Kudos to WCEDC
I appreciate your consideration in allowing me to correct an inaccuracy in the comments that close out the article, “Commissioners discuss downtown, zoning, business recruitment at lengthy meeting,”...
View ArticleMill development
As a frequent visitor to the downtown area, I am very much in favor of rezoning the General Mills property and tearing down the ugly eye sore that exists there now. I feel that this could only...
View ArticleDrug inspection
If you didn’t hear Diane Rehm Show on WETS-FM on Feb 20, you missed an issue of medical safety that raises troubling national security problems. As extremists cut back government roles and attacked...
View ArticleCancer awareness
At the request of Fight Colorectal Cancer, the Colon Cancer Alliance and myself, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has declared March 2014 to be Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.At first glance, this...
View ArticleDealership shifts to new look
The owners of a Johnson City vehicle dealership officially turned the key on their building’s renovations Tuesday evening, inviting community members to kick the tires on the new digs.Andy Dietrich,...
View ArticleNew Animal Control officers bring experience to job in Unicoi Co.
ERWIN — As the Unicoi County Animal Shelter continues to build its operations, the two new animal control officers have become a key part of not only helping build the shelter, but helping to educate...
View ArticleEastman Chemical Co. among 100 Fortune 500 companies that paid zero or less...
Four Tennessee companies – including Kingsport-based Eastman Chemical Co. – were among more than 100 Fortune 500 companies that paid zero or less in federal income taxes in at least one year from 2008...
View ArticleJohnson County discusses matching funds for state road grants
MOUNTAIN CITY — With budgets only getting tighter, county finances have increasingly taken the forefront when it comes to making tough decisions. That fact was quite evident from the lengthy discussion...
View ArticleVacant house burns in Carter Co., grass fire blamed
ELIZABETHTON — A vacant house was destroyed by fire on Sunday.Owner Michael Triplett told Deputy David Munsey of the Carter County Sheriff’s Department that he was burning a small pile of brush about...
View ArticleTexas gay marriage ban latest to be struck down
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge declared a same-sex marriage ban in deeply conservative Texas unconstitutional on Wednesday, but will allow the nation's second-most populous state to enforce the law...
View ArticleIt's a Zoo in Here!
The expression "it was a zoo at work today" took on a new meaning for the staff of Woodridge's Willow unit Monday. There was literally a zoo -- a stuffed zoo -- delivered to their office. The sewists...
View ArticleBucs' Harris going through emotional ordeal
East Tennessee State basketball coach Murry Bartow went to Nashville on Wednesday to represent the team at the funeral of Hunter Harris’s father.The senior forward found out at halftime of the North...
View ArticleBartow credits new assistants in turnaround
The East Tennessee State basketball coaching staff has been a man down all season, but you wouldn’t know it.Coach Murry Bartow and first-year assistants Bob Bolen and Thomas Carr have produced a team...
View ArticleArizona governor vetoes bill that would have legalized discrimination against...
PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday vetoed a Republican bill that set off a national debate over gay rights, religion and discrimination and subjected Arizona to blistering criticism from major...
View ArticleOff the Wall News: Man wears 'Breaking Bad' T-shirt in mug shot after arrest...
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago man accused of operating a methamphetamine lab appears in his booking photo wearing a T-shirt from the television show "Breaking Bad."Daniel Kowalski's mug shot shows him...
View ArticleDeveloper pulls rezoning request
North Carolina’s Evolve Development has pulled from the City Commission’s March 6 agenda its request for a third and final reading to rezone property off West Walnut Street for a $18.5 million...
View ArticlePublic stepping up to adopt abandoned dogs
With a wet kiss goodbye to Washington County-Johnson City Animal Shelter Director Debbie Dobbs, a temporarily unnamed mixed Shih Tzu was sent off for a last veterinarian check-up before leaving with...
View ArticleCloudland girls capture 1-A region title
AFTON — Two Courtneys trumped one Mendy in the Region 1-A girls’ basketball championship.With big games from Courtney Wilson and Courtney Clarke, Cloudland took a 46-42 win over North Greene on...
View ArticleUpdate: 4-year-old boy dies from injuries after I-26 crash
KINGSPORT — An early afternoon crash on Interstate 26 claimed the life of a city woman and a 4-year-old boy Wednesday.Officials say the wreck occurred at about 12:45 p.m. in the westbound lane at mile...
View ArticleThe little restaurant that could: Tupelo Honey still thinks it can open soon
Renovations are chugging along at Johnson City’s historic CC&O Railroad Depot in preparation for the arrival of Asheville, N.C.’s Tupelo Honey Cafe, but the opening of the restaurant has again been...
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