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Kermit advances Messer’s hopes to transform historic auditorium into cultural hub
BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN KERMIT — The Kermit Council took official action last week to move forward on a potential lease of the old Kermit High School Auditorium to businessman John David Messer. Council members voted in favor of Mayor Charles Sparks pursuing guidance from the town’s attorney about entering into a 50-year lease…
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PMC among first in nation to perform advanced novel atrial fibrillation procedure
PIKEVILLE — Pikeville Medical Center performed its first procedure with the Medtronic PulseSelect™ Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System on Thursday, Feb. 15. The Medtronic PulseSelect™ Pulsed Field Ablation System uses PFA – a breakthrough technology that uses pulsed electric fields to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib) – for the treatment of qualifying patients with paroxysmal or…
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Fishing and hunting license year runs March 1-Feb. 28
DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE Licenses and permits to fish, hunt and trap in Kentucky in the coming license year are on sale now. The commonwealth offers some of the finest outdoor opportunities available anywhere. The 2024-2025 license year starts March 1 and runs through Feb. 28 of next year. License and permit…
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Wilma Lee Spaulding Obituary
Wilma Lee Spaulding 1944—2024 Wilma Lee Spaulding, 79, of Lovely, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, at the Cornerstone Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. Born July 13, 1944 in Pilgrim, she was the daughter of the late Warren G. Jude and Annie Howell Jude. Wilma is preceded in death…
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Remembering the old small-town movie theaters
The days of the small-town movie theaters are a thing of the past. I am sure most of you have some fond memories of attending the old Cinderella Theater on Third Avenue in downtown Williamson. Many of you who grew up in or near another small town in the 1950s through the 1970s also had…
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Notes from Calvary: Choosing to yield control
“And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,” Exodus 34:6 It seems that for the last few years at least, the vast majority of the things we have written to you in these weekly articles have been of a…
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The Pastor’s Pen: Two pennies
We live in a fallen, sin-cursed world—a world where our Lord warned us that it would rain on the just and the unjust. There is no escape for anyone from the tragedies of this world. These events remind us that our anchor and our hope is not in this world but in our Lord and…
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Telling the Story: God at work
Not everyone knows about Jesus. It still surprises me to find that to be true. While I grew up going to Sunday and Wednesday church services, Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. Countless others did not. While I know Him personally and He walks with me each day, to some He is an unknown person,…
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As blood runs short, Red Cross seeks donors
BY AL CROSS KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS Responding to a potentially dangerous shortage of blood, Gov. Andy Beshear and his wife set an example Feb. 12 by donating blood in the state Capitol and hosting a blood drive in the Capitol Education Center. First Lady Britainy Beshear said before they donated that the number of blood…
