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Starting this year, gone will be the days when you show up to vote on Election Day only to be told that you are in the wrong location and you have to travel 10 miles down the road to the correct precinct in order to vote. Thanks in part to a change in state law, Whitley County...

What do Christmas and natural disasters have in common besides the aftermath sometimes leaving your home in varying degrees of disarray? The answer is that both of them tend to bring out the best in people, and make us forget our differences for a little while. Let’s take the...

Even by Whitley County standards, last week was a bit odd. Last Wednesday, the Whitley County School District terminated second year Whitley County High School Head Basketball Coach Mark White. (In case anyone is wondering, there is no relation, but I do think he has a co...

When December rolls around, we all know that it “tis the season.” I am not talking about Christmas and the holidays although I will get to some of those festive topics before I conclude this column. For those of us with jobs at non-government businesses, November and December...

To borrow a line from the old song, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,” or at least it soon will be here in Whitley County. Following the pandemic filled 2020, which saw Williamsburg canceling its Christmas parade and Corbin holding a reverse parade where the floats...

When you have worked in journalism as long as I have, you get used to dealing with a lot of bad, terrible stuff. It makes you jaded, really jaded. You reach the point where it takes a lot to just floor you. Then you have one of those periods when you get news that shocks you not...

Former Mountain Lifeline Ambulance Service owner Larry Robbins recently passed away far too early at the age of 68. I hated hearing about his passing. I first met Larry around 1994. He was involved in emergency services, and was the fire chief at the now defunct Western Central...

To paraphrase a line from one of my favorite retired NFL coaches, how about them Redhounds! The Corbin Redhounds Eighth Grade Football Team won their second consecutive division two state championship during a game late Saturday afternoon against the Paducah Middle School. This...

If you are a music fan, then chances are you probably remember the first real music album or LP (long play), that you ever got. I’m not talking about something like Barney the Dinosaur’s greatest hits, but your first real album or LP. I remember mine. When I was a kid, my dad and...

One thing is for certain. Over the next 14 months Whitley County will definitely be getting some new elected officials. Whitley County Sheriff Todd Shelley previously announced that he would not be seeking re-election next year, and recently submitted a letter to the county...