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Baptist Health Corbin to offer third vaccine doses to those with weakened immune systems

Baptist Health Corbin is one of several locations now offering a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine 28 days after individuals receive their second dose as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). COVID-19 third dose vaccines are now being scheduled and...

Letter to the Editor: Nearly 30 local physicians plead for help in COVID-19 fight

To the Editor from the physicians of Saint Joseph London and Baptist Health Corbin: As physicians, we are called to care for the sick no matter the time of the day, or day of the week. We are asked to put others before ourselves. During the pandemic, our call is no different. We...
Posted On 26 Aug 2021
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Hounds, Jackets lived up to the preseason hype Friday night

If you didn’t get down to Campbell Field Friday night to see Williamsburg play Oneida and/or Corbin play Christ School in the Cumberland Falls Pigskin Classic, then I’m here to tell you, believe the hype. Williamsburg and Corbin were both machines in the demolition of their...

Area doctors plead for help from the community

Twenty-eight members of the physician leadership at Baptist Health Corbin and St. Joseph London signed a letter Friday urging members of the community to aid in the fight against COVID–19 by getting vaccinated and wearing masks correctly when indoors in public spaces. Dr. David...

Record drug bust made on Greyhound bus

A Greyhound bus that stopped at the Pilot truck stop in north Corbin last Wednesday yielded a record drug bust of nearly 10 pounds of methamphetamine for Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies. Deputies arrested Katelynne M. Thomas, 30, of Ithaca, New York, and a 17-year-old juvenile...

Local districts have no options on masks in schools

If you don’t like the fact that students, teachers and staff have to wear masks while inside schools, then you shouldn’t take it out on local officials, who are still being mandated by the state to require mask wearing. While the Kentucky Supreme Court issued a ruling Saturday...
Posted On 26 Aug 2021

Williamsburg looks to improve to 2-0 Friday at Middlesboro

Coach Jerry Herron, Jr.’s Yellow Jackets will be headed to Middlesboro Friday night after defeating Oneida, Tennessee 50-21 in the first game of the Cumberland Falls Pigskin Class at Campbell Field in Corbin. Quarterback Sydney Bowen completed 15 of 27 passes for 338 yards and...

Corbin to travel to Whitley County Friday for annual rivalry game

Coming off a 35-21 win in the Cumberland Falls Pigskin Classic over Christ School, the Corbin Redhounds will be looking to go 2-0 in 2021, while the Whitley County Colonels will try to get win number one in the Zeke Eier era in the First Priority Bowl Friday night at Colonels...

UC Cheerleaders welcomed back students and staff at Pleasant View Elementary School

Summer break may be over for students and staff in Williamsburg, but University of the Cumberlands Cheerleaders were on hand at Pleasant View Elementary School Friday morning to help ‘cheer’ up the students. Cheerleaders created a ‘tunnel’ for students, staff and parents to walk...