<p>Photo by Amelia Holliday</p><p>Chris Bunn has been working at NLINE Barber Shop in Hazard for just over two weeks. He is one of only three one-armed barbers known in the nation.</p>

Photo by Amelia Holliday

Chris Bunn has been working at NLINE Barber Shop in Hazard for just over two weeks. He is one of only three one-armed barbers known in the nation.

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Hazard barber overcomes limitation, makes history
by Amelia Holliday
Staff Reporter
10:01 AM, Wednesday, May 15
HAZARD — No matter how good a person is at multi-tasking, doing anything one handed will usually cause the outcome to be less than impressive. This, however, is not the case with one of the state’s newest licensed barbers. Twenty-seven-year-old...

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