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  • Russell graduation Thursday

    Russell High School will have its graduation at 7 p.m. Thursday in the high school gymnasium.

    May 21, 2013

  • Fun with paint after a hard week

    After a week of state testing, one local elementary rewarded their fifth graders with a surprise visit from the Pottery Place. Oakview Elementary students were able to design and paint a ceramic tile with the help of instructors.

     

    May 21, 2013

  • Work on Judd Plaza flagpole base begins

    A group of third generation bricklayers is more than willing to give back to the Ashland community this week.

    May 21, 2013

  • Ashland man arrested on heroin charges

    An Ashland man was arrested Monday night on charges of trafficking in heroin, according to a release from the Ashland Police Department.

    May 21, 2013

  • toronado2.jpg Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twister

    Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and those numbers were expected to climb, officials said Tuesday.

    May 21, 2013 1 Photo

  • Principal's demotion hearing to be public

    An appeal hearing for demoted Wurtland Elementary School principal Barbara Cook will be open to the public at Cook’s request.

    May 21, 2013

  • AT&T to hire 140 workers at East Park

    For the next few months, AT&T officials have announced they will hire 20 people per month until they have filled 140 customer-service positions at the East Park Call Center in the industrial park between Grayson and Ashland.

    May 21, 2013

  • Boards close to agreement on students

    The Greenup and Russell school districts are close to an agreement on families that want to send their children to school out of their own district.

    May 21, 2013

  • Memory Days to start Thursday

    Memory Days volunteers invite everyone to “Come to Grayson to remember and be remembered,” during this year’s 43rd annual festival Thursday through Sunday.
     

    May 20, 2013

  • Man arrested for using forged checks

    The following information was taken from Ashland Police Department reports:
     

    May 20, 2013

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