Letters
Help those who help us
I would just like to tell you a story of hardship. When you’re at the end of the line and think nothing else can go wrong, pow! You get hit again. You feel alone and doubtful that you will get thr...
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Stop the madness
As a resident of the city of Prestonsburg and a two-time city council member of Prestonsburg, it is very alarming to me to see the so-called leadership of our community continually placing such a ...
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Show respect and consideration
My name is Betty Cook, and I have been a volunteer firefighter for our local fire department for several years. I answer calls to wrecks as well as house fire. I am writing this letter to express ...
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Story contained inaccuracies
Story contained inaccuracies I am writing to correct what I believe is misinformation that was contained in your newspaper story that appeared on Aug. 9. This law firm represents approximately 90...
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Investigate golf course
I am a Prestonsburg City Councilman and I am concerned about a situation we had at Stone Crest golf course last fall. It was brought to my attention after the fact that Mayor Jerry Fannin was goin...
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Standing up for coal
In the district that I represent, coal mining is a critically important source of employment for hundreds of families. Coal mining paychecks send our children to college, and community, technical ...
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Say it ain’t smelly, Kelly
by Jack Latta, of Prestonsburg
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“Say it ain’t so, Joe.” That statement was allegedly made following the Black Sox scandal of 1919 in which famed Chicago outfielder “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was found guilty of throwing the World Ser...
Turner, Stumbo commend city
by Sen. Johnny Ray Turner and Rep. Greg Stumbo
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We would like to commend Mayor Jerry Fannin and the Prestonsburg City Council for their foresight and leadership in assuming the operation of the Jenny Wiley Executive Golf Course. The golf course ...
Smoke ban opponents employ ‘smoke and mirrors’
by Michael D. Vance, of Prestonsburg
3 months ago | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
As I express my opinion regarding the proposed smoke-free ordinance in Prestonsburg I want to make it quite clear that, as a former member of Prestonsburg City Council (1988-1994) I have great resp...
Public health is the issue
by Jack Latta, of Prestonsburg
3 months ago | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
A few years back I made the healthy, informed decision to quit smoking. Two years, five months, four days, and 12 hours to be exact, but who’s counting? The main reason I gave up the habit was that...
No harm from being smoke-free
by John Rosenberg, of Prestonsburg
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Hats off to Pig In a Poke, already one of Prestonsburg’s favorite eating places. Now, the owners, Brian and Tammy Cramer, have quietly and without fanfare opened their very nicely appointed bar and...
Beware of government health care
by Anna R. Penna, of Louisa
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I grew up in Eastern Kentucky during the 1960s in what was then classified as the poorest all-white county in the nation. I was orphaned at the age of 4 when my father was killed in a coal mine exp...
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