Two Pike County men charged with the New Year’s Day murder of Michael Hogg were in Letcher Circuit Court last week for a hearing on motions pertaining to evidence in the case.  More...

An open house celebrating the 80th birthday of Jonelle Williams of Neon will be held from 2 to 5 p.m., Sept. 20, at the Fleming Baptist Church. Mrs. More...

The Board of Directors of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College will meet Thursday, Sept. 25, at 4 p.m. on the Harlan campus. For more information, call (606) 589- 3003.   More...

A year ago, Governor Beshear and Congressman Rogers announced the Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR) process as a way to involve eastern Kentuckians in planning a new economic future given the decline in coal and the region’s other longstand More...

There was a moment in the last quarter-century when the Congress of the United States made the nation proud. It did so across all its usual lines of division: Republican and Democratic, conservative and liberal, hawk and dove.  More...

Letcher Central senior Kim Meade watched as her shot sailed over the net in the Lady Cougars’ win over visiting Shelby Valley in volleyball action last week. The Cougars took the game three sets to none, winning 25-19, 25-23 and 28-26. More...

The Jenkins Cavalier football team kicked off its second road game of the season Friday, making the four-hour trip to face off with the Clinton County Bulldogs.  More...

Eastern Kentucky may be the site for a second debate between Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and his Democratic challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes.  More...

About midsummer just over a year ago, I got an envelope in the mail with a little packet of tomato seed my pal, Fred Beste, had sent me, along with a heads up on the notion that he might have recently discovered the world’s greatest tomato ther More...

Our communities have been saddened by the deaths of Virginia Dare Back and Don Quillen, and I also just learned that Rodney Collins of Blackey has died.  Dare was president of our Letcher Area Homemakers for many years, when her health was bette More...

Deborah Young (left), vice president and Whitesburg campus director of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, recently distributed dictionaries to third-grade students at Cowan Elementary School. More...

Don “D.Q.” Quillen, 53, died September 10 at his home at Jeremiah.  A son of the late Sidney and Gladys Oliver Quillen, he was a brother of the late John “Buddy” Quillen. More...

Ellene Whitaker, 98, of Dry Fork, died September 7 at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital.  A daughter of the late Joseph E. and Martha Jane Dixon Cornett, she was the widow of Astor Whitaker. More...

Heather Janell Callahan Hall, 31, died September 13 at her home at Fleming- Neon.  A daughter of Arthur L. and Phyllis Richardson of Fleming-Neon, she was preceded in death by her biological parents, James and Vivian Callahan.  More...