Ripples from actions taken at last month’s meeting of the Letcher County Fiscal Court ran through the court’s March meeting and led to apologies and a heated exchange between a hospital executive and an elected county official.  More...

Letcher County motorists have been doing their part to make the “Friends of Coal” license plates the most popular specialty plate in Kentucky except for collegiate plates honoring the state’s universities.  More...

My old squadron I was assigned to 60 years ago just made military history during the 21st Airlift Squadron’s 70th anniversary at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., on Feb. More...

1. Is the book of 3 Peter in the Old or New Testament or neither?  2. When the seventh seal was opened there was silence in heaven for how long? 1 breath, Half an hour, Full day, 3 days  3. More...

Dear Tom & Ray: Can this be true, or are my wife and I just gullible? Our dealer claims that we need to add “urea” to our BlueTec 350 Mercedes engine. More...

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E-m@il address  In addition to the telephone and the U.S. Mail, The Mountain Eagle accepts comments to Speak Your Piece by electronic mail. Our address is: mtneagle@bellsouth.net   More...

Hello everyone. Hope everything is going well for all of you.  I really enjoyed having my son Astor and his wife Rosemary in for a visit. All four of my sons, Rob, Astor, Billy and Larry, are in Bristol for the races. More...

Joe Harris (pictured at right), regional manager of Ferus, recently presented Matthew Corbett, a firefighter with the Jenkins Fire Department, with a check for $2,500 to purchase rescue and fire equi More...

Linda Lucas recently returned from a monthlong vacation in Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. Linda’s granddaughter, McKenzie Callahan, a Davies County, N.C. More...

Euna Fields Caudill Holbrook, 88, died March 16, at her home on Solomon.  Born in Whitesburg to the late James ‘Tinker’ and Jane Mullins Fields, she was the widow of Leslie Dale Caudill, and later married Cecil Holbrook, who also pre More...

Ellis R. Mosgrove, 64, of Washington Court House, Ohio, died, March 14, in Chillicothe, Ohio.  A U.S. More...

Eugene Back, 83, died March 13 at his home at Gordon.  A son of the late Loy Back and Cora Hampton Caudill, he was a preceded in death by a sister, Anna Bowen, and two brothers, Buford and Dempsey.  He is survived by caregivers Sonny and Di More...