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Hospice of the Bluegrass – Mountain Community will off er training for volunteers on Wednesday, March 17, beginning at 10 a.m. at the hospice office at 3115 N. Main Street in Hazard. Lunch will be provided. For more information or to pre-register, call Hospice of the Bluegrass at 439-2111 or (800) 560-1101. More ... A meeting for parents who are home schooling their children and for their children will be held at 1 p.m., March 15, at the Letcher County Extension Service office in Whitesburg. For more information, call Jason Brashear at 633-2362. More ... Pine Mountain Settlement School will host a wildflower weekend April 16 to 18. Nearly 100 species of spring wildflowers can be found on the school property. The weekend begins at 6 p.m. Friday with dinner, followed by a presentation by Marc Evans, retired senior ecologist with the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission, and a hike. More ... A fundraiser will be held at the Hemphill Community Center for Letcher County Kentucky Ambassadors of Music students on Friday, March 13, from 7 until 10 p.m. Admission is $5. Music will be by Jeremy Paul Wright, Corey Michael Baker, Gary and Roger Amburgey, Judy Kincer, Jason Eckles, and John Fowler, and Tiff any Adams, with a special performance by the Millstone Methodist Youth Drama Team. More ... Five Letcher County Central High School students will participate in a state speech competition on March 12 and 13 in Bowling Green. The students are: Andi Fields, prose; Cassie Riffe, prose; Isaac Gover and Drew Raleigh, improvisational duo; and Brandon Jent, poetry. More ... The Letcher County Foster Parents Association will hold a fundraiser this month and in April with Narramore Photography. Participants will receive a 10x13 picture with each $15 sitting fee. Each sitting fee will have three poses. Proceeds will benefit the Letcher County foster children activities. For more information, call Melanie at 632-9887 after 6 p.m. More ... The district spelling bee was held February 19. Each Letcher County elementary school and middle school was represented, with student on grades kindergarten through eight participating. First-place finisher Brooke Saurer, a fourthgrade student at West Whitesburg, will compete in a state spelling bee in Louisville this month. Other winners were: More ... The Letcher County Extension Office now has applications for garden seeds provided by the Letcher County Food Pantry. Applications may be picked up from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. You must be a resident of Letcher County to participate. One application per household. Applications must be signed and returned no later than March 15. More ... March is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the theme is “Sexual Violence: Know more, know more so you can stop rape.” For information about activities, events, or information about sexual violence or services available to victims, contact Kentucky River Community Care’s Rape Crisis Center at (606) 435-0849, the 24-hour crisis line at 1-800-375-7273 or the 24-hour hearing im More ... There will be an emergency called meeting of the local chapter of the Paul Collins Chapter of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) at 6 p.m., Friday, March 12, at Dairy Queen in Whitesburg. This meeting is being held to prevent the local DAV Chapter from being closed. For more information, call R.C. Day Jr., 633-2739. More ... A Whitesburg man is accused of stealing a new truck belonging to a volunteer firefighter and causing damage to a go-cart track at Isom on Sunday night. More ... A groundbreaking ceremony for the Letcher County Recreation Center is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Friday, March 12. The center will be located beside Dairy Queen on Jenkins Road in Whitesburg. More ... A spaghetti lunch and dinner will be served at the McRoberts Recreational Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. on March 12. The meal includes spaghetti, coleslaw, raw and dessert. Dine in, carry out, and delivery are available. All proceeds will benefit the McRoberts Ten Commandments Monument Fund. For more information, call 832-4888, 832- 4539, 832-4789, 832-9219, or 832-4280. More ... Training for volunteers in the Letcher County Public Schools for the remainder of the school year will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, March 12, at the Letcher County Extension Office. For more information, contact Lynn Bates at 633-8629 or Martha Watts at 633-3146. More ... The Jenkins Middle High School senior class will have an inside yard sale at the school cafeteria, Saturday, March 13. Proceeds will go the senior class. More ... A special called meeting of the Letcher County Extension District Board will be held at 4 p.m., March 30, at the Extension office. Items to be discussed are the budget and a vehicle purchase. More ... Finally a few days without snow. Hopefully we will not have much more snow, but I can remember when we had a huge snowstorm in April and my little Easter egg tree in my front yard was covered with white. I hope the children have a warm Easter this year. More ... A workshop on pruning landscape shrubs will be given by Extension Agent Shad Baker at 6 p.m., March 15, at the Letcher County Extension Office. To sign up for the class, call 633-2362. More ... A painting class will take place at 5 p.m., March 16, at the Cowan Community Center. The cost of the class, which will be taught by Joyce Vermillion of Little Cowan, is $25. For more information, call Stacy Dollarhide at 633-3187. More ... Folk dance lessons and old-time mountain music will take place at the Linefork/ Kingdom Come Community Center beginning at 6 p.m., Saturday, March 20. The Passing the Pick and Bow Youth String Band will play and Erin Stidham will be the caller. Admission is $3 adults, $2 ages 17 and under, $10 family. More ... FRANKFORT Coal companies have taken an unusual stand in Kentucky by urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would increase the fees they pay to apply for mining permits. More ... LOUISVILLE A federal judge has approved a $28.75 million settlement between more than 8,000 eastern Kentucky landowners and a group of natural gas drilling companies in a dispute over royalty payments. The class-action settlement released Thursday ends more than two years of litigation over royalties from drilling in Martin and Pike counties. More ... FRANKFORT A Kentucky House committee approved a proposed $17.5 billion two-year state budget Tuesday night that includes cuts to higher education and seeks to trim the prison population by increasing use of parole for some nonviolent criminals to squeeze savings. More ... LOUISVILLE Republican Rand Paul and Democrat Dan Mongiardo have strong leads in their U.S. Senate primary campaigns, according to a new statewide poll. More ... • On March 28, 1814, the funeral of Guillotin, the inventor and namesake of the infamous execution device, takes place outside of Paris. Guillotin had built the guillotine to show the intellectual and social progress of the Revolution; by killing aristocrats and journeymen the same way, equality in death was ensured. More ... FRANKFORT The Senate has unanimously passed a bill that would allow school boards to meet privately with superintendents to discuss preliminary job evaluations. Republican state Sen. David Givens of Greensburg is championing the measure, which now goes to the House for consideration. The 38-0 Senate vote came on Tuesday. More ... LOUISVILLE Dinosaurs will be invading the Louisville Zoo this week. A statement from the zoo says 16 gigantic dinosaurs including a Tyrannosaurus rex will be unloaded Wednesday for an exhibit called Dinosaurs Alive, which is scheduled to open later this month. More ... CHARLESTON, W.Va. Massey Energy Co. is preparing its first metallurgical coal shipment to China as part of its efforts to capitalize on growing demand from Asian steelmakers, an executive with the Virginia-based mine operator said Tuesday. More ... FRANKFORT Prison guards would face felony charges for having sexual contact with inmates under legislation that has been approved by the Senate. The measure, which passed 37-0 on Tuesday, now goes to the House for consideration. More ... A Cowan man on trial for shooting his friend at fairly close range in the stomach with a shotgun was found not guilty of first-degree assault. After deliberating for nearly three hours on March 3, a Letcher County jury found Gary Wayne Boggs Jr., 25, of 2165 Bo Fork, not guilty. More ... TheJenkins Independent Board of Education has agreed to participate in a countywide drug-testing program for students. More ... BIRTHDAY SURPRISE — A sign was unveiled on March 4 dedicating Sergent Loop after Arius Holbrook, of Sergent, on his 67th birthday. More ... Preliminary hearings are set for later this month for two Letcher County men accused of vandalizing a community park at Thornton. Ronald Brian Adams, 20, of 610 Yonts Fork, Jackhorn, and Joshua L. Sizemore, 20, of 62 Sizemore Drive, Premium, were arrested March 3 after police linked the men to an assault case. More ... A meeting of the 4-H Teen Council will be held at 5 p.m., March 11. The meet- ing will take place at the Letcher County Extension Office in Whitesburg. More ... GRADUATE — Jessica Caudill, daughter of Michael and Connie Slone of Jeremiah, is a graduate of the licensed practical nursing school at Hazard Community and Technical College. More ... The Hillbilly Days Festival Pageant will be held April 10 at Pike County Central High School in Pikeville. The competition is open to boys and girls of all ages for Sunday best wear and hillbilly wear. For more information, call Hanna at (606) 437-6891 or Elsie at (606) 639-9414. More ... CHEERLEADERS — Pictured are the Whitesburg Middle School cheerleaders, (front row, left to right) Katie Craft, Sarah Wooten, Brooke Kincer, Kristian Holbrook, Autumn Mullins, (back row) Kaylee M More ... Kentuckians who have taken the GED test since last July and received at least a 2700 composite score may apply for a Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship. The scholarships, worth up to $1,500 per year, are administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA). More ... There will be a meeting of the 4-H Poultry Club at 4 p.m. on March 16. A meeting of the 4-H Livestock Club will follow at 6 p.m. Both meetings will take place in the Letcher County Extension Office in Whitesburg. More ... News RSS feed |
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