Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman was in Owsley County late last week for a series of grant announcements totaling more than 1-point-2 million dollars. Owsley Judge-Executive Zeke Little said a 30,000-dollar grant covered 80 percent of the cost of repairing a failing embankment on Quillin Road that school buses couldn’t travel on.
“And now people, they can travel on the road, and they don't have to bring their kids up to the main road and wait on the bus. It worked out real good and helped the community.”
Little said work on the embankment was finished in early June.
“Give about an 18, 24-inch shoulder on the road, they step out and drill steel down into the bedding of the creek, put a guardrail all the way from the bottom to the top, load it into the steel. And they backfill it with rock and then put a cover back on it.”
Other grants include a community development block grant of a million dollars for new housing and 250-thousand for the Booneville water district for an improved telemetry system.
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