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Crews from Illinois are staged at Pike Central High School. An extra 300 line workers, for a total of about 1,600, were brought to the area to help with power restoration from the second ice storm to move through Kentucky Powerâs territory.
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The latest wave of winter storms has left in its wake a devastating number of power outages in our area.Â
According to Kentucky Power, there are 58,000 AEP customers without power â 4,000 of those customers are from the original storm on Feb. 11.
A second storm hit Monday, bringing a mixture of ice, sleet and snow blanketing the entire Kentucky Power service territory, according to an AEP press release.
ELIZABETHTON â All city and county roads remain open in Elizabethton and Carter County following a snow storm that hit the region on Tuesday.
Both Superintendent Roger Colbuagh of the Carter County Highway Department and Director Danny Hilbert of the Elizabethton Department of Streets and Sanitation said they had few machine breakdowns and both said they will be ordering salt for the first time in two years after last winter turned out to be a mild one in which salt was rarely needed.
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Hilbert said he has already received some shipments of salt from Knoxvilleto start his replenishment of his stores. Colbaugh said he still has a large bin of salt, but his department mixes salt with small stones, called chat, and he will have to mix up new stockpiles of that as well as order more salt.
ELIZABETHTON â Austin Jaynes took over the chairmanship of the Budget Committee of the Carter County Commission at the start of the committeeâs monthly meeting on Monday. It was the latest personnel change on the county commission since the death of Mayor Rusty Barnett in September.
These changes have including County Commission Chairwoman Patty Woodby taking the mayorâs position for the remaining two years of Barnettâs term
The latest change came Monday when Travis Hill said he would step down as chair of the Budget Committee because he had replaced Woodby as chairman of the County Commission.
With Hill stepping down as chair, vice chair Austin Jaynes became the new chairman of the Budget Committee. Ross Garland was then elected by acclamation to be the vice chair. Garland had previously served as chairman of the committee.