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Community members are encouraged to meet Saturday at 9:00 a.m. at Sanders Park for the #keepcorbinclean event. The event will last from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The first 50 participants will receive a free grabber, donated by David Hart, to pick up trash. All participants will receive #keepcorbinclean sunglasses. The Southeastern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce is donating a $100 gift card that will be awarded to a lucky individual drawn based on the names on the sign in sheet. The Chamber will also provided Bojangle’s breakfast sandwiches to participants. Northwestern and Norvex Supplies also donated a $100 visa gift card to be given away. Garbage bags and plastic gloves will be provided to...

The number of adverse weather days has put a damper on the Knox County Detention Center construction project. “We’re running about four weeks behind schedule. We hope to grab that back once we get everything dried in,” reported Matt Mills with Codell Construction to the Knox County Fiscal Court during its June 27 meeting. “This week’s been rough with rain,” agreed Judge-Executive JM Hall. Despite the unavoidable delay, Mills reports the construction teams have not encountered any big problems and there are no major issues pending. “Everything’s still running the way we want it to. Nothing out there pending that we’re concerned about,” continued Mills. The Fiscal Court then approved a Codell pay estimate...

A Corbin woman pleaded not guilty Monday to a theft of identity charge after police say she gave the wrong identification to an officer to avoid detection with an active Knox County bench warrant. On July 13, Corbin Police Department Patrolman Brad Prewitt was patrolling an Oak Place apartment complex at the request of management due to increased traffic of nonresidents when he spotted Deon Flannelly, 35, and another unidentified male walking into the complex. Prewitt was able to obtain the male’s identification but something was off when he looked at an identification card obtained from Flannelly. “Flannelly identified herself as and provided a Kentucky Identification Card for . I...

The Whitley County school district now has not only a new superintendent, but also a new Deputy Superintendent too. John Siler took over as Whitley County Superintendent on July 1 replacing Scott Paul, who retired after serving 29 years with the school district, including the last eight as superintendent. During Thursday’s Whitley County Board of Education meeting, which was Siler’s first as superintendent, he announced that he had selected Paula Rickett as the district’s new deputy superintendent. She replaces Paula Trickett, who retired effective at the end of June after serving eight years as deputy superintendent. “This lady has been a teacher in our district, an assistant principal, principal at the middle school,...

Williamsburg’s newest school board member is a familiar face. During the Williamsburg Independent Board of Education’s monthly meeting Tuesday, board attorney Paul Croley swore Kim White into office. White replaces Jason Caddell, who was elected to the board in 2016 and resigned from the board in April. Caddell, who serves as Williamsburg Assistant Police Chief, said that he didn’t realize before he ran that there was a law that prohibits city or county employees from serving on a school board, and he resigned from office after learning about it. Kentucky Interim Commissioner of Education Dr. Wayne D. Lewis Jr. appointed White to replace Caddell. White served 12 years as a Williamsburg board member before...

If someone hadn’t seen the accident, officials aren’t sure how long an elderly Williamsburg woman would have been sitting in her crashed vehicle that went down an embankment Monday afternoon. “It could have been much worse given where she was at. Most likely nobody would have seen her had someone not seen her actually wreck. She could have been there for hours before anybody took notice of a van over there,” said Kentucky State Police Trooper Matt Ridener, who was the investigating officer. Wilma Lester, 82, was driving a silver Dodge Caravan west on Ky. 92W about 3:30 p.m. when she lost control of her vehicle due to a medical emergency,...

UPDATE: Officials have lifted the Boiled Water Advisory for the city of Williamsburg. Running water is something most of us take for granted. We use it for drinking, bathing and cleaning. It is always there. Except when it isn’t, like this past weekend in Williamsburg when a pair of broken intake pumps at the water treatment plant left the entire town without water for a significant portion of Sunday, and for some people parts of Saturday and Monday too. Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison promises that city officials are taking steps to ensure this never happens again. “We are kind of trying to figure all the steps that lead to what happened,” said Harrison,...

Three years after planning began, the results of the effort to construct the new Corbin Middle School on the former St. Camillus Academy property were unveiled to the public Tuesday. School officials held an open house and ribbon cutting at the $29 million facility off of Master Street that will house grades 6-8. “And then some,” said Corbin Superintendent Dave Cox when asked if the facility was everything that was envisioned when the project began in 2015 adding that the craftsmanship, design and the way the project came together are top-notch. Sister Mary Bezold of the Sisters of Divine Providence, who taught at St. Camillus, was among a contingent of nuns who...

Even after his playing days as a member of the Corbin Redhounds football team, Alan Onkst continued to make an impact in the community as a businessman, city commissioner, police officer, member of the Corbin Tourism Commission and member of the Redhound Varsity Club. “He loved to serve,” said Terry Joe Martin, who was friends with Onkst for more than 50 years and worked with him as a member of the Redhound Varsity Club. Onkst, who died July 3 at age 61, was laid to rest Saturday at Pine Hill Cemetery. Martin said Onkst worked to do everything he could to give back to his friends, his church and his community. “He loved...

A Knox County man was arrested for the alleged robbery of a scooter. Joseph Burley Elliott, 26, of Gray, was arrested on July 4 at approximately 11:13 a.m. for the robbery. Elliott allegedly, “swung his fist at the victim and threatened him as he rode off on the victim’s scooter,” the victim told police. The victim was able to tell the police that he believed the suspects first name to be Joseph. Officers were familiar with Elliott and gave a brief description of Elliott to the victim who said that sounded like him. Police went to multiple locations where they believed Elliott to be based on prior knowledge of Elliott. Officers finally caught up with...