Disconnected
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Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Published
3:28 pm UTC Jun. 9, 2021
McKee, Ky. - Matt and Jennifer Muncy were dangerously close to becoming homeless.
They had lost their livelihood when a local factory sent work to Mexico. They barely subsisted on a string of low-paying jobs that followed.
Raising their four children in a part of Appalachia with a median annual household income barely above $32,000 about half the national average had become as lonely as McKee s single traffic light.
“We were literally at a point where we were done,” Matt said, tears welling up in his eyes. “We had each other, and as God is my witness, that’s the one thing which kept me going.”
8 June 2021, Kilmarnock, Scotland: Iceland’s Ragnhildur Kristinsdóttir recorded the lowest round of the week to finish as the leading qualifier for the match play stage of The 118th Women’s Amateur Championship at Kilmarnock (Barassie).
Kristinsdóttir signed for a seven-under-par 66, eight shots better than her opening round of one-over-par, to top the leaderboard on six-under-par total of 140.
The Icelander, who holds the best stroke average in Eastern Kentucky University history, recorded eight birdies on the 1st, 3rd, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th holes and a lone bogey at the par-4 16th.
From a starting field of almost 100 players aged from 13 to 58, the 23-year-old Icelandic talent leads the top 64 players into the match play stage starting tomorrow.
Three Boyd County students — Sara Bays, Sydney Kinnel and Abby Meek — were selected to join high school students from across southern and eastern Kentucky this summer for the