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Corbin Library Board to appeal denied grant application

The Corbin Public Library is appealing the state’s rejection of their grant application. The Corbin Public Library Board approved a motion Thursday to pay off the balance of the mortgage on the annex building, but it remains to be seen whether it will have the funding to do...

Local candidates meet and greet to be followed by Chautauqua speaker tonight at Corbin Library

The Ossoli Club of Corbin, together with Kentucky Chautauqua, will present Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: “Fight for the Right to Vote!” at the Corbin Public Library Thursday at 7 p.m. The event will be held in conjunction with the Meet and Greet for local political candidates...

Future plans for Corbin Library are very exciting

Trent Knuckles is publisher of The News Journal. I really like the way the Board of Directors of the Corbin Public Library is handling plans to nearly double the library’s size by expanding into an adjacent building. During a public meeting last Monday, initial plans for the...

New Corbin Library Director announces big future expansion plans

Only a week on the job, and the new director of the Corbin Public Library was able to make a big announcement about the library’s future Tuesday. The facility will be nearly doubling in size in the near future. Julia Basil made the announcement during the Southern Kentucky...

Corbin Library will be ‘Where I’m From’ organizer for Whitley County

In the summer of 1993, Kentucky poet George Ella Lyon started working on the piece that would become her award-winning and internationally acclaimed poem “Where I’m From.” It has since become one of the foremost poetry writing models in the world. Lyon, Kentucky poet laureate for...
Posted On 03 Mar 2016
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