Clinch River Valley Initiative to meet at SVCC
RICHLANDS -- Members of the Clinch River Valley Initiative will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday at Southwest Virginia Community College to discuss actions and goals to enhance economic development,...
View ArticleHawkins County schools set goals for upcoming school year
ROGERSVILLE -- Hawkins County students are back in the classroom this week for a new school year, and despite a new statewide achievement accountability format, the goals for teachers and...
View ArticleFlood watch posted for Tri-Cities areas until tonight
The National Weather Service issued a Flood Watch early Monday for Hawkins, Greene, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington counties in the Tri-Cities area. According to the Morristown Bureau of the national...
View ArticleKingsport motorcyclist arrested after popping wheelie in traffic
The blotter is derived from recent central dispatch records and incident reports of area police agencies. Kingsport Police Department Aug. 3 An off-duty officer observed a motorcycle rider perform a...
View ArticleSullivan committee expresses support for 'less evil' wheel tax
BLOUNTVILLE — An effort to place a wheel tax proposal on the Nov. 6 ballot for Sullivan County voters rolled ahead a bit on Monday. The Sullivan County Commission’s Administrative Committee endorsed...
View ArticleCouple's horse farm devastated by flooding
Bill and Wanalynn Chapman may have lost everything they own after Sunday’s torrential downpour that sent Dry Creek out over its banks and through their entire neighborhood, including their home, barns...
View ArticleAftermath: Local floodwaters recede; damage assessment begins
Rushing floodwater swept away homes, cars and animals Sunday night after Dry Creek, so named for its appearance most of the time, overflowed when it couldn’t handle a torrent of rain. Washington County...
View ArticleSon seeks separate trial from mother in kidnapping case
BLOUNTVILLE -- An attorney seeks to sever the trials of a Blountville mother and son accused of trying to kidnap a woman in a Kingsport parking lot. Ellen L. Meadows, 56, and Thomas Meadows, 37, of 115...
View Article$1M gift to endow UVa-Wise biology position
WISE -- The University of Virginia's College at Wise has received a $1 million gift from the estate of Carol Phipps Buchanan to create an endowed professorship in biology at the college. The John C....
View ArticleTwo arrested after meth components found in abandoned Church Hill house
CHURCH HILL -- A man and woman were arrested last week allegedly in possession of meth manufacturing components and syringes in an abandoned residence that was approved for condemnation by the Church...
View ArticleOusted members bid farewell to Sullivan County school board
BLOUNTVILLE -- The Sullivan County Board of Education meeting Monday night was all about the future. And it was all about the past, too. The school board got an update on facilities projects done or...
View ArticleKingsport business owner faces additional theft charges, police seek more...
A Kingsport business owner accused of pocketing customers' payments on utility terrain vehicles has been charged with an additional count of felony theft, with police saying they're still getting calls...
View ArticleBurglary suspect facing dozens of charges for smash and grabs in multiple...
ROGERSVILLE - Christopher Timothy Covington may be one of the most successful "smash and grab" burglars of all time, but he went to the well once too often early Monday morning when he allegedly...
View ArticleFormer Hawkins County prosecutor Godbee's law license suspended
ROGERSVILLE — Former Hawkins County prosecutor Doug Godbee’s law license was temporarily suspended by the Tennessee Supreme Court Monday at the request of the Tennessee Board of Professional...
View ArticleBuses from Bristol to help Johnson City Schools get rolling
After two days of cancelled classes, Johnson City Schools will begin the 2012-2013 school year today on an abbreviated schedule. Schools were supposed to start Monday but were closed following Sunday’s...
View ArticleSullivan schools may partner with Jacobs Creek Job Corps
BLOUNTVILLE -- If the details are worked out among attorneys, 30 to 70 teenagers from the Jacobs Creek Job Corps may be able to get Tennessee high school diplomas through Sullivan County's public...
View ArticleSullivan roads chief makes bid to bring back brush pickup
BLOUNTVILLE -- With the ink barely dry on a 20 cent hike in the county's property tax rate, and tax bills not yet sent to property owners -- let alone any tax revenues coming in -- some in Sullivan...
View ArticleBMA OKs 2 Colonial Heights annexation; 'eventual' sewer rate increase for all...
KINGSPORT — In the interest of fairness, the Kingsport Board of Mayor and Aldermen chose to go with an eventual sewer rate increase for all customers rather than extend the time frame of when sewer...
View ArticleWashington County mayor to seek state aid for flood damage costs
Damage to roads and bridges in Washington County during a flood on Sunday is approaching $1 million, much of which will come right out of the county budget. And private property damage — including nine...
View ArticleUnicoi man agrees to plead guilty to 2 of 6 federal drug, weapons charges
GREENEVILLE — A Unicoi man indicted and arrested in June on drug and firearms-related charges has agreed to enter a guilty plea on two of the six charges he was facing, according to a plea agreement...
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