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Personal finance: Trim your wedding costs
Weddings have always been big business, but I was shocked to see how expensive they’ve become in the 17 years since my wife and I got married. According to the annual Real Weddings Study, the average wedding in the U.S. now costs $28,427, and that doesn’t even count the honeymoon. Wait, it gets worse. Among the more than 17,500 surveyed brides who got married in 2012, the average amount paid for a wedding dress was $1,211. On average they...
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HCTC graduation is May 11
Hazard Community and Technical College will hold two graduation ceremonies on Saturday, May 11 at The Forum in Hazard, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. A total of 677 students are receiving 1,413 credentials this Spring. Associate in arts, associate in science, and associate in applied science degrees will be awarded along with diplomas and certificates. These numbers represent all graduates for the 2012-13 academic year - those who graduated in Augus...
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Hazard honors National Day of Prayer
The 51st Annual National Day of Prayer, held on the first Thursday of May, was celebrated at the amphitheater in Hazard Thursday afternoon. The National Prayer, this year written by Greg Laurie, senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in California, was read aloud just after noon at the same time in cities all over the nation. The Perry County Central Junior ROTC led the audience in reciting the pledge of allegiance and later performed ...
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Community announcments
Constitutional rights meeting set for May 7 Daniel Carey of the NRA Foundation will be the featured speaking during a meeting at the Perry County Senior Citizens Building (known As The Log Cabin), located at 354 Perry Park Road in Hazard on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. Topics of interest will include our rights and the Constitution, how our rights are being violated and what’s to come, and what can we do to help stop this. This meeting is free ...
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‘Taste of Hazard’ set for May 9
The third annual Taste of Hazard is scheduled for next week on the Hazard campus of Hazard Community and Technical College. Last year, over 200 people enjoyed a fine evening of food, drink, and music. An array of delicious food from hors d’oeuvres to desserts will be available for guests to sample. Guests will be entertained by talented musicians from Hazard and Perry County Central high schools. This event features food prepared by WMMT’...
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<p>photo by Cris Ritchie | Herald file</p><p>Pat Wooton is pictured above during the 2011 Civic Night in Hazard. Wooton retired this week as field representative for Congressman Hal Rogers.</p>
Wooton recognized for years of service
Buckhorn resident Pat Wooton was recognized recently for his years of service, as Rep. Hal Rogers entered into the Congressional Record a tribute to Wooton, who retired this week as a field representative for Rogers’ Hazard district office. Wooton has worked as Rogers’ field representative for the past six years, with his retirement effective on April 30. He also served one term as sheriff in Perry County, and currently sits on the Buckhorn...
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Personal finance: Share your money before you die
Now that the long-debated estate tax rules have finally been settled, let’s get real: Despite all the hoopla raised, most people probably would never be impacted whether the lifetime estate tax threshold had stayed at $5.12 million or reverted to $1 million. In the end, it actually went up a bit to $5.25 million for 2013. Even if your estate will only be a fraction of that amount, it still pays to have a plan for distributing your assets. I...
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Poet Leigh Anne Hornfeldt was one of 17 writers to read their work during Hazard Community and Technical College's Evening with Poets on Thursday. The reading coincided with the release of the college's literary magazine, Kudzu. (photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald)
College hosts Evening with Poets
Hazard Community and Technical College hosted its annual Evening with Poets Thursday in the Stephens Library. Seventeen writers, including former Poet Laureate Gurney Norman, Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, and Jim Webb, read their work in front of an audience of approximately 150 people. The reading was held Thursday to coincide with the release of the college’s literary journal, Kudzu , which is now currently available. The college will also hold it...
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