2018-01-24

Moments and Memories of WHS



1967 Some of the members of the senior class are: Artie Baker: Favorite food and drink – Chicken and Pepsi; Favorite singer – Loretta Lynn; Secret ambition – Go around the world; Pet Peeve – For someone to pop their fingers; Favorite Song – Pushing Too Hard. Larry Brown: Favorite food and drink – Steak and milk; Favorite singer – […]

LED lights can interfere with vehicle radio signal



Dear Car Talk: My husband installed LED lights in our 2012 Chevy Malibu LTZ. Since then, the radio signal has been awful! Even some of the 50,000- watt stations don’t come in very well anymore. My favorite radio station is mostly static, and cuts in and out so much that it makes me miserable. I have even taken to driving […]

Coal camp community to launch brick oven bakery



The launch of the Black Sheep Brick Oven Bakery, a community-owned business that will offer work, ownership, and training opportunities to local residents, as well as fresh-baked bread, was held January 19. The event included bluegrass music, shape note singing, homecooked food, and stories from the Hemphill community and beyond. PBS News Hour was on site covering the event. Photographs […]

Moments in Time



• On Jan. 26, 1788, the first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia land in Botany Bay. With the American victory in the Revolutionary War, transgressors could no longer be shipped across the Atlantic. Over the next 60 years, some 50,000 criminals were sent to Australia. • On Jan. 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine in South Africa, the […]

Brick Sheep bakery to open



Go to our Facebook page for announcements and pictures posted after each event, www.facebook.com/ pages/Hemphill-Community Center. We are very grateful for all our lovely friends who joined us on Friday night to celebrate our Black Sheep Brick Oven Bakery Project. The project will be a much needed revenue stream for Hemphill Community Center and jobs and training for local folks. […]

Letcher County guided tours are scheduled on weekends



Discover Letcher County Guided Tours kicked off its 2018 schedule this past weekend, Jan. 20 and Jan. 21. During the winter offseason, participants can save more than 30 percent on regular tour ticket prices. Through March 31, the cost of most tours is $20 for adults and $7 for children 10 years of age and younger. Last weekend the public […]

Margaret Blair dies at 82



Margaret Tolliver Blair, 82, died January 18 at her home in Morehead. A daughter of the late Johnie D. and Lavada Caudill Tolliver, she was the widow of Kenneth Maggard, and later married Charles Blair, who survives her. She was a sister of the late Jimmy E. Tolliver. Born in Jenkins, she was graduated from Fleming- Neon High School, and […]

Jeremy Cook dies at 39



Funeral services were held earlier this month for Jeremy Reid Cook, 39, of Stanford, who died January 1 in Cincinnati after a long illness. Born in Whitesburg to Jerry and Diane Cook of Thornton, he worked as a physical therapy assistant at Signature Healthcare in Brodhead and Danville for 16 years. Jeremy was an avid golfer who loved spending time […]

Police say body found; no foul play suspected



Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on Town Hill between Little Cowan and Whitesburg, but foul play in not suspected. Gas company employees working on the reclaimed strip mine site between Little Cowan and Whitesburg found the body of Lindsay Lee Boggs, 57, of Little Cowan about 9 a.m. Tuesday when they drove up […]

2 dead, 17 injured in Ky. school shooting




BENTON, Ky. A 15-year-old student killed two classmates and hit a dozen others with gunfire Tuesday, methodically firing a handgun inside a crowded atrium at his rural Kentucky high school. “He was determined. He knew what he was doing,” said Alexandria Caporali, who grabbed her stunned friend and ran into a classroom as their classmates hit the floor. “It was […]