News Staff If you are looking for work, Food City is looking to hire more than 1,000 employees. On May 19, Food City will be hosting a company-wide hiring event that includes both full-time and part-time positions. The company is looking for new employees to work at its distribution center and in customer and food service positions … Read more
All mask requirements for students and staff members at Johnson County Schools have been lifted by the board of education. The board voted 3-1 Thursday night to eliminate all mask requirements. Students and staff members will no longer be required to wear masks or face coverings while on school property. Students and staff members may … Read more
Earlier Thursday, the Johnson County High School class of 2021 finally crowned their prom queen. Katie Tidwell, a senior student in Mrs. Diane Pavusek’s special education class, was surrounded by her fellow classmates for the crowning. Tidwell was voted prom queen with an overwhelming majority; she won an unprecedented one-third of the total votes cast. … Read more
Ballad Health on Wednesday announced it provide the COVID-19 vaccines to adolescents ages 12 to 15 at all its community vaccination sites, following approval from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Admin-istration. Ballad’s community vaccination centers in Kingsport and Johnson City are open from 2-7 p.m. Monday through … Read more
More details now about a fatal shooting that happened Wednesday. The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office has identified the woman arrested in a murder investigation. Rachel Joann Wells, 31, of Kingsport was arrested Wednesday at the scene of a shooting on Gaines Street in the Orebank community. Wells has been charged with first-degree murder. The victim … Read more
Tennessee will begin investigating people who claim unemployment benefits but refuse offers for a decent job.According to a letter to businesses from the Kingsport Chamber on behalf of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, employers can report complaints of refused offers to an investigative unit.Tennessee will be ending federally funded pandemic unemployment programs … Read more
In a pro-life moveTennessee will soon become the latest state to require certain medical providers to cremate or bury a baby’s remains from surgical abortions under legislation recently signed by Republican Gov. Bill Lee.Roughly 10 other Republican-majority states have enacted similar laws across the country despite objections from reproductive rights advocates, who argue such requirements … Read more
A juvenile is scheduled to appear in court on May 28th after being charged with aggravated assault after police say he was found with a knife at Science Hill High School on Wednesday.According to a release from the Johnson City Police Department, the juvenile was charged with possession of a weapon on school property and … Read more
A Johnson City, Tennessee man accused of physically assaulting family members during a scuffle This week is now the Jonesborough jail on a 75-hundred dollar bond.Spencer B. Cox, 21, of South Roan Street, is charged with aggravated domestic assault and reckless endangerment.Investigators said Cox had fought verbally with his mother and her boyfriend at the … Read more
A Johnson City native and U.S. Navy Fireman who was assigned to the USS Oklahoma and killed during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has been accounted for and will be returned home.According to a release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Navy Fireman 1st Class Paul E. Saylor, of Johnson City, will be … Read more