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Gov. Andy Beshear announced the National Guard has been alerted, and “our soldiers are standing by with equipment if necessary,” as winter storms rage on in Kentucky.

A crew member with 5 Star Electric LLC works to restore power to a neighborhood in Chesapeake, Ohio, after a winter storm brought a coating of snow and ice to the area on Feb. 11, 2021, the first of three storms to hit the area in one week. Sholten Singer | The Herald-Dispatch

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CATLETTSBURG The Cannonsburg branch of the Boyd County Clerk’s Office is open, Clerk Kevin Johnston told the Fiscal Court Tuesday. Johnston told Judge-Executive Eric Chaney and commissioners Keith Watts, Larry Brown and Randy Stapleton the branch opened Monday in the same building as the Members Choice Credit Union, located on U.S. 60 in the parking lot of the Cannonsburg Walmart. The new branch, a replacement for the now closed KYOVA mall satellite, will be open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. M...

1 of 5 Matt Jones | The Daily Independent Boyd Emergency Medical Services director Charles Cremeans shows off one of the newly acquired respirators in Ashland, Ky, on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. The respirators, which will be worn in conjunction with a mask, create a negative pressure environment for the wearer. The respirators are part of the departments ongoing efforts to keep workers safe in the battle against COVID-19. Matt Jones | The Daily Independent Boyd Emergency ...

CATLETTSBURG Boyd County Fiscal Court is going “to put its money where its mouth is” in terms of economic development, according to Judge-Executive Eric Chaney.

This region of Kentucky has long been in need of large-scale economic development, and it appears the Boyd County Fiscal Court is trying to bring it with its approval of

CATLETTSBURG The Boyd County Clerk announced $300,000 in cost-cutting measures within his first 40 days in office at Tuesday’s fiscal court meeting.

The Boyd County Sheriffs Westwood Branch office on Main Street.KEVIN GOLDY | THE DAILY INDEPENDENT CATLETTSBURG The Boyd County Fiscal Court voted unanimously — although one commissioner expressed his reservations — to reinstate the Sheriff’s substation in Westwood. Boyd County Sheriff Bobby Jack Woods said he was pleased with Tuesday’s move by the fiscal court. Commissioner Randy Stapleton introduced a motion to reopen the substation following a vote on the 2021 sheriffâ€...

CATLETTSBURG A new animal shelter, public park revamps, a remodel of the convention center and a proposal to house the majority of county government services under one roof are among the many trailblazing projects the Boyd County Fiscal Court laid out at a Thursday work session. In a continuation of the wish list Judge-Executive Eric Chaney rattled off at the last Fiscal Court meeting, commissioners dove into the nitty-gritty of the proposed projects and the financing behind it. Perhaps the big...