Firm said interested in old W’burg hotel



The old Daniel Boone Hotel building in Whitesburg could undergo a transformation very similar to the one that turned the old Jenkins High School building into senior apartments. At the Whitesburg City Council’s February meeting Monday, Mayor James Wiley Craft told the council that AU Associates, the Lexington company that developed the Jenkins school, is apparently interested in a similar […]

MOUNTAIN SUNSET



Christy Morton snapped this shot of a sunset over Pine Mountain in Letcher County early last week.

Police Beat



Tuesday, January 28 At 8:03 a.m., a deputy reports to the sheriff ’s office that he has checked vehicles stranded on Sand Mountain at Gordon and found that the vehicles had no occupants. The deputy was dispatched to the scene after a concerned citizen alerted police about the vehicles. Wednesday, January 29 • At 1:39 a.m., a Blackey man calls […]

Bill would allow guns in Ky. bars





A bill to allow concealed deadly weapons in Kentucky bars has passed its first committee hearing in the Legislature. The Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee approved the measure Tuesday. The bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. John Schickel of Union, is the committee’s chairman. Current state law prohibits concealed firearms from being carried into bars, but Schickel’s bill would allow it as […]

Rites held for father, son found dead after ATV wreck



Joint funeral services were held Sunday for a father and son who appear to have died from injuries from an all-terrain vehicle accident in Jeremiah. Carlos Adams, 70, and Tracy “Stimey” Adams, 34, both of Jeremiah, were found in an embankment near Arthurs Loop in Blair Branch around 11 a.m. on February 6. The ATV left a dirt road adjacent […]

Landlords would not be liable for tenant’s dog under Senate bill




Landlords who live on their own property would not be financially liable for a tenant’s dog if it attacks another person under a bill passed by the Kentucky Senate. Republican Sen. Chris Girdler of Somerset called the bill an effort to reinforce personal responsibility and protect small-business owners. Senate Democrats express concerns that public health services like Medicaid would have […]

Political Cartoon



Phone proposal is risk to our safety



Pending before the Kentucky House Economic Development Committee is Senate Bill 99, a bill drafted by AT&T to complete the deregulation of phone service in Kentucky. In 2006, while allowing AT&T, Windstream, and Cincinnati Bell to deregulate other phone services, the General Assembly wisely decided that basic local phone service — which includes 911, 411, unlimited local calling and operator […]

Highly-educated working poor: America’s adjunct professors



There’s a growing army of the working poor in our U.S. of A., and big contingents of it are now on the march. They’re strategizing, organizing and mobilizing against the immoral economics of inequality being hung around America’s neck by the likes of Walmart, McDonald’s and colleges. Wait a minute. Colleges? That can’t be. After all, we’re told to go […]

The romance in your past



My family has one member of the Greatest Generation left. Aunt Shirley suffers some frailties of old age, but her mind is totally sharp. Her role of late has been as wise matriarch — to advise the rest of us on our revolving and evolving relationships, messes and issues. Then Jack turned up, and Aunt Shirley was transformed from observer […]