Cherokee robotics team built Frisbee-throwing robot for competition
ROGERSVILLE — A group of Hawkins County high school students demonstrated for the Board of Education last week that aside from learning “Reading, Writing and ’Rithmetic” — their education over the past...
View ArticleVolunteer High School's RAIN Club to host Earth Day event for third-graders
CHURCH HILL — Hawkins County third-graders will have an opportunity to spend a day at Laurel Run Park on Friday while learning about recycling and the environment from a group of Volunteer High School...
View ArticleRogersville Fourth of July Committee needs funds to avoid program cuts
ROGERSVILLE — Organizers of Rogersville’s annual Fourth of July Celebration are hoping more sponsorships and/or donations come in soon so that programming cuts won’t have to be made to the region’s...
View ArticleUPDATE: Wayne McConnell, longtime Sullivan County commissioner, dies
Updated at 7:10 p.m. KINGSPORT — Sullivan County Commissioner Wayne McConnell, 9th District, died Saturday at Bristol Select Specialty Hospital. McConnell, 65, has been a member of the Sullivan County...
View ArticleHawkins sheriff to host county's official 'Police Memorial Ceremony'
This past Wednesday Hawkins County Mayor Melville Bailey signed a proclamation, which proclaims the week of May 12 – May 18, 2013 as “Police Week” in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Hawkins County Sheriff...
View ArticlePhase 2 of Rock Springs Road improvements to begin soon
KINGSPORT — In about a month, Rock Springs Road will be under construction again, this time with road improvements stretching from Rock Springs Valley Road to Cox Hollow Road. The project, dubbed Rock...
View ArticleKingsport bans all forms of smoking at school games
KINGSPORT — There’ll be no more blowing smoke at Dobyns-Bennett High School football games, even if it is water vapor from an electronic cigarette. Kingsport City Schools no smoking and tobacco policy...
View ArticleHealth Wagon events slated for Wise, Dickenson counties
WISE — Residents of Wise and Dickenson counties will be able to receive free medical treatment next week thanks to a pair of community health fairs organized by local community agencies and service...
View ArticleTrial set to begin in deputy hit case
The attempted murder trial for three people accused of running down a Washington County sheriff’s deputy more than a year ago while they were allegedly trying to evade arrest from a robbery is...
View ArticleSullivan County's monthly sales tax collections down
BLOUNTVILLE — Monthly sales tax collections across Sullivan County, and the subsequent revenue to local school systems and governments, remain down for the fiscal year to date, according to a report...
View ArticleRed Cross director urges public to be prepared in case of tornado
After devastating tornadoes hit parts of Greene, Washington and Sullivan counties in recent years, many people were asking: what could I have done to better prepare myself and my family? There are many...
View ArticleU.S. News & World Report gives Sullivan South bronze ranking, researching D-B
KINGSPORT — Sullivan South High School has brought home the academic bronze. And Dobyns-Bennett High School might have been at the silver level and possibly in the top 10 or so statewide if it were not...
View ArticleKingsport Theatre Guild stages 'Tuesdays with Morrie'
The Tuesdays that journalist Mitch Albom spent with his dying 78-year-old sociology professor Morrie Schwartz taught Albom life’s greatest lesson — how to live. Schwartz taught sociology at Brandeis...
View ArticleAquatic center memberships lag far behind Y sign-ups
KINGSPORT — More than 1,200 people have joined the YMCA since December in the lead-up to the opening of its new facility. By comparison, less than 50 people have joined the Kingsport Aquatic Center...
View ArticleThis week in crime
Former Kingsport pastor sentenced for solicitation of aggravated statutory rape A former Kingsport pastor has been sentenced to approximately one year in jail for his sexually explicit texts and phone...
View ArticleSullivan County Sheriff's Office now has collection bin for unwanted medication
BLOUNTVILLE — Unwanted medications now have their own special place at the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and Tennessee Department...
View ArticlePERFECT: Sullivan South junior aces ACT
KINGSPORT — Taylor Pinto made a 34 out of a possible 36 ACT score his sophomore year of high school. He at first thought about letting that be his final try at the test. After all, that was an...
View ArticleRelative wants answers in WCDC inmate's death
A relative of a Johnson City man who died while custody at the Washington County Detention Center this week wants answers about his death. Alan Sieckman, grandfather of Stewart W. Peppers, 22, 606...
View ArticleCity BOE endorses bid for Jackson Elementary secure entrance
KINGSPORT — Jackson Elementary School’s new secure entrance is a step closer to construction, as are repairs to the cracked tennis court surface at Dobyns-Bennett High School. The Board of Education...
View ArticleTBI arrests Greene County couple in infant daughter's death
GREENEVILLE — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested a Greene County couple Friday on murder and other charges stemming from the death of their infant daughter in September 2012. The couple was...
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