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Downtown Williamsburg will soon be getting a new park complete with a stage, bench seating with USB charging stations, umbrella covered seating around the perimeter of the park, and overhead lights streaming from poles around the park. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents...

Despite a recent ruling by the Kentucky Supreme Court that bans “historical wagering” machines, that are in use at state race tracks, a planned Keeneland facility in Williamsburg, which calls for 400 such machines, is still apparently happening. Read this story and more for just...

Did I ever pick a good time to leave Kentucky and go on vacation, or what? COVID-19 rates have pretty well skyrocketed recently in Whitley County. My wife, Cecelia, and I recently headed south to the Outer Banks in North Carolina for a week, then we headed over to the...

Former Whitley County Clerk Kay Schwartz has received her final audit report as county clerk from the Kentucky state auditor’s office, and it was an almost entirely good audit. Schwartz resigned on Nov. 30, 2019, after working nearly 44 years in the Whitley County Clerk’s Office,...

Unemployment rates rose in all 120 Kentucky counties between July 2020 and August 2020 and between August 2019 and August 2020, according to figures from the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. Whitley,...

The Whitley County Health Department reported 21 new COVID-19 cases Friday, 28 new cases Thursday, nine new cases Wednesday, seven new cases Tuesday, 29 new cases Monday, 37 new cases Sunday, and nine new cases Saturday. Whitley County has had a total of 609 COVID-19 cases....

The Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental, and Intellectual Disabilities (DBHDID) has received a $7 million grant to support behavioral health services in the state’s Appalachian region following severe weather in 2019, which will include the community mental...

Do you have an old couch that you need to get rid of or a garage full of junk that your wife has been after you to clean out, but you have nowhere to take it? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, and you live in Williamsburg then you are in luck. The City of...

The Whitley County Health Department reported 28 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, nine new cases Wednesday, seven new cases Tuesday, 29 new cases Monday, 37 new cases Sunday, nine new cases Saturday, and 21 new cases Friday. Whitley County has had a total of 588 COVID-19 cases....