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Thanks to the efforts of a local school and a local bank, several first responders in the Williamsburg area were treated to a free lunch Thursday afternoon. “With today’s climate that we live in, schools are so thankful for the amount of support we get from our first responders,”...

Bluegrass music lovers take note. The 11th Annual Sally Gap Bluegrass Festival starts Wednesday and runs through Saturday. For the third straight year, the festival is featuring four nights of entertainment. Wednesday night will once again be gospel night with Virgil Bowlin and...

Police confiscated over six grams of suspected crystal meth and found four firearms and observed a 14-month-old child while attempting to arrest a Williamsburg man on an indictment warrant late Monday evening, according to a press release from Third-District Constable Dorman...

Unemployment rates fell in all 120 Kentucky counties between April 2017 and April 2018, according to the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. Whitley County’s unemployment rate...

By an overwhelming margin, Whitley County Jailer Brian Lawson garnered 60 percent of the vote in a four-way race to win re-election to a second term as jailer. Lawson garnered 4,530 votes during Tuesday’s Republican May Primary Election to Stephen Taylor’s 1,588 votes, Brian...

The Whitley County Fiscal Court is getting two new fiscal court members next year, and one new constable. In the Second Magistrate District, incumbent Lon “Chuck” Head was upset by challenger Mondo Cima, and in the Fourth Magistrate District two-term incumbent Robbie Brown lost...

Election precinct workers Irene Haun and Jan Mills take a break during voting Tuesday morning at the Williamsburg Independent School. Haun, who is 98-years-old, was the oldest election precinct worker in the state Tuesday. At the age of 98, Whitley County election officer Irene...

A pair of Jellico residents are facing burglary charges after being caught inside a Whitley County residence Sunday afternoon where one of them had previously been evicted, according to an arrest record. Whitley County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Strunk responded to a Taylor Meadows...

What started out as an effort to assist a couple of possibly stranded motorists early Saturday morning on I-75, resulted in the arrest of two Knoxville residents, one of whom lied about his identity, on drug charges and the recovery of two stolen vehicles. About 2 a.m., Whitley...

Operating a manufacturing facility for one million man-hours without having a lost-time accident is an impressive feat that almost any factory or business would love to celebrate. Now imagine achieving that kind of safety record for three consecutive years. Teammates at...