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Hale receives official offer
Martin County senior Luke Hale received his first official offer to play college basketball from Campbellsville University. Hale announced Coach Austin Sparrow’s offer Sunday. The shooting guard is averaging 23.9 points and five rebounds per game for the Cardinals this season, shooting 85.7% from the free-throw line, 44.6% from the field and 35.4% from the…
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Hope you can keep your New Year’s resolutions
It is another new year. I’m sure many of you are like me, you wonder how time flies by so fast. It seems the older we get the years go by faster and faster. Now that we are into 2024 – I am sure many of you have made your New Year’s resolutions. According to…
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Mountain Citizen Players of the Week: Martin County Youth Wrestling
INEZ — Martin County Youth Wrestling team takes Mountain Citizen Players of the Week honors. The Cardinals finished second out of 37 teams in the Hatfield & McCoy last week at Appalachian Wireless Arena. Ten wrestlers claimed first place in their divisions, five finished as runners-up and nine came in third.
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Seeking approval
“Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” John 12:42-23 The Pharisees of Jesus’ day should have been the first to…
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Freedom ‘for’
Robert Youngs gives this illustration: I have on my table a violin string… it is free. I twist one end of it and it responds. It is free. But it is not free to do what a violin string is supposed to do–produce music. So I take it, fix it in my violin and tighten…
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All ‘A’ Classic brackets
The Martin County Lady Cardinals and Cardinals will play in the 15th Region All “A” Classic tournaments at the Appalachian Wireless Arena. The Lady Cards will take on Phelps at 6 p.m. Jan. 5 in the first contest between the two this season. If the Lady Cardinals win their first-round game they will play the…
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Telling the Story: The ‘Do not be afraids’ of Christmas
It’s hard to let go of Christmas. The “Do not be afraids”are still on my mind. When the angel visited Mary in Nazareth, the words gushed from Gabriel’s mouth: “Do not be afraid…you have found favor with God.” Seeing an angel right in front of her would have been terrifying. Pondering it from this side,…
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Russell Coleman sworn in as 52nd Kentucky Attorney General
LA GRANGE — Russell Coleman was sworn in as the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s 52nd Attorney General in a private ceremony just after midnight Jan. 1. He took the Oath in Commonwealth’s Attorney Courtney Baxter’s office in Oldham County, where he previously served as a prosecutor. Coleman, who was joined by his wife Ashely and their…
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Kenna Rose Maynard Obituary
Kenna Rose Maynard 1977—2023 Kenna Rose Maynard, 46, of Tomahawk, passed away at her home Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. Born Jan. 25, 1977, in Ashland, she was the daughter of the late Larry and Margaret Ann Maynard. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by one sibling, Tracy Maynard. Kenna is survived…
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Johnie Moore Obituary
Johnie Moore 1952—2023 Johnie Moore, 71, of Inez, passed away Monday, Dec. 25, 2023, at the Pikeville Medical Center in Pikeville. Born March 10, 1952, in Inez, he was the son of the late Thurman and Mary (Stacy) Moore. Johnie’s occupations included a sawmill, railroad, logger and coal miner at Martin County Coal (Massey). He…
