It all started with the school food drive and wanting to keep their community healthy. Students at Cecil B. Rigsby Elementary decided to take action proposing a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) project to help them achieve a goal to help their community. They brainstormed about the needs of the community and what they could…

The long-awaited opening of the newly constructed Pikeville Seventh-day Adventist Church has arrived. On Saturday, April 11, at 11:00 a.m., the community is invited to join the Consecration of the Church. For over 100 years, the old white building at 52 Cumberland Avenue served the community until May of 2022. The cost to renovate the…

As Pikeville Volunteer Fire Department celebrates its 80 years of service, many historical highlights have made the department stronger over the years. It all stared in early 1946 when fires destroyed several downtown buildings. Those events spurred a group of community leaders to start the department. By July 1946, the department had obtained firefighting equipment…

A Pikeville man facing multiple drug offenses, plus firearms and counterfeit money charges was among the 33 indictments returned by the Bledsoe County Grand Jury last week. Jurors indicted 100-percent of the cases presented. A 10-count indictment was returned against Eric Wayne Walters, 28, of Pikeville. His charges stem from an alleged drug operation in…