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Union College Unveils ‘Promise Plus’ Plan for Area Students Union College yesterday announced a new financial aid plan for southeast Kentucky students. The ‘Promise Plus’ affects students in 19 eastern Kentucky counties. Perks include the same tuition for all four years of college; a minimum $15,000 scholarship for students with a 2.0 or better…
Improvements For Lake Barkley State Resort Park Lake Barkley State Resort Park is getting about $6 million in improvements as part of a Kentucky initiative to upgrade the state’s parks.The funding for Lake Barkley will include upgrades for the wastewater treatment system, roof replacement and repairs and improvements for the fire alarm and sprinkler…
Preparing For Driving Over Thanksgiving Kentucky’s highways will be busy with travelers during Thanksgiving week, and safety officials are advising them to buckle up their seat belts and put down their phones.Kentucky Office of Highway Safety acting Executive Director Jason Siwula says this is one of the busiest travel times, and deaths and injuries…
Collecting Toys For Kids Hannah Brown, Insurance Agent at the Stan Owens Kentucky Farm Bureau Office in London, has gotten enough toys for 200 kids in Laurel County schools and is expecting more.It is something that she came up with 5 years ago after she says God laid it on her heart. What He…
Local Korean War Soldier Remembered A previously unidentified Korean War soldier is set to be buried in Magoffin County.22-year-old Ray Palmer Fairchild died in action in North Korea on November 27, 1950.Fairchild is originally from the Mash Fork Community of Magoffin County.Ray was a member of Salyersville First Baptist Church.Fairchild’s younger brother, John, has…
With Love From Harlan Needs Donations For those in need, food can be hard to come by especially in the winter months.Two summers ago, With Love from Harlan noticed children were missing meals.”When the kids are out of school and when they are in the parks. When they are able to travel around and…
Major Collision On I-75 The northbound lanes of Interstate 75 are shut down in Madison County.Reports indicate the crash happened near the 86-mile marker. Two vehicles are involved and one person has died.Traffic is being diverted to Duncannon lane and then on to Highway 25. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says the northbound lanes should…
KY State Representative Wilson Stone Will Retire Kentucky state Rep. Wilson Stone has announced his eventual retirement.The Bowling Green Daily News reported Wednesday that Stone will leave office at the end of his current term, which ends in 2021. The Democrat announced last year that he’d been diagnosed with a brain tumor after having…
KY’s Child Poverty Rate Dips Though Kentucky’s child poverty rate continues to outpace the national average, the overall rate has dropped in recent years, a new study shows.Nearly half of the state’s children in 2017 lived in low-income households, according to the Kentucky Youth Advocates 2019 County Data Book, an annual report released Tuesday…
Issuing New Real IDs A Kentucky transportation official says the state plans to set up 12 regional offices to issue special driver’s licenses that will be needed in less than a year to board domestic airline flights.Media outlets report that the transportation official, Matt Henderson, told state lawmakers on Monday that the state eventually…