Madisonville Community College is now offering a 16-week legal nurse consultant certificate program completely online, with classes beginning Jan. 10, 2022.

There are few instances of good news that I can imagine that do not require courage in one form or another.

Life would be more comfortable for all of us if could agree on everything — probably not. I cannot imagine living in such a world. It would be a wretched place to live.

Studies show consumers are keeping their cars longer. With more older cars on the road, repairs are on the rise. People in Hopkins County interested in taking a wrench into their own hands to save money, now have a resource to help.

Over the past 18 months or so, we have been thinking a lot about work. There have been some who lost their jobs. There have been others who have been afraid. Some whom many took for granted suddenly were labelled “essential.”

Pride Elementary School has received a $23,460 grant to offer the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program.

If anyone ever writes a book about the history of religion news in the mainstream press, it will need to include a photo of the glowering, and often smirking, mug of Lou Grant.

Exhausted. Worn out. Fed up. Tired of all this. And it seems that some people just never stop poking the sores. Some are no doubt well-meaning, but others seem to be intent on making the rest of us just as miserable as they are. I believe that there are a few of us that have the luxury of be…

The film and pictures coming out of Afghanistan during the past week have been distressing to say the least. No doubt, life has been distressing in Afghanistan for nearly 50 years now. It is just that most of us do not often see in such stark images the desperation that results from the endi…

Madisonville Community College is ranked the No. 1 community college in the state by personal finance website, WalletHub.com.

The saying, “He is dancing like nobody is watching,” brings to my mind a specific context. I have heard it almost exclusively at celebrations (graduations, weddings, birthdays) in reference to someone (he or she) who is dancing (usually not very well) fully aware of the setting but in a worl…

The first few chapters of Genesis have been dragged through all sorts of modern arguments and philosophies. How one interprets them has become, for some, a litmus test of faith.

Madisonville Community College has been awarded the Federal TRiO Talent Search grant from the US Department of Education. The first year of the grant is for $419,391 and the total five-year award is worth $2,096,955. Project activities will run from Sept. 1 of this year through Aug. of 2026.

The Hopkins County-Madisonville Public Library has a total of 10 employees from both the Main Branch and the Dawson Springs Branch. I thought it would be a fun idea to interview HCMPL staff so you, the reader, could get to know us all a little bit better. Today, we are chatting with Sharon Gibbs.

We are recently, as a society, obsessed with being noticed. It can create some serious cross currents in our lives as we seek to “fit in” and “stand out”’ at the same time. It is a delicate balance. It is also a symptom of living in a thoroughly individualistic society.

The very first thing any being said in the Bible is, “Let there be light.” This is the first word that is necessary when sorting out the chaos that is the universe. That scale is still beyond us. The light began the process of separating and sorting that makes the rest of creation possible.

I have heard it only a few times and each time I felt a little disgusted and had to stuff down a laugh at the same time. It is the desperate cry of one who is attempting to access entitlement from the pedestal of privilege as they learn they are not going to get their way. “Do you know who I…

There are many beautiful things in this world — mountains, waterfalls, a rugged coastline, coral reefs, and deserts to name a few. There is however a point at which one can get too close. Even a relatively small waterfall can be treacherous to walk under and a large one becomes increasingly …

This weekend we will celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. Over the course of my life the details of that celebration have changed. I have been to parks, riverfronts, a few overseas, and for several years after fireworks became legal, we had a decent show at m…

Last summer was strange at our house. We stayed busy enough, but we missed our normal summer trips. The things we missed most were summer camps. There is the traditional version of camp for a week or two at a facility away from town.

Once upon a time, I knew all the big-name writers. It was what I did with my time 25 years ago, but even way back then, with the limited subgenre options, I absolutely loved SciFi Romance. Back then it was books like Warrior’s Woman by Johanna Lindsey and Shielder by Catherine Spangler. Both…

Whenever the Southern Baptist Convention gathers in times of trials and turmoil, one thing is certain — someone will preach a sermon that makes a difference.

Why are we here?

The Byrds’ classic “Turn! Turn! Turn!” didn’t sound like anything else on the radio when it hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1965.

The presidency of the country’s second Catholic president is revealing deep divisions among the country’s bishops, and one after another appeared Thursday at their annual meeting to say their fraternity is now at a crossroads — although they disagree on what type of juncture they face and why.

I know people who seem to see nothing but the good. They are encouraging and find the right words even in difficult situations. I am certain that their eyes are perhaps clearer than mine, but not much is said about the negative. It is not ignored. It is turned around. There is often not so m…

Have you found yourself missing our Silent Auction? Well, so has Sharon Gibbs so we have brought back a little slice of that life just for you all.

I like music. I can, for brief moments, listen to nearly anything. I do not always understand or appreciate it, but I can try.

Hopkins County-Madisonville Public Library is excited to be back and interacting with our patrons once again.

“I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of 15,000 men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung. With words we make …

I sometimes have a hard time being still. I am better than I used to be, but still have a way to go. It is not sitting still that is the hardest part. It is sitting still and not being annoyed by the need to sit still in some places. I carry a book with me in my car. I call it my “appointmen…