The Letcher County Fiscal Court has been given approval by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife to move forward with the Pioneer Horse Trail atop Pine Mountain. “I think it was just a lot of misunderstanding,” said Wildlife More...
Very few people knew or remember the time a Japanese submarine came up the Pacific Coast of California and into the Santa Barbara Channel to a strip of land a few miles north of the city of Santa Barbara, where the largest oil refinery in California More...
WASHINGTON The Obama administration’s proposal last week to put the first limits on greenhouse gases from new power plants probably will mean that no new coal-fired U.S. More...
PITTSBURGH Signs of an industry downturn and other factors threatening to take a toll on coal make this a worrisome time for miners and companies employing them. More...
Clips from Mountain Eagle front pages over the past 50 years April 5, 1962 The Letcher County library will hold an open house in celebration of National Library Week and the opening of a campaign for $5,000 to buy books. . More...
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The Lamb loves to be surrounded by flocks of admirers. But be careful that someone doesn’t take his or her admiration too far. Use your persuasive skills to let him or her down easily. More...
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CHICAGO At 18 months, Cristina Astacio spoke only a few words, wouldn’t respond to her name and shunned other kids in her day care group. Last October, her worried parents found out why. More...
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I don’t remember you addressing this subject, so I thought I would write. In 1997, I had a mild heart attack and went on medicines. Six months later I had another mild incident that led me to angioplasty. More...
WMMT will present Bluegrass Express Live with NewFound Road and The Kelley Nelson Band. The show will take place Thursday, April 21, at the Appalshop Theater on Madison Street in Whitesburg. Doors open at 6 p.m. More...
Letcher County Judge/Executive Jim Ward has signed an executive order setting a date for a local option election to be held in Whitesburg this summer. On June 26, voters in the City of Whitesburg will vote on whether alcohol sales should be exp More...
The Jenkins City Council was greeted by an unusually large crowd Tuesday night, many of whom apparently attended the meeting to protest a new tax that has never been formally proposed. More...
Medicare sponsors the Silver Sneakers program for seniors age 65 and up. The classes and other facilities are free. The classes are led by a trained person who leads appropriate exercises for seniors. More...
What does 50 cents buy these days? Not a cuppa joe, a pack of gum or a newspaper. But you can get a steal of deal for a 50-cent piece: a first-class stamp. Plus a nickel in change. More...
LEXINGTON Another championship banner has been unfurled at Rupp Arena. Kentucky’s basketball team returned home to its adoring fans Tuesday, after defeating Kansas 67-59 Monday night to win the school’s eighth NCAA championsh More...
College basketball’s grand cosmos is in alignment once more. As appropriate as Alabama reclaiming universal football supremacy, Kentucky is king of basketball again. More...
Sunday’s running of the Goody’s Fast Relief 500 from Martinsville looked as if it was going to be the race that would give Hendrick Motorsports its 200th win in the Cup series. More...
— Haley Banks of Little Cowan (with help from her mother Pamela) pulled an April Fool’s Day prank on her grandparents, Glenn and Sue Banks, by tossing more than 400 plastic Easter eggs in More...
NEW YORK With the 1940 census records released this week, Verla Morris can consider herself a part of living history. Morris, who is in her 100th year, gets to experience the novelty of seeing her own name and details about her life in t More...
This week’s column may be short, but hopefully it will be sweet. My secretary has declared a strike, so stroke be hanged I aim to see what I can turn out with one finger while thumbing my nose at uppity women. More...
Clark Evans Baker, 74, died March 28, at his home on Thornton. A son of the late Millard and Easter Sexton Baker, he was a brother of the late Wanda Baker. He was a member of the United Auto Workers, and enjoyed traveling and shooting poo More...
Lorena L. Compton, 82, of Pikeville, died March 31. Born in Viareggio, Italy, she was a daughter of the late Emilio and Rosa Landi. She lived most of her life in Alabama and several years in Pikeville and Jenkins. More...
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