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Have you noticed how Black Friday is becoming a bigger deal each year?

Back 10 or 12 years ago when big retailers started opening up before the break of dawn to offer special deals the day after Thanksgiving, it wasn’t really that big of a deal. I had no interest in going out in what I would call the middle of the night to go shopping, and I had a hard time imagining who would.

Part of the job for any good reporter is going out and finding out what other people think, and I had my eyes opened on my first Black Friday in Corbin.

My truck is running again. Chris came after work and put his heavy duty battery charger on it. I had fixed his supper and he ate while it was charging — and then watched TV with me while he waited. Wanda came about 8:10 p.m. to watch Dancing with the Stars with me. She had wanted to see the show because she enjoys dancing so much. She mentioned she had just come from her belly dancing class. Oops, another mistake: I said last week that she had joined a ballroom dancing class. There’s a good deal of difference.

There is an enormous hole in the roadside on the south side of Sawridge Creek Road across from the Monterey Firehouse and the soccer fields and the Artifacts store.

It’s been there a while. When things get busy, which is not too often but not rare either, people and horses fall into the hole.

So far, no one has died or been permanently injured by the fall as far as I know (I’m not sure about the horse), but it will happen again if the problem isn’t fixed.

The 2010 golf season was a big one for OCHS senior Krista Power (center). After winning the sixth regional golf competition and then heading to state — where she won the sportsmanship award — she finished off the season by signing a letter of intent to Morehead State University Friday. She was joined by Randy Bishop, who served as athletic director during Power’s season, current athletic directors Jeff Sutton and T.J. Wesselman, sister Shelby Power, mother Jennifer Power and father Shawn Power.