ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Sealed bids for mowing of City Utilities Commission (CUC) properties will be received by the City Utilities Commission of Corbin at its office located at 1515 Cumberland Falls Highway, Corbin, KY 40701 until 2:00 pm local time on May 8, 2025, and then publicly opened and read aloud.
Copies of the bid documents may be obtained by contacting the City Utilities Commission office located at 1515 Cumberland Falls Highway, Corbin, KY 40701, (606) 528-4026.
General liability and workers compensation insurance are required to be maintained by the contractor.
The award will be made to the lowest, responsive, responsible bidder.
No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after closing time scheduled for the receipt of bids.
The City Utilities Commission reserves the right to waive informalities and to reject any and all bids.
By: Ronald W. Herd, P.E.
General Manager
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Housing Authority of Williamsburg has developed the Five-Year/Annual Agency Plans for Fiscal Years beginning 10/1/2025 through 10/1/2029 and Five-Year Capital Fund Program budgets in compliance with current HUD regulations. They are available for review at the Housing Authority office located at 600 Brush Arbor Road, Williamsburg, KY. Office hours are Monday – Thursday, 8:30AM and 5:30PM. A public hearing will be held 1:00 PM on June 26, 2025 at the Housing Authority office.
PUBLIC HEARING
The Williamsburg Independent School District will be holding a Public Hearing of the approved District Facility Plan on May 19th at 6:00 p.m. in the Williamsburg Independent Auditorium. The purpose of the meeting will be to allow anyone in the community to review and make comments about the District Facility Plan. Everyone in the community is invited.
IN THE JUVENILE COURT FOR MONROE COUNTY, TENNESSEE
Case No: J-23-0415
STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN’S SERVICES, Petitioner
vs.
Ronnie Jones, Respondents
IN THE MATTER OF: Derryn Jones, DOB: 03/19/2017; Destiny Jones, DOB: 10/21/2019; A CHILD UNDER EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OF AGE
AMENDED MOTION AND ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
Comes now the Petitioner, by and through counsel, and moves this Honorable Court for an order for service by publication, and for cause would show, the whereabouts of the Respondent Ronnie Jones is unknown and cannot be ascertained by diligent search, as evidenced by the affidavit attached hereto, and therefore personal service cannot be served upon Ronnie Jones.
It appearing to the Court from the sworn affidavit that after due diligence the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon Ronnie Jones. It is therefore, ORDERED that the Respondent be served by publication of the following Notice for four (4) consecutive weeks in The News Journal, a newspaper published in Whitley County, KY.
It is further ORDERED that if the Respondent Ronnie Jones does not enter an appearance or otherwise Answer the Petition, further personal service or service by further publication shall be dispensed with and service of any future notices, motions, orders or other legal documents in this matter may be made upon the Respondent by filing same with the Monroe County Juvenile Court Clerk.
NOTICE TO THE RESPONDENT: RONNIE JONES
Pursuant to T.C.A. § 37-1-121 and § 37-1-123, you are hereby summoned to appear on the 29th day of May, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., and defend the above-entitled action in Juvenile Court of Monroe County, Tennessee, and answer the Petition filed by the State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services, and to serve your answer upon the Petitioner. In case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the Petition, which has been filed with the Clerk of the Monroe County Juvenile Court located at the Juvenile Court of Monroe County located at 4500 New Hwy 68 Ste #4 Madisonville, Tennessee 37354. Since your whereabouts are unknown and the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon you, a copy of this summons shall be published in The News Journal newspaper for four (4) consecutive weeks.
ENTERED this 21st day of April, 2025.
Honorable Dwaine B. Thomas,
Monroe County Juvenile Court Judge
NOTICE
Any appeal of the trial court’s final disposition of the complaint or petition for termination of parental rights will be governed by the provisions of Rule 8A, Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, which imposes special time limitations for the filing of a transcript or statement of the evidence, the completion and transmission of the record on appeal, and the filing of briefs in the appellate court, as well as other special provisions for expediting the appeal. All parties must review Rule 8A, Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, for information concerning the special provisions that apply to any appeal of this case.
APPROVED FOR ENTRY:
Lisa Bailey, BPR No. 035927
Associate General Counsel
Department of Children’s Services
111 Union Valley Road
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Phone: (865) 425-4400
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO MINE
Pursuant to Application Number 918-5194, Renewal
In accordance with KRS 350.055, notice is hereby given that Ferroglobe USA Mining, LLC, 332 West Cumberland Gap Parkway, Suite 100, Corbin, Kentucky 40701 has applied for renewal of a permit for an underground coal mining operation located 1.0 mile southeast of Nevisdale in Whitley County. The proposed operation will disturb 16.90 surface acres and will underlie 990.3 acres and the total area within the permit boundary will be 1007.2 acres.
The proposed facility is approximately 1.5 miles southeast from Gatliff Road’s junction with KY Hwy. 904 and located 0.01 mile south of Bennetts Branch.
The proposed operation is located on the Saxton, KY U.S.G.S. 7½ minute quadrangle map. The surface area is owned by Penn Virginia Operating Co., LLC.
The application has been filed for public inspection at the Department for Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s Middlesboro Regional Office, 1804 East Cumberland Avenue, Middlesboro, Kentucky 40965-1229. Written comments, objections or requests for a permit conference must be filed with the Director, Division of Mine Permits, 300 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601.
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO MINE
Pursuant to Application Number 918-0517
In accordance with KRS 350.055, notice is hereby given that Torchlight Energy, Inc 102 Fox Lane, Clinton, TN 37716 has applied for a permit for a surface coal mining and reclamation operation located 1.00 miles West of Rockholds in Whitley County. The proposed operation will add 29.80 acres of surface disturbance and will underlie an additional 30.00 acres making a total surface area of 59.80 acres within the permit boundary.
The proposed operation is approximately 0.53 miles west from KY 26’s junction with Kidd Road and located 0.10 miles north of a tributary of Idiot Branch.
The proposed operation is located on the Wofford U.S.G.S. 7 ½-minute quadrangle map. The surface and underground area to be disturbed is owned by Ralph Stanely. The operation will use the Highwall/Auger miner methods of surface mining.
The application has been filed for public inspection at the Division of Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Middlesboro Regional Office, 1804 E. Cumberland Ave, Middlesboro, KY 40965. Written comments, objections, or requests for a permit conference must be filed with the Director, Division of Permits, 300 Sower Blvd., Frankfort, Kentucky 40601.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Pursuant to 405 KAR 8:010, Section 16(5), the following is a summary of permitting decisions made by the Department for Natural Resources, Division of Mine Permits with respect to applications to conduct surface coal mining and reclamation operations in Whitley County. FERROGLOBE USA MINING, LLC, 9180504 AM 3
