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Licking Valley Courier - 7.24.26 · 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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  July twenty third, twenty twenty six, as a reminder Radio
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  I as a reading service intended for people who are
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  blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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  read printed material. Our first article today is Morgan's Student
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  represents Licking Valley RCC in DC. Maddie Conley shares twenty
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  twenty six Washington Youth Tour Experience. Maddie Conley represented Licking
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  Valley RCC in June on the twenty twenty six Washington
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  Youth Tour, joining rising young leaders from electric cooperative communities
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  across Kentucky for a week of history, government, and civic engagement. Conley,
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  a Morgan County High School senior, was sponsored by Licking
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  Valley RICC on the week long experience. Coordinated by Kentucky
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  Electric Cooperatives and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the
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  program brings together students from electric cooperative communities to experience
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  American history, civic engagement, and cooperative commitment to the community.
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  My favorite parts were making new friends, meeting people from
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  across Kentucky in visiting the Holocaust Museum, Condy says throughout
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  the trip, I learned valuable leadership skills, gained more responsibility,
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  and grew as a person. It was an unforgettable experience
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  that I will always be thankful for. Conley joined Kentucky
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  delegates for visits to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and George Washington's
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  Mount Vernon before continuing to Washington, d C. Where students
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  toured the US capital museums and memorials on Capitol Hill.
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  The students were engaged and appreciative of the opportunity to
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  discuss important issues with congressional staff members and the US
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  Senator Rand Paul. They spoke up for electric cooperatives, asking
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  about FEMA reform and how to make sure Kentucky co
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  ops are adequately served by FEMA. They also ask about
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  artificial intelligence and the nation's future. The week also included
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  a walking tour of the memorials on the National Mall,
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  stops at the Smithsonian Museums, the White House Visitor Center,
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  the World War One Memorial, the Holocaust Museum, and the
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  National Air and Space Museum at Arlington National Cemetery. The
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  students watched the changing of the guard, and members of
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  the Kentucky delegation laid a wreath at the tomb of
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  the Unknown Soldier. The ceremony gave students time to reflect
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  on service, sacrifice, and the freedoms they were learning about
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  throughout the week. It is a privilege to spend a
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  week in Washington, d C. With some of Kentucky's brightest
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  young leaders, says Mallory wah Fifth WIF, the Statewide Association
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  manager of Cooperative Outreach. As they walk in the footsteps
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  of our nation's founders and experience the democracy firsthand, they
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  are inspired to lead, serve, and make a difference in
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  their own communities. Our next article is artisans Harvest, slated
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  for August first at the Wellness Center. The Artisan's Harvest
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  will be Saturday, August first at the Morgan County Wellness
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  Center from nine am to two pm. Vendors will be
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  offering locally grown produce, to handcrafted goods, community fund and more.
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  This event is sponsored by the Morgan County Extension Service,
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  West Liberty, Tourism, Bank of the Mountain, and the Morgan
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  County Wellness Center. If you would like to be a
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  vendor for this event, Please visit ky Cooperative Extension Morgan
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  County Facebook page to download an application. For application form
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  called the Morgan County Extension Office at six O six
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  seven four three thirty two ninety two. Our email Angie
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  Ferguson or Angie dot Ferguson at uky dot edu. Everyone
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  is invited to join us for this vibrant celebration of
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  local farmers, musicians, crafts, pardon me, crafters and artisans. Our
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  next article is going to be Grand Jewelry indicts eleven
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  recent session. In recent session, the Morgan County Circuit Court
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  Grand Jury indicted eleven individuals during the recent court session.
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  Number one Mitchell Shephard thirty eight of Bergen, Kentucky. Trafficking
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  in a control substance, first degree first offense over two
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  grams of meth amphetamine, Amy Bolin fifty one of West Liberty, Kentucky.
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  Trafficking and a control substance, first degree first offense over
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  two grams of methamphetamine. Number three Amber Swabble forty four
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  of West Liberty, Kentucky. Trafficking in a control substance, first
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  degree second offense, heroin trafficking in a control substance, first degree,
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  second offense fentanyl. Number four. Joshton Heilton thirty four of Sailorsville, Kentucky.
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  Trafficking in a control substance, first degree first offense over
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  two grams of meth amphetamine. Number five. Davy Collet fifty
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  three of West Liberty, Kentucky. Trafficking in a control substance,
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  first degree first offense over two grams of metham fetamine
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  two counts. Number six. James Stacey Woodard of Stanton, Kentucky.
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  Trafficking in a control substance, first degree first offense over
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  two grams of methamphetamine two counts, Persistent felony offender, first
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  degree Number seven. Angela Nicole Flannery thirty of mis Kentucky.
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  Trafficking in a control substance, first degree first offense over
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  two grams of metham fatamine, two counts. Trafficking in a
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  control substance, first degree first offense fetanyl, persistent felony offender
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  second degree Number eight. Charles Atkins thirty nine of West Liberty, Kentucky.
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  Possession of a control substance, first degree first offense fetanyl
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  Number nine. Austin W. Workman, twenty seven of Campton, Kentucky,
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  Assault second degree Er two ten, Mark Edward Reid, forty
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  five of West Liberty, Kentucky, driving on DUI suspended license,
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  Third offense persistent felony offender first degree Number eleven. Jackie
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  Allen Keaton thirty seven of West Liberty, Possession of a
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  controlled substance first degree math amphetamine, public intoxication, possession of
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  drug paraphernalia. Editor's note, an indictment is not proof of guilt,
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  but merely an allegation that a crime has been committed.
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  Our next article is West Liberty Police Department FED agents
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  arrest eight people in fraud investigation. Recent operation took place
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  July fifteenth through the seventeenth. Total of fourteen have been
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  taken into custody since probe began in August of twenty
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  twenty five. Press release. In August twenty twenty five, West
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  Liberty Police Department began a financial crime and identity theft
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  investigation pursuant to an investigative referral from a local financial institution.
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  From July the fifteenth to July the seventeenth, twenty twenty six,
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  West Liberty Police Department conducted in operation as part of
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  a task force effort with federal partners in relation to
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  the investigation. During the course of the July twenty twenty
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  six operation, eight male subjects were taken into custody. Since
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  January of twenty twenty six, a total of approximately fourteen
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  subjects have been taken into custody as part of the investigations.
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  The investigation originally began after the West Liberty Police Department
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  was alerted of approximately forty two subjects utilizing fraudulent documentation
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  and identification to conduct financial transactions. After initiating the investigation,
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  West Liberty Police Department discovered that multiple subjects were utilizing
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  fraudulent state identifications, fraudulent government issue identifications, and stolen identities
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  belonging to numerous individuals, including the following US citizens, foreign
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  national permanent residents, foreign national residents with protective status, foreign
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  national residents with work visas foreign nationals in the process
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  of obtaining citizenship. The detained subjects were also discovered to
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  be utilizing addresses of churches, as well as nonexistent addresses
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  and addresses not belonging to themselves. Additionally, the subjects were
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  further discovered to be utilizing fraudulent Social Security numbers and
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  US Department of Homeland Security assigned social security numbers. The
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  subjects were also discovered to be utilizing multiple aliases and
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  to have multiple arrest and active warrants under fraudulent names.
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  West Liberty Police Detective Michael Williams noted that the far
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  reaching impact of these crimes fraudulent acts related to these
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  investigations not only affected the United States citizens. Williams said
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  they also affected foreign nationals going through the citizenship process
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  and those in the country under work. Visas of the
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  use of identifications when conducting financial transactions is governed in
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  the Kentucky Revised Statutes, as well as the US Bank's
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  Secrecy Act and the US Patriarch Additional information. Anyone with
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  information regarding criminal activity is urged to contact West Liberty
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  Police Department at six O six seven four to three
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  forty three eighty five. Our next article is minutes. Oh no,
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  I'm sorry, Let's go on to something else. Fire and
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  Rescue Fund Fast Saturday at Fairgrounds event was originally scheduled
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  for June twenty seventh, but was postponed. Morgan County Emergency
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  Management has rescheduled the Fire and Rescue Fund Fast per Saturday,
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  July the twenty fifth at Morgan County Fairgrounds, located at
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  four hundred New Fairground Road in West Liberty. The event,
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  a family fund day to support the volunteer fire and
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  rescue departments, will run from four pm to eight pm.
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  A mission will be five dollars per person or ten
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  dollars per car load maximum six occupants. Kids four and
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  under get in free. Food and drinks will include hamburgers,
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  hot dogs or barbecue with chips and a drink for
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  five dollars for the Combo. Activities include ARH Mobile Clinic,
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  free screenings, four A one C cholesterol stroke wrist, mental
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  health and substance use prevention, the sports physicals Pardon me A.
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  Cornhole tournaments start at five pm with a ten dollars
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  entry fee fifty to fifty split of the pot. Kids
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  Power Wheels race Raffle entry with purchase of admission. Fireworks
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  will begin at ten pm. An outdoor movie provided by
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  the Morgan County Public Library and free inflatables all night
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  provided by Sandrade of the six six LLC. Many more
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  kids activities. Morgan County Native Global Cantrol will perform live
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  from seven pm to nine pm. Raffle Prizes will include
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  the following case knife sixty dollars value from Ace Hardware
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  of Morehead. Call wash bucket from Advanced Auto of Morehead.
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  Care car kit from Advanced Otto of West Liberty. Day
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  of Fishing for two from Bishop's Paylay located at Ditney
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  Ridge in West Liberty, Massage. Give card from Bluegrass Bodyworks
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  of Morehead. Areatt pocket knife forty five dollars value from
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  the Boot Branch of Morehead. Give card for fifty dollars
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  from Cattleman's Roadhouse of Morehead. Twenty four hour slingshot rental
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  from Cave Run Slingshot of Morehead, four view level or
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  two terraced lines. Tickets to a Cincinnati Reds baseball game
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  from the Cincinnati Reds. Four passes to the Cincinnati Zoo.
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  One hundred and twenty eight dollars value from the Cincinnati Zoo.
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  Random fishing tackle from Crashes Landing of Morehead. Two tickets
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  to the Creation Museum. One hundred and twenty dollars value
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  in hebron Kentucky. Monetary donation from the First Federal Savings
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  and Loan of Morehead. Six three piece tender meal gift
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  cards from Huey Magoo's of Morehead. Four tickets to Kentucky
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  Kingdom two hundred and twenty dollars value in Louisville. Two
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  boxes of forty five colt am ninety dollars value from
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  Kentucky Pond and Guns of Morehead. Four passes to the
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  Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory one hundred and one dollar
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  value in Louisville. One free Maperoni pizza from Melanie's of
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  more Head or Millenni's of Morehead. A twenty dollars gift
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  certificate from Mister Gaddy's of more Head. A half inch
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  ratchet socket set from O'Reilly Autoparts of Morehead. A one
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  hundred and fifty dollars gift certificate from the Outlaw Beauty
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  bar Kelly Perkins of Morehead. Three gift certificates from Pizza
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  Palace of West Liberty, A twenty five dollars gift certificate
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  from Pop's Barbecue of Morehead, a twenty five dollars gift
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  certificate from Reno's of more Head, one free night at
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  Stay on the Edge of Salt Lick, a free facial
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  from the Lake House, a sixty dollars value from Morehead
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  of Morehead, a thirty dollars gift certificate from Thoroughbred Express
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  Call Wash of more Head. A fifty two piece socket
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  set from Wholesale Autoparts more of more Head. Game cards
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  from Extreme Arcade of Elizabethtown. Eighteen holes of golf times
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  two from Pleasant Valley Country Club of West Liberty. Blue
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  guitar squire bullet by fender from Morgan Gun and Pond
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  of West Liberty. A one hundred dollars gift foucher from
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  Cave Run Motorsports of West Liberty. No. Of Morehead, Sorry
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  about that. A two hundred dollars gift foucher from Cave
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  Run Motorsports of Morehead. A load of number fifteen of
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  fifty seven gravel times two from Hinckley of West Liberty.
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  A fifty five inch television from Walmart of Moorhead. A
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  gun cabinet from Tractors Supply of Grayson. Proceeds from the
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  event will be benefit the Blackwater Caney Valley, White Oak
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  Highway one seventy two in Highway five nine, eighteen fire
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  departments and the Morgan County Rescue Squad. Everyone is invited
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  to join us for the special event. Bring your family.
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  We can't do it without you. Thank you for helping
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  us to continue serving and protecting our community. For additional information,
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  visit the Morgan County, Kentucky Emergency Management Facebook page or
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  contact Raven Perry at six O six four nine five
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  seventy six fifty. Our next article is Kawana's Mountain Horse
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  Show Celebration is August. The first event will be held
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  at the Equestrian Park on Liberty Road. The Mountain Horse
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  Celebration horse Show, sponsored by the West Liberty Kawanas Club,
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  is scheduled for four pm Saturday, August the first and
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  Morgan County Equestrian Park at forty four sixty five Liberty
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  Road in West Liberty. The show is a Class B
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  Rocky Mountain Show and also has numerous other mountain horse
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  classes including Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse, Mountain Pleasure, and other
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  mountain horse classes. For additional information, contact show manager Langley
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  Franklin at six O six seven nine four zero three
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  five zero. The show bill also appears on the Rocky
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  Mountain Horse Association website. Regular classes number one Lead Line
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  Awards to All no entry fee, Number two Open Mountain
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  Horse on halter any breed, Number three rm HA Trail
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  Pleasure Mayors and Golding's number four km SH Open Classic
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  Pleasure number five, Open Mountain Horse Trail Pleasure number six
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  r m h A Juvenile Country Trail seventeen and under
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  no stallions number seven. R m h A Amateur Pleasure
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  number eight km SH Open Country Trial number nine, r
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  MHA Amateur Trail Trail Pleasure number ten, rm HA Juvenile
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  Show Pleasure seventeen and under no stallions number eleven km
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  s H Open Trail Pleasure number twelve, Open Mountain Horse
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  two and three year Olds number thirteen, km SH Juvenile
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  Classic Pleasures seventeen and under no Stallions number fourteen MHH
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  Old Kentucky Saddler Mayors, Guildings and Stallions Pardon me Stick
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  Horse Class and Sack Race no Fee number fift fifteen
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  minute intermission then number fifteen, r MHA Show Pleasure, Mayors
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  and Gelding number sixteen km s H Juvenile Trail Pleasure
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  seventeen and under no Stallions number seventeen, RMHA Amateur Country
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  Trail number eighteen, RMHA Show Pleasure Stallions number nineteen, RMHA
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  Juvenile Trail Pleasures seventeen and under no stallions number twenty
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  RMHA Country Trail Mayors and Gelding Number twenty one, r
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  m HA AOT Show Pleasure Number twenty two, RMHA Trail
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  Pleasure Stallions Number twenty three, Open Mountain Horse Show Classic
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  Pleasure Number twenty four RMHA Country Trail Pleasure Stallions. Championship
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  classes will be five minute break between each Championship Class
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  number one Open Mountain Horse Youth seventeen in Under Championships
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  No Stallions number two, Open Mountain Horse, Country Trail Trail
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  Pleasure Championship number three, Open Mountain Horse Stake and Championship premiums,
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  entry fees and other information. Regular classes forty dollars thirty
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  dollars twenty dollars ten dollars. Ribbon entry fee is twenty dollars.
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  Championship classes one hundred dollars seventy five dollars fifty dollars
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  twenty five dollars, ribbon entry fee thirty dollars. This is
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  a Class B Rocky Mountain Show. All Mountain Horse entries
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  must produce registration and comply with shoeing requirements of breed.
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  Rocky Mountain Horse Association and Kentucky Mountain Horse Association rule
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  apply for all their designated classes. Entries and championship classes
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  must show in one regular class to qualify, with the
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  exception of the Open Mountain Horse, Steak and Championship class.
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  Negative coggins required on all horses. Anyone on federal disqualification
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  cannot transport horses to the show and cannot participate in
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  this show except as a spectator. Show management must also
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  direct any apparent violators or disqualification to spectator area. For
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  additional information, called show manager Langley Franklin at six O
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  six seven four three forty four fifteen that's at home
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  or six O six seven four nine three five oh
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  and that's his sale. Email g W frank at m
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  r TC dot com or visit the West Liberty Kowana's
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  Club Facebook page. Our next article is Minutes from special
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  July fourteenth Fiscal Court meeting are listed. Several items were approved,
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  including date changes. The following is an unofficial listing of
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  minutes from a special July fourteenth meeting at the Morgan
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  County Fiscal Court. Present members Madri Stript, Brandon Evans, Tommy Fannin,
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  Eric Pelfrey, Leroy Phipps, and Judge Executive Jim Casey. Absent
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  members Magistrate Tyler Keaton. Motion passed approval of the minutes
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  of the last meeting of the Morgan County Fiscal Court.
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  Passed with a motion by Tommy Fannon and a second
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  by Leroy Phipps. Vote unanimous yes. Motion passed Approval to
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  match spay and neoter grant up to three thousand dollars
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  as presented. Passed with emotion by Brandon Aaron Evans and
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  Eric Pelfrey, vote unanimous Yes. Motion passed approval to pay
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  splash Pad invoices as soon as received and to notify
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  the Morgan County Fiscal Court as invoices arrived. Passed with
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  a motion by Brandon Evans and a second by Eric Pelfrey,
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  vote unanimous yes. Motion passed approval of the Coal Severance
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  Projects resolution as presented. Passed with emotion by Brandon Evans
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  and a second by Eric Pelfrey. Splash Pad Project six
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  hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Road Department Equipment Repairs
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  fifty eight thousand, four hundred fifty two dollars and fifteen
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  cents corners equipment and supplies five thousand, nine hundred dollars.
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  Water Volunteer Fire Department Annual insurance six hundred and thirty dollars.
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  Highway one seventy two Volunteer Fire Department Annual insurance eight
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  thousand dollars. White Oak Volunteer Fire Department annual insurance five thousand,
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  one hundred eighty eight dollars. Highway five nineteen. Volunteer Fire
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  Department Equipment Supplies, Insurance and miscellaneous twenty five thousand dollars.
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  Caney Valley Fire Department, Volunteer Fire Department Equipment Supplies annual
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  insurance twenty five thousand dollars. Morgan County Rescue Squad Equipment
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  and Supplies twenty five thousand dollars. Vote unanimous yes. Motion
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  passed Approval of the Morgan County Judge Executive to sign
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  contract with Kinser and Lacy Trust to complete the Delaney
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  Park FEMA project. Passed with a motion by Brandon Evans
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  and a second by Tommy fannin vote unanimous yes. This
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  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