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Whitley County certainly has its share of problems from drugs to poverty, but fortunately our local schools aren’t one of these problem areas. In fact, they are quite the opposite. Last week, the Kentucky Department of Education released 2022-2023 school report card data, which...

In September, we ran a story here in the News Journal announcing two new online resources that would be coming soon courtesy of the Whitley County Health Department. On Tuesday, both of those websites went live.

If I had it my way, we would move our clocks forward one hour in the fall and back one hour in the spring. Presently it is opposite of this and Sunday we will move our time pieces back one hour. I think my suggestion is better and here’s why: Soon it will be getting dark just...

Attention all of you social media know-it-alls that are constantly complaining about state government. The same goes for the Grumpy Gus’s, who are griping all of the time about the this and thats, which Frankfort does. Guess what? We have an election next week to decide who the...

When you envision the landscape of downtown Williamsburg, chances are that the marquee of the old Lane Theater will be among the first images that come to mind. Although it has largely sat empty for decades, the Lane Theater is one of the predominant structures on Williamsburg’s...

I’ve known about a particular stray cat situation for some time. But this weekend I heard more about it from people in a neighborhood on Whitley Avenue in Corbin. It is where my 89-year-old sister lives. She has been tormented by cat droppings in her yard along with cats ruining...

Sports. When we talk about them, discussion typically involves statistics, win-loss records, championships, etc., etc., etc. And while all of that may be the reasons WHY athletic competitions exist, it only scratches the surface when considering WHAT is being accomplished.

Roy Kidd was a football coach. Was he ever! I got to know the former Eastern Kentucky coach a few years back while I was writing a book, “The Boys From Corbin, America’s Greatest Little Sports Town.” Roy Kidd was one of those boys. He died at 91 years of age on September 12. I...

You may be familiar with the News Journal’s quarterly publication, Strictly Business Magazine, which we publish in conjunction with the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. It has been released four times a year for several years now, and exists to highlight interesting and...

The boy was 11 when his mom left him in charge. She had weekend plans away. It came time to put the baby to bed, so the other kids played while the boy struggled. The game was cops and robbers. It doesn’t matter who was whom. It just matters that the boy heard the shot. The boy...