Large group officially sworn in at Bourbon County Courthouse by Pat Conley/Citizen staff Some sixty elected and appointed officials were sworn into office on New Year’s Eve at the Bourbon County courthouse. It took about 45 minutes Saturday morning to successively process the various officials. Each promised to uphold Kentucky’s constitution and to affirm that…

Kentucky on track to have worst flu season in at least 10 years FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 19, 2022) – Today, Gov. Andy Beshear encouraged Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the flu and reported six new, flu-related pediatric deaths, including three in the past week. This toll already meets the prior record for the highest number…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky is a site for the groundbreaking AHEAD study, the first-ever clinical trial to test the effect of lecanemab (investigational antibody) in people who have no cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but in whom biomarker tests indicate amyloid is present in the brain, known as “preclinical” AD. The AHEAD study is…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map With national rates of influenza, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus rising together, the “dreaded and much anticipated triple-demic is finally here,” epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina writes in her newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist.  RSV is a common virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms. And while most people recover in a week or…

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, has died By KRISTIN M. HALL – AP Entertainment Writer Oct 4, 2022     NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out…

Queen visited Bourbon County twice… PAT CONLEY | Citizen Staff Canadian native Dr. Murray West of Paris vividly remembers the first time he ever saw Queen Elizabeth, II of England. “I was six years old, in Vancouver,” he described in an interview last week, only a few days after the passing of the monarch beloved…

By TOM LATEK, | Kentucky Today Sep 20, 2022   FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – Giving home-schooled students the chance to earn the same amount of Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES) money as is available to students who attend high school, was discussed at a legislative committee meeting on Tuesday. Sen. John Schickel, R-Union, told the…

One out of seven Kentucky high school students report having seriously considered taking their own life, and suicide is the second leading cause of death for teens and young adults in Kentucky. Kentucky Educational Television is airing a forum that examines teen and young-adult suicide in the state and how to prevent it. “Youth Mental Health:…

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News   The new, updated Covid-19 booster shots that target the original strain of the coronavirus and major Omicron subvariants is now available The Food and Drug Administration authorized the updated booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech on Wednesday, Aug. 31. They are called bivalent Covid-19 vaccines because they have two…

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the number of American with monkeypox increases every day, so far only 18 of them have been reported in Kentucky. Monkeypox was declared a public health emergency in the U.S. on Aug. 4. On Aug. 18, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 18 cases of monkeypox in Kentucky, among…