2021-04-14

Wishing Well

SCRAMBLERS

Salome’s Stars

For week of April 19

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Whether a waiting period is taking longer than expected, or just seems that way, the anxious Lamb would do well to create a center of calm within her- or himself, and not do anything rash. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Practical matters dominate the week, but cultural activities also are favored, especially those […]

Bike ride nets $1,710 for autism support

A benefit ride for autism awareness, sponsored by the Seventh Sons Motorcycle Club of Letcher County, raised $1,710 for Autism Awareness Advocates – Letcher County. Saturday’s ride was the seventh for autism awarness sponsored by the Seventh Sons. Other clubs participating in the ride the Highwaymen, Brothers of the Wheel, SAG, Fallen Kings, Combat Vets Motorcycle Association, VFW Riders, Soldiers […]

Craft is thankful for his recovery

Whitesburg Mayor James Wiley Craft, who has been treated for cancer for the past several months, says he’s back and ready to get to work. Tiffany Craft, who is married to the mayor, announced last week that he is out of the hospital and cancer free. Mayor Craft said Tuesday that so far, that’s true. Doctors saw no cancer when […]

Flood cleanup caused water shortage in Neon


Too much muddy water was related to a shortage of treated water in the City of Fleming-Neon. At the April meeting of the Fleming-Neon City Council, Mayor Susie Polis told the council that it had taken so much water to clean the mud left over from the flooding off of city streets that members of the Neon Volunteer Department, who were […]

Six are sentenced after entering pleas of guilty

Charges related to methamphetamine and fleeing from police dominated guilty pleas in Letcher Circuit Court. • Jeffrey Jay Sturgill, 119 Little Biggs Rd., McRoberts, pleaded guilty last week to first-degree criminal possession of methamphetamine, second-degree possession of buprenorphine, use/ possession of drug paraphernalia, and first-degree bail jumping. Sturgill was sentenced to serve three years probated for five years on the drug […]

Corrections

A story in last week’s edition of The Mountain Eagle contained an error in the sentencing of Clifford Jermaine Caudill, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Ricky Allen Gibson in April 2018. Caudill’s plea agreement calls for 15 years on the manslaughter charge, and an additionalfive in a different case involving contraband […]