By Erik Sietsema
A little over 110 years ago, Big Sandy was briefly home to two local newspapers. Over the past few months, the Mountaineer has been digging into the lost history of the Sentinel, an obscure local publication whose existence has practically disappeared from the collective memory and historical record of the community.
Apart from a partial online archive and a handful of references in the Mountaineer documenting its side of the brief local newspaper war, I have been unable to uncover any local recollections or records of this firebrand example of local yellow journalism. One sim...