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Terry and Marion Forcht Receive 2024 Award of Excellence from East Kentucky Leadership Foundation

Terry and Marion Forcht have been named the 2024 winners of the Award of Excellence for Private Individuals by the East Kentucky Leadership Foundation.  The Forchts were presented the award during a dinner and ceremony at the 36th Annual East Kentucky Leadership Conference, which...

Local, state-level officials get update on new spec building and race track projects in Corbin

“It’s like The Field of Dreams… If you build it, they will come.” Those were the words of Senate President Robert Stivers Tuesday when he joined other local and state-level officials at the site of what will soon be the newest speculative building to be constructed inside the...

Stivers will continue to lead as Senate president

Senator Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, has been re-elected as Senate president by acclamation after being unchallenged by his Senate colleagues. “For nearly a decade the Kentucky Senate has been in very capable care with President Robert Stivers’ leadership,” said U.S....
Posted On 06 Dec 2022
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Stivers talks taxes, legislative session during joint chamber address Tuesday

Area business owners and local government officials filed into The Corbin Center Tuesday morning for a monthly luncheon co-sponsored by the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and Knox County Chamber of Commerce, where Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers spoke to those in...

Annexation bill becomes law

Senate Bill 274, which would permit the City of Corbin to annex property in Laurel County serviced by its infrastructure has become law, but the affected area, known as north Corbin, is still in limbo because of the lawsuit Corbin filed to stop the City of London’s attempted...

Senate President Robert Stivers Presented with Kentucky Chamber MVP Award

Last Friday, Senate President Robert Stivers was presented the Chamber MVP Award by Kentucky Chamber Director of Political Affairs Travis Burton and Forcht Group Chairman and CEO Terry Forcht. President Stivers was among a select group of legislators who “went to bat” for...
Posted On 22 Oct 2020
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Senate President Robert Stivers addresses annexation, race track at Corbin City Commission

State Senate President Robert Stivers, R–Manchester, attended the Corbin City Commission’s regular meeting Monday night where he accepted the 2019 Friend of Cities Award from the Kentucky League of Cities, and took the time to answer questions concerning the state of the proposed...

Stivers to chambers of commerce: Kentucky has ‘best economy in 30 years’

Touting the “best economy in 30 years,” Kentucky Senate President Roberts Stivers told two local chambers of commerce Tuesday that the 2019 legislative session will be a time to spur even more growth through effective policymaking. Stivers was the featured speaker for a joint...

KY Senate President Robert Stivers to speak at Chamber of Commerce luncheon

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers will talk about the 2019 legislative session of the General Assembly, and changes to state worker’s compensation rules, next Tuesday at the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon. Stivers (R-Manchester) has been...