Letcher County is set to benefit from some newly announced funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a total of $8.9 million coming into 17 projects in rural Eastern Kentucky.
LKLP Community Action Council will get an $80,000 Housing Preservation Grant to assist eight very-low-income homeowners with repairs.
MD Investment Holdings in Letcher County will use a $95,475 Rural Energy for America Program grant to install a 70.6-kilowatt solar energy system which will power 10 homes.