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The Paintsville Herald is a semi-weekly newspaper (printed on Wednesdays and Fridays) covering the city of Paintsville, Kentucky, and the surrounding communities in Johnson County, Kentucky. [1] The newspaper was first published on May 2, 1901.
Created from merger of The Elizabethtown News (1869) and The Hardin County Enterprise (1926) [77] Olive Hill Times: Olive Hill: 1969 [78] Weekly Community Newspaper Holdings: The Paducah Sun: Paducah: 1896 Tue–Sun [79] Paxton Media Group: The Paintsville Herald: Paintsville: 1901 Wed, Fri Lancaster Management Pineville Sun–Cumberland ...
Paintsville (locally / ˈ p eɪ n t s v əl /) [2] is a home rule-class city [5] along Paint Creek in Johnson County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 3,459 during the 2010 U.S. Census .
As news of the P-47 crash circulated, local people lined up to the clinic to view the injured African American combat fighter pilot. The town's mayor, Escom Chandler (1946–1949), visited Stewart, followed by the town's police chief, county sheriff and a Paintsville Herald news reporter who ran a story on March 25, 1948.
Johnson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,680. [1] Its county seat is Paintsville. [2] The county was formed in 1843 and named for Richard Mentor Johnson, a colonel of the War of 1812, United States Representative, Senator, and Vice President of the United States.
The Johnson County Public Library is a public library serving the residents of Johnson County, Kentucky.The library's collection contains 44,236 volumes, serves a population of 23,827, and circulates 120,687 items annually. [1]
Since 1979, after the death of May Stafford, the daughter of Francis M. Stafford, the house has remained vacant. In 2003, the state of Kentucky offered a $200,000 grant to the city of Paintsville in order to help with the purchase and restoration of the historic home. On July 12, 2003, the Paintsville City Council declined the grant. [3]
The construction of the church began in 1908, at the urging of local millionaire, John C.C. Mayo, who was part of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South of Paintsville. . Originally the cost of the church was estimated at $10,000, which Mayo promised to pay ha