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Baptist Health Corbin Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Worthy has a message for you if you are between the ages of 50 and 80, you either smoke or have quit smoking within the last 15 years, and if you smoked one pack of cigarettes per day for 20 years or more or two packs per day...

An annual suicide awareness and prevention walk is planned for Saturday (Sept. 16) in honor of 16-year-old Whitley County High School student Bethany Faith Lawson, who took her own life in 2018. “Bethany’s Hope would like to invite you to come walk with us. Help us spread the...

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT       Dozens flocked to the Whitley County Fairgrounds last Friday for this year’s Farm Field Day, where there were a variety of vendors and activities. Local first responders also worked with Whitley County FFA and Williamsburg Independent...

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT A grand reopening and ribbon cutting was held last Friday morning at the Williamsburg Walmart to celebrate the completion of the store’s recent remodel. Store personnel gathered with Walmart executives, Mayor Roddy Harrison and members of the public for...

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers got to be “principal for a day” at Whitley County High School Friday, and spent several hours talking with school administrators and others about various education-related issues, such as how to attract new teachers to the profession in...

During Williamsburg’s Old Fashioned Trading Days this week and throughout the month of September, local residents will have the chance to view artwork designed by local students to raise awareness about suicide and ways to prevent it. If they go view the art on Thursday, Sept. 7,...

The University of the Cumberlands has received its single largest donation in school history, which is a $25 million donation from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation to support student scholarships. The donation will allow many students to graduate with little or no student loan...

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT  The Whitley County Health Department hosted an event last Friday at Briar Creek Park honoring International Overdose Awareness Day. Ashley Lawson (left), health educator at the health department, said the event was to help those in recovery connect with...

A display honoring a Williamsburg native and war hero has officially been unveiled at the old Whitley County Courthouse. Members of the JC Paul Detachment Marine Corps League in Williamsburg, Whitley County Motorcycle Group and Backroads of Appalachia came together Saturday for...

Knox County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested two people in connection to the theft of a fence from a Woodbine cemetery, but only after one of the suspects barricaded the two of them inside a residence in Whitley County, according to a Knox County Sheriff’s Department release. On...