2011-06-08

Help for job seekers



The Letcher County Public Libraries are now offering access to Job & Career Accelerator, a comprehensive online job search system. The online resource provides job seekers with everything they need to find their next job, in one easyto use application. The program helps job seekers plan, tailor and track multiple job searches simultaneously, while providing advice and tips. The program […]

Summer reading program set at Letcher Co. libraries



The Letcher County Public Libraries are hosting a summer reading program. ‘One World, Many Stories’ is the theme of the program, which will be held in all the libraries in Letcher County beginning on June 16. It will include six weeks of stories, games, a magic show, songs and dances. Stories and culture from around the world will be the […]

Speak Your Piece



Call 633-7508 from 9 am Tuesday to 9 am Friday. To a couple on Turkey Creek: It is a shame that you have the habit that you do. You live in a trailer with no power, water, electricity or sewage. You borrow all of that off your husband’s father. It seems to me that your husband, who works every day, […]

Treating our kids like they’re invalids



One of the currently crazy things happening in the world has nothing to do with dictators or Governators or tweeting private parts. It has to do with knees and bottoms. It is the issue of falling. On the market right now are three devices dedicated to making sure a child never gets a single boo-boo from a too-close encounter with […]

DAR to host workshop



The Daughters of the American Revolution, Pine Mountain Chapter will host a membership workshop on June 10. The workshop will be held on lower floor of the Harry M. Caudill Library. Registration will end at noon, Thursday, June 9. The class will begin at 9:30. There is a registration fee of $15, which will cover coffee, all material for the […]

THE RELAY FOR LIFE TEAM



Seedtime Festival here this week



Contemporary musicians The Seldom Scene, Ben Sollee and Woody Pines will join traditional and old-time music artists Lee Sexton, Jimmy and Ada McCown, Paul David Smith and others at the Seedtime on the Cumberland festival in downtown Whitesburg June 9-11. Billed as “A Celebration of Mountain Culture,” the event will also feature Appalshop film screenings, literary readings, arts and crafts […]

Soldiers honored on Memorial Day



We at Ermine Senior Citizens have had another slow week with not much going on. Monday, our centers were closed for Memorial Day so about six or seven of us went to the Veterans Museum for the memorial service for our soldiers. It was really nice. The cannon was shot, and they had the 21-gun salute, singing, and the Pledge […]

Crowd attends Smith family reunion



Sorry I didn’t have a column last week. I just got busy and didn’t find time to write. I hope that everyone had a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend. Lots of folks from out of town were here visiting recently. Chester and Odella Blair have been in for awhile and had a big yard sale while here. Nellie Kay […]

Leanza Mullins dies at 84



Leanza Mullins, 84, of Jenkins, died May 29 at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital. A daughter of the late Joe and Nancy Short, she was born at Hellier. She was the widow of Cody Thomas Mullins, the mother of the late Rodger Lee Mullins and Johnny Ray Mullins, and a grandmother of the late Scott Andrew Mullins, Phyllis Mullins, Brandy Mullins, […]