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Those on the front lines of food pantries and food banks in the Ohio Valley are trying to meet the ballooning demand, though they expect to see more hunger and need in the months ahead.
Fulton County is among the first wave of rural communities included in a network created by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase access to government resources.
In the nearly four months since December’s tornado outbreak, the Fulton County community of Cayce has been hard at work making progress toward recovery.
The old Cayce High School building stood on a hill overlooking State Route 94 in Fulton County for 85 years. It was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1936, and destroyed by a tornado in December 2022. Now, it’s nothing more than a concrete foundation and a few partial walls.
Counties in western Kentucky are forming long-term recovery groups made of local volunteers to help rebuild at the community level after December’s deadly tornado outbreak.