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Elicia Rae Petrey,  25, of Highway 92 East, Siler, departed this life on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 in Siler. Visitation will be after 6 p.m. Saturday, March 5,  at Croley Funeral Home. The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 6, at the Croley Funeral Home Chapel. Croley...

Recently I saw an article on Facebook written by Patty Cantrell of a Missouri-based consulting firm, Regional Food Solutions, for Good Food on Every Table, about the local restaurants in downtown Corbin. She wrote that Corbin “has revitalized its downtown through a local-food...

Corbin High graduate, Professor Michael Croley  receives NEA Grant The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded Denison University Visiting Assistant Professor Michael Croley a $25,000 creative writing fellowship. Croley was one of only 37 writers nationwide who received...

Dr. Travis Freeman says the idea about the upcoming “Lights Out Dinner in the Dark” March 14 is to give people a greater appreciation for the kinds of challenges people with disabilities face every day. Freeman, an ordained minister and adjunct professor of religion at the...

Trent Knuckles is publisher of The News Journal. Should our local school calendars be influenced by Kentucky’s tourism industry? There’s a bill circulating right now in Frankfort to do just that. Essentially, it forbids the state’s school districts from starting the school year...

Roses celebrate 60th Anniversary   Earl and Shirley (Moses) Rose of Williamsburg celebrated 60 years of marriage on February 23. 2016. They celebrated with a weekend in Gatlinburg with their daughter and son-in-law, grandson and other close family. After marriage they moved...

  Jack Edward Kandler Jr.,  59, of Arkle Road, Gray,  passed away on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at his home. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until the funeral hour on Friday, March 4,  at Croley Funeral Home. The funeral service will be at 6 p.m. Friday, March 4,  at the Croley...

  Vincent L. “Jim” Felts, 79 of Corbin passed away Sunday at his home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Echo Valley Church Voice of the Nazarene located at 1200 Echo Valley Road Lily, KY 40740. The family will receive friends from 12 p.m. until...

Walter “Wally” Carroll, 72, went to be with The Lord Friday February 26, 2016 at his residence. Funeral services were held Tuesday March 1, at the Llewellyn Funeral Home Chapel. The Llewellyn Funeral Home honored to serve the Carroll family.

    Timothy Coy Cox 51, of Maynardville, TN and formerly of Williamsburg, passed away on Sunday, February 28, 2016 in Union County, TN. Visitation will be after 6 p.m. Thursday, March 3, at Croley Funeral Home in Williamsburg. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m....