“Oil men searching for new pools, additional capitalists and operators coming in by the scores: many big deals brewing. The in-rush of capitalists and operators from all parts of the Union has been particularly noticeable the past few days.” The news quotation is from The Irvine Sun, spring 1916.  The decade of 1910-1919 was a […]

The students and teachers, the administrators and the service workers of the Estill County School System deserve praise for working hard in their roles. But equally deserving of praise are the members of the district’s Board of Education, not only for their work but for their leadership. L.W. Beckley, Jonathan Bicknell, Patricia Hood, Robbie Starling […]

2015: How do you like the sound of that?  And can you believe that it’s already been 15 years since the Y2K scare when civilization as we know it was supposed to come crashing down? There’s a lesson to be learned here.  Don’t cave to alarmist thinking, which is easy to do if you watch […]

Allow me to ask you a question. Have you ever done something and then denied it? Maybe you denied it for so long that you even started to believe it yourself. After you deny something for awhile you get comfortable in it. You just settle right down in your pig pen and start to roll […]

by Lisa Bicknell CVT Editor Admittedly, there are frustrations to this job.  Printing dates roll around quickly, and we have to throw content on the page in a hurry. I sometimes make mistakes, and that bothers me. However, I attended a meeting last week that put typos and such trivialities in proper perspective. I left […]

For the past several months, my inbox has been flooded daily with emails from the Grimes and McConnell campaigns. Millions of dollars-enough to build schools, fund scholarships, feed many hungry and house hundreds of homeless-have been spent on Kentucky’s senatorial race. If I hear the words, “War on Coal” one more time, I think I […]

On April 19, our firstborn daughter made her appearance into this crazy world. I remember well how excited and anxious I was in the days leading up to her birth. Would we have a girl or a boy, we wondered.  It didn’t matter, we said, as long as everything was “alright.” When my labor started, […]

Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m a bit of a fair-weather fan, a bandwagon fan. If the Cats are excellin’, I’m a’yellin’. If they aren’t, my affections tend to wander. The season may as well have started four games ago as far as I’m concerned, but after that series of scrappy wins, my heart couldn’t help […]

Dear Editor, Are labor unions really needed today?  I am writing in response to Ted Lowe’s letter to the editor in last week’s CV&T paper. I contend that as the environment exists with state and federal laws in place along with minimum wage laws, that labor unions are obsolete.  Their existence today merely provides employers […]