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Licking Valley Courier - 3.20.26 · Eastern Kentucky Newspapers

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Speaker 1: We now turn to the Licking Valley Courier to bring
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you news from in and around West Liberty. Your reader
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today is Janice. We begin with the addition dated Thursday,
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March nineteenth, twenty twenty six. As a reminder, RADIOI is
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reading service intended for people who are blind or have
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other disabilities that make it difficult to reprinted material. Our
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first article is Farm Bureau Board Memorial Scholarship. Morgan County
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Bureau Board of Directors are now taking applications for the
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Morgan County Farm Bureau Memorial Scholarship. Applications are available with
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Vocational Act teacher Chris Lindon and or the High School counselor.
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Each scholarship is worth two hundred and fifty dollars a
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semester for eight semesters. All applicants must be a member
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of a Morgan County Farm Bureau family, in a graduate
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of Morgan County High School, or have a by the
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end of twenty twenty six spring school semester. The deadline
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for submitting application is Wednesday, April fifteenth. Our next article
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is JAG Students awarded grant to fight food insecurity in
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Morgan County by the Pressure Release Morgan County High School
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Jobs for America Graduates JAG. JAG students applied for a
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grant through the University of Kentucky's Center of Excellence in
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Rural Health and were awarded one thousand dollars to complete
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a project identifying and developing solutions to health and social
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issues at school and community level. The Morgan County High
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School JACK Specialist, Miss Nicole Perry and Morgan County High
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School JAG students Emily Smith, Annie Lewis, J. C. Lewis,
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Dalton Adkins, Laney Fugaate Leah Lewis, Brooklyn Coffee Sierra Mayberry
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wanted to help bridge the gap for individuals in poverty
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and applying for federal assistance and receiving assistance. They knew
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of a community initiative already created in Morgan County to
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help with food insecurity known as Food in Sorry, known
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as the Blessing Boxes, where boxes are placed throughout the
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county with food and basic need items using the motto
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take what you need, Give what you can. Students wanted
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to use the Blessing Boxes to help those in need
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in our community find immediate assistance by stocking the boxes
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with food, hygiene supplies and other necessities, while also creating
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informational materials that would show our community members where they
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can receive help. Through their research, they found that we
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have seven established Blessed boxes in Morgan County see below
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for locations. However, the north part of the county does
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not have an established or known Blessing Box location. Students
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plan to use part of their money to build another
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Blessing box and fill it in the Blaze area to
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provide assistance for community members in that area. The group
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has already stopped for out of the seven identified locations
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with food, hygiene products, first aid kits, and basic need items,
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and will continue to working to fill the remaining locations,
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building a box for a new location in the Blaze
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area and informing the community on available resources or services
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to help those in needs. Students will be posting updates
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online on their Morgan County JAG Facebook page with informational
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materials and updates on the blessing boxes. Students awarded the
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uk CEERH Healthy Way Grant will be presenting their project
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at Appalachian Research Day in Corbin on April eighth, twenty
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twenty six. If you would like to donate or work
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with JAGS students on this project. Please contact miss Perry
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at Nicole dot Perry at Morgan, Kentucky Schools dot U
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s Morgan County Blessing Box Locations are as follows. West
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Liberty Christian Church three oh five Prestonburg Street, West Liberty, Kentucky,
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True Value, Frederick and May nine nineteen Prestonburg Street, West Liberty,
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West Liberty Church of God five sixty eight Glenna Avenue,
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Centerville Community Church one eighty three Centerville Road, West Liberty,
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Sulfur Springs Enterprise Baptist Church, West Liberty, Woodsbin Community Church
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forty six five Highways seven O five West Liberty, Ezelle
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First Church of God one ninety, Kentucky twenty four ninety seven.
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For additional information regarding JAG student activities, called JAG KWY
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Specialist Nicole Perry at six O six seven four three
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eighty seven O two or six oh six four ninety
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five sixty eight fifty five, or email her at Nicole
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dot Perry at Morgan Kyschools dot U s. Our. Next
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article is Kentucky State Police give more details of the
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EKCC indictments. Editor's note, The Kentucky State Police has released
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additional details regarding several indictments originating out of Eastern Kentucky
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Correctional Complex. These indictments, which include inmates and inmate relative
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and two correctional officers, were previously noted in last week's
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courier as part of the grand jury listing. The following
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report is from WKYT in Lexington, West Liberty, Kentucky. Kentucky
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State Police say five people are facing charges related drug
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trafficking and official misconduct after drugs were found inside the
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Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex EKCC contacted the Kentucky State Police
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in September of twenty twenty five, leading to a joint
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investigation into suspected drug trafficking, money laundering, promoting contraband, and
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organized criminal activity. KSP says the investigation found two former
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correctional officers at EKCC, William Coddle and Dwayne Skaggs, distributed
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narcotics in the facility. Two inmates held at EKCC, Shane
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Wilder and Challice Davis, are accused of distributing drugs. Investigators
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say Wilder's mother, Donnie Wilder, help in the trafficking operation.
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Coddle and Skaggs are each charged with promoting contraband, trafficking
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and control substance, official misconduct, and engaging in organized crime.
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Donnie Wilder, Shane Wilder, and Chalice Davis are Arch charged
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with promoting contraband, trafficking and controlled substance and engaging in
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in an organized crime. Our next article is Bible Reading Marathon,
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slated from March twenty seventh, twenty eight to twenty ninth.
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The tenth annual Morgan County Bible Reading Marathon will take
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place this year on Friday, March twenty seventh through Sunday,
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March twenty ninth. Over the past several years, a growing
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number of churches have participated in Bible Reading Marathon sponsored
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by the Morgan County Ministerial Association. The BRM has become
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a staple in the cooperative church life of the county,
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taking place each year on the weekend prior to Holy Week.
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It begins on that Friday morning and finishes during the
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evening of Palm Sunday. The dates, of course, very slightly
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from year to year depending on the observance of Eastern
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The total there are a total of fourteen hour long watches.
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Churches or groups sign up to supply the readers necessary
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for the three hour time commitment. Each watch has twelve
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fifteen minute slots, so there is a need for some
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one hundred and sixty eight total readers over the three
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day period. Believe it or not, there is no preaching
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during the three day period. The New Testament will be
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read aloud two times. Reading takes place from six am
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to twelve midnight each day. The City Council Chambers, located
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on the second floor of the West Liberty City Hall
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on Main Street, is dubbed the Upper Room, the name
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taken from the Books of Acts in the Bible, chapter two,
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where the Holy Spirit fell upon the early believers in Jesus.
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A wonderful bonus each year has been the broadcast of
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the entire event on the r TC local access Channel
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fifty four. Feedback from the community has been gratifying, as
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a number of folks have expressed their gratitude and pleasure
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at being able to see friends and family read from
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the Holy Scriptures on TV. This week will mark the
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tenth year that TC has broadcast the event. There are
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several examples from the Scriptures where the Word of the
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Lord was read over the nation of Israel to remind them,
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of who they belonged to, and of the covenant that
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existed between God Almighty and his people. It is our
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hope that God will use the Bible Reading Marathon as
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a piece of his plan to bring about a godly
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revival for Morgan County. If your church, Sunday school, class,
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youth group, women's group, men's group, or any group or
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club from the community would like to take part, please
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contact Jamie Brock at six six four three eight sixty
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one thirty seven as soon as possible. Several churches have
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already signed up. Our next article is upcoming events at
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the Morgan County Extension Office. The following is a listing
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of upcoming events at the Morgan County Extension Office. Thursday,
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March nineteenth, Early Gardens Workshop six pm, Adult Sewing Workshop
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number two from five to seven pm Friday, March twentieth,
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Laugh and Learn ten aims at Morgan County Public Library
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Monday March twenty third. Four H Environmental Club four thirty pm,
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Farmers Market Senior and Wick Voucher Training eleven am through
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five pm Wednesday, March twenty fifth. For H Poultry Club
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four pm Thursday March twenty six Beginner and established Farmer
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Open House from six to eight pm Tuesday March thirty
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first beginning bee Keeping six pm. Adults Sewing Workshop Number
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three five to seven pm Friday April third, Plant Order
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pickup and Farmer Health Fair ten am to two pm
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Tuesday April seventh. Lunch and Learn Hazardous Weather Preparedness Class
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twelve class from twelve to one thirty pm Thursday April ninth,
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four one oh one five pm. Save the date June
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sixteenth through the nineteenth for h camp. Our next article
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is Rotary Club set to host political forum April ninth.
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Join us for the West Liberty Rotary Club Political Forum
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on Thursday April ninth at the Morgan County Board of
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Education Building. Registration will be at five thirty pm and
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the event will be at six pm. All candidates have
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then invited to attend. There is no charge for admission.
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A cake pie auction will be held during the event.
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Please take this opportunity to hear the platforms of your candidates.
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Rotitarian Cheryl J McGraw at six oh six three five
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nine twenty seven nineteen for additional information. Our next article
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is Fiscal Court holds special March twelfth meeting The following
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is an unofficial listing of minutes from the special March
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twelfth meeting of the Morgan County Fiscal Court. Members present,
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Magistrip Brandon Evans, Tommy Fannin, Tyler Keaton, Eric Pelfrey, and
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Leroy Phipps, and Judge Executive Jim Gazy swearing in of
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Tyler Keaton. Tyler Keaton was sworn in as Morgan County
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District two Magistrate by Judge Jim Gazy. Keaton will finish
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out the term of his later late father, Magistrate Donnie Keaton.
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Motion passed approval of the minutes of the last meeting
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of the Morgan County Fiscal Court. Passed with a motion
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made by Tommy Fannon and a second by Brandon Evans,
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vote unanimous yes. Motion passed approval of the Morgan County
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Clerks twenty twenty five Amendment as presented. Passed with a
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motion by Brandon Evans and a second by Leroy Phipps,
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vote unanimous yes. Motion passed Approval of Envoy number nine
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nine nine in the amount of one thousand, four hundred
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and fifty dollars for snow removal equipment during the recent
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winter storm. Passed with a motion by Tommy Fannin and
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a second by Tyler Keaton, vote unanimous yes. Motion passed.
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A German of the meeting passed with a motion by
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Brandon Evans and a second by Tommy Fannin, vote unanimous yes.
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Additional information regarding Morgan County Fiscal Court activities, contact Judge
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Executive Jim Gaysey at seven four three thirty eight ninety
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seven or visit his office in the Morgan County Wellness
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Center en Route seven. The next article is Morgan Regular
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Morgan County Fiscal Court Meetings the fourth Thursday of the month.
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Regular monthly meetings of the Morgan County Fiscal Court are
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held on the fourth Thursday of each month at six
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p m. At the County Government Building located at four
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point fifty Prestonburg Street. All meetings are open to the public.
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Judge Executive Jim Kasey and magistrates encouraged citizens to attend.
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Our next article is sole testing program announced for Morgan
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County farmers. The Morgan County Conservation District is announcing another
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program available that will be paying up paying for up
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to three soul tests for farmers in Morgan County. Farmers
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may stop by the Conservation District Office located at the
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USDA's Service Center at nine to five to five Prestonburg Street, West,
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Liberty for a voucher and Seoul test bag. Soul samples
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can be dropped off at the Morgan County Cooperative Extension
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Service Office to be submitted to the UK Laboratory for analysis.
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Our next article is Conservation District announces best management program.
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The Morgan Conservation District Board of Supervisors has voted to
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promote a local cost share program for the Morgan County
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farmers to implement the following practices maintenance on heavy use
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areas with filter fabric, purchasing weed chemicals, and installing livestock
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water tanks. This will be a fifty to fifty cost
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share program and the amount that will be reimbursed per
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farmer will not exceed four hundred dollars. Applicants must come
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into the Conservation District Office and fill out in application
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and have a farm number on record at the Farm
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Service Agency. This will be on This will be on
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is program. Receipts cannot be backdated from the time of
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signing the application. Applicants have up to six months to
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bring in pictures and receipts for reimbursements. All payments will
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be approved at each Board of Supervisor meetings. Meetings are
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held the third Thursday of each month. Applications will be
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accepted from eight thirty am to four thirty pm Monday
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through Friday. Our next article is Senior Citizen's Menu. Thursday,
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March nineteenth. Chicken taco salad, cinnamon, apple sauce, Spanish rice, MTG,
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refried black beans, graham crackers and one percent milk. Friday,
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March twentieth, Honey glaze, pork chop, baked potato, Brussels sprouts,
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whole grain, white roll, apple slices, one percent margin, one
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percent milk and margarin. Monday March twenty third. Semon patty,
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sweet peas, fried apples, margarin, FF sour cream, oh that's
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fat free sour cream, one percent milk, whole grain, white roll,
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baked potato in MTG. Tuesday March twenty fourth, bean with
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ham soup, cornbread, margarine, one percent milk, red grapes, chocolate chip, cookie,
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cook cabbage Wednesday March twenty fifth, roasted poor floyd, whole grain,
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white roll, apple cobbler, cake, whip, sweet potatoes, lima beans
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one percent milk Thursday, March twenty six oven fried chickens,
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scallop potatoes, green beans, margarin chocolate pudding one percent milk,
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and whole grain white roll. Our next article is Methodist
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Church Holy Week Opportunities. West Liberty Methodist Church will offer
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a variety of opportunities for folks to observe Holy Week
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leading up to Easter Sunday. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday,
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March twenty ninth and extends through Easter Sunday, April fifth.
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Everyone is invited to worship the Lord with us during
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this holy season of the Church. Here Sunday, March twenty ninth.
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Palm Sunday, Wednesday April First, Children's Cedarmeal Thursday April second,
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Church Cedar Mill Passover Good Friday, April third, Carry the
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Cross through Town again at Church n a m. Community
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Good Friday Service and the Sanctuary at noon evening Good
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Friday Service seven pm seven Last Words from the Cross.
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Easter Sunday, April fifth, Sunrise service at the Aarh Hospital, Halipad.
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Seven am. Church Breakfast at nine thirty am Easter Morning
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Worship nine am, Children's egg Hunt after morning worship. For
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more information call or tax pastor Jamie Bronck at six
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O six four three eight sixty one thirty seven. Our
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next article is Morgan County Basketball Clinger and Gamble name
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to the sixteenth Region All Tournament Teams by David Patrick.
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Both the Morgan County girls and boys basketball teams came
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up short their bid for the sixteenth Region championship, but
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each had a representative on the All Tournament teams. Emma
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Clinger was named to the girls squad after a twenty
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one point performance in the sixty to forty five loss
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to Boyd County in the opening round. The senior forward
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hit five of fourteen from the field, but kept her
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team in the game by converting a ten of eleven
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at the free throw line. Her stat line also included
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seven rebounds to assist and still while committing three turnovers.
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Klinger and teammate Lilly littrell eleven points led the way
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as Lady Cougar's outscored Board County in the paint twenty
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two to fourteen. Asher Gambled earned All Toorney honors following
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a game high twenty five points in the narrows sixty
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four to sixty one first round loss to Raceland. The
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junior point guard hit eight of thirteen field goal attempts,
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including three of seven from a three point stripe. He
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also knocked down a six of seven at the free
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throw line, as he and teammate Aden Barker combined to
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hit fifteen of seventeen. Morgan would shoot eighty three percent
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fifteen of eighteen as a team. For the season, Klinger
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was the Lady Cougar's second leading scorer fourteen point six
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ppg and rebounder seven point six while shooting forty five
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percent one hundred and thirty nine of three hundred twelve
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from the field, thirty percent of thirty one of one
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hundred and two from three, and fifty nine percent eighty
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six of one forty six at the free throw line.
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Gamble led the Cougars with four four hundred eighty total
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points this season, averaging eighteen point five points points per game.
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He was one of Kentucky's top free throw shooters, ranking
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six overall at eighty six percent, hitting an impressive one
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hundred and eleven of one hundred and twenty nine. As
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a team, Morgan also ranks six in the state at
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seventy six percent thirty three of three hundred and ninety three.
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Our next article is Morgan County High School baseball and
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softball get underway this week by David Patrick. With warmer
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spring weather slowly beginning to emerge after a winter harsh
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of harsh temperatures, snow, and ice, the Morgan County baseball
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and softball teams will officially take the field on Wednesday
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and Thursday to open the twenty twenty six seasons for baseball.
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Optimism is as high as the Cougars return a talent
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to the core of players from last year's fifteen win season.
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Seniors Connor Fleming, Cooper Fleming, Grayson Hampton, Ryan Laigh, Parker
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Trusty led the way as Morgan prepares for a thirty
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six game regular season schedule. The slate of games began
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Wednesday night at Russell past the lvc's print deadline. Coach
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Tella t Wayne Willis squad will play its first home
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game tonight Thursday, versus Bath County with a six pm
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first pitch. Morgan stays at home for two games on
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Saturday at twelve noon and four pm versus Belfry in
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Mason County, respectively. The Cougars will travel to Olive Hill
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on Monday for their first sixty second district game versus
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West Carter. Softball opens with a home game tonight Thursday
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versus Perry County Central, before hosting the district foe East
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Carter on Friday. Both games begin at six pm. Morgan
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plays two more district games next Monday, March twenty third
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and Wednesday, March twenty fifth, at West Carter in Elliott County,
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before returning home next Thursday versus Powell County and Friday
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versus Betsey Lane. Coach Jenny Sweeney has a fourteen player
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roster that features only one senior, McKenna Spencer, along with
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top returning hitters Braylen Carpenter and Chloe Dye. The Lady
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Cougars are hoping to improve on last season's five to
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twenty one record. The team will play at twenty nine
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game schedule. Our next article is Morgan County track season
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is set to kickoff next week by Jamie Bronk. The
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Morgan County track team will open its twenty twenty six
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spring spring season with an all comers meet at Macgoffin
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County next Thursday, March twenty six, at five thirty pm.
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All comers in the Eastern Kentucky often means fifteen plus
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school converging on the host school to compete, in contrast
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to team sports, where it's one on one team, my
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team versus your team. The Cougar track and field schedule
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is a busy one, with some eleven meets scheduled over
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the short and seven week regular season, culminating in a
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regional meet in Magoffin County on May twelfth and the
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State need at UK Track Complex on May twenty second.
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The majority of those meets will be all comers close
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at hand, with Macgoffin, Menafee, and Morgan each hosting multiple competitions.
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In addition, the team will travel to Estell Rowland Void
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for invitational opportunities where the competition level will ratch up
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a notch. Wolfe County will also host its first ever
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track meet in May, within a distance from Morgan County coaches.
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This concludes excerpts from recent editions of the Licking Valley Courier.
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Your reader has been janis on behalf of everyone here
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at radio. I thank you for listening, keep on listening,
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and I hope you have a very good day