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CEO says hemp could pay huge dividends
PIKEVILLE — While much of the debate over whether to legalize industrial hemp centers around the crop’s potential for a Kentucky agriculture industry that has been decimated by the fall of Big Tobacco, one area business leader says the big money lies in a different direction. Industrial hemp has been a hot topic of debate in both Frankfort and Washington, as the state Senate passed a bill to legalize the crop in Kentucky, 31-6. The bill fac...
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Completion date set for new East Perry school
HAZARD — The Perry County School Board met Thursday morning for its monthly board meeting to finalize an agreement for collaboration with the Hazard Independent School District and to discuss construction updates and academic improvement. The board voted unanimously to adopt a memorandum of agreement that was drafted and signed by the Hazard Independent School Board last month. Hazard Superintendent Sandra Johnson and Chairman of the Hazard...
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County discusses roads and raises in regular meeting
HAZARD – The Perry County Fiscal Court discussed public roads and approved, among other things, a cost-of-living increase for the jailer during its regular meeting on Tuesday. Magistrate Earl Brashear said he had received calls from the Hazard hospice center regarding their inability to serve a Perry County man due to the poor condition of a road leading to his residence. The man living there is dying, and Brashear asked what the county cou...
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Local school districts expect 6-digit insurance payments
HAZARD — School districts across the state are facing, in some cases, crippling payments to a group insurance trust that has recently declared its planned dissolution in June due to massive deficits. Jody Maggard, financial officer for the Perry County School District, announced Thursday during a board meeting the projected payment the district will have to make to KSBIT, around $450,000. “I wish I had better news for that, but I don’t,” ...
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<p>Dalton Stidham</p>
Stidham re-indicted in triple murder case
HAZARD – An indictment against a Perry County man charged with killing three people during a shooting at Hazard Community and Technical College last month was returned on Monday after it was found that a grand jury member did not live in Perry County. Commonwealth’s Attorney John Hansen said there are motions being made this week to re-indict the other 22 cases that were indicted last week. Dalton Stidham made his first appearance in Perr...
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On the record
Editor’s note: Due to a lack of space in this week’s print edition, the weekly court record was not included in the paper. Contract Cases Midland Funding LLC vs. Bridgette L. Turner Commonwealth Credit Union Inc. vs. Quentin C. Combs Matthew McIntosh vs. Stacy Campbell Asset Acceptance LLC vs. Denzil Young Capital Management Inc. vs. Kyle J. Moon CACH vs. Jeremy E. Riddle The Jiffy Cash Company vs. Eugene Higgins A Plu...
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Correction
A story uploaded to hazard-herald.com, and printed in this week’s issue of The Hazard Herald , about a biomass bill sponsored by Sen. Brandon Smith apparently incorrectly reported that the bill would allow the Public Service Commission (PSC) to enter into 20-year contracts with biomass companies should they want to contract with the state. According to Andrew Melnykovych, director of communications for the Kentucky Public Service Commissio...
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Hazard school board meets to discuss audit, budget
HAZARD — The Hazard Independent School Board met Monday evening to discuss an audit report, construction updates, and other budgetary items. Troy Gaw, an auditor with Gaw and Associates in Harlan County, presented the board with the audit report for the 2011-2012 school year. Gaw said nothing had really changed in the report from the previous year, and most of the findings were at Roy G. Eversole, as they had been in previous years, inclu...
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Johnny Williams
Jury finds man not guilty of felony endangerment
HAZARD – A Vicco man who faced a maximum of 15 years in prison on multiple counts of felony wanton endangerment was convicted instead on a single misdemeanor charge this week. Johnny Williams, 48, was arrested in June 2012 after he poured gasoline over his head and attempted to light himself on fire with a lit cigarette as three Perry County deputies stood nearby. He was unsuccessful in igniting the gasoline vapors, but was quickly subdued ...
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City commission meets for year-end reports
HAZARD — The Hazard City Commission met Monday night to discuss the year-end reports for the Hazard city police and fire department, as well as to pass a resolution to modify a loan from Peoples Bank & Trust Company of Hazard. Hazard Fire Chief Sam Stacy presented the final report for the month of January before presenting the year-end report for 2012. For the month of January, Stacy said the department responded to 50 calls, 32 of those ...
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