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Happy new year and may everything good come your way in 2022. It marks the beginning of the 114th year of publication for this newspaper. Last year at this time we entered 2021 with optimism knowing we had a vaccine that could control Covid and things would get back to normal....

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...

(Editor’s Note: This column was written before Christmas.) What happens when 20+ year holiday traditions are skipped for one year? Do they get reinstituted the following year? Are they forgotten? My family has had a few holiday traditions over the years that are set in stone. For...

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...

Joy to the World the Lord has come! It is a great song and it is a wonderful time of the year. If you have ever attended church you have heard many songs with the word Joy in them. The word Joy stands in our front yard this year as part of our Christmas decoration. I saw the sign...

Christmas is supposed to be filled with joy and the holiday spirit. But for the past two Christmas seasons we have had to deal with Covid-19, and now added to that this year the tornadoes in western Kentucky have put a damper on everything. I hope you don’t feel as down as I do....

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...

Thursday will mark four weeks since my wife of 17 years, Sharon Woods Manning, died suddenly. While Sharon had a large number of friends and associates from her 26 years working for the state, I always thought of my own network as fairly small. From the moment I put the word out...

Several years ago I stopped by my office on Main Street in Corbin around 7 p.m. and noticed a handful of people standing on the sidewalk. I asked them what was going on. To my surprise they said they were waiting on the Christmas Parade. We had not been notified at this newspaper...

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...