
INEZ — Judge John T. Chafin heard the following cases Aug. 25 in Martin County: Kellie Ilene Blackburn (arraignment) – Failure to wear seat belt: Allegations taken as true, $25 fine, show cause 2/9/27. Jessica Lindsey Fouse (arraignment) – Failure to wear seat belts: Paid in full. Roy Kenneth Goble (arraignment) – Operating on suspended/revoked…

Martin County Fiscal Court made a decision Thursday that should trouble every taxpayer, regardless of which contractor ultimately would have been best suited for the job. The court chose Howell’s Recycling & Sanitation of Debord for demolition and restoration work on eight flood-buyout properties. Howell’s bids totaled $560,500. West Brothers Contracting of Varney, West Virginia,…

BY ANNIE HOLLER MOUNTAIN CITIZEN BEAUTY — More than three decades after Shaun Sweeney first imagined a murder mystery as a Martin County teenager, the story that stayed with him through adulthood has finally become a novel. Sweeney, a 1999 graduate of Sheldon Clark High School, published his first novel, “A Familiar Darkness,” in July.…


BY KYLE LOVERN MOUNTAIN CITIZEN RED JACKET, W.Va. — The Mingo Central Miners defeated the Tug Valley Panthers 37-6 on a beautiful, warm, late summer Thursday night, in the season opener for both teams at Buck Harless Stadium on Miner Mountain. The rivalry and bragging rights between the two Mingo County high schools went to…
