Front Page - The Mountain Eagle (2024)

A Doty Creek woman is dead following what is believed to be a dog attack, the second such attack on the same property in the past two months. In the previous attack, which took place in April, a toddler was severely injured, but no charges and no lawsuit was ever filed, law enforcement and animal control officials said. The boy […]

Fleming-Neon moved closer to being a wet city at the June city council meeting. A ballot measure in May’s city election resulted in a nearly 80 percent majority (66-17) vote to legalize the sale of alcohol within city limits. The city council held a special meeting on May 28 to hear the first reading of the Alcohol Beverage Control Ordinance […]

Jenkins school employees will be getting raises, with some as high as 10 percent, when the new fiscal year begins on July 1. At its May meeting, the Jenkins Board of Education voted to give 5 percent raises to certified staff, which includes teachers and administrators. Meanwhile, a $1 per hour increase will be given to support staff such as […]

The U.S. Post Office will be closed next Wednesday ( June 19), for the Juneteenth National Independence Day holiday. The Mountain Eagle will be delivered late to mail subscribers because of the closure. The federal law designating Juneteenth as a national holiday was signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021 to celebrate the end of slavery, and Kentucky […]

The bridge leading into the community of Blackey will be closed indefinitely for repairs after an inspection turned up a weakened steel plate connecting the bridge trusses to the deck. Inspectors were on the bridge last Friday and issued the closure order on Monday. “They found that there was a gusset plate, which is a plate that holds some of […]

Jenkins Police Chief Jim Stephens (left) made 9-year-old Noah Gibson an Honorary Lifeguard of the City of Jenkins. As reported in last week’s Mountain Eagle, Noah Gibson was with his family at a hotel in North Carolina when he saved an 8-year-old boy from drowning in the hotel pool.

A Cowan man convicted in the 2001 murders of Timothy “Blister” Cook and his 2-year-old son T.J. has died in prison. Family members of the victims received notification from the Department of Corrections this morning that Jerome Boggs, 55, had died. Boggs was serving life without parole in the Southeast Correctional Complex at Wheelwright. He apparently died of cancer, sources […]

“They’re surrounding us.” A group of approximately 35 Jenkins citizens, including people using canes, walkers, and wheelchairs, crowded into city hall at Monday night’s city council meeting to raise concerns about a pack of dogs they say has become dangerous. “They are attacking us,” one person said about the pack that roams near the Jenkins School Apartments, an assisted-living building […]

It’s been 53 years since Mountain Motor Speedway opened its gates for the first time, and two years since the dirt track, now known as Mountain Motor Complex, was turned into “a huge cereal bowl” when Rockhouse Creek left its banks and inundated the track. But it’s back, once again under new ownership and running motorcycles, go karts, No-Prep drag […]

Nearly two years after the worst flood in Letcher County’s known history residents are getting fed up with the condition of the state highways around the county that were damaged by the flood. Residents from Blackey, Eolia, Kingdom Come Creek, Seco, Fleming-Neon, and Whitesburg are clamoring for roads to be fixed after damaging tires, and being run off the road […]