The family resource centers and youth service centers at Corbin Independent Schools are facing a huge challenge with the Angel Tree Program that has already seen 169 children in need added to the list. “I have been helping with the Angel Tree for 12 or 13 years and that is, by...

Nearly everyone in Corbin assumes that the ‘B’ in B&H Shoes stands for Barnett, which is the last name of current owner Marsha Barnett. They would be wrong about that. “My father started these stores in Somerset in 1948,” said Barnett, whose maiden name was Hawkins. She...

Football playoffs are being delayed in Kentucky, according to an announcement by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Saturday morning. The KHSAA notified member schools Saturday morning that the start of the football playoffs will be delayed one week in an effort to...

The Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training (DOCJT) announced on Oct. 29 that 28 law enforcement officers from agencies across the state had graduated the basic training academy, including one Whitley County Sheriff’s Deputy. Deputy Chad Estep graduated and received the...

Students should be familiar with credit scores, according to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA). Your credit score is a three-digit number that has a long-lasting effect on your buying power. “It’s important for young people to learn about financial...

Whitley, Laurel, Knox and Bell counties all reported double-digit increases Friday in the number of new COVID-19 cases reported. The Whitley County Health Department reported 20 new COVID-19 cases Friday, seven new cases Thursday, 13 new cases Wednesday, 19 new cases Tuesday, 29...

The University of Kentucky, in partnership with Baptist Health Lexington and Norton Healthcare in Louisville, has been selected as a testing site for the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s Phase 3 clinical research study, called the ENSEMBLE trial, to...

A local physician on the front lines of the fight in the COVID–19 pandemic is asking the public to follow the Center for Disease Control recommendations in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. Dr. Christopher Troxell is a Hospitalist at Baptist Health Corbin where he has...

A Whitley County Board of Education member was elected Monday night by her school board peers as the Upper Cumberland Region Chairperson of the Kentucky School Board Association. Brenda Sears Rose will represent the Upper Cumberland Region of school boards. The board is composed...

During his daily press conference Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear honored a Corbin doctor who died recently after battling COVID-19. Dr. Mohammad Jawed, a loving father to three daughters, a beloved husband and one of our frontline health care workers, was only 59 when he passed away...

For the second time this week, the Whitley County Health Department has reported additional COVID-19 fatalities. “We are terribly sad to report two more deaths as well,” the Whitley County Health Department wrote in a release Thursday. The Whitley County Health Department...

Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday that 80 of Kentucky’s 120 counties are now COVID–19 incidence rate red zones. “Virtually the entire state is seeing a surge,” Beshear said adding that 38 of the remaining 40 counties are now orange. Russell and Owen counties are the two yellow...

Saint Joseph London will be offering a free flu shot clinic beginning Saturday and continuing, weekly throughout November. Officials said the clinic will be hosted from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Nov. 7, 14, and 21 at the hospital’s drive-thru clinic on Mountain View Drive, off of...

A Corbin man was arrested early Wednesday morning after Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies discovered him in possession of suspected heroin, marijuana and pills. Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said Deputy Justin Taylor arrested Andrew D. Jackson,...

The investigation of suspected drug activity at two locations in north Corbin Tuesday afternoon resulted in 10-drug related arrest. Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies arrested eight people at a residence off of Foley Road, off of Byrley Road, and two others at a residence off of...

Organizers with the Corbin Sunup Initiative said approximately 100 people tuned in to the Zoom meeting Friday for night the presentation of Black in Appalachia’s, “The Corbin Expulsion of 1919.” The documentary was the work of William Isom, director of Black in Appalachia, and...

There is a new participant in the legal battle between the Corbin City Commission and London City Council over London’s attempt to annex property off Exit 29 in southern Laurel County. The City Utilities Commission of Corbin voted during an Oct. 28 special called meeting to...

With the Christmas season approaching, the Corbin Tourism Commission is taking steps to turn its downtown lot into a Christmas wonderland. At a recent special called meeting, Tourism Director Maggy Kriebel announced that the ice-skating rink that proved to be so popular in 2019,...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently announced that 182 Kentucky nursing homes will receive a total of $5,332,001 to protect seniors from the coronavirus. The federal funding, distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was made...

Knox, Laurel and Whitley counties all reported double-digit increases in the number of new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. The Knox County Health Department (KCHD) reported 48 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, including one case involving a child. “We have been notified that 21 of these...