Science Hill News

Candidates for local offices have filed at the rate of more than one an hour since the Pulaski County clerk's offices began accepting candidacy papers at 8 a.m. November 4. As of 1 p.m. Tuesday -- 37 hours after filing began -- a total of 40 candidates had plunked down $50 and filed their papers.

Police in southeastern Kentucky have charged two people in connection with the death of a 72-year-old man found slain in his Somerset apartment.

Never in memory has there been such a fever pitch for public office as witnessed Wednesday, the first day candidates could officially file for local offices.

The mayor of Ferguson may not seek another term. Allen Dobbs told the Commonwealth Journal Wednesday he is pondering another term as mayor of Ferguson or seeking the office of magistrate from District 4. "My long-term goal is to seek a higher office ... to serve more people," said Dobbs.

Based on intense interest, a line may form at the county clerk's office at 8 a.m. November 4, the first moment of an 11-week period during which candidates may officially file for local offices.

Three people were arrested in Pulaski County after police said they discovered a meth lab.

If you're a student hoping school will be called off for the flu so you don't have to take that big test ... you're out of luck.

It seemed like UK Coach John Calipari's visit to Somerset would be yesterday's biggest topic of discussion - until the line of damaging storms swept through the area, leaving downed trees and power lines and damaged properties in its wake.

A line of damaging storms swept through the area, leaving downed trees and power lines and damaged properties in its wake.

You wouldn't expect a place called Science Hill to have much interest in the unexplained, in ghosts and goblins but for the month of October, the northern Pulaski community might just be the scariest place for miles around.

CATS may have ceased to exist in name, thanks to legislation passed in early 2009, but it's still around in spirit.

Candidates for local offices subject to the 2010 elections keep popping out of the woodwork.

STATE SERVICE OFFICER FOR D.A.V. WILL NO LONGER BE AT SENIOR CITIZENS BUILDING Pauline Conner, State Service Officer for the Disabled American Veterans, will not be at the Senior Citizens Building any more.

Today, Sat., Sept. 12, 2009: Fall Festival at Homeplace Spotlighting in brief, today's events for Day 255 of 2009.

Georgia May Daulton, 73, a resident of Britthaven Nursing Home of Somerset, Ky. passed away on Saturday afternoon, Sept.

Martha Maxine Lucas Patterson, 81, of Cleo Patterson Road in Kings Mountain, Ky., passed away Sunday, August 30, 2009 at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville.

Eubank, Science Hill and Somerset are now only a shift of the gears apart. Completion of four-lane U.S. 27 has clustered the three communities with connecting ribbons of blacktop.

A Science Hill man was flown to the University of Kentucky Medical Center following an automobile accident early Monday 4 miles north of Somerset on Ky.

Summer break is now a thing of the past for students of all major local school systems.

Myrtle Sumner, 87, of Heaton Ford Road in Science Hill, Ky., passed away Saturday, Aug.