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Is artificial intelligence getting too powerful?
BY KYLE LOVERN Artificial intelligence, or AI, has some people concerned, including me. I am old school. However, I do love the internet and computers and how they have made some things better. But it is weird when you surf the web for an item – for example, tennis shoes – then you start getting…
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Martin County School District wins $100,000 DOE Energy CLASS Prize
BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN The Martin County School District is among 25 districts nationwide to receive $100,000 as a Phase 1 winner in the Energy Champions Leading the Advancement of Sustainable Schools Prize. The Energy CLASS Prize is a competitive award promoting energy management in school districts across America. Martin County School District will…
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Mobile learning bus to roll in Fall 2023
BY LISA STAYTON MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Students at Martin County Area Technology Center are transforming a bus into a classroom that will bring services to preschool students who do not currently attend Head Start or Preschool in the county. The Martin County Board of Education and the Kentucky Department of Education agreed to implement…
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Kermit Demolition Derby Gallery
Organizers deemed Kermit Volunteer Fire Department’s demolition derby a success as a huge crowd came out to compete and watch the event Saturday on Marrowbone Creek. All proceeds benefit the fire department. The next event will be June 3.
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Police seize pound of meth
CITIZEN STAFF REPORT SALYERSVILLE — Police seized a pound of methamphetamine and half an ounce of heroin Monday at a traffic safety checkpoint in Salyersville. Kentucky State Police troopers and Post 9’s Drug Interdiction Unit conducted the checkpoint and arrested three individuals. Nikki Spurlock, 33, of Martin, was charged with trafficking controlled substance (methamphetamine), giving…
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Webb music shop hosting Memorial Day banjo workshop
BY PHILL BARNETT MOUNTAIN CITIZEN TOMAHAWK — James E. Webb Musical Repair and Sales has been a staple of the Stidham community since its opening in 1972. Though the little music shop was forced to shutter its doors in February 2022, it is now back up and running with the son of the original owner…
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R&J Building Supply Company celebrates 40 years
Retailer in Lovely offers superior merchandise and service BY DIANE SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN LOVELY — In a world where big box stores compete with local retailers on price and convenience, a place like R&J Building Supply Company in Lovely is an oasis of affordable, superior merchandise and service that keeps customers loyal. R&J opened in…
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Terrible ideas + evil actions /= ‘mental illness’
BY THOMAS KNAPP “One problem I have with the whole ‘mental illness’ frame for talking about mass shooters,” Paul Campos writes at Lawyers, Guns & Money, “is that the ‘mental illness’ often appears to be garden variety authoritarian ethno-nationalist misogyny, with the misogyny being the really critical ideological lynchpin [sic].” Campos is riffing on reports…
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County collects over 14,000 waste tires
BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County collected 14,238 tires during a three-day waste-tire collection event March 30-April 1. “That’s 14,238 tires that we don’t have to worry about being burned, buried or in a creek somewhere,” Martin County solid waste coordinator Eric Phelps said. “Any number is a good number, and that’s…
