Gibson’s Music is celebrating 50 years in business this week, and owner and founder, Betty Comer, is planning a big bash to mark the occasion. The party will culminate Saturday evening with a free performance by pianist Jason Coleman, the grandson of world-renowned pianist Floyd...

Following a one-year absence, the Whitley County Farmer’s Market returned to Bill Woods Park in downtown Williamsburg Thursday evening. This year the farmers’ market will be held in downtown Williamsburg from 5 – 8 p.m. each Thursday in Bill Woods Park through the season, which...

With an increase in on campus student enrollment that is expected this fall when its reduced tuition rates kick in, the University of the Cumberlands is anticipating a need for additional on-campus housing and is taking steps to move in that direction. On May 14, UC purchased...

A joint effort between the Corbin Tourism Commission, Corbin Downtown and Sheltowee Trace Adventure Outfitters to allow visitors to experience Downtown Corbin met with moderate success on its first night as eight people took advantage of the opportunity to ride the Corbin trolley...

Gibson’s Music is celebrating 50 years in business this week, and owner and founder, Betty Comer, is planning a big bash to mark the occasion. The party will culminate Saturday evening with a free performance by pianist Jason Coleman, the grandson of world-renowned pianist Floyd...

Few, if any, nursing home residents are able to attend a Relay for Life, so the staff at Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation in north Corbin brought the relay to their residents Tuesday morning. The residents and staff, led by six cancer survivors, gathered outside of the...

Magnolia Terrace, formerly Jellico Towers in Jellico, Tennessee, is under new management. ALCO Management, Inc., a leader in property management for multifamily affordable-housing in the southeast, purchased the property last year. ALCO has future renovation plans for the site...

Local surgeon Dr. Aaron House will be the featured speaker next Tuesday, May 14, at the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon. Dr. House practices at with Baptist Health in both Corbin and Lexington. He specializes in General Surgery. A graduate of...

Two of the largest trash collection companies in the area are merging. Todd Poff, owner of Poff Carting in London, confirmed that the company has been sold to Waste Connections of Kentucky for an undisclosed sum. The deal was finalized May 1. “We got to the point where we had a...

At the stroke of midnight on May 1, a new electric power era began for eight communities that are members of the Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency (KYMEA). After decades of purchasing electricity from Kentucky Utilities Company, the Frankfort Plant Board and the municipal electric...

Unemployment rates fell in 94 Kentucky counties – including Whitley, Knox and Laurel counties – between March 2018 and March 2019, rose in 19, and stayed the same in seven counties, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), an agency of the Kentucky Education and...

Forcht Bank’s Corbin branches are the latest among the bank’s 26 locations to implement the on demand banking system. New Interactive Teller Machines have been installed at the drive thru at each location. While otherwise functioning as a traditional ATM machine, between the...

Annual unemployment rates decreased in 117 Kentucky counties in 2018 compared to 2017, rose in Monroe and Owen counties and stayed the same in Metcalfe, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), an agency within the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development...

A patented process that allows coal waste to be recovered and turned into and relatively clean, high-value energy source is the impetus behind the construction of an $80 million facility in Corbin that will employ about 70 workers in the very near future. C.K. Lane, Head of US...

The head of U.S. operations for a company that turns coal waste into energy will be speaking at the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon next Tuesday about a project in Corbin that will provide numerous good-paying jobs. C.K. Lane, with Arq will be...

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) recently announced Forcht Broadcasting President/CEO Mike Tarter is the newest member of the NAB Board of Directors. Tarter joins the 19 member board as an official board member on June 1, 2019 and will serve a two year term. The NAB...

Unemployment rates fell in 108 Kentucky counties between February 2018 and February 2019, including Whitley, Knox and Laurel counties, rose in seven counties, and stayed the same in five counties, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), an agency of the...

Last year while they were celebrating having worked three-million work-hours without having a lost time accident, Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison challenged local Firestone employees to go for four million work-hours without a lost time accident. On Tuesday, Firestone workers...