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If you want to get in some exercise before filling up on turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day while also donating some money to a good cause, then keep reading. The 15th Annual Williamsburg Turkey Trot 5-K run/walk will take place Thanksgiving morning. Last year,...

 Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT Story time: Kentucky’s First Lady Britainy Beshear and Miss Kentucky Hannah Edelen were both present for the unveiling of a new Little Free Library at Whitley North Elementary School on Tuesday afternoon. The library, which was sponsored by Oakwood Homes...

A pair of Williamsburg residents are organizing a town hall meeting later this week to discuss the United States Forest Service’s plan to log a portion of nearly 10,000 acres of the Daniel Boone National Forest, which is located in Whitley and McCreary counties. The land would be...

Fire destroyed a Rockholds landmark late Saturday morning despite the efforts of nearly every fire department in Whitley County. The Rockholds Pit Stop, which was formerly known as Grannies Country Store, was destroyed after a vehicle crashed into the store and then caught on...

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT A soap-making class was held Friday evening at the Whitley County Extension Community Art Center, where attendees learned how to create natural soaps using goat milk and honey bases. The class was led by Laura Rogers with Kentucky State University.

Sign-up dates for the Southeast Kentucky Empty Stocking Fund are scheduled for next week. The sign-ups will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 9, and Friday, Nov. 11, in the old district court room lobby in the old Corbin City Hall next to the Corbin Police Department and Corbin Fire...

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT A fall festival was held Friday for residents at Hillcrest Nursing Home, where friends and family gathered to celebrate the season with games, music, costumes and candy. Staff members and residents also dressed up and handed out candy to children who came...

Photo by TIMOTHY WYATT The Say Boo to Bullying Ghost Walk was held Saturday evening in downtown Williamsburg. Attendees began at Williamsburg Independent School and trekked down Main Street toward River Fog Park, where, along the way, high school students from Williamsburg...

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT Williamsburg Independent Elementary School students spent some of last week outside the classroom, as each grade level took turns visiting the Sally Gap Pumpkin Patch. First grade students made their way to the pumpkin patch on Thursday, where they got to...

                Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT and MARK WHITE More than 175 Jeeps descended upon Williamsburg late last week for the 29th Annual Gateway to the Cumberlands Jeep Jamboree event. Jeeps and their drivers began arriving Thursday, Oct....