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Nannie Hays leaves legacy in Williamsburg, dies at age 67

Close Nannie Hays was an educator and band director at Williamsburg City School. She also for a time served as high school choir director, elementary music teacher, high school health teacher, and Jacket yearbook sponsor. | Photo contributed featured By Jarrod Mills Staff Writer Apr 27, 2021 2 hrs ago Nannie Hays was an educator and band director at Williamsburg City School. She also for a time served as high school choir director, elementary music teacher, high school health teacher, and Jacket yearbook sponsor. | Photo contributed WILLIAMSBURG - Long time Williamsburg educator, Main Street director, and staple of the Williamsburg community, Nannie Hays, passed away at the age of 67 Friday. 

The News Journal » Ex-Williamsburg Mayor Bill Nighbert remembered

Right after Bill Nighbert was sworn in as president of the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) in 2002, he called his then five-year-old son Benton to the stage, and hoisted him above the podium showing the audience of KLC staff and city officials what drove him to public service. “This is why I do what I do … here is the reason I serve,” Nighbert told the audience recalled Kentucky League of Cities CEO/Executive Director J.D. Chaney in a Facebook post. Chaney noted that this moment said a lot about Nighbert. “In my opinion, that moment captured the Bill Nighbert we knew at KLC – dedicated to his family forever and always driven to pave a better way for the future generations that follow him,” Chaney wrote on Facebook.

The News Journal » Looking back at the year that was 2020

Let’s face it. 2020 was quite the year from a worldwide pandemic to the third highest flood in Whitley County and Williamsburg history. Just in Whitley County alone, we were pretty much a war and a famine short of having our own Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse…LOL. Maybe 2020 wasn’t quite that bad, but it was a rough year folks. On the front page of last week’s News Journal, we detailed the top 10 COVID-19 related stories of 2020, and this week we are detailing the top 10 non COVID-19 stories of 2020 on our front page. Of course, you just can’t fit all the news from one year into a top 10 list, so here are some other headlines that made news in 2020.

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