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With little regard to the historical significance of anything created by nature or man, or more importantly human life, an F4 tornado dropped all sorts of destruction on a widespread section of our state on Dec. 11. As tragic as it was, bad things often times bring out the best...

I don’t know if it is a record or not, but I have won two microwave ovens. When I won the first microwave, back in 1983, they were big and cost about $500. At that time I was president of the Corbin Lions Club and we were having a raffle to raise money. Each Lions Club member was...

If you spend any amount of time at all working in journalism, law enforcement, emergency services, social work on in any number of other fields, then there is a pretty good chance you have dealt with a tragedy in some form or another. One of the most tragic ones I have covered...

When midnight rolled around on Dec. 31, 2020, nearly everyone had pretty much the same thought, which was along the lines of “surely 2021 has to be better than 2020.” It wasn’t the first time that nearly everyone has been wrong. I seriously doubt that it will be the last time...

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....