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Pulaski County High flagged by state

2011-10-22T07:00:00-04:00

Oasis Cafe opens at Eagle Heights

2012-02-19T12:47:39-05:00

Officials and well-wishers gathered Saturday morning to celebrate the grand opening of the Oasis Cafe with a ribbon cutting. The cafe, located on 115 Jordan’s Way off Ky. 914 and near Eagle Heights Church, is a full service restaurant with a lunch a dinner menu. Cafe will become the “Hope Kitchen” Monday through Saturday between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and will serve free meals to those in need. The Oasis Cafe is located at the same campus at the Oasis Care Center and Thrift Store.

911 officials promise $28K upgrade will end silly notification calls

2012-02-19T08:46:10-05:00

A $28,000 emergency call system recently purchased by the county could mean no more crying “wolf” to fed-up Pulaski Countians.
Pulaski County Public Safety Director Tiger Robinson and Pulaski County 911 Director Lisa Gilbert both appeared in Pulaski County Fiscal Court Tuesday alongside Kurt Steier, with Emergency Communications Network, to pitch a brand new, technologically-advanced emergency call system that would replace the current system.
“Our alert system we’ve got presently is not up to our satisfaction,” Robinson told the court.
Because of the apparent downfalls of the county’s current warning system, called the Emergency Notification System (ENS), the court on Tuesday voted to approved the purchase of a system that will cost the county about $28,000, according to Robinson.

Synthetic marijuana use is a burning issue

2012-02-18T08:00:00-05:00

Arrests made in animal cruelty case at McCreary County ‘rescue'

2012-02-17T07:00:00-05:00

Refining Moment

2012-02-16T10:22:10-05:00

The plant manager of Somerset Refinery, evolving into Continental Refining Company, is one who Pulaski countians would call “one of us.”
Kristopher Gibson, son of Doyle and Deidra Gibson, is a native of Somerset. So is his wife, the former Kristen Flynn. Both Gibson and his wife are graduates of Somerset High School. They have two little Pulaski countians with another on the way.
Kristopher –– everybody calls him Kris –– knows his way around Somerset Refinery. He started working at the refinery as “summer help” in 1994 while still in high school.
Gibson earned his way up through the ranks in the maintenance department; as process operator and then operations manager. In 2006, Gibson left Somerset to work for Marathon Oil in Catlettsburg. He returned to Somerset Refinery in 2008 as plant manager.

Burnside gets classy

2012-02-16T09:19:51-05:00

Burnside passed a resolution Monday stating intent to try and move up in the ranks of city classification ... but not without a little controversy.
Much as Mayor Ron Jones previously told the Commonwealth Journal to expect, the Burnside City Council made a move to get reclassified from a fifth-class city to a fourth-class city at the February meeting this week.
Though Burnside is well under the defined population limit for a fourth-class city in Kentucky — the minimum is 3,000 — officials are operating under the idea that the state legislature has the sole ability to reclassify a city and has done so, even this past year, with cities that don’t meet that population threshold.
Burnside’s philosophy is that while they know it may not work, they won’t know unless they try, and they have a case they can make — the city has a high transient population, who pass through during tourism season or only live in Burnside during the summer months. Thus the total population of the town is known to swell at certain times of the year.
Moving up to a fourth-class city would put Burnside in hiring standing with state agencies, making them available for more grant money opportunities and programs.

Child porn suspect left disgusting trail

2012-02-16T08:18:24-05:00

A former Pulaski County resident has been indicted on nearly 90 child pornography charges, and it appears he’s facing similar charges in a separate case in McCreary County.
Eric D. Bryant, 23, was indicted by a Pulaski County grand jury this month on 87 counts of promoting a sexual performance by a minor based on an investigation in Pulaski County that began in 2010, according to information provided by the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies with the sheriff’s department didn’t go to Bryant’s current residence, located on old Bryant Road in Whitley City, to serve the warrant, but instead to the McCreary County Jail, where Bryant is currently lodged on other charges — all of a similar nature but in connection with a separate case.

Heavy Smoker

2012-02-16T07:16:20-05:00

Somerset Fire Department responded Wednesday at around 11:30 a.m. to 308 Rosewood Ave., located just off South Central Avenue in Somerset, after a fire was reported at a residence. Battalion Chief Mark Catron said the fire was contained to the home’s laundry room, located at the southwest corner of the residence, and he said the room sustained heat and water damage. The rest of the home, owned by Bill and Leena Williamson, sustained smoke damage, Catron stated. Catron also said the Williamsons were home at the time and they escaped safely. The fire department was on the scene for about an hour and was assisted by Somerset-Pulaski County EMS.

Howl About That

2012-02-15T10:35:45-05:00

A growing population of wild hogs has recently been making news in western Pulaski County while coyotes, a more widespread pest, continue to be a problem in many parts of the county.
Wayne Adams, who lives on Pitman Road off Ky. 192 along Pitman Creek, is totally frustrated with the number of coyotes around his place. He believes one of his dogs has been killed by coyotes, and he killed a coyote Sunday night attacking his other dog.
“I’ve got a night light outside and we feed our dogs out there,” said Adams. “Coyotes come into his yard all the time ... we see them.”
Adams said his little Blue Heeler, an Australian cattle dog, disappeared about a month ago and he is convinced coyotes killed him. His other dog, a mixed Blue Heeler and collie, was attacked by a coyote Sunday night shortly after dark.