Broylesville focus of Monday Press' Heritage page
Meet the people of Broylesville, a small community in Washington County, in an article on the Johnson City Press' Heritage page by Assistant News Editor Brad Jolly. Jolly and Press Photo Editor...
View ArticleBoy Scouts gather at Camp Davy Crockett in Rogersville
The boat slowly circled around Jonathan Kelpe. He grabbed the pink rope hanging off the back, and the boat crept out until the rope went taut. The driver looked back and yelled out instructions. For a...
View ArticleGuitars, electronics reported stolen in Hampton
HAMPTON – More than $5,000 worth of guitars, electronics, a safe and DVDs were stolen in a Saturday afternoon burglary to a home on Crook Street on Saturday afternoon. Casey Burgess told Deputy Ricky...
View ArticleUpdate: Longtime WJHL anchor, news director Bob Lewis dies at 66
Robert “Bob” Lewis Jr., a long time anchor at WJHL, passed away early Monday morning at a local hospital. He would have been 67 on Thursday. Lewis began his career at WJHL in 1967. He worked at the...
View ArticleHampton church vandalized with human feces
HAMPTON – The Carter County Sheriff’s Department received reports on Friday that a vandal had spread human excrement on the walls and floors of some rooms at Hampton First Baptist Church late Thursday...
View ArticleWeek of Caring kicks off
Volunteers from United Way agencies across the Tri-Cities region rolled up their sleeves for a morning of hard labor at Frontier Health’s Greenwood Challenge Course in Johnson City Monday, spreading...
View ArticleTown of Erwin’s new budget dips into fund balance
The town of Unicoi’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year is set after the town’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen, at its regular meeting Monday, unanimously approved the second and final reading of the...
View ArticleCarter County Commission moves ahead on temporary jail pod auction plan
ELIZABETHTON – The Carter County Commission moved forward Thursday night on efforts to remove the temporary jail pods that have stood in front of the old jail for the past several years, but the...
View ArticleLocal US senate candidate faces charge of soliciting minor for sex in Carter Co.
ELIZABETHTON – A Johnson City man who is running in all 95 counties in Tennessee for the Democratic Party nomination for the United States Senate seat currently held by Bob Corker is also facing a...
View ArticleFired election official seeks lockdown on Washington Co. email
Former Washington County Administrator of Elections Connie Sinks has taken the first few steps in what could result in legal action against the county and/or the county’s Election Commission resulting...
View ArticleSchool budget in limbo after rejection
The Washington County Commission’s Budget Committee rejected the proposed budget for the county’s schools during its meeting on Tuesday morning and told the school not to exceed $61 million in next...
View ArticleSheriff Mathes lets students take more than little off the top
ELIZABETHTON – The final prom promise for 2012 was kept on Tuesday. Carter County Sheriff Chris Mathes climbed into a barber’s chair at Whitson’s Barber Shop, 1782 W. Elk Ave., on Tuesday afternoon and...
View ArticleETSU fiddle player almost too good for Fiddler’s Grove
If Meade Richter wins the highest honor at the oldest fiddle festival in the country one more time, he won’t be allowed to compete anymore. Instead, the East Tennessee State University bluegrass major...
View ArticleTeens get taste of the big house
ELIZABETHTON – A couple of hundred Carter County teens will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Saturday to experience what it is like to spend time in a real jail. Sheriff Chris Mathes is taking...
View ArticleLoss of two big grants leaves Keystone Dental seeking help
While laid off from his job at the Home Shopping Network distribution center in Piney Flats, 36-year-old Brian Toney was at the end of his unemployment benefits and without insurance when a broken and...
View ArticleHistoric steam engine rides again
It’s been around 20 years since a steam engine’s whistle has been heard blowing across Johnson City. But July 8, not only will a steam engine be heard going through town, it will be pulling cars full...
View ArticleGuy gets 16 years for driving violations
ELIZABETHTON – A Hampton man received a 16-year prison sentence Tuesday in Carter County Criminal Court on a series of driving violations. Christopher Wade Guy, 38, 107 Carl Smith Road, Hampton, was in...
View ArticleMemorial Park centerpiece remains standing
Johnson City’s C&T Construction is wasting no time getting started on the $1.4 million the Memorial Park Community Center’s Main Street component. The City Commission awarded the contract on June...
View ArticleMissing dog story ends in heartbreak
ELIZABETHTON – Usually it is a happy story when the owner of a lost dog ends her search by finding her pet safely kept at an animal shelter. That was not the case for Kimberly Clark and her 7-month-old...
View ArticleCity, county boards compare strategies on tax referendum
The Washington County and Johnson City boards of education met at Columbus Powell Center Wednesday night to discuss promotion strategies and problems concerning the quarter-cent sales tax increase...
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