 Founded June 17, 1882, as the weekly "Corbin Enterprise", the newspaper took on the names "Corbin Daily Tribune" and "Sunday Times" when it began daily publication.Held by a succession of local owners for 100 years—Dan T. Chestnut, T.L.Metcalfe, the Price family, Fred Novels and John L. Crawford—the newspaper was sold to the Thomson Corporation in 1982 by James Crawford and J. Springer Robinson, who had owned it since 1930.