Meet the 17 Leaders Reimagining the Tri-State Sasha Bush The Ashland Beacon Seventeen People. Three States. One Big Question. What if there’s a better way to solve the challenges facing the Tri-State? This fall, 17 nonprofit leaders from Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia will step away from the everyday demands of their jobs and into a different kind of experience — one designed to challenge assumptions, spark new ideas and change the way they think about serving their

The Call After the Call Mark Hammond’s Mission to Help Those Who Help Others Sasha Bush The Ashland Beacon For more than four decades, Mark Hammond has answered the call. Long before he became the Coroner for Boyd County or a Regional Training Coordinator for the Kentucky Fire Commission, Hammond was a teenager in Louisa, Kentucky, discovering a life of service that would take him through some of the most difficult moments imaginable. Now, after 42 years in emergency serv

NEKY Celebrates Small Business Excellence Sasha Bush The Ashland Beacon It is found in the storefronts where familiar faces are greeted by name. It is in the family-owned businesses built one customer at a time. It is in the entrepreneurs who take a chance on an idea, the professionals who pour their talents into their communities, and the businesses that understand success means more when everyone around them has the opportunity to succeed, too. That spirit was on full