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06/18/2026

The article linked to the shared post gives details about helping drought-stricken Liberty.

By Abigail Roberts A Lincoln County native is coordinating a 7-county donation effort to help out neighboring Casey County while they deal with a major water shortage due to drought.…

06/10/2026

“Godspeed Phillip”

By Jonathan L. Smith

When Covid restrictions resulted in attendance limits at high school
football games in 2020, WPBK-FM added a video simulcast to our radio play-by-play.

Needing to add a trusted, dependable, resourceful person to our team, I turned to my brother Phillip Smith.

Since then, he has helped produce all our video streams, with the added bonus that he got to spend more time with his son Brad, our play-by-play announcer.

Sadly, Phillip passed away today and will be sorely missed by our immediate family but also as a valued member of our sports coverage family.

In his younger days, Phillip worked as a disc jockey at WRSL and at some other stations, plus he worked at a TV station in Tennessee that our dad owned.

Always a friendly, outgoing extrovert, Phillip seemed to know everybody and everybody knew him.

Some of the WPBK-FM broadcast team’s favorite memories are long away trips when longtime team cameraman Stuart Underwood rode with them.

Between Phillip and the similarly talkative Underwood, nobody else could get a word in edgewise. A story would start in Stanford between the two of them and still be going in Hazard or wherever they went that night.

Phillip was a faithful Christian and knew where he’d go when his time on Earth was over. Godspeed, Phillip. We love you and miss you.

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” ~ John 14:1-4

06/01/2026

From Abigail Roberts at Lincoln County Daily News

Joe Lynn Gilliland will be the interim mayor under an executive order entered by Dalton Miller in 2022.

He will have the authority and power to perform any and all necessary executive functions, other than the ability to approve ordinances or promulgate regulations.

Councilman Joe Tackett will have the authority approve ordinances or promulgate regultuons.

The council has 30 days to appoint an interim mayor until the voters choose one in November.

The full story is linked in the comments.

05/31/2026

Mayor Dalton Miller’s es**rt back into Stanford tonight after he passed away in a Lexington hospital earlier today.

05/31/2026

UPDATE 6/1/2005 (from Abigail Roberts at Lincoln Couny Daily News)

Joe Lynn Gilliland will be the interim mayor under an executive order entered by Dalton Miller in 2022.

He will have the authority and power to perform any and all necessary executive functions, other than the ability to approve ordinances or promulgate regulations.

Councilman Joe Tackett will have the authority approve ordinances or promulgate regultuons.

The council has 30 days to appoint an interim mayor until thvotees choose one in November.

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Stanford Mayor Dalton Miller has passed away after a brave and public two-year battle with cancer.

He was elected mayor in the 2020 special election to fill the term of Scottie Ernst who died unexpectedly in a mowing accident.

Dalton was re-elected to a full term in 2022 and had been a two-term city council member before becoming mayor.

Sadly, Dalton is the third Stanford Mayor claimed by death in the past 12 years. T. J. Hill won the 2014 election but passed away unexpectedly two weeks later, before taking office.

The city succession plan will be followed until the council can appoint an interim mayor.

In 2020, the council went outside the council chambers and chose local Reverend Jerry Wilkinson, who served several months until the special election was held.

Unless the succession plan has been changed since 2020, Stanford Fire Chief Scott Maples will serve as interim mayor for 30 days until an interim mayor is appointed by the council.

The non-partisan Stanford Mayor seat is up for election in the November election.

Dalton was a very effective leader, and was hugely popular with both city staff and city constituents.

A tireless worker and city promoter, Dalton went to great lengths to make Stanford a better place.

Rest in peace, Dalton, your hard journey is concluded.

(Pictured is Dalton in one of his many themed uniforms that he wore to city events.)e

05/30/2026

PBK Bank is celebrating 120 years as your community bank.

Their open-to-the-public celebration is going on right now the Lincoln County Fairgrounds.

Free food and swag bags while it lasts. Come on out.

05/29/2026

Jimmy Vines enjoying WPBK-FM in Gatlinburg.

05/29/2026

Jimmy Vines has a challenge. Anybody else ever been in this spot?

05/29/2026

Centre College is getting a great shot put and discus thrower.

Germani is going to get a great education.

Way to go, Germani.

Congratulations to LCHS senior Germani Crosby for signing with Centre College for Track & Field!