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Bluegrass Care Navigators hosts Pikeville Radio Day
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - Bluegrass Care Navigators hosted its annual Pikeville Radio Day Tuesday, raising money and increasing awareness about its programs. The event, which partnered with Q95 FM (WQHY) in Prestonsburg, shared stories of hospice patients, outreach programs, and more. “We are raising awareness for patients and their families...
JCSO: Man pulled into stranger’s yard, passed out in stuck vehicle
A Pikeville man was arrested by Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies on June 3, according to court documents, after dispatch received a call that an intoxicated man pulled into a stranger’s yard, got his vehicle stuck and subsequently passed out behind the wheel. The citation said that Johnson County...
Wayland water woes continue
WAYLAND, Ky. (WYMT) - The Wayland community is seeing the first trickles of water after nearly one week of a mass outage. The issue began after a power outage in the Maytown community that impacted the water flow into the area. When the Southern Water and Sewer District workers began offsetting the impacts of that, they sent a burst of water through a new water line running from Lackey to Wayland. The pressure in the line pushed too much power into the city’s system, which manager Randy Conley said “turned Wayland into a sprinkler system.”
Top-ranked Trinity baseball, fifth-ranked PRP start strong at state tournament
In a decade as Trinity High School’s baseball coach, Rick Arnold said he’s never had the quality and quantity of pitching as he does this season. His two aces delivered on the biggest stage Thursday afternoon. Senior Jake Schweitzer and freshman Gray Davis combined on a three-hitter to...
Big Rock blog: Game Time maintains lead after second day
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (WNCT) — Thanks to what amounts to maybe 3-4 large pizzas, Game Time holds the lead in the 66th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament by just a few pounds. Game Time weighed a blue marlin on Monday that came in at 516 pounds. That topped...
Top gospel artists to gather in Pikeville for festival
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - For the fifth time the One Accord Gospel Singing Festival is returning to Pikeville. Churches from around the region, 22 gospel artists from Kentucky and surrounding states will come together to get people in the community to connect with each other. Of those 22 artists officials...
Pikeville becomes an official Kentucky Trail Town
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - Officials and community members gathered in Pikeville to celebrate the city’s newest title: Kentucky Trail Town. The initiative began when the former First Lady of Kentucky Jane Beshear, wanted a trail to go through the entirety of the commonwealth. “For Pikeville to become a certified...
Connor Hall sweps Langley twins, shocks sent to NASCAR
Connor Hall once again swept a pair of Twin Late Model Stock 50s on Saturday night at Langley Speedway but his front shocks have been sent to the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina for a closer evaluation following post-race technical inspection. This doesn’t mean the car...
Hard work lands Forrest’s Bartoli with Cumberland University
While she got a start a little later in playing softball, former Forrest Lady Rocket Leslie Bartoli always had a dream of playing college ball. After reaching out to the Cumberland University coaching staff, and playing in a few scrimmages, Bartoli got an offer to play for the Phoenix and the rest was history.
Kentucky family gets FEMA aid after public radio investigation, but many more are still waiting
One family is getting thousands of dollars in additional disaster aid from FEMA following a Kentucky Public Radio story that showed how the agency failed to notify disaster victims about a deadline to appeal aid decisions.
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