Early voting starts today
Early voting for the 2012 general election begins today, and registered voters are encouraged to exercise that right as soon as possible lest they forget, or business, family or personal matters spring...
View ArticleDry Creek may get new flood designation
Residents in Dry Creek might soon have a new designation for their community that will establish criteria for protecting homes from another devastating flood like the one in August, according to local...
View ArticleStudents get glimpse of life on farm
What better way to learn about agriculture than to see it up close? Second-graders in schools in Washington and Sullivan counties got a sneak peak into the farm life as they toured the Appalachian...
View ArticleIndependent 1st District House candidate stresses conservative values
Johnson City’s Karen Sherry Brackett is a conservative at heart – a point clearly made during her visit Tuesday to the Johnson City Press – but she is listed on the Nov. 6 ballot as an independent...
View ArticleMan wanted in Hampton meth probe arrested in traffic stop
ELIZABETHTON – A man who had been suspected of being responsible for methamphetamine implements found in a car in Hampton on Sunday was arrested early Tuesday morning in the parking lot of Elizabethton...
View ArticleInmate accused of trying to extort Unicoi Co. Sheriff's Dept. over jailer...
ERWIN – A Unicoi County inmate has been charged with extortion for allegedly threatening to reveal an internal investigation involving a Unicoi County jailer, who has been fired by the Unicoi County...
View ArticleSeized growing equipment to help local students in classroom
Kids involved in the Carver Recreation Center’s garden project and a Sullivan County school program will get their hands on some pricey indoor growing equipment once used to produce an illegal drug...
View ArticleMSHA says 63 given medicine from center tied to meningitis
Mountain States Health Alliance announced Wednesday that 63 of the health system’s patients have been given medications from the New England Compounding Center. The center has been connected to the...
View ArticleEarly voting off to strong start in area
For many on the first day of Tennessee’s early voting period, there was no debating what they were going to do – go vote. According to area election administrators, plenty of people made their way to...
View ArticleMan arrested for robbery of local convenience store
A Johnson City man was arrested Wednesday following an investigation into a robbery at a local convenience store on Saturday, police said. According to a police news release, Brandon Leandre Williams,...
View ArticleLocal Liberians help orphanage in home country
When Adolphus Hall, a Johnson City contractor, and his wife Nyempu, a nurse at Johnson City Medical Center, opened their N&K Variety Food Plus restaurant and grocery on Unaka Avenue early this...
View ArticleScreams lead Johnson City police to armed robbery
Screams from a woman led police to come upon an alleged armed robbery Wednesday afternoon. Johnson City police officers were patrolling Wilson Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when they heard the...
View Article7th annual Hamfest set for Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway
Those who show up at the 7th annual Gray Hamfest Saturday will be riding the waves. The radio waves, that is. Chairman Charlie Stuchell said the event, an amateur radio event that was previously held...
View ArticleJack-knifed rig on I-26 blocking traffic
Johnson City police are on the scene of an accident involving a tractor trailer that jack-knifed on eastbound Interstate 26 near the Roan Street exit. There are no injuries, but traffic is blocked. The...
View ArticleRoan Mountain man faces meth charges
ELIZABETHTON –A Roan Mountain man was arrested Wednesday on 26 counts of promotion of methamphetamine manufacture. Jim Chambers, 25, 108 Paul Blevins Road, Roan Mountain, was also charged with...
View ArticleJohnson City woman charged with theft after fraud investigation regarding...
Police have charged a Johnson City woman with theft related to training people to serve alcoholic beverages, and are asking anyone who may have been victimized to call them. Johnson City police charged...
View ArticleStop reveals woman wanted in Virginia
A Johnson City woman’s traffic stop Thursday revealed a that warrant for her arrest had been issued in Virginia, according to a police press release. According to the release, Angel Y. West, 51, 1301...
View ArticleTraveling WWII planes big hit with veterans, others
BLOUNTVILLE – War veterans David Hambrick, of Kingsport, and David Johnson, of Chilhowie, Va., never flew on a B-17 bomber or a B-24 Liberator, but seeing the two old warbirds on a tarmac here brought...
View ArticleTDOT officials tour area road projects
Nearly $70 million in road construction projects are currently under way in Washington County, and projects worth millions of dollars more are expected to begin in the next few years. Tennessee...
View ArticleFounder’s Park contract marks start of eight flood mitigation phases
It took about four years, but the City Commission on Thursday approved the first of eight planned phases of downtown flood mitigation when a $2.8 million bid by Johnson City’s Thomas Construction Co....
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