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LOOKING BACK

 It was the summer of 1954 and several young Corbin athletes were participating in a senior league baseball program.

Posted On 07 Jul 2011
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SHARPE SHOOTER

 Becky Sharpe, who will be a senior at Williamsburg High School this fall, is already working on her game by playing in numerous invitations throughout the South.

Sharpe finished third in the prestigious Natural Resource...

Posted On 23 Jun 2011
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LITTLE LEAGUE

 The Corbin Little League finished its regular season Thursday night with the 11-12 tournament won by Davis Salvage, 13-3.

Now it’s time for the Little League All-Star tournaments to begin.

Posted On 23 Jun 2011
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LOOKING BACK

 I had occasion this past week during summer basketball to meet a fine young man who is currently the head basketball coach of the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets, Patrick Robinson. I knew Patrick’s grandfather, his dad Bo Robinson and his aunt Patsy and uncle Tommy...

Posted On 23 Jun 2011
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OVERBEY TAKES OVER AT WC

 Jerry Overbey has always dreamed about the day he would be a high school basketball coach. After years of hard work with the elementary and middle schools boys and girls’ programs at Whitley County, his dream of coaching on the high school level became reality last...

Posted On 16 Jun 2011
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LOOKING BACK

 Corbin High School has certainly had more than its fair share of outstanding athletes. The accomplishments of such a small school’s athletes are truly remarkable. This week however, I would like to focus on some of those faces in the crowd, people who lived and died...
Posted On 16 Jun 2011
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Three locals to play for East All-Stars

 Five local players and two coaches will take part in this weekend’s 16th Annual Kentucky East-West Softball All-Star weekend. Corbin’s Calli Hendrickson and Whitley County’s Simbree Sizemore will play for the East Senior All-Stars while Lady Colonel junior...
Posted On 16 Jun 2011
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MIDDLE SCHOOL ALL-STARS

 For two upcoming eighth graders at Williamsburg Middle School, football season will begin this week the Kentucky Future Stars Camp at Eastern Kentucky University. The two were chosen for the camp after an open tryout back in April that saw 300 boys fight it out for 45...

Posted On 09 Jun 2011
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FIGHT FOR THE TOP

 Davis Salvage cashed in on two key errors in the first inning then held off Hometown Bank to remain undefeated in the Corbin Little League, 7-5, Monday night at Rotary Park.

Posted On 09 Jun 2011
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LOOKING BACK

 It was in the early to mid fifties that I first became acquainted and became friends with a young boy named Jerry Smith and his brother, Terry.

Jerry and Terry lived with their sister and mother on Christian Street here in...

Posted On 09 Jun 2011
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