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If you ever get the chance to employ one of your former teachers, then I highly recommend giving it a try. Several years back, Lillian Babb, who was my high school journalism teacher for two years, my sophomore English teacher and my senior German teacher, did some freelance...

It appears a lot of folks have caught on to something that local residents have known for a long time, which is that Cumberland Falls is a great place to visit. Cumberland Falls State Resort Park recently won a Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Award for 2024. It’s a pretty big deal....

Although I have seen slightly larger crowds in the Corbin Arena parking lot for Independence Day festivities, I still thought there was a good turnout for the event and a nice fireworks show last week. The event featured a lot of things aimed at children, including bounce houses...

I’ve always told my dad that if you have to have a birthday on a holiday, then he has a really good one on the Fourth of July, which is a day to celebrate our country’s independence. Most people have the day off. You have picnics and family gatherings. The day usually concludes...

The next 12 months and the following few years should be an exciting time in Corbin as the city sees one of the biggest expansions ever of its city limits, and significant development along the Exit 29 corridor, which may finally help it reach its full potential. The Corbin City...

This fall, my wonderful wife, Cecelia, and I will celebrate our 20-year wedding anniversary, but Tuesday marked another special date in our relationship. It marked the 20th anniversary of me popping the question and asking her to marry me. We had been dating for about seven...

Sometimes the things that people get riled up over on social media can be quite interesting. For instance, take a recent story about Corbin officials urging people to cut their grass before the code enforcement officer had to cite them for it being too high. It was a story that...

Congratulations to new Corbin Tourism Director Nancy Conley, who was hired during a Corbin Tourism and Convention Commission special meeting last Wednesday. About 15 years ago, Conley started at the bottom working as the receptionist for Berea tourism, and has worked her way up...

Since my wife, Cecelia, and I got married nearly 20 years ago, we have traveled to a lot of places and seen a lot of natural and man-made beauty from the sea stacks off the coast of Oregon and the Caribbean at sunrise, to the Outer Banks along the Atlantic Ocean and some truly...

Wow! Saturday’s 150th running of the Kentucky Derby had one of the best finishes of any derby that I can recall watching. Mystic Dan (18-1 odds) beat out Sierra Leone (9/2 odds), to win the Kentucky Derby by a nose with third place finisher Forever Young (7-1 odds) sandwiched in...