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One of the previously announced live music acts will no longer be performing at this year’s Whitley County Fair.

The Whitley County Cooperative Extension Community Arts program will be holding its 10th Annual Earth Day celebration on Monday (April 22) in downtown Williamsburg. There is free admission to the event, which will take place at the Green Space on Main from 4 – 7 p.m. There will...

An annual suicide awareness and prevention walk is planned for Saturday (Sept. 16) in honor of 16-year-old Whitley County High School student Bethany Faith Lawson, who took her own life in 2018. “Bethany’s Hope would like to invite you to come walk with us. Help us spread the...

Among the many new businesses sprouting up around downtown Williamsburg is a little sister-owned shop that wants to make every customer feel like part of the family. JennieLyn Boutique, owned and operated by sisters Jennifer Baker and Amy Gray, is housed within a mostly...

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT Holiday cheer: Despite the cold and threat of rain, hundreds of people lined Main Street in downtown Williamsburg on Saturday night to take in the city’s annual “Feels Like Home” Christmas Parade. Winners for the float decorating contest were announced...

If you like looking at public art, then you might want to head down to Williamsburg where five new statues were recently installed downtown, and a sixth is on its way. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view...

Williamsburg’s 39th Annual Old Fashioned Trading Days, which will take place Thursday-Saturday (Sept. 8-10), appears to be fully back from the pandemic with every single vendor spot reserved. Williamsburg Tourism Director Alvin Sharpe said there is quite a bit of things to do,...

Numerous people turned out on Aug. 21 for the second Cumberland River Cruise-In of the season in downtown Williamsburg. Streets around the old Whitley County Courthouse were blocked off for several hours for the event. Officials hope to make the Cumberland River Cruise-Ins a...

Ray Parsons, Mike Huffman, Brent Phillips and Jeff Parsons, who are all with Parsons Construction, labored recently to build this stage on the old Gorman Jones Building lot in Williamsburg, which is located at the corner of Main and Third streets. The company is building the...

By this fall, downtown Williamsburg is expected to look quite a bit different with new restaurants, a butcher’s shop and other stores, Mayor Roddy Harrison said during a meeting of the Williamsburg Historic Preservation Commission Thursday evening. Read this story and more for...