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Next week, Oct. 2-8 is designated, “National Newspaper Week.” I know, every cause has a week and they all are special. Ours is special because we want to add emphasis to our effectiveness when some may think newspapers are relics of the past. No my friend, newspapers aren’t dead....

Great feedback from our sample mailing last week. Many of you took up our special offer and subscribed. During the Covid period our number of subscribers, like many other newspapers, hit a decline. Thankfully those numbers are starting to rise again. Studies show us that for a...

Some of you may ask why you are getting a free News Journal? It is because we want you to join the thousands of others who read our local newspaper every week as subscribers. In this edition are subscription ads for a one time special offer of $38 for a full year subscription for...

My background in the newspaper field for many years had been centered on advertising sales and management until I took the job as publisher of this newspaper in 1987. That is when I first started writing. To run a successful local newspaper Al Smith, whom I worked for in London...

I was younger than most of the people who worked in the downtown area of Corbin when I started my job as an announcer and sportscaster at radio station WCTT 61 years ago. Now I am older than most who work in this area as I approach my 83rd birthday this Friday. My wife and I both...

Seventy years! There are several of us that were here to attend the first Nibroc Festival 70 years ago. Personally, I have attended 65 of the 69. Those of us that were here for the first festival remember it well. The carnival was on the lot at the corner of Main and 7th Street...

WOW! We have been truly overwhelmed with the response today to our EKY Disaster Relief Donation Drive! That is the opening sentence from the post by the Corbin Arena on Facebook. The same outstanding response can be applied to numerous people and towns, not from just Kentucky,...

Hopefully, the recently formed Corbin Historic Preservation Board will be successful in its attempt to establish a historical district. Unfortunately, the “sins” of the past have left them little to work with. Unlike Williamsburg, which has done a good job of establishing...

July is our hottest month in Kentucky. Although it is going to be hot for the next several days, it is nothing unusual and it is not due to climate change. Climate change is having its effect all over the world with record setting heat levels, but our summer heat is one thing and...

It was surprising that there was a $3 million mistake in the published budget a couple of weeks ago for the City of Corbin. But it was not surprising that Commissioner Trent Knuckles discovered it. You see, Trent Knuckles is the best “watchdog” for governmental affairs that I...