Prestonsburg News

The community garden at Big Sandy Community and Technical College is already established, but volunteers worked to double its size Friday.

Results were released last week for a national study done by Feeding America. The study shows that many Eastern Kentuckians do not know where their next meal will come from.

Education: Bachelor's degree in political science from Transylvania University and master's from UK in cultural anthropology and a minor in agricultural economics.

Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo said that the use of excess multi-county coal severance revenue to move Rupp Arena renovations forward is not an unprecedented concept, and that he will also work to see the $2.5 million is re-paid as the Fayette County project moves forward.

The Small Business Administration will kick off its yearly lender training in Prestonsburg on Wednesday, June 19, at Morehead State University's Postsecondary Building, room 116, 6 Bert T. Combs Drive.

Charges against a Prestonsburg woman who was charged more than two dozen animal cruelty charges plead guilty Monday after the charges were reduced to misdemeanors.

House Speaker Greg Stumbo said Thursday he'll work to repay the state's coal severance tax funds for $2.5 million that he previously agreed to divert to Rupp Arena in downtown Lexington.

On Wednesday June 12, 2013 at 9:29 P.M. Post 9 Pikeville received a call from Prestonsburg Police Department advising that an unidentified male was attempting to stop vehicles on U.S. 23 in the Watergap community of Floyd County.

Eileen Cackowski, executive director of the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service, addressed AmeriCorps members of the UNITE Service Corps during a year-end celebration luncheon in May. Principal John Hale told UNITE Service Corps members to set the proper attitude with their students.

Recent Prestonsburg High School graduate Cody Chaffin made his college decision on Monday afternoon, signing with the University of Pikeville.

Bradley escaped from the Floyd County Courthouse on Tuesday, following his preliminary hearing in a convenience store robbery.

The Tri-County Stars, a travel baseball team made up of players from Floyd, Johnson and Martin counties, finished second in the Prestonsburg Summer Bash on Sunday.

The city of Martin is continuing to widen the net of its revenue stream by approving a restaurant tax last week.

Horse racing is often accused of being a dying sport, and if that's the case then Bill Finley attended a funeral at Thunder Ridge Raceway in Prestonsburg, Kentucky.

An ongoing demoliton project in Prestonsburg has neighbors complaining, as work to tear down the old Ratliff Farm and Home Supply drags on.

The inaugural class of the Jane Bond Teen Health League includes, front row, Elizabeth Campbell, Ashleigh Hayton, C. Jay Ousley, Brooke Hatfield, Jordan Bishop, Jordan Carrol, Rebekah Tackett and Kaylee Collins.

A log cabin is a log cabin, correct? Of course. But a log cabin is made of many parts, which only happen to be constructed as a cabin at the present time.

Daniel Spencer of Glasgow, Ky., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 16 pounds, 10 ounces Saturday to win the Bass Fishing League Mountain Division tournament on the Barren River.

Prestonsburg blanked Belfry 3-0 in the 15th Region Tournament title game Thursday evening.

After 20 years on the job, Dr. Bill Loftus, a professor of psychology at Big Sandy Community and Technical College, is stepping down as advisor to the Alpha Nu Zeta Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa.