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Kermit’s unjust settlement: A call for fairness
Kermit, tabbed the epicenter of the opioid crisis, recently received its first installment of settlement funds from the state’s massive legal agreements with opioid manufacturers, distributors and prescribers. The sum, a mere $20,000, is half of a 15-year settlement plan totaling $40,000. This amount, broken down to an annual sum of $1,200 for the next…
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‘Coal Miner’s Son’
People occasionally will ask about my upbringing, family life and Appalachian roots. So, here is my song that I wrote and recorded titled “Coal Miner’s Son.” Maybe you can relate to some parts of the following lyrics.Daddy slept all day, worked all nightGot home early by dawn’s daylight.Mommy made gravy, biscuits and eggsFried apples, we…
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Cornbread and milk and other old-fashioned meals
How many of you remember eating cornbread and milk? I certainly do. Many times it was a nighttime snack at our house. It was a simple mixture made by crumbling leftover cornbread into a tall drinking glass and topping it with milk. My dad preferred buttermilk, although I preferred sweet milk. (There is no way…
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Martin County court dockets (Jan. 2 and Jan. 4)
District Court INEZ — Judge John T. Chafin heard the following cases Jan. 2 in Martin District Court: Rebecca Bennett (pretrial conference) — Assault, fourth degree (domestic violence), minor injury: Bench warrant $500 cash. Henry Butcher (pretrial conference) — Receiving stolen property $500-$1,000: Reset 2/27/24 at 9 a.m. Jessica Dallas (pretrial conference) — 1. Failure…
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Martin County civil suits, deeds and marriages
Civil Suits INEZ — Martin Circuit Clerk Denise Gauze reported the following civil suits filed in her office: Independent Capital Holdings LLC vs. Unknown Heirs of Clyde. Eagle Finance Company vs. Dwayne Puckett et al. CKS Prime Investments LLC vs. Bill Day Sr. Community Trust Bank vs. Melinda Fletcher. Tiffany Grace vs. Pamela Sue Bowen…
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Seeking Approval Part 2
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being…
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Trust your King
From a great chess player of Cincinnati, we learn that in the early part of the last century, an artist who was also a great chess player painted a picture of a chess game. The players were a young man and Satan. The young man manipulated the white pieces; Satan the black pieces. The issue…
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Telling the Story: Prayer and the wish book
Way back in the 1900s, there was an amazing, magnificent, almost magical book of wishes. Each year, the Sears, Roebuck, and Company issued a treasured catalog containing all the toys on earth, and it went to Every. Single. Household. Kids young and old anxiously awaited its arrival in the fall. Dolls of every size and…
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David Sluss Obituary
David Sluss 1981—2024 David Sluss, 42, of Portsmouth, Ohio, passed away Jan. 4, 2024. Born July 14, 1981, in Huntington, West Virginia, he was the son of Hershel Sluss and Tami Headrick. In addition to his parents, he is survived by two sons, Caden Andrew Sluss and Damon Edward Sluss; one sister, Michelle (Jason) Cook;…
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Bessie (Spence) Anderson Obituary
Bessie (Spence) Anderson 1942—2024 Bessie Anderson, 81, of Tomahawk, passed away Jan. 6, 2024, at her residence. Born May 13, 1942, in Martin County, she was the daughter of the late Shirley and Mary Collins Spence. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Vern Anderson; her daughter, Virginia Cassell;…
