Papa John’s Pizza Donates To Small Business The founder of Louisville, KY based Papa John’s Pizza is making a donation in order to help small businesses get by in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.John Schnatter announced that the John H. Schnatter Family Foundation will be contributing $1 million to efforts helping the survival…
Beshear, GOP Agree to Mail-In Voting for June Primary Gov. Andy Beshear opened Kentucky’s primary election to widespread mail-in absentee voting in a move Friday to relax election procedures and protect people amid the coronavirus outbreak. Allowing registered voters to cast ballots through mailed-in absentee voting stems from a bipartisan agreement between the Democratic…
CVHD Reports Fifth COVID-19 Related Death A fifth person has now died due to COVID-19 in the Cumberland Valley District Health Department. Officials said Friday the patient was a 79-year old woman who was also a resident of Jackson Manor. The health department also confirmed a new COVID-19 case in Jackson County, however, this…
Pikeville Medical Center Furloughing 200 Workers Pikeville Medical Center is furloughing more than 200 employees effective tomorrow (Sunday). Hospital officials say with no elective procedures taking place, the facility will “experience a significant financial loss for April and have to take these necessary steps to manage expenses.” Anyone furloughed -will- qualify for unemployment benefits…
Federal Victims Of Crime Act Funding Applications for grant funding under the federal Victims of Crime Act will be available next month, Kentucky officials said.Public agencies and nonprofit programs that provide direct services to victims such as domestic violence shelters and child advocacy centers are eligible to apply for the funding, according to a…
Electric Cooperative Scam Kentucky’s electric cooperatives are warning customers of scammers who may try to fool them into thinking their power could be shut off during the COVID-19 outbreak.The cooperatives, which together serve about a third of the state’s population, said they are seeing a surge in scammers demanding payments from customers.The scammers threaten…
Testing Available To Everyone Some locations in Kentucky are offering general public testing now such as sites in Pikeville and Somerset.On Monday, April 27 and Tuesday, April 28, Primary Care Centers in Hazard will have free testing for the general public as well.Wednesday they got the go-ahead from the governor’s office to proceed with…
Phase 1 Healthcare Services Reopening Governor Beshear has announced that beginning Monday, April 27th, the state will begin the process of opening back up phase 1 healthcare services and facilities.According to the Governor, these facilities will run much differently than they did prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.Health care providers can resume non-urgent/emergent health care…
Taking Time To Reopen Kentucky should resist the temptation of being the fastest to reopen its coronavirus-battered economy, instead focusing on being “the smartest and the best” to prevent any follow-up spikes in infections, says Gov. Andy Beshear.Beshear and other governors are at the center of a turbulent national debate about how quickly to…
More Unemployment Filings In KY More than 103,000 Kentuckians applied for unemployment benefits last week, raising the five-week total to about 500,000 as jobs vanish across an economy in near lockdown from the coronavirus.The number of Kentuckians filing for jobless assistance last week was down by more than 12,700 from the prior week, the…