News Staff A man wanted on two counts of attempted murder in Carter County was arrested in North Carolina.The Carter County Sheriff’s Office announced on Facebook Tuesday night that Elijah Adam Taylor, 37, was captured in Granite Falls, North Carolina.Taylor was charged in connection with a shooting that happened Friday night on Dave Buck Road that sent … Read more
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct sobriety roadside safety checkpoints during the week of Dec. 10 on state routes 351 and 172 in Greene County.“Impaired driving is a serious crime that kills more than 16,000 people and injures 305,000 others every year in the United States. Troopers will evaluate drivers for signs of alcohol or … Read more
Neighbors living along Ball Road and others in Tusculum have been in the dark about a solar panel farm in development on an 82-acre parcel of land that also borders Afton Road and East Andrew Johnson Highway.Information about the project will be provided by Nashville-based Silicon Ranch Corp. at a public meeting set for 5:30 … Read more
Greeneville’s annual New Year’s celebration will return to downtown this year.Midnight on Main will include live entertainment, a ball drop followed by fireworks, and more beginning at 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.The event will take place along two blocks of Main Street, between Summer and Church streets. A street dance featuring a DJ will … Read more
Authorities have returned to Beech Creek months after scaling back efforts in the search for missing Rogersville 5-year-old Summer Wells.According to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) public information officer Leslie Earhart, the return is part of a planned search to take advantage of winter weather.Earhart says there are no new developments in the Summer Wells … Read more
A hospital custodian at the Fort Campbell Army post has filed a lawsuit against her union arguing she shouldn’t have to pay dues because of her religious beliefs.The lawsuit was filed by Dorothy Frame, who works at Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital on the Kentucky-Tennessee border as an employee for a J&J Worldwide, a … Read more
The Virginia Department of Health will be monitoring sewage in various parts of the state in an effort to predict future outbreaks of COVID-19.The Danville Register & Bee has reported that VDH is deploying up to 25 wastewater monitoring sites across the commonwealth. Testing sewage can help health officials gauge COVID-19 infection in a community. … Read more
A groundbreaking ceremony has taken place six months after a fire ripped through a Greene County church.The fire broke out at Union Chapel Free Will Baptist Church on Erwin Highway in May 2021. No one was injured in the fire, but the place of worship for dozens in the community was gone.Investigators said the cause … Read more
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee will visit Elizabethton on Tuesday.The Governor will tour Carter County’s Workforce Development Center on Highway 91 in the afternoon.Carter County Mayor Patty Woodby says the Governor will learn about plans to create a centralized career and technical campus for county high schools at the Workforce Development Complex.The Mayor previously said the … Read more
Describing the need as urgent, Bristol, Virginia, could be getting a new elementary school. This was one of the topics at the city council meeting Tuesday evening.CARES Act funding could go toward the school. That money needs to be used by November 2024 or $2 million available would be lost.While it is only a small … Read more