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Informational Event About Benefits and Support Services for Families in Need

January 13, 2017

In light of the difficult economic situation in our area, the number of families who are living on the edge is continuing to increase. We want to be certain that these families are aware of the governmental and non-profit agencies that are there to p...

Mountain Santa helps bring joy in Appalachia

December 29, 2016

Check out this video on The Courier-Journal: http://cjky.it/2heHx2o  

Tangled in fraud probe, 100s face loss of disability checks

December 29, 2016

By BY CLAIRE GALOFARO - Associated Press MINNIE, Ky. (AP) — Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon and her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all. She thought of the disconnect notices, ...

AppalReD hosts divorce workshop

October 21, 2016

By Andrea Saddler - asaddler@civitasmedia.com PRESTONSBURG – In the United States, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That’s nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces each week and 876,000 divorces a year. Many individuals w...

AppalReD Hosts Notre Dame Law Students

October 18, 2016

Notre Dame Law Students are using their Fall Break to assist AppalReD with research and a pro se Divorce Clinic (do-it-yourself Divorce Clinic to assist low-income people secure an uncontested divorce without using a lawyer) which will be held on hel...

Prestonsburg man wins prestigious award

September 30, 2016

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - John Rosenberg has many awards hanging on his walls, and two weeks ago he received another one. Rosenberg, who lives in Prestonsburg, was honored at the Fourth Annual Muhammad Ali awards. He received the Kentucky Hu...

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August 29, 2016

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Rosenberg to Receive Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award

August 25, 2016

John Rosenberg, who is the founding director of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, will receive the Muhammad Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award during the fourth annual awards ceremony in Louisville on September 17th.