Month: August 2022

The Jamestown City Council will hold its regular monthly meeting this evening. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. at Jamestown City Hall. We’ll have more from the meeting on tomorrow’s local news.

The Lake Cumberland Bluegrass Festival returns this weekend to the Eli community. The 18th annual festival will take place Friday and Saturday at the KOA campground. Each year, the festival brings a variety of local, […]

Five local students graduated from the Center for Rural Development Youth Programs this summer. Lincoln Helm, a student at Russell County High School, graduated the 25th annual Rogers Scholars Youth Program over the summer. As […]

Lake Cumberland has been selected as the Best Houseboating Lake by Kentucky Living Magazine readers. Kentucky Living’s Best in Kentucky awards are selected by the magazine’s readers in a number of categories. Lake Cumberland beat […]

The State Board of Elections this week allocated funding to neighboring Cumberland County and nearby Taylor County to upgrade their voting equipment to paper-ballot-based, auditable machines. Taylor was allocated $50,000 while Cumberland will receive $25,000 […]

A Jamestown woman was arrested in Cumberland County early Tuesday morning. According to jail records, 27-year-old Kindre Crawley was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance second degree, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession […]

The Kentucky Department for Public Health reported 54 new COVID cases in Russell County. Neighboring Pulaski County was among the counties with the highest number of cases in the state at 163. Wayne County reported […]