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Letcher County's newest eatery will mark its grand opening this weekend by serving up plenty of Gravy. Gravy is actually a Los Angeles based rock band who will be in Whitesburg on Saturday night to perform an acoustic show at the new Summitt City Coffee, located next to the Harry M. Caudill Library at 208 Main Street. More ... A day after ending an eightstate tour which brought him to Letcher County, Democrat John Edwards last week challenged President Bush to explain policies that Edwards said favor the wealthy. More ... I don't consider myself poor. Actually I consider myself really rich and it's not because of money and material goods. I grew up happy and I grew up in place where I played in the creeks and we climbed mountainsides. I went to church on Sundays and I knew all of my friends from the time I started kindergarten to the time I graduated from high school. More ... A lot of people, when they think about immigrants, think about them "coming in." They don't think about what it was like for them to leave their homes in the first place. I do, because one day, I might have to leave my home in the mountains. More ... I just recently lost my grandfather to leukemia. He lived a long and really inspiring life. He was 89. He was a union organizer for the United Mine Workers and Appalachian Regional Healthcare. He was a self-educated man because that was all he could get but he was a very intelligent man and he always stressed the importance of education to his children and grandchildren. More ... Summertime can be brutal sometimes. Especially true for some of the residents of eastern Kentucky where air conditioning is not available, summertime can turn deadly. Summer heat combined with high humidity can feel utterly unbearable. It is the dog days of summer. More ... The Sons of Liberty will perform at 3 p.m., Saturday, August 25, at the Jenkins Homecoming Days Festival. The group will be among a variety of family entertainment presented at the festival. The music style of the Sons of Liberty ranges from southern gospel to country gospel to a bit of bluegrass. They have been performing since the early 1980s. More ... The Hindman Settlement School will host the 30th annual Appalachian Writers Workshop July 29 to August 3. The workshop staff includes a number of prominent national and regional writers, and the event includes readings by participants as well as music and dancing. All evening programs are held in the May Stone Building and are free and open to the public. More ... EIGHT YEARS OLD - Kaylee Shae McDougal turned eight years old on June 19. She is the daughter of Traci Caudill and Mickey McDougal of Whitesburg. Her grandparents are Rick Caudill, Cheryl Blair, and Charlotte and Wayne McDougal. Her great-grandparents are Lois and Nathan Baker. She has a younger sister, Dalayni. More ... THIRD BIRTHDAY - Isaiah Tate Dixon turned three years old on July 6. He is the son of Chris and Candida Dixon of Hallie. His grandparents are Arvil and Lyvonne Dixon of Cornettsville, and Dana and Jewel Eldridge of Hallie. He is the great-grandson of Beatrice Whitaker of Hallie, and Ruth Combs of Linefork. More ... ANNIVERSARY - Watson and Jesi Howard of Burdine, went to Gatlinburg, Tenn., and the Great Smoky Mountains for the Fourth of July to celebrate their second wedding anniversary. They were married July 23, 2005. More ... JUNE BABY - Chloie Nashay Webb was born June 28 at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital. Her parents are Brandon and Pearly Webb of Mayking, and she has a brother, Caleb Keith. Her grandparents are Jimmy and Rhonda Stidham of Dry Fork, Trenda Kincer and Keith Webb of Mayking. She is the great-granddaughter of Richard and Maxine Lucas of Cowan. More ... The Letcher County Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at noon at The Courthouse Cafe in Whitesburg. Annual membership dues are now due. Anyone interested in joining the Chamber of Commerce can contact Brenda DePriest at 832-4020 or email bdepriest@windstream.net. More ... Traditionalists in Jenkins may be disappointed to see the once pure Kelly green and white athletic uniforms accompanied by black or gray trim in the coming school year. Superintendent John Shook told the Jenkins Independent Schools Board of Education it has become increasingly difficult to get straight Kelly green and white without black or gray trim on uniforms. More ... "The Spirit of the B&O"- CSXT 904000 was on the rear of a work train in Shelbiana near Pikeville, that recently laid long sections of welded rail alongside the tracks of CSX's Kingsport Subdivision in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. The work was done in preparation of CSX's recently completed annual 10-day maintenance blitz along the former Clinchfield railroad line extending from Elkhorn City into areas of North and South Carolina. "The Spirit of the B&O", a bay-window caboose, wears a paint scheme like no other caboose on any railroad. It was designed and painted by volunteers in celebration of the 2003 175th anniversary of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, the nation's first railroad and a major component of today's CSX system. The B&O railroad once operated track in Letcher County before selling to the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, one of B&O's eventual owners, in the early 20th century. (Photo by Chris Anderson) More ... The Associated Press LEXINGTON Federal mine-safety officials have cited an eastern Kentucky coal mine after a miner's video showed some mine seals were cracked and leaking water. The video, shot by miner Charles Scott Howard inside the Cumberland River Coal Co.'s Band Mill No. More ... I read the snake story by Ike Adams from two weeks ago and I laughed until it hurt. That was some funny stuff. I liked his story so much it inspired me to tell a true snake story of my own. My story takes place at the mouth of Big Cowan in the river behind the white house just before you cross the bridge. More ... Members of two environmental organizations and opponents of mountaintop removal mining met on top of Pine Mountain in Letcher County Saturday to hear mountain music and raise funds for Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and the Mountain Justice Summer. More ... Loretta and I love Roma beans. I grow the bush variety, Roma II, which is simply a short version of the old-time pole variety that grows like English ivy. We usually can 21 quarts and by the time beans are ready in the garden come another year, they are all gone. More ... Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards on July 18 became the first presidential candidate in more than 40 years to visit southeastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia when he made stops at Appalshop in Whitesburg, the Floyd County Courthouse in Prestonsburg and Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise as part of his three-day "Road to One America" tour. More ... Have you been out on the highway when an oncoming vehicle flashes its lights as a warning of trouble up ahead? When a driver does this, more often than not the trouble ahead is a roadblock or a trooper using his radar. I will signal other drivers if I see danger, but I will not signal if I see law enforcement personnel. If someone violates the law, they should be caught. More ... |
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