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College. It’s a great thing for many people, myself included, but it isn’t for everybody. You know what, that’s not a bad thing. Yes, the world needs engineers, scientists, astronomers, doctors and lawyers. It also needs electricians, carpenters, plumbers and farmers. I’ve long...

Shew, what a weekend it was!

Flooding. The sheer terrifying force of Mother Nature unleashed in the form of flowing, rushing and rising water that leaves devastation, destruction and a trail of stinking, stagnant mud and mold in its wake. The recent massive flash flooding event in eastern Kentucky, which has...

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...

Here we are… NIBROC 2022!

Besides death and taxes, change may be the only other constant in life. Businesses open and close. Each year kindergarten teachers get a new group of students to educate. People come and go. I thought I would take a few moments this week to recognize some people and one dog who...

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,...

Before I came back to the News Journal full time about two months ago, I was working a sales job that required me spend a good amount of time in several different areas of eastern Kentucky, including many of the communities that were hit hardest by last week’s historic flooding.

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...

Last week I was heading from Williamsburg back to Corbin after a day of typing in public records at the courthouse and judicial center, and I took a trip partially around the two new roundabouts, which are being built off of Exit 15 at Goldbug. Hopefully, the folks over at...