Burnside News

Joanne Golden Hill, a Burnside resident with deep roots in the community, spent last week in Washington D.C. with the Alliance for Appalachia group, which bills themselves as "a regional coalition" dedicated to ending the practice of coal mining by mountaintop removal.

After the tragic events late last year in Newtown, Conn., Pulaski County Schools Superin-tendent Steve Butcher felt compelled to take action.

An already prepared redistricting plan that divides Pulaski County into four instead of five House districts will be used if Gov.

Somerset City Council has given first-reading approval to an ordinance that would establish a Somerset Tourist and Travel Commission and levy a 1 percent transient tax on guests at lodging places in the city.

A group announced Thursday that it will seek funding for a study to look at the pros and cons of merging Pulaski County and four municipal governments into one.