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Week 6 of NCAA College Football season has just concluded, and it was possibly the most eventful week of college football yet, from thrilling upsets to #1 losing. This is my recap of college football week 6. First, South Carolina stuns #10 Florida in Gainesville. This upset was really a close game up until the 3rd quarter where South Carolina scores 2 touchdowns to blow the game open 31-13. South Carolina would give up a touchdown, but also respond with one, to win 38-19. What's next for Florida? Following the loss, Florida would drop out of the top 25 as they now have no votes to be in the top 25. What’s...

During the first 40 years of Jellico Hospital’s history starting in 1974, things went well. Adventist Health Systems operated the hospital. There was not much controversy. Things seemed to go smoothly. In late April 2014, Adventist Health informed the hospital’s board of directors it was severing ties with the hospital, and it had one year to find a new find a new healthcare partner. Adventist cited healthcare reform and financial reasons as the causes of the move. On May 1, 2015, the first of what would become a handful of new companies took over running the facility with varying degrees of success. None lasted more than a few years. The hospital...

If you are going to shoot your personal best, then the first round of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Championship is a really good time to do it. Kudos to the Corbin Girl’s Golf Team, which advanced last week to the final round of the state tournament. Not one, but three players shot their personal best with Kylie Cuel shooting a 98, Brooke Kfoury shooting a 102, and Paige Kfoury shooting a 103 at StoneCrest Golf Course in Prestonsburg. I imagine this was a tough course. Talk about peeking at the right time. The team placed third out of eight teams. Makena Myatt shot a four over 74 to tie...

Judging by the comments on the News Journal’s Facebook page last week, people certainly have strong feelings about the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s plan to make a portion of Corbin’s Main Street a one-lane road with parallel parking on both sides. “Who comes up with these ridiculous ideas? Traffic downtown Corbin is already a nightmare when they have any kind of event downtown and now this?” Deborah Sharp Taft wrote. “What a brilliant plan.......I'm assuming that whoever came up with the roundabout plans all over SEKY came up with this plan,” Bob O’Neill wrote. “Sounds like the State just asked AI how to do this and it spit it out,” J.D. Bonza wrote. Not...

Way to go Corbin High School Lady Redhounds Golf Team. They finished as the 2026 10th Region Team Champions last week during play at Wasioto Winds Golf Course in Pineville. Corbin’s Makena Myatt was the individual champion shooting a 76 on what I can attest is a tough course. (If I went and played Wasioto Winds today from some of the back tees, then I would probably be lucky to shoot under 76 for just nine holes, let alone 18 holes like Myatt did.) Myatt did not even play her best golf in the region tournament. On Aug. 18, she fired a five under 67 to set the lady’s course record at...

Suicide is something most people would like to be a lot less familiar with. I suspect most of us have known someone who has killed themselves. I know I have. Several years ago, a friend of mine killed himself. It happened less than 24 hours after I had last seen him. I had gone over to the courthouse to speak with an official and bumped into my old friend. He was there to see the same official. We waited around for approximately 30 minutes chit-chatting about this and that. My friend talked about his wife and daughter for a good bit. I had no clue anything was wrong with him. He seemed...

The MLB season is in the final push with one week left in the season. The AL divisions are still not clinched. However, the National League (NL) division have been clinched as of today (Sunday). Here are some interesting facts, and how the teams clinched their divisions. First, the NL Central where the Brewers clinched the division back on Tuesday the 15th with a 5-1 win over the Pirates. The Brewers are the best team in baseball with a 97-58 record and are led by Cy Young favorite Jacob Misorowski who has a 1.89 ERA. Their bats have also been elite with them having a .259 batting average which is second...

Wow. Corbin High School’s Makena Myatt has been something this year on the golf course. She recently captured the Kentucky 2A Championship shooting an even-par 72 at Owensboro Country Club. She is ranked 10th out of 148 female high school golfers statewide. On Sept. 23, she was slated to tee off at Wasioto Winds Golf Course in Pineville in the region tournament. (The results were not known at the time of the writing of this column.) You could say it is a course she knows well. On Aug. 18, she fired a five under 67 to set the lady’s course record. She even sank a birdie putt on the final hole. Hopefully, she...

As anyone, who has golfed much in their lives will attest, golf is not a cheap sport to play. In addition to purchasing your golf clubs and golf bag, which is an expense ranging from a few hundred dollars to several hundred dollars or more, you also must purchase golf shoes, golf tees, golf gloves and golf balls. These latter four items are much cheaper than the golf clubs but still add up. This is especially true for golf balls, which one periodically tends to lose on the golf course. How often you lose balls depends on a range of factors, such as the golfer’s skill level, the difficulty level of...

Last week was one of THOSE weeks for a lot of people in Whitley County…LOL. Last Tuesday, Patterson Creek Volunteer Fire Department had a structure fire. Then one of their firefighters, who was directing traffic, was struck by a vehicle, and had to be flown out by emergency medical helicopter. Then a vehicle transporting someone with a gunshot wound pulled up to the fire scene. The person with the gunshot wound also had to be flown out. Later in the afternoon a garbage truck collided with a train in the Rockholds’ area, and the garbage truck driver had to be flown out. Late last Tuesday evening, we learned a Williamsburg police sergeant...