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Much has been written about the passing of Bill Russell, who many consider among the best basketball players to ever play the game. With high school state championships and two NCAA titles at the University of San Francisco, the Louisiana native, was even better in leading the...

Sometimes one decision can change the trajectory of your future, such as deciding which college to attend. During my senior year of high school, I was all set to go to the University of Kentucky. I had the student aid documents all filled out. I had a housing assignment for the...

Anyone who followed along with our recent NIBROC Festival activities knows that we had planned on also making an appearance with a booth at the 2022 Old Fashioned Trading Days Festival, taking place this Thursday-through-Saturday in downtown Williamsburg. However, due to...

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...

In early February of 2020, none of us had any idea that life would soon change forever due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Very soon, businesses would be disrupted, church pews would empty, and schools would send students home to learn via e-mail and Zoom conference calls.

First off, let me clarify something about last week’s column regarding the death of former Whitley County Judge-Executive and Jailer Jerry Taylor. I have since realized that there were a number of people, who took offense to the Jerry Taylor story I mentioned about his father...

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...

There is always a certain level of excitement that comes with the start of each new sports season.

Whether you loved him or hated him – and there were certainly a few people who did one or the other – you didn’t have to spend much time around former Whitley County Judge-Executive and Jailer Jerry Taylor to figure out why the guy kept getting elected so much in his life. He was...

Golf is big. Even though I haven’t played in more than five years, I still really enjoy watching it. It’s better if Tiger is playing.\ Where I live backs up to number four tee, and it seems rain or shine, hot or cold someone is always teeing it up. Over the years the game has...