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Bullying. I think that we can all agree it’s a bad thing. Statistics show that one in five high school students reported being bullied on school property last year. Reports of bullying are highest for middle schools (28 percent) and followed by high schools (16 percent). Reports...

The Cadillac pulled into the circle drive that fronted the stately Athens Country Club in Athens, Georgia. The driver was Leonard Postero. You may not recognize the name, but if you are over 40 you might recall the football prognostication radio show “Leonard’s Losers” who went...

With it being Women’s History Month, I thought I would take this opportunity to discuss an important female figure in the history of Corbin athletics – Beatrice Russell.

Flooding and tornadoes are nothing new for Kentucky. Over the last five years alone, the Commonwealth has been home to ten Presidentially declared disasters, most coming in the form of severe storms, flooding and tornadoes.

I had no intention of writing about the one-way street debacle in Corbin this week, but due to the response from my column last week I feel obligated to do so. I had telephone calls, comments on the Internet and since I attended the 13th Regional basketball tournament, I had...

I was in the sixth-grade bathroom when someone grabbed me from behind. A second girl stopped fixing her hair so she could wave her hot curling iron very close to my nose and say something threatening. Pulling free, I grabbed the curling iron, saying, “Stop.” I don’t remember what...

You can sometimes get some interesting reactions when you are taking pictures of people who are accused of crimes. “What did you do, kill somebody?” one perplexed prisoner asked the other prisoner he was handcuffed to about 20 years ago as the press was snapping pictures of them...

As I type these words it is Saturday afternoon, just after the announcement of this year’s 13th Region tournament brackets. By the time this column is distributed to our readers, all of the girls’ first round games will have been completed, but remember, I didn’t know the...

One of the reasons I do not like to go to Lexington is because I feel like I spend half my time waiting at traffic lights. For over 35 years and probably 15,000 times I have driven down Gordon Hill from my home to work and back, plus taking grandchildren to school. I feel like I...

A friend of mine, sometime back assured me he was an expert on bourbon. Assuming that he had read books, experienced the bourbon trail and talked to master distillers, he quickly said, “None of that.” Then how do you know so much, I asked. “Heck, I ought to know, I’ve been...