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There are more than 2,500 high school students between Corbin, Whitley County and Williamsburg. There are 35,000 people living in Whitley County. So why are the high school gyms so sparsely populated during basketball games? Granted, despite the stereotype, not everyone in...

I almost never became a journalist.  The first time I attended a Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA) Conference was the summer before my second year at Eastern Kentucky University in 2017.  I had just been hired on as the opinion’s editor at The Eastern Progress,...

With the election coming up in May, a few times over the last couple of months, I gave serious thought to writing a column with the headline, “I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my candidacy for…”, and then conclude the column with “my candidacy for nothing. I haven’t...

Please join me in congratulating our news staff for winning 19 awards, including the General Excellence award for being the best large weekly in the state, at the recent Kentucky Press Association’s winter convention. I hope that I can impress upon you the fact that this...

Periodically, I get releases from folks promoting a new service, or a new product or a new book. Most of them I just look at for about 10 seconds then move onto the next release or e-mail. I got one a few days ago about a book that caught my attention, entitled, “Bills! Bills!...

Finally it is happening. The Tracy Apartment building in Corbin is being demolished. It is a story that has gone on for decades. The structure was condemned in 2005 and our newspaper carried a story in 2010 that it would be demolished in the near future. A “flaw” at the corner of...

With little regard to the historical significance of anything created by nature or man, or more importantly human life, an F4 tornado dropped all sorts of destruction on a widespread section of our state on Dec. 11. As tragic as it was, bad things often times bring out the best...

I don’t know if it is a record or not, but I have won two microwave ovens. When I won the first microwave, back in 1983, they were big and cost about $500. At that time I was president of the Corbin Lions Club and we were having a raffle to raise money. Each Lions Club member was...

If you spend any amount of time at all working in journalism, law enforcement, emergency services, social work on in any number of other fields, then there is a pretty good chance you have dealt with a tragedy in some form or another. One of the most tragic ones I have covered...

When midnight rolled around on Dec. 31, 2020, nearly everyone had pretty much the same thought, which was along the lines of “surely 2021 has to be better than 2020.” It wasn’t the first time that nearly everyone has been wrong. I seriously doubt that it will be the last time...