New nursing teacher Sharae Collins believes in communication and she wants her students to ask questions and explore. “I’m a very communicative teacher,” noted the Hazard Community and Technical College faculty member, who began Sept. 1 at the college where she graduated from in 2017. In addition to good communication, Collins stresses to her students […]
Month: February 2023
Transportation Cabinet makes plans to repair, reopen Mountain Parkway
Westbound lanes near Powell-Wolfe line closed since late July due to sinkhole beneath the pavement JACKSON, Ky. – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is moving forward with efforts to repair and reopen a section of the Mountain Parkway in Powell County near the Wolfe County line. The westbound lanes of this vital transportation artery for eastern Kentucky have […]
US 460 in Morgan County to be closed for bridge repairs beginning Sept. 21
Replacement of deck, beams planned for Robin Holbrook Memorial Bridge at White Oak JACKSON, Ky. – Drivers who use US 460 at White Oak in Morgan County will have to find an alternate route beginning Monday, Sept. 21. The bridge crossing White Oak Creek at milepoint 25.45 will be closed for up to 60 days for repairs. […]
GED Plus student earns CNA through Skills U
“All you have to do is set your mind to it, and then do it.” That is advice Vicky Amburgey would give others and what she did herself. She enrolled in the GED Plus program, part of KY Skills U, located at Hazard Community and Technical College (HCTC). She is proud of the steps she […]
Scott J. Lucero scholarship created at HCTC
Hazard Community and Technical College is pleased to announce the establishment of the Scott J. Lucero Endowed Scholarship Fund. Scott taught at HCTC for 27 years, beginning his teaching career in 1992 at HCC as a Professor of English. He was the founder of Evening with Poets, an annual celebration of poetry and writing at HCTC. During […]
Meca Chiong Arocha joins HCTC nursing faculty
Hazard Community and Technical College welcomes Meca Chiong Arocha to the nursing faculty. She brings with her emergency room, medical surgical, telemetry, obstetric, labor and delivery and critical care nursing experience. Arocha is fulfilling her lifelong dream of teaching, after working 14 years in a hospital. “I am so excited to share the clinical knowledge I have gained. […]
KSP Conducting Fatal Collision Investigation in Letcher County
Making, KY. (August 31, 2020) – On Monday, August 31, 2020, at approximately 10:00 AM, Troopers from Post 13 responded to a two vehicle collision in the Mayking community of Letcher County. Preliminary investigation indicates David Day, 30, of Whitesburg, was operating a 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer south on US 119 when his vehicle crossed into the northbound lanes. […]
KSP Conducting Death Investigation in Knott County
Leburn, KY. (August 31, 2020) – On Saturday, August 29, 2020, at approximately 9:45 PM Kentucky State Police (KSP) in Hazard received a 911 call from the Leburn community in Knott County. The caller reported locating a female with apparent gunshot wounds inside a residence on Possum Trot Rd. Upon arrival of Troopers from Post 13 and […]
KSP Conducts Death Investigation in Jackson County
Sandgap, KY. (August 31, 2020) – The Kentucky State Police, Richmond Post was contacted by Jackson County Dispatch at 5:00 pm yesterday, after receiving a report of a woman who had been shot on Gravel Lick Rd, in Sandgap. KSP Troopers responded to the scene where they encountered a man, who was armed with a gun. […]
Whitesburg Woman Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft
LONDON, Ky. – A Whitesburg, Ky., woman, Sherry Thomas, 50, pleaded guilty on Thursday, before U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, admitting to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to her plea agreement, Thomas was employed as the office manager and bookkeeper for the Carbon River Coal Corporation, from the 1980s until January 2019. While […]