Elliott County News Archives

A helium filled balloon is blasted apart by a shotgun round, spreading pure American Chestnut pollen into the canopy of a "Mother" tree in Elliott County.

Floyd Willis didn't count on performing shotgun weddings when he got into forestry.

Homeplace on Green River gets Kentucky Arts Council grant ColumbiaMagazine.com special story from Kentucky Arts Council FRANKFORT, KY -- The Kentucky Arts Council awarded Extensions and the Arts grants to 10 County Cooperative Extension Service programs of the University of Kentucky.

Floyd Willis uses a .20-gauge shotgun in late June to burst a helium and pollen filled balloon in the the canopy of an American Chestnut tree in Elliott County.

COMING SUNDAY: Framed by the branches of a pure American chestnut survivor in Elliott Ccounty, Floyd Willis checks the upper canopy for flowers in Elliott County as part of an effort to bring back the 'perfect tree." Photos COMING SUNDAY: Framed by the branches of a pure American chestnut tree in Elliott Ccounty, Floyd Willis checks the upper ...

A day of fun turned tragic in Elliott County on Tuesday as a man drowned while swimming with his family.

A 24-year-old Mexican man drowned Tuesday afternoon at Grayson Lake, according to Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife authorities.

An Ohio woman is dead as the result of a motorcycle accident in Elliott County Thursday evening.

An Elliott County man faces up to 30 years in a federal prison after pleading guilty recently to selling oxycodone to an undercover informant.

A group of rising seniors walked through a large room dominated by a metal printing press strung with spools of paper on Tuesday.

A man and a woman were killed Wednesday in a one-vehicle accident in Elliott County.

It took less than three hours Monday for a jury to find Charles F. Howard guilty of first-degree rape against a female prisoner he transported in August from Sandy Hook to Boyd County.