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Pike County Emergency Services first responders provide services at about 790 homes in Pike County each year. They often spend a lot of response time finding those homes – time that can mean the difference between life and death or a total loss fire or not. To help both first responders and citizens, the department is selling reflective address signs for $20. [Full story »] 

Pike County’s Advanced Placement students have beat the average global grade for college-credit classes taken last year. The high school leads the state, nation and world for passing grades in AP courses, with 152 students passing AP tests - 62% of AP students. [Full story »] 

Anyone who receives electric service from Southern Rivers Energy is invited to the 74th annual Members Meeting this Saturday. [Full story »] 

By Dwain W. Penn

The financial sword of Damocles fell upon the Concord water department at the Aug. 11 meeting of council. City maintenance superintendent Doug Neath said the city was fined by the Environmental Protection Department July 15 for violation of the minimum dissolved oxygen content for the south water treatment pond. The city has 30 days to submit a corrective action plan which eventually will cost over $100,000. [Full story »] 

It took a lot of hours working in the hot sun this summer to provide a safer, greener playground for Pike County Elementary School students. Local business owners, parents and teachers spent countless hours in the heat fixing drainage and safety issues and laying down fresh sod at the playground. [Full story »] 

County commissioners discussed the Transportation Investment Act of 2010, known as the T-SPLOST, at the July 26 meeting. Several concerns about the proposed 10-year 1% sales tax were raised, including the selection of road projects, the 30% penalty for required state transportation improvements if the special tax does not pass and unequal representation on the executive committee for the 10-county district. Go to threeriversrc.com to find out more. [Full story »]