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Election Day is coming on Tuesday, May 16, but if you want to avoid lines at the polls remember you can vote early Thursday through Saturday at the old courthouse in Williamsburg and in the old district courtroom in Corbin, which is located in the old city hall. One of the few...

I was excited to see an e-mail arrive in my inbox earlier this week from America’s Newspapers, an advocacy group that is dedicated to, as they put it, “providing research, education and practical information aimed at optimizing newspapers’ business operations, deepening their...

Whitley County lost a great man this week with the passing of Keith Decker Monday. In addition to being a senior pastor at Black Oak Baptist Church, Keith was the founder and president of Cedaridge Ministries, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. Cedaridge traces its...

I thought of one of Yogi Berra’s funny sayings when I went to the Root Beer Stand in Corbin the other night. Yogi, referring to a restaurant, said, “Nobody goes there any more. It is always too crowded.” The Root Beer Stand is always crowded, and there are several reasons for it....

I have found myself doing a fair amount of research in recent days after attending last week’s Corbin Rotary Club meeting at David’s Steakhouse. The special guest speakers were Debbie Moses, and Timm and Theresa Martin, who were there to speak about the ongoing efforts to...

Wow! Organizers couldn’t have asked for much better day than they had Saturday for the Third Annual Colonel Fest celebration on Main Street in downtown Corbin. I was downtown from about an hour prior to the festival’s start Saturday morning  until it ended about 6 p.m. Saturday...

Who hasn’t heard about all of the college athletes that are jumping from one school to another just because the rules now say they can? Before, an athlete would have to sit out a year after transferring to another school. Over the years even high schools have been impacted by...

The border war continues between London and Corbin. Maybe war is a little too strong of a word but both towns are moving their boundaries that will collide near “Malfunction Junction.” Malfunction is such an appropriate word to use with borders of London and Corbin about to meet...

Every now and then, a two-or-three-day period comes along where there is so much going on it is just about impossible to keep track of it all. This coming weekend is definitely one of those occasions, so I thought that I would try to condense most of it into a column in order to...

A young man recently went with friends on a weekend ski trip. By the time he finished on the slopes, the old football injury to his knee was acting up. He complained to his friend that he was in so much pain he might not be able to power through work the next day. The friend...