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Please join me in congratulating our news staff for winning 19 awards, including the General Excellence award for being the best large weekly in the state, at the recent Kentucky Press Association’s winter convention. I hope that I can impress upon you the fact that this...

The News Journal claimed 19 awards Friday at the annual Kentucky Press Association Convention awards banquet, including its fifth First Place General Excellence Award in six years. News Journal Publisher Don Estep said that he was proud of the News Journal staff, which he said...

Finally it is happening. The Tracy Apartment building in Corbin is being demolished. It is a story that has gone on for decades. The structure was condemned in 2005 and our newspaper carried a story in 2010 that it would be demolished in the near future. A “flaw” at the corner of...

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...

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....

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....

Several years ago I stopped by my office on Main Street in Corbin around 7 p.m. and noticed a handful of people standing on the sidewalk. I asked them what was going on. To my surprise they said they were waiting on the Christmas Parade. We had not been notified at this newspaper...

Now that we are in the month of December the enthusiasm for the Christmas season is alive here at the News Journal. Jennifer Perkins, one of our reporters, has gone to great lengths to provide the boys and girls in this area with a rather unique headquarters for Santa’s elf,...

Let’s talk garbage! The City of Corbin has been distributing new 95 gallon garbage carts to residents and businesses. This is a big job that will take a few weeks. Many of you have already received the carts and are wondering what to do with your old cans and asking questions...