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Lunar New Year celebration to be held this Sunday

Did you know it's almost the Year of the Dragon?

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Library facing questions about removal of Juneteenth display

With Juneteenth just around the corner, the Pulaski County Public Library is taking heat for removing a display in honor of the new federal holiday.

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Diversity in dishes shows how Pulaski has progressed

Following dinner with my folks Thursday night at Mirch Masala, this community’s newest (and yummy) Indian restaurant, I stepped out onto the sidewalk of the Tradewind Center facing the sunset

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Fiscal Court splits on budget votes

As expected, Pulaski County Fiscal Court heard the first reading of the 2022-23 county budget draft at Tuesday's regular meeting.

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Juneteenth Festival this Saturday celebrates freedom, new national holiday


By Christopher Harris
Commonwealth Journal
Jun 17, 2021
Last year, things were different.
The situations involving individuals like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor made for a solemn and unsettled mood. Voices to be heard, things to be said. Somerset held a charette in observance of Juneteenth — a public gathering to work things out, discuss important issues, and work together for a solution.
But to everything there is a season. Last year's Juneteenth was a season for somber reflection. This year is a season for joy.
This Saturday, Somerset will play host to its first Juneteenth Festival, ushering in a new era both for the community and for America itself.

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Local artist removed from Juneteenth event over slurs

A local artist scheduled to participate in the upcoming Juneteenth event in Somerset will not be doing so after a video recording of him making insensitive comments has come to

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Diversity and inclusion: God's Will


May 12, 2021
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I read a great article in the Saturday paper. It was about the forming of the Lake Cumberland Diversity Council. I thought it was inspiring, and it gave me cause to look into the word of God for affirmation the purpose and intent.
An epiphanic moment occurred during a moment of silence, in the pouring rain at the 2020 Juneteenth gathering. During the calm chaos of the moment, Pryor, one of the founders of the Council, said that it came to her that this is something a lot of people not only wanted but needed. Rikijah Pryor, along with Kathy Townsend and Jakaye Garth are the founding members.

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Lake Cumberland Diversity Council works to bring community together


By Christopher Harris
Commonwealth Journal
May 8, 2021
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Kathy Townsend (far left) and JaKaye Garth (in the foreground), seen speaking here at this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event in Somerset, are two of the founders of the Lake Cumberland Diversity Council, along with Rikiyah Pryor.
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In his 1963 commencement address at American University, the late President John F. Kennedy famously said, “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
Here in Somerset — thanks to the tumultuous summer of 2020 — local people are working on making this community at least, if not the world itself, safer for its own diversity to flourish.

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March in downtown Somerset remembers Dr. King's legacy | News


By Christopher Harris
Commonwealth Journal
Jan 18, 2021
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The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march in downtown Somerset took participants from Davis Chapel AME church on Main Street around the Fountain Square and ultimately the the Citizens National Bank Pavilion on East Mt. Vernon Street.
Over 100 people took part in Monday’s MLK Day event, including the march and the gathering for Dr. King’s words at the Citizens National Bank Pavilion, where the Lake Cumberland Farm- ers’ Market is held.
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“I am so happy that I didn’t sneeze.” 
A well-populated crowd gathered inside the Citizens National Bank Pavilion in downtown Somerset on Monday, bundled up from chilly weather. Over their faces, almost every person wore a face mask with the coronavirus in mind — living in an era where a sneeze can seem a suspicious thing. And as they stood, they listened to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from April of 1968, the famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, in which King recalled battling an illness as a youth where a simple sneeze could have threatened his life, and a letter he received from a young admirer grateful that he did not succumb to a fatal sneeze.

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