laying the stage for future shortages. More ... The Letcher County Board of Education has approved the final payment to Elliott Contracting for the construction of the new baseball field at Letcher County Central High School. The board originally approved a plan to build the baseball field at its July 2007 board meeting in hopes that the field would be ready to play baseball games on by spring of 2008. More ... Students at Jenkins Elementary School named to the All A Honor Roll for the second six weeks of school are: Sixth grade — Michaela Hardin, Alyssa Newman, and Arissa Vanover. Fifth grade — Aron Bartley, Melissa Bartley, Emily Johnson, Brandon Little, and Laken Tolliver. More ... |
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