Perry County Archives

Beshear helps raise walls on new Eastern KY housing, announces $36 million in community investments

April 27, 2025April 26, 20250

Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday joined local leaders to help raise the walls on one of five new homes being…

November 13, 2023November 15, 20230

By Wayne Onkst Special to NKyTribune In the mid 1940s, as Kentucky celebrated its 150th birthday, University of Kentucky faculty…

February 22, 2021February 21, 20210

The March 1 deadline for accepting applications for relocation of the historic Kenmont Bridge in Perry County is near, so…

December 20, 2020December 19, 20200

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is looking for a new Kentucky home for an old Kentucky bridge. The state plans to…

October 23, 2020October 20, 20200

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth article is a series about Kentucky’s major reservoirs. Buckhorn Lake is in Perry and…

September 12, 2019September 11, 20190

By Ron Daley Special to NKyTribune It all began with Ollie Stacy cooking a goose for Thanksgiving in 1935 in…

August 18, 2019August 25, 20190

(Editor’s note: The numbers in this story have been updated by the Governor’s office since the original announcement.) Gov. Matt…

September 2, 2018September 1, 20180

Honoring the service of Kentucky’s heroes and accomplishing one of her major goals as Kentucky’s chief elections official, Secretary of…

March 18, 2018March 17, 20180

There is much more to the quality of life in your community than the determinations by socio-economic data such as…

November 7, 2017November 6, 20170

I just returned from a trip to Hazard, in Perry County, where I interviewed District Court Judge Leigh Anne Stephens,…

November 9, 20160

The Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH), within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, is issuing a Public Health Alert…