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Congratulations to this year’s People’s Choice winners

Inside last week’s paper was a special insert containing the names of the people, places and things that you, the News Journal readers, voted as People’s Choice in Corbin and Williamsburg for 2020. Typically, we would announce these winners sometime in April/May, but due to...
Posted On 03 Aug 2020
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END OF AN ERA: Local Southern States co-op closing its doors in early August

Anthony Holland has been the man in charge at Corbin Farm and Garden, located on Master Street, for the past 38 years. In that amount of time he has seen the business grow and change, but he is now looking forward to taking things just a little easier when he retires early next month.
Posted On 02 Aug 2020
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Leadership Kentucky Announces 2020 BRIGHT Kentucky Class

Leadership Kentucky is proud to announce the members of the BRIGHT Kentucky Class of 2020.
Posted On 01 Aug 2020
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20 Local Businesses Receive Grants from ‘Pay It Forward’ Business Support Fund

The Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce would like to thank Northern Contours of Corbin for creating the Pay It Forward Business Support Fund. This initiative, in the spirit of community, was conceived to help small businesses in our community while also encouraging recipients...
Posted On 01 Aug 2020
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‘Wear It For Me’ campaign to focus on importance of wearing masks

A Louisville man who just learned he has brain cancer. A Jessamine County teacher. A Glasgow family physician. A restaurant owner and a firefighter with a young child. All are wearing masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, and are asking Kentuckians to do the same in a new...
Posted On 31 Jul 2020
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Rapid antigen drive-thru COVID-19 testing available Friday, July 31, in Barbourville

The Knox County Health Department is helping host COVID-19 drive-thru testing on Friday, July 31, from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. at the Knox County Ambulance Service, which is located at 223 Gregory Lane, Barbourville. Rapid antigen and PCR testing is available based on screening...
Posted On 30 Jul 2020
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Woodbine man indicted for attempted murder of officer

(Story by Jeff Ledington, The Mountain Advocate) A Woodbine man has been indicted after authorities say he fired a gun at a deputy. Jordan Ramey, 25, was indicted by a Knox County Grand Jury on Friday, July 24 on one count of attempted murder and a second-degree persistent felony...
Posted On 30 Jul 2020
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Future Workforce: Corbin’s Lauren Shackleford earns runner-up finish in national FBLA competition

Corbin’s own Lauren Shackleford was among the many high school students in the area who were left disappointed by the fact that the 2019-2020 school year had to be cut short this past spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. An accomplished bowler, she has unfortunately had to...
Posted On 29 Jul 2020
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KHSAA approves Sept. 11 start date for football games, Sept. 7 for cross county, soccer and volleyball matches

In a nearly three-hour online board of control meeting Tuesday, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association has outlined how school sports should proceed as we enter into the fall season. KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett spoke early on during Tuesday’s meeting saying that he...
Posted On 28 Jul 2020
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Kentucky launches new program for young people transitioning from foster care

The Kentucky Department for Community Based Services (DCBS), an agency of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), is launching a new program this month to help young people who reach adulthood in foster care, one of the groups the most impacted by the novel coronavirus...
Posted On 28 Jul 2020
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