PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — Higher electricity prices could be in the future for more than 12,000 customers in Eastern Kentucky, as Big Sandy RECC is asking for a rate increase. The utility filed an application with the Kentucky Public Service Commission this week, asking for a more than 13 percent increase that would generate an additional $3.4 million. Big Sandy’s last rate increase was in 2018. The company says an increase is necessary now because its finances are being pinched by rising costs, a declining population, and the collapse of the coal industry. The utility serves customers in Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, […]

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LANGLEY, Ky. — A construction services firm based in Oldham County is planning to expand its operations in Kentucky with a new facility in Floyd County that will bring in 36 jobs and a $1.75 million investment. Infinity Design & Construction provides 3D design, 3D scanning and construction services. The company’s LaGrange fabrication shop is currently operating at full capacity, so they are opening a new location at Langley that will occupy a nearly 44,000 square foot building on 7.5 acres across from the Floyd County Community Center. “Infinity is a great example of a company fully committed to serving […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Mountain Top Media is working with community partners to collect much-needed money and supplies for the victims of catastrophic flooding in North Carolina. Beginning at 9 a.m., Friday, items can be dropped off at the Appalachian Wireless Arena and Mountain Arts Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays, and at the Pikeville Fire Station 1 on weekends. Financial donations can be made online at www.pikecountyreliefservices.org. If you wish to donate supplies, we ask that you donate only the following needed items: No furniture or clothing will be accepted.

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PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — An Alabama man is in jail after Kentucky State Police shut down an attempt to bring fentanyl into Eastern Kentucky. State troopers received a report that Frederick Daniel Holt Jr., 50, of Gadsden, Ala., was bringing fentanyl into Johnson County and planning to sell it from his hotel room at the Days Inn in Paintsville. Investigators learned he was staying in room 108 and arranged to have an undercover informant make a purchase from him. Once the purchase was made, police arranged to pull Holt over and take him into custody, then took him back to the […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Mingo County man has been arrested for breaking into his girlfriend’s Pikeville home, after she had reported him to police for threatening to kill her. Pikeville Police were called to the woman’s Kentucky Avenue apartment just after 7 a.m. Saturday. She told police that 35-year-old Kenneth Brad Hall, of Delbarton, had threatened her, and she played a recording of the call in which he allegedly said he would kill her and take her children. While police were talking to the woman, Hall allegedly called back and told her she would wake up the next day with […]

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