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If you like fireworks, then you are in luck as local towns will be having them on either Wednesday, July 3, or Thursday, July 4. Corbin will have its Independence fireworks Wednesday while Williamsburg will follow suit Thursday evening. Whether it is free fireworks, free concerts...

Bill Hoover, one of the long-time owners of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Corbin, Kentucky Inc., has passed away. “Bill was a friend to all. He will be missed by all who knew him. Rest in peace my friend,” Larry Hart commented on the You might be from Corbin KY if...

“I want to know how you just kidnapped me and brought me here?” defendant Darnel Chivers asked Whitley Circuit Judge Paul Winchester during his arraignment Thursday morning in connection with the 2017 triple homicide of a local family. On May 20, 2019, a Whitley County Grand Jury...

A Williamsburg woman, who was allegedly killed by her nephew outside her home Friday morning, suffered blunt force trauma to the head and three stab wounds to the neck, but this isn’t what killed her, Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird said Monday afternoon. Read this story and...

Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday for a Williamsburg woman, who was killed outside her home Friday morning, and a GoFundMe page has been set up by the victim’s family to help pay for funeral expenses. Wanda Richardson’s funeral service is scheduled at 1:30 p.m....

Fire completely destroyed a Bacon Creek Road home Sunday morning. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not a Member? Join Us

Williamsburg Independent School has a new principal. During a press conference Tuesday morning, the school district announced that McCreary Central Assistant Principal Marc Taylor has been named as the new principal. He will start work July 1, and replaces Tim Melton, who is the...

A total of 19 girls’ softball teams will be descending upon Williamsburg Friday for the start of the district girls’ age 9-10 and 11-12 softball tournaments. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this...

How do you help a student, who dropped out of high school, is already working a full-time job, and only needs a couple of credits to get his diploma? It’s the exact scenario that Whitley County school officials faced last school year, and they now have a plan for this upcoming...

What do dentists and a late self-made multi-millionaire, who grew up dirt poor in Oneida, Tennessee, have to do with Whitley County elementary school children? The short answer is the millionaire grew up having dental pain, but his family couldn’t afford to take him to see a...