Today is September 18th and it’s sunny and 85
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The Hopkins County Health Department wants to hear from you. They say your thoughts on health issues will be helpful as they proceed to address health issues for families. The survey continues through October 26th. It will likely take less than 10 minutes to take. To participate, use the Q-R Code on the Facebook page of the Hopkins County Health Department.
Our local community college is glad to report on the success of their lineman training program. Using a Delta Regional Authority (DRA) grant, Madisonville Community College says the program now allows utility companies to recruit from the regional labor force, particularly displaced coal miners. Also benefitting from the program are high school graduates who do not intend to pursue a post-secondary credential.
The M-P-D says the woman driving a Chevrolet Small Conventional Cab with a broken windshield is facing four charges. The traffic stop of Connie Stevenson occurred on Friday. She had no driver’s license or insurance. It was found that this was the second time Stevenson had been driving without insurance. She was transported to the Hopkins County Jail.
After decades of declining union membership, the Commonwealth is seeing an uptick in labor organizing. Jason Bailey of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy says 80-percent of those in the prime working age are already working, or in the labor force. Still, many workers are paid low wages and lack benefits and workplace protections. Presently, 28-percent of working residents’ incomes put their family below the poverty line.
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The Madisonville police are reporting the arrest of a suspicious driver on Friday evening, but not before it took two tasers to subdue him. There had been reports of Joshua Miller driving erratically in the vicinity of Huntington Ridge. The tasers were employed because Miller failed to comply with the officer’s commands. The cops say he was manifestly under the influence of alcohol. Altogether, Miller accumulated 9 charges.
The driver of a car in Providence who failed to use a turn signal is facing 8 charges. Kimberly Young was arrested on Wednesday the 11th. The deputy noticed the odor of marijuana in the vehicle. Young and her passenger were arrested. Michael Vaughn faces 2 charges: possession of amphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
The head of the Economic Development Corporation in Madisonville believes its marketing budget needs to be increased. Bill Rudd says the E-D-C cannot market the Movers and Maker’s Space because their team is too small. He explained to the city council that he believes it’s a marvelous concept, but it’s costing 71-hundred dollars a month to keep the doors open. Rudd says the concept of teaching a trade and then going to work is sound.
Most all of the folks involved in the production of the motion picture being shot in Madisonville are not only glad to be here, but are enjoying it very much. The director of the film Playing for Mozart speaks for many. Here’s Brian Hanfort. Goldenrod Films already has plans to shoot a Christmas movie in Madisonvile in the near future.
From the C-Plant Federal Credit Union Newsroom, I’m Boyce Tate.
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