The decorations have gone up and downtown Corbin businesses will be kicking off the holiday shopping season Sunday with the annual Christmas Open House. Between 1 and 5 p.m., businesses along Main Street will be offering a variety of deals. Participating businesses include:...

Forcht Broadcasting held its first annual awards dinner on November 4th at the Griffin Gate Marriott in Lexington. Several stations and individuals were honored for their work in 2017. The award for Station of the Year was presented to WYKY-FM, one of Forcht Broadcasting’s...

Dave Adkisson, President/CEO of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, will be the featured speaker next Tuesday at the monthly membership luncheon of the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. The event will begin at 11:45 a.m. at The Corbin Center at 222 Corbin Center Drive. The...

Alternative crops, misconceptions about agriculture and the local food movement were among the topics that Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles addressed during two stops in Whitley County Thursday. Quarles spoke to a group of more than three-dozen people – many of who...

First State Bank is pleased to announce that Attorney Shane Romines has joined our board of directors. A native of Corbin, Shane is a founding member of Copeland & Romines Law Office, PLLC, where he focuses on personal injury, workers’ compensation, real estate and banking...

Senture opened its Williamsburg facility in late winter, and as of the start of a new training class Tuesday morning, the facility now employs 466 people with $1.4 million monthly payroll. You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please Login. Not a Member? Join Us

Unemployment rates fell in 102 Kentucky counties, including Whitley, Laurel and Knox counties, stayed the same in five and rose in 13 counties between September 2016 and September 2017, according to the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS), an agency of...

When the Kentucky Consular Center first opened in Williamsburg on Oct. 25, 2000, it employed 45 people to administer the U.S. Diversity Visa program. At the time, roughly half of the building, which is located off US25W near Exit 15, was filed with boxes of visa applications that...

The chief operating officer (COO) of Wisconsin’s largest private employer and healthcare system has been named CEO of Baptist Health following a nationwide search. Gerard “Ger” Colman will assume his new role with Baptist Health on Monday, Dec. 4. The COO for the Aurora Health...

The Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities (KAHCF) is pleased to announce that Barbourville Health and Rehab is among six long-term and post-acute care members across Kentucky were recognized with a 2017 Bronze – Commitment to Quality Award by the American Health...

Tom Hourigan, President & CEO of First Financial Credit of Lexington, has been elected the 2018 President of the Kentucky Consumer Finance Association (KCFA). Mr. Hourigan has been a KCFA Advisory Board Member for the last 10 years, and President & CEO of First Financial...

U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05) and the Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation (SKED) hosted the Supplier Education and Economic Development (SEED) Defense Contracting Symposium Thursday at the Corbin Center to help educate local employers about how...

Last Wednesday morning, Gov. Matt Bevin, Senate President Robert Stivers and House Speaker Jeff Hoover unveiled their “Keeping the Promise” – a comprehensive plan to save Kentucky’s ailing public pension system. The pension reform proposal outline includes no change to full...

Liquor King in Corbin may soon be under new ownership. A Somerset liquor store owner is apparently trying to buy Liquor King in Corbin. Kuldep Patel has filed a notice of intent to apply for a license to sell package beer and liquor, doing business as “Liquor King.” You need to...

Forcht Group of Kentucky founder and President Terry Forcht is one of 20 entrepreneurs from the Bluegrass State featured in a new book written and compiled by the co-founder of a business and technology incubator in downtown Lexington. Luke Murray said he wrote “Unbridled Spirit:...

A family-owned French company that manufactures ice-cream and coffee-stir sticks will be the latest firm to open a manufacturing facility in the Southeast Kentucky Regional Business Park in Corbin — a 90-job, $15 million operation capable of producing up to two billion of the...

You and Me, Coffee and Tea is getting its own line of tea. Owner Andy Salmons announced that the 10 varieties of loose-leaf tea would be unveiled at a special event Saturday at the Main Street location. Salmons said he and his employees tasted more than 140 varieties of tea to...

The national Community Action Partnership presented Paul Dole, KCEOC President/CEO, with the 2017 Robert M. Coard Innovation Award at the national annual conference on September 1st in Philadelphia, PA. The Award is named after Robert M. Coard, the long-time President/CEO of...

Hood Harris, President of AT&T Kentucky, will be the featured speaker next Tuesday at the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon. The title of Harris’ keynote speech is: “Investing in the Future: Telecommunications Today and Tomorrow in Southern...