Category: Community

Carrie Community News

By Sylvia Combs Hello, readers — we hope all is well with everyone, but we do have many friends and neighbors that are dealing with serious health problems. We hope you will remember these people in your prayers and all…

Carrie Community News

By Sylvia Combs Hello, readers! Guess everyone is wondering where our news has been. Well, I went fishing for two weeks in Florida. We had a great time and caught 230 bluegill and shell crackers. That makes for some really…

Knott Health & Rehabilitation Center News

Hello, from the staff and residents here at Knott County Health & Rehabilitation Center. Monday, May 28, was Memorial Day. This is a Federal Holiday that was originally called Decoration Day and honored soldiers who had died during the Civil…

Bearville Notes

  By Sherri Hicks This picture is of our late grandparents, Polly Combs Hicks and Ezra Hicks. This is a photo that is on their headstone. This Hicks cemetery is located on top of the mountain called Laurel Fork Road…

BETA club hosts nursing home dance

  Kennedy King and the Knott County Central High School BETA club hosted a dance recently for residents of the Knott County Health and Rehabilitation Center. King, a 2011-2012 Rogers Scholar organized this wonderful event for the nursing home residents.

Monument erected for Beaver, Caney, Carr Creek veterans

  By SHARON K. HALL A memorial was dedicated Sunday to veterans of Knott County in the Beaver, Caney, and Carr Creek communities. A tarp was draped over the black granite monument as people poured in for the ceremony. People…

Knott’s oldest vet recalls service

By JORDAN THOMAS HALL At 92, William Hicks sits on his porch in Carrie and fondly remembers his early life. Before seeing military action overseas William was a shoeshine boy at the age of five in his father Virgie’s barbershop…

Bearville Notes

By Sherri Hicks These are our cousins on the Terry side of the family but they live in Eolia. Eolia is across Black Mountain and just up from Kingdom Come in Letcher County, Ky. When I was over there in…

Caney News

By Martha Baldridge It is late Sunday evening, and the snow is still falling — it started “in earnest” early this afternoon, after we got home from church. We are so thankful it waited, because we had great Sunday School…