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Jamestown Mayor Nick Shearer continues his city council meeting recap with WJRS NEWS today as he touches on the upcoming water and wastewater contract with the city of Russell Springs that is currently being ironed […]

Russell County Hospital CEO Scott Thompson discussed with WJRS NEWS several important upcoming dates at the hospital as well as the ending of the fiscal year… https://jeffh26.sg-host.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Thompson-7-22.mp3

Kentucky officials announced on Thursday the first statewide decrease in drug overdose deaths since 2013. The state report shows that 1,333 people died from drug overdoses in 2018, down almost 15 percent from a record […]

Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary June 2019 unemployment rate was 4.1 percent, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics, an agency within the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. The unemployment rate for June was up […]

The Lake Cumberland Tourist Commission met for their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday. A couple of key takeaways from the meeting include $11,431.74 in transient tax collected in May and a total of $17,150 collected […]

We continue today with Russell County Chamber of Commerce President Lindsey Gosser with more details from this week’s monthly meeting of the chamber… https://jeffh26.sg-host.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Gosser-7-18.mp3