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Manchester Enterprise - 8.21.26 · Eastern Kentucky Newspapers

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  Speaker 1: Now we turn to the Manchester Enterprise to read news
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  Speaker 1: from and around Manchester. Your reader today is Jim Rice.
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  Speaker 1: We will begin with the addition dated August nineteenth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. As a reminder, RADIOI is a reading service
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  Speaker 1: intended for people who are blind or have other disabilities
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  Speaker 1: that make it difficult to read printed material. One dead
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  Speaker 1: in shooting on Arnett's Fork. Verbal argument leads to gunfire
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  Speaker 1: exchange Saturday night, Manchester. A Big Creek man was killed
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  Speaker 1: in another suffered minor injuries after an argument reportedly escalated
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  Speaker 1: into an exchange of gunfire Saturday night in Clay County.
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky State Police identified the deceased as James Lawson, fifty
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  Speaker 1: five of Big Creek. Jeremy Petrie. Petrie, thirty six, also
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  Speaker 1: a Big Creek, sustained minor injuries in the incident, but
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  Speaker 1: declined medical treatment, according to Kentucky State Police, Post eleven
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  Speaker 1: in London, Clay County, nine one one notified State police
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  Speaker 1: of a shooting on Arnex's Fort Road at approximately ten
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  Speaker 1: pm August fifteenth. A preliminary investigation indicated Lawson and Petrie
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  Speaker 1: became involved in a verbal argument in front of Petrie's residents.
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  Speaker 1: Police said the confrontation escalated in gunfire was exchanged between
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  Speaker 1: the two men. Both Lawson and Petrie were struck by gunfire.
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  Speaker 1: Following the shooting, Lawson reportedly left the scene in a vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Police located him a short distance away, where he was
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  Speaker 1: found unresponsive inside the vehicle. Emergency personnel attempted life saving
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  Speaker 1: measures but were unsuccessful. Lawson was pronounced dead at the
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  Speaker 1: scene by Clay County Coroner's Office. Petrie suffered what police
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  Speaker 1: described as minor injuries and declined medical treatment and autopsy
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  Speaker 1: has been scheduled. As the investigation into the circumstances surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the shooting continues. Kentucky State Police Detective Samuel Peace is
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  Speaker 1: leading the investigation. He was assisted at the scene by
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  Speaker 1: the Clay County Sheriff's Office, Clay County EMS, Clay County
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  Speaker 1: Coroner's Office, in Kentucky State Police personnel. No charges had
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  Speaker 1: been announced by Kentucky State Police in its initial release.
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  Speaker 1: Next article Hacker charged with murder Cecil Burkhardt went missing
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  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. Hacker allegedly tortured and killed him Manchester.
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  Speaker 1: A decade old missing person's case has turned into a
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  Speaker 1: murder investigation after human remains discovered in Leslie County were
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  Speaker 1: identified as Cecil Burkhardt, who disappeared in July two thoy sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky State Police arrested Jonathan forty one, of Bare Branch
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  Speaker 1: Friday morning at the Office of Probation in Parole. Hacker
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  Speaker 1: is charged with murder, kidnapping resulting in the victim's death,
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  Speaker 1: abuse of a corpse, and tampering with physical evidence. Burkhart
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  Speaker 1: was reported missing on July tenth, twenty sixteen, and was
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  Speaker 1: last known to have been in the Oneida area. According
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  Speaker 1: to an arrest warrant, Kentucky State Police Post eleven detectives
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  Speaker 1: received numerous tips in August twenty twenty six concerning Burkhart's disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: During the investigation, detectives located human remains in Leslie County
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  Speaker 1: that authorities said were confirmed to be those of Burkhart.
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  Speaker 1: Following an autopsy, the preliminary manner of death was determined
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  Speaker 1: to be homicide, according to the warrant. The allegations contained
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  Speaker 1: in the warrant provide new details about what investigators believe
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  Speaker 1: happened to Burkhart. Kentucky State Police Trooper Timothy Ryan Moore
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  Speaker 1: wrote in a warrant that investigators corroborated information through multiple
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  Speaker 1: witnesses alleging Hacker kidnapped Burkhart, tied him up, and restrained
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  Speaker 1: him for the purpose of causing bodily injury and terrorizing him.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators alleged that after Burkhart had been restrained for a
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  Speaker 1: period of time, Hacker shot and killed him. The warrant
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  Speaker 1: further alleges that Hacker disposed of Burkhart's body by placing
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  Speaker 1: it in a well on Bear Branch Road in Leslie County.
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  Speaker 1: Close to the investigation previously told The Enterprise that bones
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  Speaker 1: had been discovered in a well on property associated with
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  Speaker 1: Hacker's family. Burkhardt's family had DNA on file, allowing investigators
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  Speaker 1: to compare their remains. The warrant now states that the
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  Speaker 1: human remains were confirmed to be Burkhart's. Hacker was arrested
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  Speaker 1: by Kentucky State Police Trooper Don Trosper and lodged in
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  Speaker 1: the Clay County Detention Center. Court documents indicate the criminal
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  Speaker 1: case will proceed in Leslie County. The arrest marks a
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  Speaker 1: major development in a case that had remained unresolved for
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  Speaker 1: approximately ten years. The charges against Hacker are allegations. He
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  Speaker 1: is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.
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  Speaker 1: Next article. In ten years, remains of all but one
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  Speaker 1: found Manchester. The recent DNA confirmation of remains belonging to
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  Speaker 1: Cecil Burkhardt and an arrest connected to his death has
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  Speaker 1: brought renewed attention to a series of missing person cases
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  Speaker 1: tied to Clay County over the past decade. Since twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: six people have been reported missing after they were last
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  Speaker 1: seen in Clay County. While several have since been found
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  Speaker 1: and identified, Questions remain in some of the cases, including
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  Speaker 1: two deaths authorities determined involved foul play. Angela Smith. Angela Smith, thirty,
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  Speaker 1: of Little Creek, disappeared in the spring of twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: She was last seen at her home on Easter Five
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  Speaker 1: years later, following floodings in the Redbird area in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, two skulls were discovered along Kentucky sixty six.
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  Speaker 1: Smith's home was located in the vicinity of where the
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  Speaker 1: remains were found. In September twenty twenty four, one of
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  Speaker 1: the skulls was positively identified as Smith. Her death was
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  Speaker 1: determined to be the result of foul play. No arrest
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  Speaker 1: has been made in connection with her death. Cecil Burkhart
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  Speaker 1: just months after Smith disappeared. Cecil Burkhart, thirty, was reported
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  Speaker 1: missing in July twenty sixteen from the Tigues Creek area
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  Speaker 1: of Oneida. For nearly a decade, his disappearance remained unresolved.
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  Speaker 1: Recent DNA testing confirm remains recovered from the investigation belonged
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  Speaker 1: to Burkhart, leading to a major development in the case
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  Speaker 1: and an arrest connected to his death. The breakthrough has
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  Speaker 1: again focused attention on the other missing person cases connected
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  Speaker 1: to Clay County. Stephen Best, thirty eight of Batyville's reported
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  Speaker 1: missing on February third, twenty eighteen. Best was last reportedly
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  Speaker 1: seen in the Redbird community of Clay County. Unlike several
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  Speaker 1: of the other people reported missing during the past decade,
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  Speaker 1: no remains belonging to Best have been located. More than
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  Speaker 1: eight years after his disappearance, Vest remains missing. David Campbell,
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  Speaker 1: forty nine, of Big Creek, was last seen October twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, walking along a roadway near his home. In
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  Speaker 1: April twenty twenty three, two men working on a fence
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  Speaker 1: discovered a skull near Campbell's home off Kentucky sixty six.
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  Speaker 1: The remains were eventually subjected to testing, and in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, the skull was positively identified as Campbell. His
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  Speaker 1: cause of death remains unknown. Mikayla Collette Mikayla Colette, twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: of Leslie County, was last seen October twenty fourth, twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: in the Middle Fork area of Redbird. Following flooding. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, two skulls were discovered along Kentucky sixty
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  Speaker 1: six in the Red Bird area. One was later identified
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  Speaker 1: as Colet. Authorities determined Collette was the victim of foul play.
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  Speaker 1: No arrest has been made in connection with her death.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Bob e Step sixty nine disappeared December fifteenth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty twenty, after leaving his home to go
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  Speaker 1: deer hunting off Kentucky one forty nine at Hector Eastep.
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  Speaker 1: Was never heard from again. An extensive time passed without
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  Speaker 1: answers for his family. In twenty twenty three, a deer
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  Speaker 1: hunter discovered the ATV Eastep had last been seen writing
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  Speaker 1: along with his remains, in the area off Kentucky one
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  Speaker 1: forty nine authorities have said foul play is not suspected
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  Speaker 1: in Eastep's death. One of the six people who disappeared
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  Speaker 1: after being last seen in Clay County since twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: five have now been found and identified. Stephen Best remains missing.
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  Speaker 1: The cases of Smith and Colette remained particularly troubling. Troubling
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  Speaker 1: both women were determined to have been victims of foul play,
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  Speaker 1: but no arrest have been made in either case. The
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  Speaker 1: recent development in the Burkhardt investigation demonstrates that even as
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  Speaker 1: years pass, advances in DNA technology and continued investigative work
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  Speaker 1: can provide answers and cases that once appeared to have
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  Speaker 1: gone cold. Next article. Biggest crowd ever expected for The
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  Speaker 1: Creakers at MMF. The Creak, one of the hottest rising
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  Speaker 1: groups in country music and a band that drew a
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  Speaker 1: crowd of nearly five thousand people to the Manchester Music
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  Speaker 1: Fest last year, will return as the headline act for
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  Speaker 1: this year's three day festival September third through the fifth.
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  Speaker 1: The group has been taking its music across the country
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  Speaker 1: in recent months, traveling throughout the United States in building
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  Speaker 1: a growing following well beyond eastern Kentucky. The Creakers will
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  Speaker 1: bring the momentum back to Manchester when they take the
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  Speaker 1: stage at nine thirty pm Saturday, September fifth to close
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  Speaker 1: out Manchester Music Fest. The festival will feature more than
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  Speaker 1: fifteen performers during three days of live music beginning Thursday
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  Speaker 1: evening and continue through Saturday night. Thursday's festivities will begin
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  Speaker 1: with an opening ceremony at six pm. Colby SAMs plus
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  Speaker 1: Red River Gorge will perform at six thirty pm, followed
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  Speaker 1: by Delt South at eight pm. A full afternoon and
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  Speaker 1: evening entertainment is scheduled for Friday. Mayor of Shenanigans will
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  Speaker 1: open Friday's performance at two pm, followed by The Bank
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  Speaker 1: Shafts at three pm and Madison Hughes at four pm.
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  Speaker 1: The Jenkins Twins will take the stage at five pm,
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  Speaker 1: followed by Christopher Lee Bentley and The Protectors at six pm.
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  Speaker 1: B Taylor is scheduled for seven thirty pm, with Cole
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  Speaker 1: Cheney closing Friday night's performances at nine to thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday's lineup begins at two pm with South of eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Log follows at three pm, with Rye Davis scheduled
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  Speaker 1: for four pm. Hancock and Shouts will perform at five pm,
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  Speaker 1: followed by Jack Wharf Band at six pm. Jason Scott
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  Speaker 1: in The High Heat will take the stage at seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm, setting the stage for The Creakers headline performance
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  Speaker 1: at nine thirty pm. The return of the Creakers will
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  Speaker 1: give the festival a familiar finale after the band's performance
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  Speaker 1: became one of the highlights of last year's event, attracting
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  Speaker 1: nearly five thousand people. Manchester Music Fest schedule Thursday September three.
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  Speaker 1: Six o'clock will be the opening ceremony six thirty pm
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  Speaker 1: Colby SAMs plus Red River Gorge eight pm. Deep South.
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  Speaker 1: Friday September fourth, at two pm Mayor of Shenanigans three pm,
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  Speaker 1: The Bank Shafts four pm, Madison Hughes five pm, Jenkins
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  Speaker 1: Twins six pm, Christopher Lee Bentley and the Protectors seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm. B Taylor cole Cheney. Saturday September fifth at
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  Speaker 1: two pm South Of eighty three pm Tony log Next article.
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  Speaker 1: Funding secured for design of four lane parkway expansion. State
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  Speaker 1: and federal funding has been secured to begin designing a
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  Speaker 1: major expansion of the hal Rogers Parkway that would eventually
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  Speaker 1: create a four lane Highway between London and Hazard, Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: Senate President Robert Stivers announced Wednesday a proposed project what
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  Speaker 1: address nearly sixty miles of the Eastern Kentucky corridor, which
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  Speaker 1: currently alternates between two and four lane sections. Steivers said
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  Speaker 1: completing the engineering and design work will be a major undertaking,
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  Speaker 1: with that phase alone expected to cost more than fifty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. Quote. You have to have a substantial amount
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  Speaker 1: of money to do all that type of technical engineering unquote,
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  Speaker 1: Steivers said. Quote. The total cost of that design phase
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  Speaker 1: is in excess of fifty million dollars unquote. No construction
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  Speaker 1: timetable has been announced, and securing design funding does not
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  Speaker 1: mean construction of the entire project is immediately set to begin. However,
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  Speaker 1: Steivers said widening the parkway is needed because of traffic value,
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  Speaker 1: in the importance of the highway to residents, tourism, and
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  Speaker 1: commerce throughout Eastern Kentucky. Quote well, it's the traffic count unquote,
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  Speaker 1: Steivers said, quote, and it makes it so much easier
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  Speaker 1: for one personal travel, two tourism travel, and three just
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  Speaker 1: general moving of product unquote. Steivers said a continuous four
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  Speaker 1: lane highway would also provide a better connection to Interstate
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  Speaker 1: seventy five at London and improve transportation access throughout the
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  Speaker 1: southern portion of the region. US Representative Hal Rogers also
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  Speaker 1: praised the effort, calling the proposed expansion long overdue. The
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  Speaker 1: highway was formerly known as the Daniel Boone Parkway. Those
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  Speaker 1: were removed in two thousand and three when the roadway
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  Speaker 1: was renamed the Hell Rogers Parkway. Quote. I became so
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  Speaker 1: sick of our people having to pay a toll for
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  Speaker 1: a two lane parkway unquote, Rogers said, quote, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: thrilled that Steivers is leading the effort to four lane
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  Speaker 1: that parkway all the way to London. Quote. The Hall
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  Speaker 1: Rogers Parkway serves as one of the primary east west
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  Speaker 1: transportation corridors corridors through southeastern Kentucky, connecting communities between Hazard
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  Speaker 1: and London and providing access to Interstate seventy five. Supporters
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  Speaker 1: say completing the four lane corridor could improve safety and
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  Speaker 1: travel times while providing another tool for economic development, tourism,
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  Speaker 1: and the movement of goods through out the region. Stivers
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  Speaker 1: announced the design funding Wednesday as part of a broader
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  Speaker 1: discussion of state and federal infrastructure investments in eastern Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to sports, Tigers open with Black Bears. Clay kicks
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  Speaker 1: off season at Corbin against old rival Harlan County Central Manchester, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: After a summer filled with workouts, seven on seven competition,
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  Speaker 1: and a pair of pre season scrimmages, Clay County will
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  Speaker 1: kick off the twenty twenty six regular season on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: August twenty first against the Harlan County Black Bears. The
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  Speaker 1: Tigers and Black Bears will meet at Campbell Field in Corbin,
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  Speaker 1: with kickoff scheduled for six pm. Sharp Head coach Mike
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  Speaker 1: Sizemore enters Week one no one encouraged by the progress
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  Speaker 1: his team has made throughout the off season, but knows
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  Speaker 1: Friday night will provide an immediate test for a Clay
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  Speaker 1: County squad featuring several players stepping into meaningful varsity rows. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I like the direction we are going heading into Week
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  Speaker 1: one unquote, Seizemore said. Quote the team is working hard
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  Speaker 1: to improve and have played well through the seven on
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  Speaker 1: seven and the scrimmages. We are still identifying playmakers and
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  Speaker 1: guys that want to embrace the challenges that it takes
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  Speaker 1: to be successful. But I like where we are this early.
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  Speaker 1: Clay County enters the opener after showing steady improvement throughout
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, including strong performance in its final scrimmage against
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  Speaker 1: Casey County. Tigers will look to carry that progress into
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  Speaker 1: the game that counts. Quote Harlan County will be a
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  Speaker 1: big test for our team this early, but we want
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  Speaker 1: our guys to embrace it and get out there and
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  Speaker 1: play their best on Friday night, quote Sizemore said. Quote
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  Speaker 1: it will be a great environment, and we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys getting their first meaningful varsity time, so
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  Speaker 1: we need them to adjust to the speed of the
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  Speaker 1: game quickly once we get going. Unquote. For Sizemore, one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest keys Friday will be execution with an
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  Speaker 1: inexperienced group in several spots, the Tigers will need to
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  Speaker 1: trust their preparation and handle the adversity that naturally comes
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  Speaker 1: with an early season matchup. Quote. We have to come
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  Speaker 1: out and execute on both sides of the ball against
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  Speaker 1: a good opponent. Opponent, Sizemore said, Our kids need to
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  Speaker 1: be able to really focus in on the details of
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  Speaker 1: their positions that we are working on and take what
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  Speaker 1: they are learning into the game. Unquote. Standing across the
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  Speaker 1: field will be a Harlan County program that Sizemore expects
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  Speaker 1: to provide a physical challenge. The Black Bears return several
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  Speaker 1: experienced players from last season and have seen their numbers
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  Speaker 1: increase in recent years. Quote. I think Harlan County is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a solid opponent unquote, Sizemore said. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: They return a lot of quality kids from last year's team,
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  Speaker 1: so they will have experience. They are a bigger school
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  Speaker 1: and have a larger enrollment than we do, so I
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  Speaker 1: expect them to have good numbers even in their down years.
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  Speaker 1: They still have a solid roster of kids there that
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  Speaker 1: always play. Clay County has plenty of reason for optimism
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  Speaker 1: surrounding its own numbers as well. Sizemore said. Participate, patient
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  Speaker 1: and attendance throughout the summer have been encouraging, continuing a
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  Speaker 1: trend that has helped the Tigers establish one of the
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  Speaker 1: most successful stretches in program history. I also feel like
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  Speaker 1: our numbers have improved again this season. We've had a
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  Speaker 1: great attendance this summer, Sizemore said. In a time where
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  Speaker 1: football numbers are down in most places in the state,
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  Speaker 1: ours has held pretty solid over the past decade, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a testament to the kids that we've had come
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  Speaker 1: through here that has built a football program instead of
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  Speaker 1: just a football team that has had success once in
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  Speaker 1: a while, the Tigers have enjoyed sustained success over the
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  Speaker 1: past several seasons, both in the win column and helping
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  Speaker 1: players earn opportunities to continue their football careers beyond high school.
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  Speaker 1: Seizemore believes that success has helped create continued interest in
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  Speaker 1: the program. Quote, we're on one of the most successful
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  Speaker 1: sustained multi year runs that our school has had over
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  Speaker 1: the past several seasons in terms of wins and also
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  Speaker 1: having players get opportunities to play at the next level unquote,
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  Speaker 1: Seizemore said. Quote that's definitely made it easier to get
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  Speaker 1: kids out to play unquote. Clay County entered last season
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  Speaker 1: expecting to rely heavily on an experience group, but a
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  Speaker 1: string of early injuries for several younger Tigers onto the
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  Speaker 1: field sooner than anticipated. While difficult at the time, those
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  Speaker 1: varsity snaps could pay dividends in twenty twenty six. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: We knew several years ago we would have some youth
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  Speaker 1: this season, as we expected to be a veteran led
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  Speaker 1: team last year. Unquote, Seizemore said, quote, but if there
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  Speaker 1: is any silver lining to the the amount of young
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  Speaker 1: kids we had to play last season, it may have
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  Speaker 1: got them ahead of where they would have been going
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  Speaker 1: into this year. The preseason evaluations are now finished. Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: a young but battle tested group of Tigers will get
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  Speaker 1: its first opportunity to show how far it has come.
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  Speaker 1: Next article. Smith leads Lady Tigers in two events. The
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  Speaker 1: Clay County Lady Tigers golf team continued its busy season
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  Speaker 1: last week, competing in a pair of events in Richmond
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  Speaker 1: and London. Clay County first traveled to Arlington Golf Club
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  Speaker 1: in Richmond for the Model Invitational, where Lily Smith led
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  Speaker 1: the Lady Tigers with the round of eighty eight. Adrian
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  Speaker 1: Cornett followed with a ninety eight, while Ali Jinoto finished
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  Speaker 1: with a one oh five. Harley Jackson carter the one
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  Speaker 1: oh seven. Bailey Gregory rounded out the Clay County scoring
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  Speaker 1: with a one to eleven. The Lady Tigers returned to
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  Speaker 1: action Thursday evening in London Country Club, competing against North Laurel,
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  Speaker 1: South Laurel Corbyn and Whitley Counties. Clay County finished third
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  Speaker 1: overall and fifteen match. Smith once again paced the Lady
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  Speaker 1: Tigers with the forty three. Janodah was close with the
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  Speaker 1: forty five, while Jackson finished with fifty three and coordinated
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven. Gregory and Jay Asher also finished the match
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  Speaker 1: with the sixty three. This concludes the reading of the
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  Speaker 1: Manchester Enterprise. Your reader has been Jim Rice. Now please
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  Speaker 1: stay tuned for continued programming and on behalf of everyone
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  Speaker 1: hope you have a good day.