Recent News

By Eugenia Jones According to this week’s Lake Cumberland District Health Department’s (LCDHD) daily news briefs as of Tuesday night, McCreary County added 61 new active cases of COVID-19 this week for a total of 76 active cases.  Forty-nine of the new cases were listed on Monday with twelve new cases listed on Tuesday.  As…

By Eugenia Jones [email protected] The McCreary County Animal Protection League (MCAPL) and the Pulaski County-based Hope for All Pets (HAPI), a volunteer, nonprofit animal rescue and mobile spay/neuter clinic, have some good news for McCreary County pet owners. The two organizations are now partnering together to provide reduced cost spay/neuter clinics for pets in McCreary…

Berea, KY – Lindsey Meade of McCreary County Library has been selected as one of 22 Rural Library Fellows by Partners for Education and Save the Children. The Rural Library Fellowship is an initiative designed to improve third grade reading outcomes in rural communities. Research indicates that children who have not mastered the mechanics of…

Marlene Taylor from the Lake Cumberland Community Action Agency brought an A-ROC kiosk to the library today. The kiosk provides patrons with connections to various community resources. Ms. Taylor is pictured with Grady Wilson, Library Director. “The purpose of the resource kiosk is to provide citizens of McCreary County easy access to resources within the…

Byron Crawford-Courier Journal-April 23, 1990 Submitted by McCreary County Museum There is a 300-million-year-old story behind the sandstone tree stump that sits in the front yard of McCreary County’s Stearns Museum. Last summer, a surface-mining company working in Tennessee near the Kentucky line unearthed the two-ton stump buried about 30 feet underground.  It measures slightly…

District looks at offering limited virtual option alongside in-person classes By Eugenia Jones [email protected] Instead of returning to classes today as anticipated, students and staff got a reprieve when the McCreary County Board of Education voted during a special called meeting on Monday to amend the 2021/22 school calendar by postponing the first day of…

By Eugenia Jones During the regular August Fiscal Court meeting, members of the McCreary County Fiscal Court voted to approve Resolution 21812-1 regarding consent to Assignment of Franchise.  Their vote allowed Roy Baker with Access Cable to transfer the Access Cable franchise to Charter Communications.  At the age of 70 and after 50 years in…

Tourism Director implements strategies locally By Eugenia Jones Michelle Perry, who has been Director of the McCreary County Tourist Commission for three years, earned one of four scholarships awarded by the Kentucky Wildlands to attend Southeast Tourism Society Marketing College earlier this summer in Macon, Georgia.  The Kentucky Wildlands scholarship program covered Perry’s cost of…

U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05) joined state and local officials in McCreary County last week to break ground on Cumberland Family Medical Center’s new First Choice medical complex in Whitley City, which will create approximately 50 new jobs. In addition to serving as an immediate care facility, the comprehensive clinic will provide x-rays, CT…

Photo by Eugenia Jones On Monday, the Big South Fork Scenic Railway ran a special excursion train allowing local, state, and federal friends and officials to see the progress made on the railway and in Stearns.  Numerous people rode the train with its newly renovated cars and improved railway.  Among those attending were:  (left to…