The Letcher Fiscal Court has voted to spend $40,000 to buy the restaurant equipment that is in the former General Store at Pine Mountain Crossing. The county owns the building and had been leasing it to Tiffany Bullock Scott for $500 per month. She and her late husband had installed equipment and appliances and subleased the store to another manager […]
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Shutdown brings yet another delay in getting airport project going
The new airport planned for Letcher County is facing yet another delay, though this one should be short lived. The Letcher County Airport Board signed the grant agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration in September for funding to design the airport, but the agreement came just in time for the government shutdown. After 21 years of planning, the board is […]
Separate fights result in indictments against two accused of assault
Two men were indicted on first-degree assault charges after apparently unrelated fights at a veterans’ club near Whitesburg. Robbie Dale Collins, 29, of 19 Number 1 Bottom, Jenkins, was charged following an incident on August 24, when he allegedly cut Sheldon Yonts with a knife. He was also charged with persistent felony offender -first degree, as this was his fourth […]
Feeding babies peanuts early avoids allergies later?
A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world. Peanut allergies began to decline in the U.S. after guidance first issued in 2015 upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as […]
Claims error rate: 61%
It’s one thing to have a medical condition that neatly slots into the VA’s presumptive chart of toxic exposure-related illnesses. If you served at a location at a certain time, your illness is presumed to have been caused by that service under TERA, a toxic exposure risk activity. As the list of presumptives grows (courtesy of the PACT Act), so […]
Missing medical equipment at the VA
The VA appears to have lost $211 million worth of medical equipment from their facilities, approximately 5% of the total. This includes computers, exam tables, microscopes … over 75,000 items. Per a recent 13-month audit of medical facilities by the VA’s Office of Inspector General, there might be even more missing, because the VA only tracks nonexpendable items, those with […]
Black lung victims: We’ve been ‘cast aside to die’
When coal miners came to Washington in April, they posed behind President Trump at the White House, wearing their hard hats and thanking him for trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry. But on Tuesday dozens of miners and their families will be in a more unusual position: protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor Department building, arguing it has failed […]
Gurney Norman, well-known writer and poet, dies at 88; attended school here
Gurney Norman, former Poet Laureate of Kentucky, novelist, humorist, professor and Stuart Robinson School alumnus, has died. He was 88. Nyoka Hawkins, whom he married 29 years ago, announced his death Monday. “Gurney has died, yesterday, Sunday, October 12, around 4:00 p.m. “For some time now, but acutely for the past four months, Gurney faced multiple health challenges. He fought […]
Appeals Court judge warns sex offender may get an even longer prison sentence
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has remanded the case of a Jenkins man who pleaded guilty to 185 sex offenses against a minor to Letcher Circuit Court. Gary Dean Adams. Jr., 46, of Smokey Row in Jenkins, pleaded guilty in 2024, and agreed to a total of 10 years in prison and five years of conditional release, but changed his […]
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