Cornett, Tim: - Tim Cornett is the former news editor of the Pineville Sun and the Barbourville Mountain Advocate. He has also lent his hand to preservation, serving as the director for Main Street Pineville. He is a lifelong resident of the county and has published a pictorial history of Bell County with Arcadia Publishing and self-published a history of Black Star, Kentucky, one of many now-extinct coal mining towns in the state s Appalachian Plateau. Mr. Cornett is a long-time member of the Bell County Historical Society, and as he puts it, if I don t know em, they re not really from Bell County.