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It has been a busy, busy week as far as local sports are concerned. Many of our area youngsters are continuing to compete in various youth sports leagues, and many more are signing up for summer camp opportunities. We have learned who will be the next head coach of the Corbin...

There are certain topics of conversation that come up frequently here in the offices of the News Journal. Among those is the seemingly worsening issue of homelessness and housing insecurity in our local communities.

Congratulations to new Corbin Tourism Director Nancy Conley, who was hired during a Corbin Tourism and Convention Commission special meeting last Wednesday. About 15 years ago, Conley started at the bottom working as the receptionist for Berea tourism, and has worked her way up...

I have been fully blessed to reach a milestone in my life. This Saturday, June 1, my wife Judy and I will celebrate our 60th Wedding Anniversary. Having her to say “yes” to my proposal 60 years ago was among the best things that have happened in my life. My how the years have...

Signs, advertising signs that is, can be somewhat misleading. I learned my lesson fairly early in life while on a spring break trip to  Fort Lauderdale back in 1965. I had been there before, but this time it was different. This time I was driving my own car… a 1964 white...

This is the second in a series of articles I am writing that cover my 37 years as publisher of this newspaper.  Last week I wrote about being hired by Terry Forcht and starting the job with new computers… We had learned how to make the printer print and now we were in the...

After a successful four-year stint as a congressman in the United States House of Representatives, Williamsburg’s Eugene Siler, Sr. decided to once again run for re-election in 1958. Not content to simply rest on his laurels, though, he continued to work hard on behalf of his...

It was 37 years ago this week when I accepted the job as publisher of this newspaper. At the time I was the advertising manager of the Sentinel-Echo in London. I talked with Terry Forcht, the owner of the Whitley Republican, about the job and we decided to start a companion...

I was talking to Economic Development Director Bruce Carpenter after the conclusion of last Thursday’s Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event called, “Bridging the Workforce Gap,” and I commented to him that the morning’s proceedings had really served to change my...

Since my wife, Cecelia, and I got married nearly 20 years ago, we have traveled to a lot of places and seen a lot of natural and man-made beauty from the sea stacks off the coast of Oregon and the Caribbean at sunrise, to the Outer Banks along the Atlantic Ocean and some truly...