Martin News

By Bobbie Poynter / Community Editor Nearly 60 kids ages infant to teen turned out Tuesday for Corbin Public Library's Touch-A-Truck Day held in the Vintage House parking lot - soon to be the library's new location.

A Boyd County judge has been re-appointed to a regional judicial post. - A Boyd County judge has been re-appointed to a regional judicial post.

Kentucky State Police Post 09 would like to say welcome to five new Kentucky State Troopers, who graduated the Kentucky State Police Academy on Friday June 12, 2009.

Wanda Salyer, manager at the Super Dollar Market in Martin, Ky., begins cleaning up after a flood in May 1984.

In a May 8, 1984 file photo, Josephine Thompson, seated center, is joined on her porch by daughter Bernice Thompson, left, Michelle Clemmons and Vernie Akers, right, as floodwaters rise around her house in Martin, Ky., at the confluence of the Left and Right Beaver Creeks in Floyd County.

Muddy waters covered more than half of William Ward's home in Martin during the May flooding.

Special to the Times-Tribune Spring means Bluegrass in Kentucky. Four of the country's hottest groups will headline this year's Sally Gap Bluegrass Festival, to be held June 5-7 in Whitley County.

Ashland city officials are considering taking over the Ashland Cemetery. The 106-acre cemetery off Belmont Street operates as a nonprofit and is managed by a board of directors.

State Sen. Johnny Ray Turner recently sent a letter to U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers asking for assistance in keeping local post offices in Martin, Eastern and Langley open after the buildings were damaged by flooding earlier this month.

A murder investigation was opened last week after the remains of a man missing for 20 years were found in Magoffin County, while authorities continue their probe into the death of a Johnson County man whose remains were found in his burned automobile.

Supt. Henry Webb has issued a statement on the last day of school for students in Floyd County after receiving the final decision on the 2008-09 school calendar from the Kentucky Department of Education.

Members of UNITE Service Corps, a collaborative effort between Operation UNITE and AmeriCorps, gathered Thursday to celebrate the efforts of the last year among participants across seven counties.

Garry and Janet Taylor of Crab Orchard would like to announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Michelle Marie Taylor, to Joshua Paul Martin, son of Jill Martin of Willailla.

The mayor of Martin says she doubts her small eastern Kentucky coal mining town can handle another bout of flooding.

Five years ago, the federal government pledged $97 million to help this declining coal town move to higher ground to avoid its repeated flooding after heavy rains washed over the nearby banks of Beaver Creek.

MARTIN, Ky. -- People lined the streets with their damaged belongings -- some having lost nearly everything as a weekend flood reduced appliances, couches and beds to mud-covered debris.

MARTIN, Ky. - Gov. Steve Beshear is in eastern Kentucky, viewing damage from weekend storms that killed three and brought tornadoes and floods to the area.

Martin Mayor Thomasine Robinson donned wading boots Tuesday afternoon during a stop at the Martin Community Center to talk with Red Cross workers.

Flood victims lined the streets with their damaged belongings - some losing nearly everything - after a weekend flood reduced appliances, couches and beds to mud-covered debris.

As cleanup efforts continued Monday across Pike and other Eastern Kentucky counties, schools were closed and tetanus shots were offered.