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Ryan Upchurch is in Corbin, and tonight’s show will go on as scheduled. For those who have tickets for Friday and can’t make it, they can be transferred to Saturday. “There are people in town, so we made the decision for the show to go on,” said Arena Director Kristi Balla....

Christopher Dople, age 51 of Jellico, Tennessee passed away Wednesday, January 05, 2022 at his home. He was born October 26, 1970 in Jellico, Tennessee. He was a husband, son, father and brother who loved his family and would go out of his way just to help others. When Chris...

Both Williamsburg City Hall and the Whitley County Courthouse are closed for business Friday, Jan. 7, due to inclement weather. The Williamsburg Sanitation Department will pick up Friday’s garbage on Monday.

The sports world featured a number of highs and a few lows in 2021. Here are the top 10 as chosen by your intrepid sports editor. 1) Mark White fired Whitley County Basketball had a rough season in 2020-21, going 4-16 that included and 11-game losing streak and a first-round loss...

The Corbin City Commission held a brief special called meeting on Dec. 30 to take care of a pair of items before the end of 2021. The first of the two items discussed during the less than two-minute meeting was approval of the second and final reading of an ordinance naming a...

When midnight rolled around on Dec. 31, 2020, nearly everyone had pretty much the same thought, which was along the lines of “surely 2021 has to be better than 2020.” It wasn’t the first time that nearly everyone has been wrong. I seriously doubt that it will be the last time...

Happy new year and may everything good come your way in 2022. It marks the beginning of the 114th year of publication for this newspaper. Last year at this time we entered 2021 with optimism knowing we had a vaccine that could control Covid and things would get back to normal....

Coming off of an impressive year that saw The Arena in Corbin host 40 events and receive national attention courtesy of stars such as Nelly and Justin Moore, Arena Director Kristi Balla has the venue off to a hot start in January that includes five shows that have generated more...