Benham News

DEBBIE CALDWELL/ Daily Enterprise Eighteen people were arrested Friday morining in the Tri-Cities area during a roundup by the Harlan County Sheriffa s Office.

This June 2009 photo released by Southeast Community College shows an animatronic miner loading coal onto a transport car as another prepares to haul it out of Portal 31, a tourist mine in Lynch, Ky.

PORTAL 31: Coal mine tour in Lynch, Ky.; kingdomcome.org/portal/index.html or 606-848-1530. Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults, $10; seniors, $9; high school and college students, $7; children under 12, $5; children under 3, free.

The Cumberland City Council will soon begin broadcasting their monthly meeting over the community channel, to help dispel rumors about how the city is being run.

After 32 years of development and stops and starts, the Portal 31 exhibition mine of Harlan County is set to open Saturday.

Three decades after the historic coal mine in Lynch played out and shut down, local officials are planning the revival of old Portal 31 as a Disney-like tourist attraction with animatronic miners and underground tours.

Electricity rates are going up in one Harlan County town. Benham officials say they have no choice, the city has to raise rates.

Two vehicle collision on East 80 results in injuries to two By Tpr. Wm. Gregory, Public Affairs Officer Kentucky State Police Post 15, Columbia, KY A collision occurred Wednesday, August 19, 2009, at 8:30pmCT. four miles west of Columbia on KY80.

Several issues were discussed and approved Thursday during the regular monthly meeting of the Benham City Council, including the COPS grant that was recently awarded to the city's police department.

JARROD SHERMAN/Harlan Daily Enterprise Demonstrators lined Main Street in Cumberland across from city hall Tuesday to protest the closing of the Little Giant food cart.

The Richmond Police Department recently received more than $490,000 in federal stimulus money which will fund the salaries of three new officers over a period of three years.

Local police departments across the country are getting some financial help from the federal government.

After more than a decade of planning and preparation, the Portal 31 exhibition mine is near completion and is scheduled to open Oct.

" Arrest warrants have been issued for 27 Harlan County residents following an undercover drug investigation conducted by Operation UNITE.

This is a city in crisis. It is in such debt - to the IRS and various vendors - that the new mayor sent out an appeal to former residents and benefactors for donations to keep its accounts solvent.

Cumberland, Benham and Lynch natives from around the country will travel back home this weekend for the annual Tri-Cities Grand Reunion.

CU's Carver School of Social Work holds pinning ceremony Eight graduates honored: Juliana Brown of Nashville, TN; Tanya Coffman of Campbellsville, KY; Danelle Coomer of Campbellsville, Jessica Creech of Benham, KY; Tammy Marple of Columbia, KY; Shelly Messinger of Frankfort, KY; Hillary Prunty of Greenville, KY, and Nicole Wilcox of Vine Grove, KY

Harlan County Fiscal Court members were updated on proposed cellular tower sites by Appalachian Wireless officials and discussed the upcoming census count during their monthly meeting on Thursday.

Distinguished students from around Harlan County will be recognized for their educational achievements during the 26th annual Harlan County Community Scholarship Banquet at the Benham School House Inn on May 7. The Harlan County Community Scholarship Fund was organized in 1984 with the goal of recognizing and rewarding graduates from the county's ...

Among other items discussed at Tuesday's meeting of the Cumberland City Council, planning and zoning commission chair Don Disney informed the council that residents on Clutts Road are located in the city limits.