2014-06-25

Old cemetery vandalized



Police are still trying to determine the identities of vandals who damaged or destroyed at least 28 grave markers, some of them more than 100 years old, in one of the county’s oldest cemeteries. The Blair Cemetery, located near Pine Mountain Junction in Whitesburg, was vandalized sometime between the April, when it was mowed for the first time this season, […]

Salome’s Stars



ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Don’t be surprised if, in spite of your well-made plans, something goes awry. But don’t worry. Your knowledge of the facts plus your Arian charm will help you work it out. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) A personal relationship seems to be demanding more than you feel you’re able to give. Best advice: […]

Clips from available Mountain Eagle pages since our founding in 1908



Thursday, June 29, 1944 Joy Wray Frazier, valedictorian at Whitesburg High School, and Gracy Delois Hall, an honors student at Fleming-Neon High School, have been given one-year honorary subscriptions to Reader’s Digest magazine, Letcher Schools Superintendent Martha Jane Potter has announced. Frazier plans to enter Berea College. Hall is enrolled in a workshop at Whitesburg. . Republican Governor Earl Warren […]

The lost money bags

The Way We Were

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following column entitled “Picked Up in Passing: The Lost Money Bags” was published in the June 24, 1954 edition of The Mountain Eagle and concerns a tale that originated in the years after a May 14, 1892 mass murder near the Ken in tucky-Virginia border that has come to be known as “The Pound Gap Massacre” or […]

Political Cartoon



Should Amazon rule it all?



It’s the darnedest thing. Only a select few sites grace the bookmark bar topping my Web browser. Amazon.com is one. And Amazon is the only retailer to make the cut. That it lets me buy ant traps online in 40 seconds, gets them to my house in two days and charges a good price for it all is kind of […]

Drowning in rules



If you happen to pick up a copy of the Kansas legal code for the construction and administration of nursing homes — which, admittedly, you probably won’t — here are some of the rules: — “The facility shall store each prepared food, dry or staple food, single service ware, sanitized equipment, or utensil at least six inches or 15 centimeters […]

A year of living negatively




Republicans feel good about this fall’s election even though their party is sharply divided and its brand is badly tainted. The House GOP last week elected a balanced ticket of leaders in a relatively harmonious process. Nonetheless, the party’s right still complained that its voices were not heard. And a party leadership that thought it had quelled the tea party […]