Year: 2022

The Center for Rural Development in Somerset is now accepting grant applications for the 2022 Kentucky Appalachian Regional Commission mini-grant program. The mini-grant program is open to qualified local units of government and non-profit entities […]

Neighboring Adair and Casey counties along with nearby Green and Taylor counties joined 11 other counties as being eligible for expanded resources for agricultural producers as they rebuild operations following the recent string of severe […]

Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary December 2021 unemployment rate was 3.9 percent, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics, an agency within the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. The preliminary December 2021 jobless rate was down […]

The Jamestown City Council is expected to nominate a new city council member next week. A nomination was expected to come at Thursday night’s meeting, but council members Barry Coffey and Terry Robertson were not […]

The courtroom of the Russell County Courthouse was packed Thursday night with employees of Russell County Hospital and their families as possible changes to employee paid-time-off and sick day policies were set to be discussed. […]

The state House of Representatives took up the major issue of the state’s two year spending plan this week, an issue that will, in some way, affect every Kentuckian. Here is Keith West from Frankfort… […]

With the 2021-22 whitetail deer season now over, total harvest results from this past season have been released by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. In Russell County, hunters took a total of 367 […]

Due to the surge of COVID cases, LCDHD numbers are incomplete. Each day for the past couple of weeks, there have been many more cases reported than we are able to contact and work. The […]