
See our special keepsake grad section in this week’s print edition of the Mountain Citizen.


There are coaches who win basketball games, and then there are coaches who shape communities. For nearly 40 years, Robin Newsome did both. On Tuesday, Martin County learned that one of the greatest figures in the history of local athletics was stepping away from the sideline. The statistics alone are staggering — 562 career victories,…

BY DOROTHY DILLON The Martin County Health Department is proud to announce that assistant director Deanna Muncy has graduated from the Kentucky Public Health Emerging Leadership Institute (KY-PHELI). KY-PHELI is a leadership development program designed to prepare emerging public health professionals for leadership roles across Kentucky. Through the program, participants engage in advanced training focused…


As Michael Scott famously said, “Well, well, well. How the turntables.” Just a couple of weeks ago, some Kentucky fans were ready to run Mark Pope out of Lexington. The transfer portal was not going the Wildcats’ way, and the social media panic button had been smashed repeatedly. Then Pope delivered. Kentucky landed the biggest…
