South Shore, Kentucky

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• The weird and the (sometimes) wonderful
  

  While 2008 was devoid of Duct Tape Bandits, Staple Gun Stickup Guys and the like, the year still had no shortage of strange and offbeat stories that captured our attention.

• Legislators seeking project funding
  

  With a national infrastructure stimulus package in the works, area legislators are doing what they can to pressure Congress to fund important local projects.

• Grassroots electricity
  

  The ability to sell excess electricity back to the grid is improving for Kentuckians who generate their own power via solar, wind or other renewable systems, according to a report released last week.

• Man dead after fatal birthday crash
  

  A man was killed Saturday morning after he lost control of a car and smashed into a Southeast Side tree on his birthday, police said.

• Women face more drug charges
  

  The two Scioto County women arrested Nov. 25 on drug charges in Greenup County, Ky.

• Two arrested on the charge in the South Shore area.
  

  The Greenup County Sheriffs Department made two drug trafficking arrests near South Shore Tuesday.

• Police Beat:
  

  Needed for busy physician office, F/T or P/T, needed Ashland/South Shore area. Send resume to PO Box 1153, Ashland, KY ... >MORE INSURANCE COLLECTOR Experienced, for local home care pharmacy.

• Affordable tests a "
  

  Here's hoping the home drug testing kits available in Greenup and Lewis counties for only $5 are being used more for prevention than punishment.

• Pilot program targets drug use
  

  A pilot program to provide low-cost drug tests to the public is under way in Greenup and Lewis counties.

• The eagle has landed
  

  A very special Eagle has landed in Greenup County. The eagle, an 800-pound cast iron and gold painted emblem of American freedom, will guard the entry way of the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North East when it is ...

• Kentucky wants $90,000 and The Rock
  

  Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway sent a letter, dated Oct. 29, to Steve Shaffer, David Vetter and Michael Jones, Portsmouth City Solicitor 'proposing a resolution' in the civil charges against Shaffer and ...

• In Your View a "
  

  A different twist on local gas prices I read with interest the recent letters concerning gasoline prices here in northeastern Kentucky.

• Saluting the alternative energy program in Russell
  

  It couldn't have been a better day to celebrate the completion of a hybrid alternative energy system harnessing the wind and the sun to light the hallways of the Russell Area Technology Center.

• Police have issued a pair of community alerts about a series of armed and strong-arm robberies.
  

  They happened over the summer in the South Shore neighborhood on the Southeast Side.

• Homecoming
  

  Young and old alike agreed one of the best parts of Greenup's annual Old Fashion Days festival "is about seeing people you haven't seen for a while." Sitting on the front porch at Ronnie Nichols' house, a group ...

• Greenup packed for festival
  

  GREENUP, Ky. N This county seat town of 1,200 on a normal day had probably six or seven times that many Saturday as its annual Old Fashion Days festival climaxed with the big parade down Main Street.

• Bankruptcy filings
  

  Bankruptcy filings in the Eastern District of U.S. Bankruptcy Court include the following: Boyd County Lee B. Fosson of the 1400 block of Cantrell Street, Ashland; Chapter 13; filed Sept.

• Man charged in Subway robbery
  

  A South Shore man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly robbing the Subway restaurant in that community.

• Trio charged with sex crimes
  

  A Greenup County grand jury has indicted a woman and two men for allegedly committing multiple sex crimes against two young children.

City Description

South Shore is a city in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,226 at the 2000 census. It is located along the Ohio River across from Portsmouth, Ohio, at the mouth of Tygarts Creek. South Shore is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The South Portsmouth-South Shore (Amtrak station) serves Amtrak's Cardinal Trains 50 & 51. South Shore is located at 38°43′18″N 82°57′49″W / 38.72167, -82.96361 (38.721577, -82.963606). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km²), of which, 0.6 square miles (1.7 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km²) of it (20.00%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,226 people, 539 households, and 335 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,916.9 people per square mile (739.6/km²). There were 605 housing units at an average density of 945.9/sq mi (365.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.55% White, 0.16% African American, 0.57% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.24% from other races, and 1.39% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.24% of the population. There were 539

City Contained By:

• United States
• Kentucky
• Greenup County

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 2.07199048827 km squared

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