‘Maggy’ has left some big shoes to fill in Corbin

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Mark White is Editor of The News Journal.

You need only say one name and everyone knows who you are talking about.

Much the same can be said, if one simply utters the name “Maggy” in Corbin.

Pretty much anyone, who is familiar with Corbin over the past decade, will know exactly who you are talking about and that is Corbin Tourism Commission Executive Director and Corbin Downtown Manager Maggy Monhollen.

In her 10 years as tourism director, Maggy has done an amazing job whether it be creating new events, like Colonelfest, seeking out grant money for projects or overseeing efforts to build the new farmer’s market pavilion in Corbin among other things.

She is one of the hardest working women in Corbin, and you will often find her still at the office well after closing time and there on the weekends working away too. Maggy is always high energy pretty much whenever you see her, and she usually has a smile on her face.

Maggy announced last week that she is leaving her positions in Corbin to take the job as general manager at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park.

She has been a great ambassador for Corbin during her 10 years as tourism director, and I have no doubt she will be the same way as the new general manager down at Cumberland Falls.

I can’t wait to see what new things she will add there in the coming years.

In another 10 years, I won’t be at all surprised if we are writing about Maggy becoming commissioner over the entire state park system or maybe even becoming state tourism director.

As good a job as I know she will do down at Cumberland Falls, I still hate to see her go. I think I speak for much of Corbin when I say that she will be greatly missed.

I don’t know, who will replace Maggy as Corbin Tourism Director, but they are going to have very big shoes to fill.

Now let me take a few minutes and brag on a couple of our people here at the News Journal.

• Kudos to Trevor Sherman for his excellent coverage of last week’s storms that caused fairly extensive damage in the Bee Creek and Hightop Road areas and a few other nearby places.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but when winds get fast enough to blow over trees and knock down utility poles, then I am not sure that it matters whether it was straight line winds or a rotating tornado. It would have to be really scary to go through either one.

Speaking of the storms, let me also say a big thank you to our utility companies, first responders, county road workers, county officials and numerous other folks, who came out last Tuesday evening to remove down trees from roadways and fix down utility poles and continued that work into the next day.

Fortunately no one was injured or killed in the storm.

• Also, let me say kudos to our own Timothy Wyatt, who has been assisting the Williamsburg Independent School newspaper, The Buzz, get into operation.

I have to say that the inaugural paper looks pretty good. The students and advisers did a really good job with it. Who knows, there may be a future News Journal editor on the staff there.

Organizers are planning to put out another edition before the end of the school year.

The students comprising the “newspaper club,” as it has been deemed for the time being, consist of Elijah Muse, Cabela Johnson, Jacob Durham, Caleb Nichols, Zaden Housekeeper and Laylee Wyatt. A small group of faculty helped coordinate the work of the students as well, including Mrs. Becky Hamilton, Mrs. Kacey Hensley and Mrs. Kristy Stewart.

Superintendent Tabetha Housekeeper deserves credit for reviving the paper Williamsburg’s school newspaper.

Housekeeper has plans to keep the newspaper going strong, including possibly adding journalism to the curriculum next year. I, for one, think it would be great to see that happen.