Phone Call Keeps Booneville Mom on Track to Earn Two HCTC Degrees

Dooley, a Booneville resident and working mother, completed two degrees at Hazard Community & Technical College (HCTC), according to a short human-interest profile posted to The Booneville Sentinel. The Sentinel article, titled "A call that kept her on track: Booneville mom completes two degrees at HCTC," was posted 2/13/26 and notes that Dooley chose HCTC for a practical reason: it was close to home.

The profile was submitted by the graduate, the Sentinel’s item states, and the excerpt published on the paper’s website reads, "Dooley, a Booneville resident and working mother, came to Hazard Community & Technical College (HCTC) for a practical reason: it was close to home. What she didn’t have when she started, she …" That excerpt truncates mid-sentence and the full text is available only to subscribers; the Sentinel page displays subscriber prompts instructing readers to log in or purchase a subscription to continue reading.

The Sentinel’s page header showed Sunday, February 15, 2026, while the article block lists the posted date as 2/13/26; the article carries the copyright line © Copyright 2026 The Booneville Sentinel and the site footer notes the platform is powered by Creative Circle Media Solutions. The published excerpt explicitly describes the profile as chronicling "the student’s journey as a working parent balancing family," and it confirms the central fact that Dooley completed two degrees at HCTC, though the excerpt does not specify degree types, majors, graduation date(s), or whether the degrees were earned concurrently.

The headline frames a pivotal phone call as central to Dooley’s progress, but the publicly available excerpt does not include details about who placed the call, when it occurred, or how it affected her path at HCTC. The Sentinel item as captured does not provide Dooley’s first name, age, employer, number or ages of children, nor academic specifics such as degree titles, GPA, or commencement details; those items are not present in the excerpt and would require confirmation from the graduate or Hazard Community & Technical College.

Dooley’s submitted profile, as presented by The Booneville Sentinel on 2/13/26, highlights a local student from Booneville completing two postsecondary credentials at the nearby HCTC campus while balancing family responsibilities. The full story and any direct quotations from Dooley appear behind the Sentinel’s subscriber access controls; readers who wish to view the complete profile must follow the Sentinel’s login or subscription prompts to continue reading.