So, on Sunday morning, maybe you’re getting ready for church and finding your Sunday best a little too snug after a few too many funnel cakes and blooming onions at the Jenny Wiley Pioneer Festival...
Our View: Chip in while you’re having fun
It’s festival time again in Floyd County, with the Jenny Wiley Pioneer Festival currently underway in Prestonsburg, and Martin’s Red, White and Blue Day event on tap for next week. Each year, thes...
Our View: Triumph of the boors
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen far many more examples of astonishing impudence than we really needed. A lawmaker heckling the president during a formal address to Congress. A profession...
Our View: A competition where everyone is a winner
This month, residents of Floyd County engage in a little friendly rivalry with other communities, while making a positive difference in the environment and aesthetics of their hometowns. September...
Our View: Hope for new road springs anew
The informational meeting held last week concerning a proposal to widen most of the Mountain Parkway to four lanes was a classic example of good news and bad news. First, the bad news: The project...
Parkway meeting needs local input
There seems to be a consistent theme developing this year, as we keep seeing the advent of things we thought would never happen, but which probably should have happened long ago. We’ve seen it on...
Our View: The middle path
On Friday, we published a story representing two divergent viewpoints on the future of Eastern Kentucky, particularly in relation to coal mining. On one side was Ron Eller, a University of Kentuck...
We will be the first to admit that we do not understand all of the complicated mechanics behind flood control planning, so we do not know whether the city of Martin is best served by continuing wit...
The fiscal court’s efforts to develop a horse trail system around Dewey Lake is one of the most significant developments to promote tourism in Floyd County in the last several years, and it’s one t...
It’s a common lament among both children and adults in Floyd County ... “There’s nothing to do!” Of course, that’s not quite true. What the complaint usually means is, “I can’t think of anything ...
The city of Wheelwright will be throwing a party this weekend, holding the first festival in that community in many years. Coal Camp Days, to be held Saturday and Sunday, is being billed as a way ...
This past weekend’s flooding is among the most widespread and destructive seen in quite some time, and that’s saying a lot for a county that has seen quite a few floods over the past decade. In th...
On the other hand, this weekend’s flood also underscored the need for new life to be injected into the Martin Redevelopment Project. Under the original timetable, the project should be finished by...
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