Eugene Day marks 90th birthday



Hello folks. By popular demand I am back. So many people have missed my article so I will try to write and when I move to Indiana I will try to combine the two because lots of folks from here have been up there for years so it’s nice to keep people informed. Lots of stuff going on this month. […]

Moments and Memories of WHS



1946 Whitesburg holds annual Junior-Senior Banquet The annual Jr.-Sr. Banquet was a colorful array of pretty girls in lovely evening gowns and handsome boys in their best suits, a very attractively decorated banquet hall carrying out the Hawaiian theme with palms, orange and green crepe paper, hanging balloons, confetti, sprigs of rhododendron centered with flowers, and on the tables, dreamy […]

Rites held for Norma Huff



Funeral services for Norma Jean McHone Huff, 85, of Neon, were held May 4 in Neon. Born in Millstone to the late Claude Lee and Mammie Cowan McHone, she died April 30 at Lake Cumberland Medical Center in Somerset. The widow of Clyde Huff, Jr., she was the mother of the late Jimmy Donald Huff, and a sister of the […]

Robert Spangler buried at Ermine



Robert Mitchell Spangler, 63, died May 11 at his home at Thornton. A son of the late George and Hazel Kincer Spangler, he was a brother of the late James Nelson Spangler. Surviving are his companion, Audrey Lucas; a son, Robert Lee Spangler of Midway; a daughter, Shileena Spangler of Newport, Tenn.; three brothers, George Spangler Jr. of Mt. View, […]

Services held for Jeramie McFall



Jeramie Wayne McFall, 36, died April 26 at his home in Neon. Born in Whitesburg to Jesse McFall, Sr., and the late Bonnie Stewart McFall, he was a brother of the late Nathan Wayne McFall, Payton Gage McFall, Aidan Wayne McFall, Howard McFall, Donnie McFall and Bobby McFall. Surviving in addition to his father are his wife, Tracie Wells McFall, […]

What could be the cause of car’s epically crazy gas consumption?



Dear Car Talk: I live in Kigali, Rwanda. I have a 1995 Toyota RAV4 two-door with an automatic transmission with 132,000 kilometers on it. It had, at some point, been converted from right-hand drive to left-hand drive, before being imported. It has crazy gas consumption — I get one kilometer per liter! The air is really dusty here; the car […]

Bible trivia



1. Is the Book of Isaiah in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. Whose first chapter begins, “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus”? Matthew, Luke, John, Acts 3. From 2 Kings 1, what Philistine city worshipped Baal-zebub? Ekron, Succoth, Gomorrah, Antipatris 4. As found in Acts 9, where did Peter cure Aeneas? Tyre, Neapolis, Lydda, Gibeon […]

Loneliness hurts seniors as much as disease




WASHINGTON Grandma’s cholesterol is OK, but maybe the doctor should be asking about her social life, too. Think about health during the senior years, and a list of common ailments pops to mind. But that’s not the whole story. New research suggests factors such as loneliness and whether they’ve broken any bones since middle age also play a role in […]

Does your dog freak out over loud noises? Help is coming as soon as next week, firm says




Ace and Bella and other pet dogs may not have to cower under the bed this summer when fireworks and thunderstorms hit, thanks to the first prescription veterinary medicine for treating anxiety over loud noises — a widespread problem that causes property destruction, terrified dogs running away and even life-threatening injuries or euthanasia for some. Veterinary medicine maker Zoetis Inc. […]

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