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Cost affordable broadband access coming to parts of Whitley County

If you live in an area of Whitley County, which isn’t served by broadband internet access but you are wanting or needing it, then there may be some help headed your way within the next 18 months or possibly sooner at a cost that many people can afford. enate President Robert...
Posted On 15 Nov 2023

Several local exemplary students selected to be Rogers Scholars, Rogers Explorers

The Center for Rural Development has selected several local students to participate in its summer leadership programs. Rogers Scholars Corbin High School sophomores Reid Bryant and William Taylor, and Lynn Camp High School sophomore Matthew Garrison will join high school students...
Posted On 04 Jun 2023
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The Center for Rural Development to provide online no-cost skills training for unemployed and underemployed individuals in 14 counties

The Center for Rural Development is taking technology to the next level by using Zoom, a cloud-based video communications app, to provide no-cost essential workforce skills training for unemployed and underemployed individuals in 14 Kentucky coal-impacted areas. The online...
Posted On 23 Jun 2020

Local students named Rogers Scholars, Rogers Explorers

The Center for Rural Development is honoring several local students for being selected for its annual youth programs, Rogers Scholars and Rogers Explorers. “We hope our communities will join us in congratulating the students on their selection for these highly competitive...
Posted On 26 Apr 2020

Whitley County students graduate from The Center ’s 2019 Class of Rogers Scholars

Corbin High School students Nancy Jane Jackson, Grant Dickerson, and Lauren Shackleford and Williamsburg Independent student Collin Taylor graduated this summer from The Center for Rural Development’s 2019 Rogers Scholars program. Rogers Scholars—The Center’s flagship youth...