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Richardson joins staff

April 3, 2015 by admin

The Citizen Voice and Times is pleased to welcome Jeff Richardson to the staff. He was hired to work in the advertising department where he will be helping with classifieds and learning ad design. Jeff is married to Rosenda, and they live in Ravenna.  He has a son, Hunter, who is 21 years old, and […]

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Earth can’t afford to keep supporting our consumerist society as it now exists, Prince Charles tells Louisville audience

March 27, 2015 by admin

Previously published in Kentucky Health News This is the transcript of The Prince of Wales’s speech at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, following an introduction by Wendell Berry (subheads added). Ladies and gentlemen, it has been an immense pleasure to spend our last day in the United States here in Louisville, guided by a […]

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These are not your grand-daddy’s oil wells

February 20, 2015 by admin

When I was a kid growing up in the sixties and seventies, the sound of the steady clack-et-y-clack of a couple of oil wells operating up the holler from us provided an intermittent sound track to our  days. We lived beside a narrow little graveled road.  The oil men mostly drove pickup trucks to the […]

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Parting with mineral rights? Please think long and hard

January 26, 2015 by admin

by Lisa Bicknell CVT Editor Recent news of land companies buying up mineral rights with intentions to “frack” in Madison and Estill Counties has set off ripples of alarm among many citizens. Landowners need to be aware of what they could be getting themselves—and their neighbors–into if they do lease their mineral rights. Drilling for […]

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Oil and gas exploration nothing new

January 23, 2015 by admin

“Oil men searching for new pools, additional capitalists and operators coming in by the scores: many big deals brewing. The in-rush of capitalists and operators from all parts of the Union has been particularly noticeable the past few days.” The news quotation is from The Irvine Sun, spring 1916.  The decade of 1910-1919 was a […]

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Letter to the editor

January 16, 2015 by admin

The students and teachers, the administrators and the service workers of the Estill County School System deserve praise for working hard in their roles. But equally deserving of praise are the members of the district’s Board of Education, not only for their work but for their leadership. L.W. Beckley, Jonathan Bicknell, Patricia Hood, Robbie Starling […]

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Worry is futile, so seize the day

January 16, 2015 by admin

2015: How do you like the sound of that?  And can you believe that it’s already been 15 years since the Y2K scare when civilization as we know it was supposed to come crashing down? There’s a lesson to be learned here.  Don’t cave to alarmist thinking, which is easy to do if you watch […]

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Have you suffered from denial?

December 26, 2014 by admin

Allow me to ask you a question. Have you ever done something and then denied it? Maybe you denied it for so long that you even started to believe it yourself. After you deny something for awhile you get comfortable in it. You just settle right down in your pig pen and start to roll […]

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Trivialities pale in face of real problems

November 21, 2014 by admin

by Lisa Bicknell CVT Editor Admittedly, there are frustrations to this job.  Printing dates roll around quickly, and we have to throw content on the page in a hurry. I sometimes make mistakes, and that bothers me. However, I attended a meeting last week that put typos and such trivialities in proper perspective. I left […]

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Local elections important as the big ones

October 31, 2014 by admin

For the past several months, my inbox has been flooded daily with emails from the Grimes and McConnell campaigns. Millions of dollars-enough to build schools, fund scholarships, feed many hungry and house hundreds of homeless-have been spent on Kentucky’s senatorial race. If I hear the words, “War on Coal” one more time, I think I […]

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