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I travel the stretch of Falls Highway in south Corbin between Oak Grove and the I-75 overpass on almost a daily basis. Most times I head straight through towards downtown, but many times I jump on the interstate to head towards either Williamsburg or London.

This is an open letter from the Corbin Board of Education to our local businesses requesting that you move vaping products behind the counter and closely monitor the selling of these products to minors. Use of vaping products by minors in our schools is an ever growing and very...

As crazy as college athletics seems to be today, they will still have to go some to top a zany period at Western Kentucky University back in 1992. Because of drastic budget cuts at the University, the board of regents was pre-paring to vote on eliminating the schools football...

When it comes to drunk driving fatalities, there are a few constants that you will almost always see. The first is that the person killed by the drunk driver is usually just an innocent bystander minding their own business. The second is that the drunk driver almost never gets...

Finally, the election is over. I know the candidates are relived and that goes for about everybody. It is time to take down all the yard signs, do away with those gosh awful television ads and count the votes. I don’t mind the yard signs, but every election we are bombarded with...

Last week I was thrilled to come across a Facebook post congratulating the staff of the Paws’ Print, Corbin High School’s student newspaper, on the printing of their first physical issue in many years. I immediately reached out to Niki Junker, who heads up the school’s journalism...

For over 15 years I have been writing columns complaining about the condition of Hwy. 312, Gordon Hill, in Corbin. Finally, the state paved part of the road last week. Notice I said part. They left a small section as it was and have not touched the Laurel Co. side of the 312...

With two people running for sheriff as write-in candidates in next month’s November General Election and one person running for third-district constable as a write-in candidate, you might be thinking that this must be some kind of record for write-in candidates running for office...

One of the joys of my life has been having weekly lunches with a group of guys. The group was formed before I joined them and that was over 25 years ago. We have eaten together at least twice a week and sometimes more. From the time I started eating with them only Paul Jones, Coy...

Barry Sadler. The first time I heard his name was soon after my arrival for assignment at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, as the deputy post information officer in 1967. Sadler, while a Special Forces Green Beret, was still officially a soldier stationed at Bragg, and his newly...