By: Lisa Bicknell Dry Branch resident Kristen Samples Stepp has always had a “huge love for cooking.”  When everyone else her age was watching movies and sitcoms, she was watching the Food Network and cooking tutorials. In 2016, she tried her own hand at making a tutorial and posted a YouTube video with instructions for […]

Mrs. Mary Joyce Warner would like to announce with great pride that on September 17, 2020 her great-granddaughter, Seaman Recruit Helena Elizabeth Lou Warner successfully graduated from the U.S. Navy boot camp at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois. She now heads to the Naval Nuclear Power School in Goose Creek, South Carolina for […]

By: Lisa Bicknell   Margaret Wood, president of the Estill County Democratic Women’s Club, introduced Amy McGrath and Paula Clemons-Combs at a rally at the Veterans Memorial Park in Ravenna on Friday night.     Candidate Josh Hicks, opposing Congressman Andy Barr, was unable to attend the event because of an unexpected emergency. “Amy continues […]

Editor’s note: Last week we received the following press release from the Irvine Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.     On Monday, Sept. 21, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services website listed a total of 13 positive cases among staff members and 27 positive cases among residents. According to the website, two residents were […]

Isaiah Harvey, 22, of Eli Sparks Rd., was charged with second degree arson on Friday, September 11, 2020. Irvine Police Officer Stuart Morris was dispatched to a structure fire at 468 Kirkland Avenue, after reports that a man in green shorts and not wearing a shirt was spotted running from the residence. Morris searched for […]

By: Lisa Bicknell Austin Moore, a 2006 graduate of Estill County High School, was recently hired as the School District’s Athletic Director.  He was also named the principal of the Success Academy. There’s a lot to the role of athletic director in any year, but during a pandemic, that role, like that of every other […]

Photo submitted Bill Neikirk and President Bill Clinton are pictured here aboard Air Force One.   Neikirk, a nationally recognized journalist from Irvine, died last week. Note: This article was originally printed in the Lexington Herald Leader. Bill Neikirk, a nationally recognized journalist and author who got his start as a part-time sports reporter on […]

Photos by Lisa Bicknell The Monarch Waystation behind West Irvine Elementary is full of blooms.  Volunteers with the Four Seasons Garden Club placed name plates at several flowers earlier in the week.  They reported that there are Monarch Butterfly caterpillars on all varieties of milkweed, so butterflies will likely be spotted soon.