Tennessee’s Chism and Kentucky’s Cousins Earn Weekly SEC Honors »

Tennessee’s Chism and Kentucky’s Cousins Earn Weekly SEC Honors

SEC Player Of The Week
Wayne Chism
Tennessee
C • 6-9 • 246 • Sr. • Jackson, Tenn.
 
                Tennessee’s Wayne Chism was named SEC Player of the Week after he averaged 13.5 points, 10.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.0 steals in wins over Georgia and at South Carolina. In Tennessee’s win over Georgia on Tuesday, he scored 16 [...]

New License Plate Drive Begun to Promote Organ and Tissue Donation »

New License Plate Drive Begun to Promote Organ and Tissue Donation

(Lexington, KY)  The Second Chance at Life organization, comprised primarily of Kentucky organ recipients and donor family members, recently received approval from the Kentucky Department of Transportation for a specialty license plate to promote organ donation.  The group must secure 900 applications before the plate will be manufactured. 
 More than 104,000 patients in the United States [...]

Weekly column from Rep. Ted Edmonds »

Weekly column from Rep. Ted Edmonds

By Teddy Edmonds – State Representative – D-Jackson
Week of February 22, 2010 
FRANKFORT — With the recent restoration of our State Capitol in time for its 100th birthday, many of our minds have been on history. We can learn a lot from the past if only we take the time, so I was pleased to see [...]

Class Action by Alonzo Fugate »

Class Action by Alonzo Fugate

http://www.alonzofugate.com
                Hello everyone!  Sorry that I haven’t written in a few weeks, but the snow days get me in a daze!  Fortunately,
today was nice and sunny.  It almost felt like a spring day!  I walked around to Mom and Dad’s house and saw that the Easter lilies (flags) were already coming up.  I can’t wait [...]

Riverside 2010 Valentines Dinner »

Riverside 2010 Valentines Dinner

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Riverside 2010 Valentine’s Dinner
Riverside seniors host and serve
at Valentine Dinner
   Some of Riverside’s seniors did some moonlighting as waiters in a unique restaurant.
   But they didn’t get paid for it, not exactly.  But they did enjoy it.
   A Valentine Dinner, an annual event at Riverside, was held last weekend.  It is a [...]

Lady Bobcats win District, Again! »

Lady Bobcats win District, Again!

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Lady Cats District Champs
As expected, the Breathitt County Lady Bobcats are on the perenial march to the State Tournament. Breathitt had no problem defeating a younger Jackson City team Wednesday night for a 73-26 victory at Breathitt Coliseum. The game was never in doubt as Breathitt breezed out to an [...]

Begotten by the Word 2-22-10 Mark Driskill »

Begotten by the Word 2-22-10 Mark Driskill

Friday Feb 25th 2010 ”And when he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And there came to him a leper who worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.
 And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I am willing; be clean. And immediately his leprosy was [...]

Fire in Breathitt Destroys Home »

Fire in Breathitt Destroys Home

A family has lost everything in an early morning fire on International Lane in Breathitt County. The home was a complete loss. The call went out for a structure fire at 1:30am this morning. It took firefighters around 3 hours to extinguish the blaze. The home was owned by Gobel Allen. The renter of the property was Shawnee Heltsley.  
No [...]

Obits 2-22-10 / 2-28-10 »

Obits 2-22-10 / 2-28-10

Roy Lee Lytle / 1957 -2010 MOREHEAD – Roy Lee Lytle, age 52, of Cincinnati Branch, Morehead, Kentucky, passed
away Friday, February 26, 2010, at his home surrounded by his loving and devoted family. Roy Lee was born December 17, 1957, in Sault St. Marie, Michigan, son of Anna Lee Switzer Lytle and Calvin Ray Lytle of [...]

Twelve Deaths on Kentucky Roadways Last Week »

Twelve Deaths on Kentucky Roadways Last Week

(FRANKFORT, KY) – Preliminary statistics* indicate that twelve people died in twelve separate crashes on Kentucky roadways from Monday, February 15 through Sunday, February 21, 2010. 
 
All of the crashes involved motor vehicles and four of those victims were not wearing seat belts. The seat belt status of 3 victims is unknown at this time.  Single-fatality [...]

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