Broadband is coming to Rowan County! Windstream has an ongoing internal fiber upgrade that will open the door to Gig-speed services for an estimated 8,200 locations in Rowan and Morehead, with expected completion dates early next year. In the second phase of this project, we will bring broadband to over 4,100 additional homes in Rowan County with a $4.9 million dollar grant from the Kentucky Broadband Deployment Fund if approved. Read about this monumental announcement, see the winners of this year’s annual Morehead-Rowan County Chamber of Commerce Awards, and more in this month’s edition of the Rowan Review.

Enjoy our new monthly community calendar to help plan out your entertainment! You can also read up on several administrative fees the county will be doing away with, and check out our new monthly department report section to stay up to date on all the happenings. Learn about a new workforce development program to help bolster the local labor market, and much more in the October 2021 issue of the Rowan Review.

Read on the history of Judge-Executive’s in Rowan County, the return of the county Halloween Decorating Contest, and the relocation of the coroner’s office!

New County ambulance service is now completed, tourism events return to Rowan County Arts Center, and we honor the service of several community members.

Read about the Courthouse Art Exhibit Artist’s Reception, GCA’s LIHEAP summer cooling program, and other things going on around Rowan County!

Operation Gateway is kicking off in Rowan County next month offering free medical care to our citizens. You can also catch up on our local workforce and vaccine programs, and learn about the Rowan County Art Walk walking tour!

Big things are happening in Rowan County as we get back to normal. Read about why we have recalled our COVID-19 Dashboard, a major flooding event in the Judicial Center, and a major food donation for our people that came from Utah.

Learn about the new location Rowan County drivers will be getting their drivers licenses and renewals taken care of, see where Kentucky’s vaccination rate stacks up as it relates to herd immunity, find out about a new workplace initiative in Rowan County, as well as some road funding that has just been let loose. All this and more in the April Edition of the Rowan Review!

Read about the completion of new the County Services Building/EMS Facility, how many vaccines have been distributed in our community, the reopening of Laughlin Gym, and Fiscal Court’s move back to in person meetings. And more!

Learn about your county’s response to the ice storms, some new equipment purchases for the Road Department, and a generous donation to road, power, and emergency crews by AppHarvest.

A new year presents each of us the opportunity to start fresh. While last year was certainly not all doom and gloom (as we detail later on in our look back), you may be hard pressed to find someone uneager to turn over a new leaf this year. We hope to do the same here as a county. Read about our way forward into 2021, our road departments performance over the past month, and the near completion of the Courthouse’s art installation

Learn about Rowan County’s path to vaccination, check out some of the accomplishments of our local residents, see the good that Morehead Wood Products is doing in our community, and see what the status is for our roads this winter.