Lake Cumberland Regional Training Consortium program prepares high-schoolers with skills they need to enter the workforce High school students in the Lake Cumberland region are getting an early START read more
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Local inmate re-entry program receiving statewide recognition
Partners testify before Jail & Corrections Reform Task Force about program’s successes; program receives state media attention Pulaski County’s inmate re-entry program has been in the spotlight read more
Lake Cumberland Air Show wins tourism excellence award
“Tourism is the handshake of economic development.” — Destinations International This statement is especially true in Somerset-Pulaski County, where tourism is our No. 1 industry and we invest so read more
Application for SPEDA mini-grants now available
Program has invested $40,000 to date in local start-ups and innovators Applications are now being accepted for Somerset-Pulaski Economic Development Authority (SPEDA) mini-grants, funding available read more
Local high school student wins $500 grand prize for participating in SPEDA cleanup
Annual Triple Bag Challenge encourages environmental stewardship If there was a chance you could earn $500 for picking up three bags of trash along the road, would you take it? For Pulaski County read more
SPEDA brings national ‘forever chemicals’ expert to speak to industrial leaders
Geologist and engineering specialist Scott Werley explains new EPA recommendations and shares local testing data As the conversation about environmental regulation of forever chemicals continues to read more