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Local school districts expect 6-digit insurance payments
HAZARD — School districts across the state are facing, in some cases, crippling payments to a group insurance trust that has recently declared its planned dissolution in June due to massive deficits. Jody Maggard, financial officer for the Perry County School District, announced Thursday during a board meeting the projected payment the district will have to make to KSBIT, around $450,000. “I wish I had better news for that, but I don’t,” ...
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<p>Dalton Stidham</p>
Stidham re-indicted in triple murder case
HAZARD – An indictment against a Perry County man charged with killing three people during a shooting at Hazard Community and Technical College last month was returned on Monday after it was found that a grand jury member did not live in Perry County. Commonwealth’s Attorney John Hansen said there are motions being made this week to re-indict the other 22 cases that were indicted last week. Dalton Stidham made his first appearance in Perr...
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On the record
Editor’s note: Due to a lack of space in this week’s print edition, the weekly court record was not included in the paper. Contract Cases Midland Funding LLC vs. Bridgette L. Turner Commonwealth Credit Union Inc. vs. Quentin C. Combs Matthew McIntosh vs. Stacy Campbell Asset Acceptance LLC vs. Denzil Young Capital Management Inc. vs. Kyle J. Moon CACH vs. Jeremy E. Riddle The Jiffy Cash Company vs. Eugene Higgins A Plu...
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Correction
A story uploaded to hazard-herald.com, and printed in this week’s issue of The Hazard Herald , about a biomass bill sponsored by Sen. Brandon Smith apparently incorrectly reported that the bill would allow the Public Service Commission (PSC) to enter into 20-year contracts with biomass companies should they want to contract with the state. According to Andrew Melnykovych, director of communications for the Kentucky Public Service Commissio...
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Hazard school board meets to discuss audit, budget
HAZARD — The Hazard Independent School Board met Monday evening to discuss an audit report, construction updates, and other budgetary items. Troy Gaw, an auditor with Gaw and Associates in Harlan County, presented the board with the audit report for the 2011-2012 school year. Gaw said nothing had really changed in the report from the previous year, and most of the findings were at Roy G. Eversole, as they had been in previous years, inclu...
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Johnny Williams
Jury finds man not guilty of felony endangerment
HAZARD – A Vicco man who faced a maximum of 15 years in prison on multiple counts of felony wanton endangerment was convicted instead on a single misdemeanor charge this week. Johnny Williams, 48, was arrested in June 2012 after he poured gasoline over his head and attempted to light himself on fire with a lit cigarette as three Perry County deputies stood nearby. He was unsuccessful in igniting the gasoline vapors, but was quickly subdued ...
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City commission meets for year-end reports
HAZARD — The Hazard City Commission met Monday night to discuss the year-end reports for the Hazard city police and fire department, as well as to pass a resolution to modify a loan from Peoples Bank & Trust Company of Hazard. Hazard Fire Chief Sam Stacy presented the final report for the month of January before presenting the year-end report for 2012. For the month of January, Stacy said the department responded to 50 calls, 32 of those ...
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Hazard woman charged with illegally structuring deposits
COVINGTON – A Hazard woman is facing federal charges after a grand jury returned an indictment accusing her of illegally structuring bank deposits worth millions of dollars over a two-year period. The indictment was returned on Feb. 14 against 52-year-old Lois Elaine Smith, who is alleged to have structured several deposits at Peoples Bank & Trust Company in Hazard, totaling $4,044,180 from Feb. 14, 2008 to June 5, 2010, in order to avoid f...
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<p>Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald</p><p>Perry County Judge-Executive Denny Ray Noble (left), along with Sen. Brandon Smith, Rep. Fitz Steele, and Letcher County Judge-Executive Jim Ward, appeared at a town hall meeting in Hazard last week to discuss pension reform. Noble several other state legislators were invited.</p>
Lawmakers address pension reform at town hall
HAZARD – With a reported $33 billion in unfunded liability, pension reform promises to be the major issue during this session of the Kentucky General Assembly. It was also the topic of a town hall meeting in Hazard last week. Perry County Judge-Executive Denny Ray Noble called the meeting at the Hal Rogers Forum in Hazard on Friday, where he told an audience of current and retired state workers if something isn’t done to shore up the Kentuc...
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<p>photo by Paul Gordon | Herald file</p><p>The late Senator Robert Kennedy is pictured here with a crowd walking along Liberty Street in Hazard in February 1968. Though poverty rates in the region have declined since Kennedy&#8217;s &#8220;poverty tour&#8221; of central Appalachia, rates here in Eastern Kentucky remain higher than state and national averages.</p>
45 years after Kennedy, poverty remains key issue in E. Ky.
HAZARD — Coal mines are shutting down left and right, the state of the economy is grim, and the country is involved in a controversial war. While this may sound like a present description of circumstances, it is actually what those in this area were living through when U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy made his “poverty tour” 45 years ago through Southeastern Kentucky. In February 1968, Kennedy spent two days and travelled 200 miles touring cit...
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