Mountain News & World Report

-Joe’s Drive-In Chicken (aka Joe Pack’s) is celebrating 50 years as a Letcher County, Kentucky business this year. How does a family business survive 50 years in a boom and bust economy? This story was created with Malcolm J. Wilson of Humans of Central Appalachia. -A community health forum was recently held in Whitesburg, Kentucky including representatives from the University of Kentucky, Kentucky Homeplace, Mountain Comprehensive Health Care, and the federal agency – National Institutes of Environmental Health and Sciences. The forum’s goal was to collect the information about what the community views as its top health concerns. WMMT reporter Benny Becker highlights the forum.