Annie's Frugal Finery is a consignment store in Whitesburg, Kentucky, located in a former Masonic lodge on Jenkins Road. Many of the details of the ... Read This Post
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South Eastern Beauty Academy
Jeanetta Thornbury, a native of Johnson County, founded South Eastern Beauty Academy in 2012. Located in downtown Paintsville, the school graduates ... Read This Post
Appalachia’s New Day: Black Lung in Eastern Kentucky
Black Lung is a disease caused by breathing coal mine dust. It is incurable and often gets worse over time. Treatment is limited to relieving symptoms ... Read This Post
Appalachia’s New Day: Infrastructure in Eastern Kentucky
“Martin County, Kentucky has been without clean water since 2000. Why aren’t we talking about it?,” the poster implores. Every day for more than ... Read This Post
New Energy Intern in Paintsville Office
Earlier this month we welcomed a New Energy Intern to the MACED staff. Zac Ebersole, a resident of Lawrence County, Kentucky, will be spending the ... Read This Post
Appalachia’s New Day: Entrepreneurship in Eastern Kentucky
Kyle Robinson and his wife, Annie, started Print My Threads, an apparel screen printing company, in 2009 after their move back to Ashland, Kentucky, ... Read This Post
Appalachia’s New Day: Community in Eastern Kentucky
“Thursdays on the Triangle” in Hazard, Kentucky, kicked off its fifth year last week. This mini-festival hosted on Main Street in Hazard every other ... Read This Post
Appalachia’s New Day: Tourism in Eastern Kentucky
Blanton Forest on Pine Mountain in Harlan County was identified by a state ecologist in the early 1990s as one of the most important natural ... Read This Post
Appalachia’s New Day: Solar in Eastern Kentucky
We know that eastern Kentucky will need to diversify its energy use and consumption in the years to come, and one promising way to do this is by ... Read This Post
Appalachia’s New Day: The Arts in Eastern Kentucky
This week marks the start of MACED’s new storytelling campaign, Appalachia’s New Day. Every day this week, we are featuring a story specific to a ... Read This Post
Financial Services Advocate of the Year
Every year, the Kentucky Small Business Development Center administers the state's small business awards, awarding the small business of the year, ... Read This Post
A Mobile Baking School
This is Tara - a baker, teacher, artist and author – and, as of late 2018, a new resident of Whitesburg, Kentucky! Over the past few decades, Tara ... Read This Post
