Page 29 - Eric Chaney News Today

1 of 5 Matt Jones | The Daily Independent Kenny Messer, Boyd County grants project manager, points to what will become the start of a 10-mile mountain bike trail at Armco Park. The plans also include a tent camping area and an amphitheater in the park to increase visitors. Matt Jones | The Daily Independent Kenny Messer, Boyd County grants project manager, looks at what will become the trailhead of a 10-mile mountain bike trail at Armco Park. The plans also include a ten...

I am writing this to thank all the great people of Boyd County during the ice storm — God almighty, the people at the warming center, Justin Pruitt, our Judge-Executive Eric Chaney — who plowed snow and cut trees with the awesome roads crew 24/7 — Boyd County Sheriff’s Department, National Guard, AEP, my neighbor Lori Stewart and her husband. Boyd County’s roads department was awesome. They had to work in extreme weather — ice, snow and falling trees — wh...

CATLETTSBURG Estimated FEMA damage to the county is $3.5 million in the wake of last month’s ice storms, Boyd County Judge-Executive Eric Chaney said Tuesday.

Boyd County issued a Declaration of Emergency on Wednesday in a special meeting of the Boyd County Fiscal Court.

1 of 7 Matt Jones | The Daily Independent Canadian Geese rest on a walkway at The Port of Ashland on Tuesday. Floodwaters were feet below the parking lot and the statues at the port on Tuesday afternoon. Matt Jones | The Daily Independent A Canadian Goose rests on a walkway at The Port of Ashland on Tuesday. Floodwaters were feet below the parking lot at the port on Tuesday afternoon. Matt Jones | The Daily Independent Canadian Geese rest on at The Port of Ashland on Tue...

Unity Aluminum Unity Aluminum CEO Don Foster talks about the future of the company in the headquarters conference room in July. AARON SNYDER | THE DAILY INDEPENDENT ASHLAND Given a granted extension request for the state to keep its investment in Unity Aluminum — formerly Braidy Industries — is the proposed mill at EastPark a boom or a bust? In a recent letter to Commonwealth Seed Capital LLC — the state’s startup investment fund — acquired and first reported by WDRBâ�...

1 of 6 CANNONSBURG All up and down Johnson Fork, the trees are snapped and leaning – the ditches are plumb full of hacked limbs and trunks. With a plow on the front of his truck and salt shooting out of the auger in the rear — scattering it on the road — Sean Maroudis expertly drives down the ice-covered road. Dressed in Carhartt bibbed overalls, Maroudis is a stout, strong man with a dark salt-and-pepper beard — while he worked 19 years an ICU nur...

ASHLAND — Two people in Boyd County have died from hypothermia, coroner Mark Hammond said Friday.

Power was restored to nearly 2 million homes even as 13 million Texans were under boil-water advisories.

With two reported deaths of hypothermia in Boyd County, area officials are warning folks about the dangers of hypothermia and carbon monoxide poisoning in this cold and bitter series of