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Grant Countians stepped up to help those in Eastern Kentucky after massive flooding. Grant County Sheriff Brian Maines and Clerk Tabatha Clemons are two that have made trips to Eastern Kentucky since the disaster. The sheriff’s department donated two cruisers to Letcher County after Maines saw on Facebook their sheriff’s department lost cars in the flood. “The (Kentucky) Sheriff’s Association put out a request—needs for Eastern Kentucky sheriffs that were affected,” Maines said.

Authorities were continuing to fight a wildfire Sunday evening in the area of Arkansas 35 North and Grant County Road 51, according to the incident commander.

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County elected officials and hospital administrators addressed the closure of Gila Regional Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit during Thursday’s regular meeting of the Grant County Commission — all five members of which have also constituted the hospital’s Governing Board for the past 17 months. Generally speaking, according to hospital administrators, the ICU has been temporarily closed in order to staff Gila Regional’s overwhelmed emergency department. No timeline was given for …