Evarts News

Increasing costs for maintaining their water plant brought heated remarks from council members during the regular monthly meeting of the Evarts City Council on Tuesday.

Three young men have been indicted by a Harlan County Grand Jury for their alleged actions in vandalizing the Evarts High School building in October.

When a Evarts man appeared in Harlan Circuit Court on Thursday for a pre-trial conference in an assault case, he was served with a new indictment with a charge that included wanton murder.

DEBBIE CALDWELL/Harlan Daily Enterprise After a week-long investigation by the Evarts Police Department, the Harlan County Sheriffa s Office and the Kentucky State Police, officers arrested Billy Joe Middleton, 55, of Ages, on Thursday, and charged him with the murder of Polly Jones, 41, of Evarts.

Christmas is in the air. In anticipation of the holiday, parades and other events will be held in three different parts of the county.

A small town mayor is asking for some big help. Evarts mayor Burl Fee wants road improvements for his community... it might be a small town, but it's a big connector for coal trucks.

During a recent Evarts City Council meeting, Mayor Burl Fee expressed frustration over not getting enough help from several elected officials regarding blacktop funding for the city of Evarts.

NOLA SIZEMORE/Harlan Daily Enterprise Sarah Stone entertained community children and K-4 students from the Harlan County Christian Academy during story hour at the Harlan County Public Library.

Concern over lack of public attendance was the focus of an Evarts City Council meeting held Tuesday.

The Harlan County Board of Education dealt with several issues this week with a special called meeting on Monday and regular session meeting Thursday.

Emergency personnel from several agencies participated in swiftwater training over the weekend at the Martins Fork Dam area.

Skye Pruitt and two others have been indicted by a Harlan County Grand Jury for their alleged involvement in the Save-A-Lot store robbery that occurred on July 2. Evarts Police Department officer Michael Lunsford executed three indictment warrants Saturday after nearly a three-month investigation of the robbery.

With two confirmed cases of H1N1 in Harlan County, and the start of the regular flu season, Harlan County Schools will be closing for the remainder of the week due to low attendance.

After 32 years of development and stops and starts, the Portal 31 exhibition mine of Harlan County is set to open Saturday.

On 9/23/2009 at 3:10 p.m. Troopers from Kentucky State Police Post 10 Harlan and Detectives from the Kentucky State Police Cannabis Suppression Unit responded to a complaint received about marijuana being grown near a residence in the community of Jones's Creek near Evarts, KY.

For the third year the Harlan County School System remains in Tier 3 status, even though the district met 92.3 percent of the goals set for the district by federal guidelines set up by the No Child Left Behind Act.

For the second time in less than a month, several inmates at a Harlan County jail are facing charges after officials find contraband in their system.

Carla Day was arrested late Thursday night by Harlan County sheriffa s Sgt. David Williams and deputy Josh Howard for her alleged connection in bringing prescription drugs into the Harlan County Detention Center and giving them to inmates.

Harlan City Police Department officers responded to a two-vehicle crash on the U.S. 421 bypass Tuesday that sent one man to the hospital.

Cumberland High School closed just more than a year ago after Cumberland, Evarts, and Cawood High Schools consolidated into the new Harlan County High School.