When coronavirus struck Cynthiana, Ky., residents pulled together to help out the local newspaper — and take care of their neighbors.
The Cynthiana Democrat has been in existence for 152 years and prints about 5,000 copies for distribution every Thursday morning. Last Sunday, it ran 18,000 copies of a special edition — its first in over two decades. Why? Because the area had just become ground zero for COVID-19 in the state.
In a county with a large population of elderly residents, not everyone has access to the internet. So Barnes and her small team at the Cynthiana Democrat put together a four-page broadsheet on everything they could regarding COVID-19 and best practices in a national emergency. At this point, the entire state of Kentucky has a total of 11 cases of confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which six are from Harrison County, which includes Cynthiana. Along with those six confirmed cases, there are “probably over 100” other people in the county who are self-isolating out of fear of possible exposure, said Mayor James Smith. “They’re watching to see if they develop symptoms.”
Even though all classrooms in the county were closed on the following Monday, teachers are still reporting to schools to help hand out food to those students who depend on their school lunches. “You can pick your kid’s meals up at the school. You can pick those up, kind of like a drive-through thing,” laughs Barnes. “Our school personnel are out on the sidewalks handing out bags of their lunch meals to them.
“If you come to our downtown, we have no empty buildings because we have nice little shops and restaurants in every single building. Our economy’s been doing great,” says Smith. But, he adds, that “contributes to some of the fear that we have. We have so many small businesses and we've done so well and come so far in five years. We’re scared that it just lingers on. Or, you know, a month, two months, that will undo everything that we have built in the last five years.
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