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The Treasure Box

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Photo by Lisa Bicknell Makesha and Charlie Ray have opened a discount variety store in the former location of the Twinkle Tub Laundromat. By LISA BICKNELL CV&T News Editor The Treasure Box, a discount variety store, is now open for business on River Drive. While you may not notice it at first glance, the bright […]

Smith resigns from Irvine Police Department

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From the CV&T archives Irvine Police Chief Brad Smith resigned from the Irvine Department on December 18, 2019. He was with the department for nine years. Irvine Police Chief Brad Smith submitted a letter of resignation to Mayor James Gross on Wednesday, Dec. 18, and his resignation was effective on Jan. 2, 2020. However, Smith […]

School News

Neal (and his dad) have perfect attendance

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Jacob Neal was recently honored for having nine years of perfect attendance.  Since beginning preschool, he has not missed a day.  His father, Travis “Rick” Neal, a single dad, has also not missed a day of driving Jacob back and forth to school, every single day.

Schools announce Summer Feeding locations

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Estill County Schools is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided, at […]

Students pay tribute to teachers who’ve made a difference

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photos by Lisa Bicknell Estill County High School students with the top 24 GPAs each introduced their pick of a teacher who has greatly impacted their lives.  Below are the students’ names and the teachers they chose.    Students            Teachers Hannah Patrick       Clay Baber Anna Smith   […]

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Flight: My quest to find True North (7)

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Editor’s Note: This is a series of recollections written by Shelby Paul Horn, who was raised in Estill County and went on to become a successful attorney.  He now lives in Joplin, Missouri.  At the urging of a friend, he wrote down many of his life experiences, some of which we will share with our […]

Flight: My quest to find True North (6)

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by Shelby Horn Mothers occupy such a fundamental and honored place in the lives of most of us that it is no surprise that my earliest memories should be of my mother.  She is not a person about whom I can be objective; she always was-to me-a saintly being.  My early memories of her are […]

Shelby Horn: My flight to find True North (5)

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by Shelby Horn Perhaps in the beginning it was all right.  They were youthful; she was eighteen, Pryse was twenty-three.  He had the L&N dynamiter job.  They moved immediately to live on the railroad.  I do mean to say that they lived on the railroad, for workers lived in railroad cars (camp cars) placed on […]