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Task force head to address CADA
PRESTONSBURG — Keith Napier, the Big Sandy Task Force manager with Operation UNITE, will be the featured speaker next week at April meeting of Communities Against Drug Addiction. Napier recently made headlines for his role in arresting three people charged in connection with a pill pipeline between Ohio and Salyersville. The April meeting CADA will be held in an different location, as the group will meet at Pit Stop BBQ, located at the mo...
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<p>photo by Ralph B. Davis</p><p>Work crews Thursday dismantled and removed the traffic median along Route 80, as part of rehabilitation work along the highway. The project, which has narrowed a 5.5-mile stretch of the road to two lanes, is expected to take at least four months.</p>
Route 80 reduced to two lanes for ‘major’ rehab
MARTIN — Work crews have begun what state officials are calling a “major” highway rehabilitation project, along Route 80, between Martin and Prestonsburg. “This is more than just milling and putting down new pavement,” said Mary Westfall-Holbrook, chief district engineer at Highway District 12. “The contractor, Mountain Enterprises, will repair the slotted drains next to the median, clean ditchlines, flush drainage pipes, replace substandar...
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Ky. Power seeks to buy biomass energy
FRANKFORT — A reclaimed coal mine could soon be the site of renewable energy and economic diversification beyond coal, if the state Public Service Commission approves a plan by Kentucky Power to purchase electricity from a planned biomass power plant. The utility filed an application Wednesday with the PSC, seeking approval to enter into a renewable energy purchase agreement with ecoPower Generation. Under the agreement, Kentucky Power woul...
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<p>photo by Allen Bolling</p><p>Over 100 people lined the streets of Prestonsburg Saturday, during the annual Autism Awareness Walk.</p>
Over 100 walk to call attention to autism
PRESTONSBURG — More than 100 people turned out downtown Saturday to participate in a walk aimed at bringing awareness to autism. Community members turned out in droves last weekend to help celebrate Autism Awareness Month with an event designed to create more awareness about the disorder. Autism rates are at an all-time high now in America, with 1 in 50 children between the ages of 6 and 17 falling into the spectrum. Saturday’s event, was...
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Floyd County eligible for philanthropy grants
The Center for Rural Development and Brushy Fork Institute are accepting grant proposals from Floyd County through April 22 for Appalachian Rural Development Philanthropy Initiative (ARDPI) mini-grants to fund philanthropic capacity-building activities. Government and non-profit organizations in 43 Southern and Eastern Kentucky counties are eligible to apply for up to $8,000 in federal grant funding through the Appalachian Regional Commissi...
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Route 80, at Martin, was blocked for more than an hour Tuesday morning, as road crews worked to remove a massive rockslide.
Rockslide blocks Route 80
MARTIN — Traffic was stalled for more than an hour Tuesday following a rock fall on Route 80. According to Kentucky State Police troopers, the rockslide occurred Tuesday morning a little after 8 a.m. The slide caused both the eastbound and westbound lanes of Route 80 to be closed for more than an hour, and traffic was rerouted along Route 1428 through the city of Martin. No vehicles were involved in the slide, and no injuries were reporte...
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Three charged in pill pipeline
SALYERSVILLE – Police have arrested three people they say were on both ends of a prescription pill pipeline from Ohio to Magoffin County, following a monthlong investigation by Operation UNITE. Elliot Gipson, 32, and his wife, Erma Gipson, 39, both of Lima, Ohio, were charged with third-degree drug trafficking, while Melissa Wheeler, 33, of Salyersville, was charged with conspiracy to commit trafficking. All three were arrested Monday Acc...
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Teen killed in Pike ATV wreck
One Pike County teen was killed and another was hospitalized, following an all-terrain vehicle wreck Sunday. Kentucky State Police in Pikeville received a report of an accident involing an ATV shortly before 4 p.m., Sunday. Tpr. Nick Hale, Tpr. Joshua Cox, Trans-Star Ambulance and Gulnare Fire Department were dispatched to the scene. At the scene, police learned that the ATV traveling south on Caney Creek Road dropped off the right should...
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MARRIAGE LICENSES Kristy Danielle McKinney of Harold to Rosley Ray Hunt of Tram
MARRIAGE LICENSES Kristy Danielle McKinney of Harold to Rosley Ray Hunt of Tram. Virginia A. Dodd of St. Albans W.Va., to Stanley Eros Trujilla of Dunbar W.Va/ Jessica Lynn Hinkle to Dustin Arthur Conn, both Prestonsburg. Jessica Lynn Dickson to Willard Gene Hackworth, both of Louisville. Tracy R. Robert to Jason Howell, both of Harold. Wendy Briana Johnson to John Mark Honeycutt, both of Prestonsburg. CHARGES FILED Christop...
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Great Easter Egg Hunt: What did those clues mean?
The clues. Each year, they vex and perplex the best puzzle-players Floyd County has to offer. And now that the 2013 Great Easter Egg Hunt is over, it is time to reveal what this year’s clues meant. 1. Here’s a hint to all the players: You’ll find me resting under five layers. This clue simply meant the egg was hidden outside. The five layers it was resting under were the layers of the atmosphere — the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosp...
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<p>James Edward DeRossett</p>
Two recent heroin busts have connection
ALLEN — A heroin arrest this week by the Kentucky State Police has links to an earlier heroin bust made only weeks before in Prestonsburg. James Edward DeRossett, 50, of Allen, was arrested Tuesday morning at 4:30 a.m. on Route 1428, after Kentucky State Police say he crossed the center line while pulling away from the Kwik Mart in Allen. According to the police report, DeRossett was pulled over after police noted multiple registration st...
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Families face ‘ordeal’ trying to get autism coverage
PRESTONSBURG — Families in Eastern Kentucky are still grappling with the high cost of care for autistic children more than two years after the passage of a bill designed to mandate coverage of such treatment. In April 2010, Kentucky House Bill 159, a bill designed to provide more intensive treatment and care to Kentucky children with autism spectrum disorder, was signed into law by Gov. Steve Beshear. The landmark bill required large group ...
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<p>photo by Ralph B. Davis</p><p>The Cow Creek bridge along Route 1428 will soon be demolished and replaced, a move that will leave the crossing inaccessible for four months.</p>
Bridge work to close 1428 four months
COW CREEK — Residents who frequently use Route 1428, between Prestonsburg and Allen, could face detours of 20 minutes or more over the next few months, as a bridge replacement project gets underway this month. The highway will be impassable at the site of the replacement, as contractor Bush and Burchett must first completely remove the old bridge, located near the Route 194 intersection, before beginning construction of the new bridge. Th...
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<p>photo by Rachel Baldwin, Williamson Daily News</p><p>Law enforcement officials and EMS were dispatched to the scene of an &#8220;officer down&#8221; at the corner of Harvey Street and Third Avenue. Mingo County Sheriff, Eugene Crum, was shot at point blank range while sitting in his official vehicle. The alleged shooter was apprehended in Delbarton. A full investigation is underway to uncover the reasons behind the slaying of Sheriff Crum and bring others to justice if more than one person was involved.</p>
Mingo sheriff shot, killed
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was shot at point blank range while sitting in his official vehicle in a parking lot at the corner of Third Avenue and Harvey Street Wednesday shortly after noon, leaving the entire Tug Valley area in shock. Eyewitnesses, whose names will not be disclosed for their safety, told the Williamson Daily News that a man who has been identified as Tennis Maynard, of Ragland, walked up to the she...
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<p>Eddie Ratliff, of Prestonsburg, displays the egg that won him $500 in the 2013 Great Easter Egg Hunt. This is the second year Ratliff has won the contest, having previously taken top prize in 2010.</p>
Ratliff wins Easter egg hunt again
PRESTONSBURG — The 2013 Great Easter Egg Hunt is over. Eddie Ratliff, of Prestonsburg, returned the prize egg to The Floyd County Times’ office shortly after no0n, Wednesday. He found it hidden beside a tree and covered in leaves, along the closed portion of Ford’s Gap Road, between Auxier and East Point. This is the second time Ratliff has won the contest. He and his wife also won it in 2010, when it was hidden along the Garfield Trail, ...
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