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Jan 5, 2024 | 
somerset-kentucky.com | Keegan Harris
School’s out! The Rocky Hollow Recreational Center will host the Boys and Girls Club after the school day finishes up. The Boys and Girls Club is a national movement which strives to give children a safe place to socialize and learn. The new Somerset club is an extension of the Glasgow-Barren County’s Boys and Girls Club.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
somerset-kentucky.com | Keegan Harris
A Happy New Year indeed. Those who resolved to be more charitable in the new year could look to Cross Connections Church as a helpful inspiration. Cross Connections Church, located at 1386 S. Highway 27, spent the last Saturday of the year giving clothes, food, and other helpful items to their Pulaski county neighbors. Brian Sawyers, Pastor of Cross Connections, said their weekly giveaways began as a food ministry in 2015, around the same time the church was founded.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
somerset-kentucky.com | Keegan Harris
Hot dogs, franks, or weenies. Whatever you call them, they have a reputation for bringing people together, and that’s exactly what City Slickers Dawgs aims to do. Owner of City Slickers Dawgs Stephanie Ellen Benhase had a difficult life before starting up her business on wheels. A drug addict for nearly 11 years, she’s been to jail a dozen times and has a felony conviction to boot. “I was not a good person,” said Benhase.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
arxiv.org | Zhiwei Steven |Keegan Harris |Anish Agarwal |Vasilis Syrgkanis
[Submitted on 26 Dec 2023 ( v1 ), last revised 13 Feb 2024 (this version, v2)] Title:Incentive-Aware Synthetic Control: Accurate Counterfactual Estimation via Incentivized Exploration Download a PDF of the paper titled Incentive-Aware Synthetic Control: Accurate Counterfactual Estimation via Incentivized Exploration, by Daniel Ngo and 4 other authors Download PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We consider the setting of synthetic control methods (SCMs), a canonical approach used to estimate the...
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
somerset-kentucky.com | Keegan Harris
For our military, Christmas may be spent in a different land, but the love for their country knows no boundaries. The American Legion completed their annual trip to elder homes all across Pulaski County Friday in order to give their support to local veterans and show that their sacrifices were remembered. The American Legion’s Auxiliary had spent weeks organizing gifts and readying them for the holidays. They gave the veterans $50 checks along with goodie bags.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
somerset-kentucky.com | Keegan Harris
The Rocky Hollow Recreation Center is known for its wide array of events offered to Pulaski Countians, and Thursday night was no exception. On Thursday, Rocky Hollow hosted the second annual Christmas in the Hollow. Held in the rec center’s gym, Christmas in the Hollow saw more than 20 businesses from all around Pulaski County set up booths and offer kids' games, candy, goodies, and even a chance to pet a puppy.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
somerset-kentucky.com | Keegan Harris
A big boy in red will be delivering presents Christmas Eve, but it’s not the big boy in red you’re thinking of. Frisch’s Big Boy – along with help from Summit Meats, ProTrade Hardware and, wheels from the Hillbilly Jeep Krew – will deliver hundreds of meals and hundreds of toys Christmas Eve to Pulaski county families. Billy Hayes has been the owner and operator at Frisch’s Big Boy since he took over for his father in 2020.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
somerset-kentucky.com | Keegan Harris
Bob Jasper left a mark on the Pulaski County community before he passed, and because of his care for local kids, his legacy lives on. Every year, the American Legion Family including the Honor Guard, the Sons of the American Legion (SAL), and the Auxiliary team up to serve the Pulaski County community in various ways. “It takes an army,” second Vice President of the Auxiliary Paulette Large remarked. One of the ways the Legion tries to give back is through Bob’s Bikes giveaway.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Keegan Harris
Dec. 18—A "yeehaw" and an "amen" are on the same footing at Cowboy Church where Kentuckians gather to have church in a barn. Almost every Sunday for the past 14 years, "Cowboy Church" has been open to Kentuckians of all kinds looking for fellowship. Hosted in Suits-Us Farms, the service is known for its highly informal atmosphere (and for its delicious, locally-grown food). Pastor of First Christian Church Braxton King can be seen preaching on Sunday nights, as he has been for the last ten years.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
somerset-kentucky.com | Keegan Harris
A “yeehaw” and an “amen” are on the same footing at Cowboy Church where Kentuckians gather to have church in a barn. Almost every Sunday for the past 14 years, “Cowboy Church” has been open to Kentuckians of all kinds looking for fellowship. Hosted in Suits-Us Farms, the service is known for its highly informal atmosphere (and for its delicious, locally-grown food). Pastor of First Christian Church Braxton King can be seen preaching on Sunday nights, as he has been for the last ten years.
