Lee and Juanita Taylor will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Sunday. Married March 14, 1950, their marriage was blessed with two daughters, Sherry (who passed away five years ago) and Patt...
Unexpected weather in Egypt History was made this past Thursday. It started like this: I had the day off work and had planned on using my free day to complete various errands – ATM run, grocery shopping, cleaning house, et...
David & Ona-Lee Crockett celebrate 50 years together David and Ona-Lee Crockett are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary today. David Crockett and Ona-Lee Lambert were joined together in marriage on March 2, 1960. Residents of Forge Ridge, T...
Miller & Boldin wed Michael Boldin and Sherri Miller were united in marriage at the Cumberland Gap Wedding Chapel on Saturday, February 13. The bride is the daughter of Boyd and Cleo Gray of Middlesboro. The bridegro...
Celebrating 50 years together N. J. and Maureen (Petrey) Tramell are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary today. “We thank God for 50 wonderful years together,” say Mr. and Mrs. Tramell. Married February 17, 1960, in J...
Pickin’ onions When we go to the store to buy onions, our only concern is whether they are the sweet type. Next, are they white, yellow or red, or are they bagged or loose. We only buy what we need and long term...
Harvesting Early Corn There are several types of vegetable that we always try to be the first in our neighborhood to harvest. The first in my garden is the tomato and the second is fresh corn. Unlike the tomato, corn...
Outdoor Truths As many of you know, sometimes it is more fun to take someone hunting than it is to go yourself. This is especially true when it comes to your own children. But that’s not the only time. I rememb...
Awkward stages Life as of now: I have been in Greece now for over four months, and I have become accustomed to some of the culture differences thus far, but of course I learn the hard way with any situation I en...
Cobbs celebrate golden wedding anniversary Ralph and Wanda Cobb will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, February 6. They were married in Bell County by the Rev. Wren Thacker on February 6, 1960. Their mothers, Lona...
Hartley & Dixon announce engagement Dr. and Mrs. James Scott Hartley of Elizabethtown, Ky., announce the engagement of their daughter, Lucinda Jo Trimble Hartley to Justin David Dixon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Dixon II of Midd...
Former Middlesboro resident Nola Whitaker recently celebrated her 90th birthday at Heritage in Corbin, Ky., with family and friends. Whitaker, who lived on Exeter Avenue for many years and is a mem...
Ira “Ray” and Mary Starr of Williams Branch are celebrating their 66th wedding anniversary today. Married February 3, 1944, in Detroit, Mich., they have three sons and three wonderful daughters-in...
Dr. and Mrs. James G. Maddox of Middlesboro are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jenna Meridith Maddox to Mark Breckenridge Gibbs, son of Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gibbs of New Bern...
When you plant gourds, whether they are edible varieties or not, along a fence line in your garden, you are never really certain what the results will be. Gourds, as a group, certainly have the old...
This past week just about everyone I know was suffering with some kind of head and chest congestion accompanied with fits of coughing and sneezing, leaving the strongest person feeling tired and de...
Fay N. Davis celebrated her 91st birthday Thursday, January 10 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law and Shirley and Ernie Gambrel in Cumberland Gap Tenn., where she lives. This was her fir...
Often I recall these resonating words recited to me by Coach Whaley, one of my high school history teachers: “Baker, you need to eat more Honey Buns— they’re brain food.” I chuckle about these word...
CENSUS TESTING will be held at the following sites and dates (no appointments necessary, walk-ins welcome): Bell County Board of Education Building: Jan. 25 at 10 a.m.; Jan. 29 at 10 a.m. Pinevi...
Whenever I am invited out to dinner, whether at a friend’s house or to a local club meeting, I always volunteer to bring the homemade bread. This way, people can taste for themselves just how good...
I am getting ready to take my yearly Alabama hunting trip. It is always my last deer hunt before I take a short break from the woods. I’ve not killed any really big bruiser bucks this year, but a c...
Millard Claiborne Knuckles will celebrate his 96th birthday on January 25. In honor of the occasion, a birthday celebration will be held Saturday, January 23, at 2 p.m. at Ryan’s Steakhouse in Midd...
Speedwell, Tenn., residents Roy and Ruby Saylor celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary Friday. They were married January 15, 1953, in Bell County at the Page Cut Off home of Abe and Edna Hoskin...
I’ve written about using your raised bed for growing on the surface of the bed and for trellising to get extra height for vining crops such as cukes, pole beans, squash and melons. Now we should t...
After a very pleasant and much too short vacation to Kentucky for the holidays, I find myself back in Egypt. Still a bit sick for home and the comfort of the American way, I haven’t fully warmed up...
Mae Campbell, a former resident of Route 1 Clear Creek Road in Pineville, recently celebrated her 100th birthday. Mrs. Campbell moved to Lima, Ohio, to be near her children (son Conrad, and daught...
Smiles can tell us a lot about a person. Sometimes we make judgments about a person based on his or her smile. Seemingly, we have gone crazy with teeth whitening to perfect our smiles. As I made my...
Bill and Teresa Sifton, Middlesboro, announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Rebecca Lynne to Joshua Yeary, son of Mike Yeary of Harrogate, Tenn., and Sharron Yeary of Ewing, Va. The ...
After our failed attempt for an overnight stay at Mt. Olympus, as I said in my last column, we finally made it back to Litohoro where we found a nice, clean, inexpensive hotel. After checking in we...
As I travel around the county talking with folks about the merits and methods of establishing an organic raised bed garden, the owner and I are often faced with embranglement, particularly those th...
MIDDLESBORO — Middlesboro ARH Hospital welcomed its first baby of the new year born on January 1, 2010. At 9:14 a.m., John Williamson, MD, delivered Kylie Amy Daugherty. She weighed 7 pounds and 1...
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