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The Mayfield City Council approved a motion on Monday to begin rezoning a section of their downtown severely impacted by the December 2021 tornado outbreak.
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It’s been one year since a historic and deadly tornado outbreak swept through western Kentucky, and a Marshall County group hopes to make Saturday a day of reverence.
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More than six months after the December tornado outbreak, many western Kentucky residents are looking for mental health resources to help them navigate the trauma caused by the disaster.
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A group focused on guiding the future of Mayfield as it rebuilds after the December tornado outbreak through community voices met Monday night to discuss their goals and next steps of their work.
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Dresden, Tennessee, lies just a little more than 30 miles south of Mayfield. The town of less than 3,000 people was hit by the same highly destructive and deadly storm system that devastated the Graves County community in December.
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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.
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Substance-use disorder is a crippling epidemic for many communities in the region. The National Association of Counties reported that in 2017, the opioid overdose death rate was 72% higher in Appalachian counties than in non-Appalachian counties.
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Of more than 3.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, more than a million people have recovered — including some 154,000 in the U.S.
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There were 195,000 jobs added to payrolls last month, but the unemployment rate was 7.6 percent. That was unchanged from May.