To perform



Bluegrass Circle will perform from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Country Cabin II in Norton, Va. The facility is located across Alternate Rte. 58 from the original Country Cabin, 1½ mile west of Norton. Admission for adults is $5, and $1 for children 2 through 11 years old. For more information, call (276) 679-3541.

Candidates’ plans to end U.S. deficit just don’t add up





Here’s the rap on the presidential candidates’ plans for cutting federal deficits: Mitt Romney’s is too bold and the numbers don’t add up, while President Barack Obama’s is too timid and his numbers don’t add up, either. As the government closed the books earlier this week with a $1.1 trillion deficit for the year, which required borrowing 32 cents for […]

Political Cartoon



Defining the debate game




In this week’s debate, Mitt Romney has too much to do. President Obama has a great deal to lose. Romney’s is the most diffi- cult position. Obama’s is the most dangerous. Romney needs to use the Denver encounter to reverse the slide he has found himself in since the party conventions. While Republican partisans claim that many of the public […]

Hate backfires on both sides



Republicans were supposed to have an easy time of it in North Dakota’s U.S. Senate race. The multi-term Democrat, Kent Conrad, wasn’t running for re-election, and this region is supposed to be Republican in its conservative soul. Thus, according to the script, Republican Rep. Rick Berg should have had this Senate seat in the bag — as his Democratic foe, […]

Senators let down vets and Appalachia when they helped block bill



Both Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul helped kill a plan that could have helped create jobs for the 3,000 unemployed Kentucky veterans who served their country in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The proposal fell short by just two votes of the 60 required to clear a procedural hurdle erected by Republicans in the Senate last week. So the […]

Is there hope for this stinky car?

Car Talk

Dear Tom and Ray: I need your help. My car has an odor that will not go away. My car, now known as “The Farm,” smells like a barn. Basically, my brother’s dog (her name is Drama) squirted her anal gland (yes, it’s disgusting) on my Prius’s fabric back seat. The substance permeated several layers of seat fabric. By the […]

My business follows the law



To the Editor: I’ve been in the scrap metal and recycling business for over 60 years. I did not buy the veterans’ grave markets on purpose. They were not seen until after the load was dumped and the person selling them was already gone. I was turning them into the sheriff as required by law. I also told him whose […]

The way we were

Clips from Mountain Eagle front pages over the past 50 years

Oct. 4, 1962 Kentucky State Highway Commissioner Henry Ward said he had signed a contract for engineering work on a sevenmile stretch of the proposed Whitesburg-Hazard section of the Mountain Turnpike. Ward said he expected construction to begin next May. . The Letcher County Board of Education, under the leadership of its chairman, Dr. B.F. Wright, voted to challenge the […]

Blackey Day almost here



Blackey Improvement Committee started early in 2012 planning Blackey Day Festival, and it seems we blinked twice and it’s almost here. All of our committee members took part in the planning of Blackey Day Festival. We worked to make this the best little festival in the county. We don’t have the space that most festivals have to work with, so […]