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Most students in the Letcher County school system watched Tuesday as President Barack Obama delivered a speech urging them to study hard and stay in school. Letcher County Schools Supt. Anna Craft said Obama's speech to students was shown in several classrooms across the district on Tuesday with no problems. More ... LEXINGTON Lexington police say a former University of Kentucky basketball player has been charged in connection to a scam to sell fake season tickets. According to a police statement, Derrick G. Miller is charged with one felony count of theft by deception for allegedly selling season tickets that weren't available for him to sell. More ... LEXINGTON The embattled leader of the Kentucky Association of Counties resigned Friday in the wake of a financial scandal. More ... LOUISVILLE Kentucky officials are hoping for federal aproval that will allow launching an appliance rebate program in time for the holiday shopping season. The state is to receive $4 million out of $300 million set aside nationally for energy-efficient energy appliance rebates. The rebates will range from $20 to $400. More ... The Mountain Heritage Dog Show will be held Sunday, Sept. 20, at Riverside City Park in Whitesburg. Registration will begin at 1:30 p.m. and the show will start at 2 p.m. Categories include Macho Dog, Pretty Princess, Look-Alike, Best Dressed, Best Trick, and Marvelous Mutt. The firstplace winners in each category will compete in Best in Show. More ... Letcher County native Jared Richardson, executive chef of Cleveland's Restaurant in Versailles, won the title of Cast Iron Chef at the Kentucky State Fair on August 28 for the fourth straight year. He competed this year against Colin Simmons, chef at Lynn's Paradise Cafe in Louisville. Chefs are given 30 minutes to create a dish using two secret ingredients. More ... A quilt contest will once again be part of the Letcher County Mountain Heritage Festival. Categories for quilts are: 1. appliqué; 2. embroidery; 3. pieced (patchwork); 4. baby quilts; 5. miscellaneous; 6. oldest quilt (age verified by owner); 7. wallhanging. More ... Woodcraft and Christmas craft/holiday decorations contests will be part of the Letcher County Mountain Heritage Festival this year. The contests are sponsored by Letcher County Extension Office. No kits are allowed in the woodcraft contest. More ... Hazard Community and Technical College will offer an annual electrical retraining class free of charge to all underground and surface miners who have a current electrical card. More ... The Letcher County Extension District Board will meet at the Extension Office, 478 Extension Drive, Whitesburg, at 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 14. All regular board meetings are held on the second Monday of each month. More ... Sarah Corbett, a student at Jenkins High School, has been named by the University of Kentucky to its Class of Kentucky program. The program recognizes academically talented and community oriented high school students from throughout the state. She recently visited the UK campus for an induction ceremony where she met UK President Lee T. More ... The Mountain Heritage Festival will feature contests in home canning and baking. The contests are sponsored by Letcher County Extension Office. Categories for homecanned foods are: 1. jellies; 2. jams; 3. preserves; 4. fruits; 5. vegetables; 6. pickles; 7. relishes; 8. butters and sweets. More ... Tryouts for Letcher County's Got Talent will be held at 6 p.m., today (Wednesday), in the banquet room at Pine Mountain Grill. The talent competition is open to all ages. For more information, call Lee Anna Mullins at 633-9644. More ... The eighth annual charity horse show will be held at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Perry County Horse Show Ring in the Perry County Park. The show is presented by Kentucky River Regional Animal Shelter. More ... The Janice Tackett Memorial Poker Run will be held September 19. The poker run will benefit Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital's to build the new Life Stages Wing and renovate the medical/surgical/ICU floor. More ... The Seventh Sons Motorcycle Club will host its 18th annual bike show September 26 at Riverside Park in Whitesburg. Registration starts at 10 a.m. and the judging is 2 p.m. The entry fee is $15 per class. More ... Grocery shoppers are finally seeing some reprieve from last year's steep price increases. Food prices are dropping on some key items as retailers slash prices to better compete and food makers do more promotions and pass along savings from lower ingredient and gasoline costs. More ... An administrative law judge has ordered the immediate reinstatement of a Letcher County coal miner who charged that he was laid off from his job in May because of his role as a miner's safety advocate. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission Judge Michael Zielinski declined last week to overturn a finding by the office of U.S. More ... The Mountain Eagle is now offering on-line videos to accompany many stories being featured. Like the Associated Press news videos that have been appearing on The Eagle's website since its inception in 2007, More ... This Big John bean was planted by Landon Sexton of Colson near his front porch. He says, "I started with just two beans. After soaking them in water to see if they would sprout, I laid them down on the ground beside my front porch. When they started to sprout, I covered them with a little soil and watched them grow. More ... The Letcher County Extension Office and Extension Homemaker Clubs will sponsor the Mountain Heritage Festival Arts and Crafts Contest. Categories for baskets are: 1. fireside or flower basket or wastebasket; 2. egg basket; 3. any other basket; 4. special weave. More ... Tryouts for Letcher County's Got Talent will be held at 6 p.m., today (Wednesday), in the banquet room at Pine Mountain Grill. The talent competition is open to all ages. For more information, call Lee Anna Mullins at 633-9644. More ... |
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