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  The McCreary Central-Garrard County football game scheduled for Friday, Oct. 2 has been canceled. The high school football matchup was canceled due to COVID-19. It is Garrard County’s second canceled game thus far in the 2020 high school football season. It was unclear at press time if the high school football matchup would be…

  Voice Staff Report [email protected] McCreary County has moved into the Red/Critical transmission level of community spread as 15 new cases were reported on Monday and Tuesday, bringing the County’s total number of active cases to 44 with two hospitalized. This level of transmission affects not only businesses but the planned re-opening of schools. McCreary…

Parents must choose distance learning or in-person classes for their children. By Eugenia Jones [email protected] The McCreary County Board of Education met earlier this week to approve a School Reopening Plan enabling students to tentatively return to in-person classes on Monday, October 12, 2020. Noting the McCreary County School District and Health Department have worked…

Batman made a surprise visit to the delight of lunch time diners at the Santa Fe Restaurant on Wednesday. “Batman” Ashley Moore, employed at the McCreary County Extension Office, explained why she was in costume, “Times are hard and people are down, why not put a smile on their face.” Ashley is also responsible for…

County foots bill for released federal prisoners awaiting extradition.   By Eugenia Jones [email protected] With a strapped budget and no local jail, McCreary County can definitely do without the added expenditure of paying for the care of federal prisoners released from USP McCreary with outstanding warrants for their arrest from other counties and states. Yet,…

Department of Labor officials send OVC employees home for not wearing masks. By Eugenia Jones [email protected] Work temporarily came to a grinding halt at the Outdoor Venture Corporation (OVC) Central Plant in Stearns on Monday when officials from the Kentucky Department of Labor showed up to review the facility’s implementation of COVID-19 guidelines and procedures.…

Voice Staff Report [email protected] Answering a call to Lick Creek Road late Wednesday night, September 16, 2020, McCreary Sheriff’s Department Deputy Stuart Bryant, Sheriff Randy Waters and KSP Trooper Keegan Bray responded to a complaint of people in a yard. Trooper Bray located four people in the roadway and the officers were questioning them when…

Voice Staff Report [email protected] Shortly after midnight Sunday morning Deputy Greg Chaney observed a white Altima driving erratically, crossing the center line several times on east US Hwy 92 and pulled the car over. McCreary County Sheriff Randy Waters and Kentucky State Police Trooper Harrison Wells joined Deputy Chaney at his location on Davis Hill,…

Voice Staff Report [email protected] The McCreary County Grand Jury met on August 25, 2020 and indicted Elizabeth Griffis of Stearns, KY on five counts of sexual abuse of a minor. The indictment states that on or about November 7, 2019 and on November 21, 2019 in Wayne County, KY Elizabeth Griffiths committed the offense of…

  Photo by Eugenia Jones McCreary County Sheriff Randy Waters and Deputy Stuart Bryant were on patrol Thursday evening when they noticed two huge marijuana plants growing near a mobile home located on Old Cal Hill Road in Pine Knot. The two plants, well over six feet tall, were cut down. Officers charged Daniel Lay…