Struttin’ Time:

Can you learn from a mud turtle?

I suppose that we all do bone headed things, but it seems like my numbers are adding up faster than our national debt. While driving a country road early one evening, I saw a giant mud turtle right in the middle of the road. My first thought was, ‘What would Turtle Man do in a case like this?” Oh yes, […]

Just watching work makes me tired

Whitesburg

Hello everyone. Hope you all are doing well and that all who aren’t doing well are feeling better. It was good hearing from my friend Anna Watkins. I always enjoy hearing from my friends who have moved away and have kept in touch with me. Our sympathy goes out to the Billy Palumbo family, who passed recently. He was the […]

TO WED



Camilla Joseph and James Cummings, together with their families, announce their forthcoming marriage. She is the daughter of Drinda Joseph of Cowan and the late Charles Everett Joseph of Cowan. He is the son of Donald “Bulldog” and Carolyn Cummings of Big Cowan. The wedding will take place on June 21 at 7 p.m. at Kingscreek. Formal invitations have been […]

Rites held for Kenneth Gooch



Kenneth Bryan Gooch, 78, of Millstone, died June 2 at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital. Born in Neon to the late Jennings Bryan and Katie Meade Gooch, he was a brother of the late Ina Hall, Vernon Gooch, and James Gooch. Mr. Gooch began his professional career teaching at Goose Creek, Seco, and Hemphill schools, then began his banking career at […]

Services held for Desta Neikirk



Funeral services for Letcher County native Desta Baker Combs Neikirk, 69, held Sunday in Somerset at the Lake Cumberland Funeral Home. Born in Whitesburg to the late William Garfield and Lula Collins Baker, she was the widow of her second husband, Durward Neikirk Jr., and a sister of the late Renfro Baker. Mrs. Neikirk died at her home in Lexington […]

Events and activities planned at Hemphill Communty Center

Hemphill

Here are the events scheduled for this month at the Hemphill Community Center and Senior Citizens Center: • Weekly: Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., we will be doing exercises to help combat arthritis. • Weekly: Wednesday at 10:30 a.m., we will be playing Bingo. All seniors in the Hemphill and Boone Fork area are encouraged to come to the Hemphill Center […]

Political Cartoon



What others say about new EPA rules



We are devoting this week’s commentary page to a sampling of editorials that have appeared in newspapers elsewhere in Kentucky and across the United States since June 2, when the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced its new policy on carbon emissions from power plants. The ‘War’ is real President Barack Obama claims not to be conducting a war on coal, […]

HAILING D-DAY INVASION

The Way We Were

A banner headline in the Thursday, June 8, 1944 edition of The Mountain Eagle told the news of the Allied Forces’ successful invasion of Normandy, France that occurred two days earlier. Shown in photo is Cpl. Eugene Polly, who was wounded in battle in February. See related information elsewhere on this page.

Clips from available Mountain Eagle pages since our founding in 1908



Thursday, June 14, 1934 Dangerous and possibly rabid dogs have bitten about 20 people in Letcher County so far this year. Each of the bite victims has taken the $25 remedy and suffered its excruciating pain, but one little child has died of rabies because she could not have the serum. These statistics are made even more important as a […]