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​Whitley County students McKinley Chute and Luke Baker have been selected to receive the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) Civil Engineering Scholarship. Currently there are 80 scholarship openings each year, which are filled with returning students and new students...

Thanks to their high tech hydroponic growing system in the greenhouse, the Whitley County High School agriculture department has been harvesting 72 plants of lettuce each week since mid-January. Now they have a market for that produce in the form of a downtown Corbin restaurant....

Whitley County High School’s new boys’ basketball coach will look familiar to Colonel Nation as Eric Swords will be making the move from Williamsburg. In a press release Tuesday, officials announced that Swords, who has coached the Yellow Jackets for the last two seasons, has...

The Whitley County School District’s next building project may be a physical education training addition at Whitley County High School. During Feb. 17 regular monthly meeting, the Whitley County Board of Education voted to allow Superintendent John Siler to solicit proposals for...

Social media rumors Thursday evening about a message supposedly left on a bathroom wall at Whitley County High School concerning a plan for a school shooting are untrue, the Whitley County School District wrote in a Facebook post late Thursday evening. “Local law enforcement,...

The Corbin High School Wrestling team will hold its first home match Wednesday night against Whitley County. The Redhounds and Colonels will take to the new mat that arrived in Corbin last week beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Corbin Middle School.

If you grew up in southeastern Kentucky, then there is a pretty good chance that at some point in your life you have worked in a garden. Come spring the ground was tilled. You dug a hole, put down some fertilizer and planted a seed. Then a few weeks later, depending on what you...

Three teachers and numerous students at Whitley County High School designed and built the district’s 2021 Christmas parade float, but because the Williamsburg parade was canceled, it is currently sitting at the bus garage. The parade was canceled Saturday because of forecasted...

Despite starting the season with a 2-0 record, Whitley County High School Head Boy’s Basketball Coach Mark White is no longer with the team. Whitley County Athletic Director Bryan Stewart sent a press release Wednesday evening making the announcement. Assistant Coach Austin...

Whitley County now has a new art project designated to help spread information about suicide prevention. The Whitley County Health Department teamed up with local schools to build the pyramid. The project named, the Art Suicide Prevention Triangle, was designed by Williamsburg...