News Staff Tennesseee residents can now order free seeds to help boost the Monarch butterfly population. Free seeds will be Red and Common Milkweed and come from the TDOT Pollinator Habitat Program’s Project Milkweed. The program started in 1992 after a decline of more than 90 percent in the Monarch butterfly population. Seeds need to be planted … Read more
A man and a dog have both perished in a Greene County house fire. Emergency creqws raced to the home on Lobo Loop just after 6pm Tuesday and found thick smoke already billowing from the home. Neighbors told fire crews that they believed someone was still inside. Eventually, 31 year old WIlliam Arrowood was discovered … Read more
The Greene County Commission has approved regulating short-term rentals like AirBnB and VRBO, property owners will be required to get permits to host on those platforms. The county said the move is needed in order to enforce code inspections and parking regulations after receiving numerous complaints about short-term rental properties. At this point, the move … Read more
Domtar Corporation is announcing a new partnership with the US Army. The goal of the program is to help military members get a job AFTER they get out of the service. A Statement from DOMTAR says the US Army PaYS program, which stands for Partnership for Your Success, involves the Army and a cross section … Read more
The VIrginia Lottery reports that the Bristol Casino generated about 15.4 million dollars in revenue for the month of May. That’s adjusted gross revenue from slots and table games. From the revenue, the casino reported it paid 2.7 million dollars in taxes.
A ribbon cutting celebration on Thursday for the new Henry on Main Street. The new apartment community is repurposed from three historic downtown buildings in Johnson City. Those buildings are the former Sears and JCPenney buildoings… and the old Hands On Museum. Apartmenta units feature high ceilings, large windows, skylights, and an outdoor roof lounge. … Read more
Saturday marks three years since ther disappearance of Summer Wells. Wells was just five years old when she vanished from her home in the Beech Creek community of Hawkins County. An active Amber Alert has remained in effect for Wells since it was issued nearly three years ago. The last update from law enforcement in … Read more
A man who killed a Big Stone Gap police officer has pleaded guilty to federal charges. Officer Michal Chandler had responed to a welfare check on Orr Street in November of 2021. He saw a car outside the home whena man named Michael White, of South Carolina, got out and fied eight rounds, striking Chandler … Read more
Ballad Health has announced plans for a new early childhood learning center in Kingsport. It would be Ballad’s first such center and it will be located in the 2000 block of Brookside Drive on the campus of Indiana Path COmmunity Hospital. Ballad says it will transform an old billing office into a state of the … Read more
The Hawkins County Schol District has settled a case alleging that it was deliberately indifferent to known race-based harassment in its schools. The agreement calls for the schol district to spend the next three years under the nose of federal regulators. The US Department of Justice investigated 16 reports of alleged race-based bullying and harassment … Read more