Westwood News

The Westwood Volunteer Fire Department celebrated 60 years of service to the community with an open house on Saturday.

A series of criminal acts including daylight burglaries of homes and vehicles has caused residents of rural Boyd County areas to band together with Sheriff Terry Keelin to create a new method of keeping track of what's happening around them.

There will be plenty of activity in the area behind the Fairview High School gymnasium Thursday evening.

The following information was taken from Ashland Police Department reports: Theft < A woman living in Gla-Lo Apartments on Friday reported the theft of an unspecified item valued at $947. < A woman living in the 1700 block of Delaware Street on Thursday reported the theft of tools valued at $1,350. < Penn Station, 116 Sixth St., reported the theft ...

A waterline break on Iowa Street placed the entire community of Westwood under a boil water advisory on Thursday.

This has been an unusual week in the sense that I could write this entire column about nothing but new hair salons.

I enjoyed a late dinner at Rajah's Family Restaurant at the Meade Station along U.S. 60, and spent a few minutes talking with owner Ron Elliott, who is convinced the nation's economic problems just might be too great or any single president to overcome.

The steps up to William Van Deren's house were piled with fluffy white pillows, boxes of diapers and containers filled with toiletries around noon on Tuesday.

Heavy rain deluged Boyd County on Saturday evening washing out roadways and flooding numerous homes.

The Boyd County Sheriff's Department arrested five on burglary charges Sunday. Three teenage men, a 17-year-old female and an 18-year-old Ashland woman were arrested for their suspected roles in nine burglaries in Westwood and Ironville.

Video by John Flavell/The Independent Thirty-eight volunteer firefighters ran into a burning building Tuesday afternoon - five times.

Much of Ashland lost water pressure Tuesday after a valve near the city water plant broke, said public works director Marion Russell.

Three American heroes will pass through Kentucky on Tuesday en route to their final resting places.

If the efforts of members of the Cannonsburg Optimist Club are successful, the Boyd County War Memorial in Armco Park will look much different on Veteran's Day on Nov, 11 than it does today.

A last-minute food gathering effort for an office lunch last week provided an opportunity to visit the deli at Jack's South Ashland Cardinal Market in search of Ashland's best cole slaw.