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Each month we dig deep into Pulaski County's past to learn more about violent crimes that impacted our society. We select a murder or a mystery and tell the story in our Hometown Murders & Mysteries blogposts below. We also blog about products that interest us and happenings in our local community.
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M.R. Grigsby
Apr 21, 20232 min read
Rockcastle River Wildlife Management Area opens.
Photo Tommy Baker (C) 2023 With a new announcement in the Spring 2023 issue of Kentucky Afield Magazine. The Kentucky Department of Fish...
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M.R. Grigsby
Apr 21, 20232 min read
Meditation: The Key to Mindfulness and Inner Peace
In today's fast-paced world, stress and anxiety have become common occurrences in our lives. We are constantly juggling between work,...
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M.R. Grigsby
Apr 20, 20235 min read
Product Review: Review of the Christensen Arms Mesa Long Range Rifle .338 Lapua
The Mesa Long Range in 338 Lapua
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M.R. Grigsby
Apr 19, 20234 min read
Ghost of Soules Chapel
Soules Chapel, an abandoned Methodist church, stands about four miles from Somerset, nestled in a valley just off Ky. 80 and a short...
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M.R. Grigsby
Apr 19, 20231 min read
Ferguson Medicine Man, Pylap Medekle
* Photo Courtesy of Rod Zimmerman, Somerset, KY This article was written by Michael R. Grigsby, one of the news editors for LCTI, LLC....
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jrgrigsby
Mar 21, 20232 min read
Hometown Heroes: Somerset Police Chief Silas West
Somerset Police Department, KY EOW: Monday, January 16, 1928 On January 15, 1928, Silas West, the police chief of Somerset, and another...
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jrgrigsby
Mar 18, 20231 min read
Hometown Heroes: Marshal Charlie Wright
End of Watch: November 15, 1926 Marshal Charlie Wright was appointed to office after Hiram Gregory was shot and killed six months prior....
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jrgrigsby
Mar 18, 202311 min read
An Undocumented Serial Killer in Somerset? Possibly.
Hometown Murders and Mysteries | March 2023 Original Image: ©breakermaximus | Adobe Stock • Post Image design: jrgrigsby Murder of a...
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jrgrigsby
Dec 30, 202224 min read
A Christmas Murder at Pulaski County Park
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | December 2022 Original Image (gun): ©zef art | Adobe Stock • Image (orniment): ©Zamurovic Brothers |...
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jrgrigsby
Nov 21, 202215 min read
Small Town Tragedy, Big Time Price. September 1947
The last execution case carried out for Pulaski County Image: ©MR Grigsby | LCTI Publishing • Post Image Design: jrgrigsby It has...
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jrgrigsby
Apr 29, 20222 min read
Hometown Heroes: Marshal Hiram Gregory
End of Watch: April 23, 1926 Burnside City Marshal Hiram Gregory was 49 or 50 years old when he was gunned down in 1926 while attempting...
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jrgrigsby
Apr 22, 20222 min read
Hometown Heroes: Marshal John C. Coomer
End of Watch: October 1, 1913 On August 18, 1913, an alleged moonshiner shot and killed a Burnside Councilman, John Fitzgerald, and...
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jrgrigsby
Apr 13, 20222 min read
Hometown Heroes: Sheriff Samuel Wilson Catron
End of watch: April 13, 2002 Today, our community looks back twenty years and mourns one of the greatest losses in recent memory. Those...
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jrgrigsby
Apr 12, 202214 min read
A Tiger by the Tail
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | April 2022 Original Image: ©shaiith | Adobe Stock • Image Design: jrgrigsby A Tribute April 13, 2022,...
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jrgrigsby
Apr 7, 20223 min read
Hometown Heroes: Constable William F. Heath & Magistrate Andrew Jackson Beatty
End of watch: 1911 "Constable William Heath and Justice of the Peace Andrew Beatty were shot and killed while waiting to serve warrants...
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jrgrigsby
Apr 1, 20225 min read
Hometown Heroes: Constable William Bolton
End of watch: 1903 Camp Meetings in Mt. Victory By 1903 the Mt. Victory Camp Meeting had taken place annually for several years and was...
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jrgrigsby
Mar 24, 20226 min read
Hometown Heroes: Pulaski County Sheriff John McHargue
End of watch: 1891 The first on our list of fallen Hometown Heroes is Sheriff John McHargue. We don’t know if he was the first officer in...
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jrgrigsby
Mar 18, 202228 min read
Leaving Little Queen City
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | March 2022 Image: ©Unknown | Adobe Stock • Post Image Design: jrgrigsby Just a smalltown kid Noble...
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jrgrigsby
Feb 1, 202213 min read
Dinner, Movie, and a Murder
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | February 2022 Original Image (The Virginia): ©David Rogers • Original Image (gun & rose): ©MrWirot |...
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