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2020 Year in Review

While it might not have seemed like it, there were a lot of things that happened in Whitley County, Corbin and the greater Corbin area in 2020 that didn’t involve a worldwide pandemic and a certain virus, whose name everyone is sick of hearing. The third highest flood in...
Posted On 06 Jan 2021

Late Jellico, South Whitley Fire Chief remembered

The chief of the Jellico Fire Department and one of Whitley County’s longest serving volunteer fire department chiefs has passed away. Harold “Wayne” Honeycutt, 44, of Jellico, Tennessee, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 2, at the Lafollette Medical Center. Read this story and more...
Posted On 06 Jan 2021

Update: Archie Powers remembered as a coach, who didn’t need to yell to communicate

Update: Funeral arrangements have now been set for former Corbin and Williamsburg head football coach Archie Powers. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the funeral hour at Immanuel Baptist Church in Corbin on Saturday. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. at the church....
Posted On 06 Jan 2021

Contact tracing update, Laurel County has 133 new cases of COVID-19

Cabinet for Health and Family Services executive policy advisor Mark Carter estimated that, at minimum, contact tracing efforts have prevented more than 2,000 hospitalizations and 400 deaths. Contact tracers have successfully contacted 94,000 Kentuckians identified as having been...

London City Council approves second reading of annexation ordinances

The London City Council hosted two special called meetings last week during which the council voted unanimously to accept the first and second readings of two ordinances that would allow for the further annexation of portions of North Corbin. The first of the two ordinances...

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