It had to do with the naming of a bridge, a 'dark' tower and an "Honorary" Degree from Pikeville College.
Are you aware that Larry Webster and Sara George were the actual founders of what is now the ANE and that both have been ...released from the same. Did you also know that although the paper likes for you to think that is is a sort of Mom and Pop local operation, it is actually owned by a corporation out of Alabama that own at my last count, about 16 other newspapers including the Paintsville Herald.
M. Backus wrote a column not too long ago talking about the takeover of the Floyd Co.Times by a paper conglomerate. It read to my eyes as though he were denouncing this sort of thing and I had to laugh because I knew about the ANE and the Lancaster Corporation.