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Ex-Whitley County Clerk files to run for school board

There will be a contested race for at least one seat on the Whitley County Board of Education this November, and the challenger is a familiar name well versed in politics. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to...
Posted On 13 May 2020

Cook Out restaurant should open soon in Williamsburg

Cook Out, a restaurant franchise headquartered in North Carolina, which first bought property in Williamsburg in 2014 and a building on a different site in late 2019, is apparently finally ready to start work on a restaurant in Williamsburg, which it hopes to have open soon. Read...
Posted On 13 May 2020

Corbin Tourism Commission cancels July 3 fireworks

Corbin Tourism’s annual Independence Day fireworks show has joined the growing list of large-scale events cancelled because of the COVID–19 pandemic. At the tourism commission’s regular monthly meeting Tuesday night, Tourism Director Maggy Kriebel asked the commissioners for...

Number of local COVID-19 cases slowly increasing in recent days

Just when it was starting to look like local COVID-19 cases might have stopped, a recent 72-hour time period saw one or more cases reported in Whitley, Laurel, Knox and McCreary counties. The Whitley County Health Department reported the county’s 10th confirmed COVID-19...
Posted On 13 May 2020

Whitley County housing authorities split over $140k in CARES Act funding

Housing authorities in more than 100 Kentucky communities are receiving $12,596,159 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, including over $140,000 going to housing authorities in...
Posted On 13 May 2020

Local psychiatrist offers tips for maintaining mental health during COVID-19 pandemic

COVID–19 and a wet spring are3 teaming up to keep people from getting out and about as much as they would like, which can quickly become a mental strain for many. However, local psychiatrist Dr. C. William Briscoe, said this time can be a positive in people’s lives. “In our daily...

CHS senior says Class of 2020 deserves more than what is being offered

(OpEd by Corbin High School Senior Alexandria Stewart) There is so much joy and memories that come along with senior year, from football games to trips. However, due to COVID-19 it’s different for the class of 2020. It seems as though we have been through it all. We were just...
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