News Staff About two dozen creative minds are needed to help design a community mural in Elizabethton.The project is partially funded by the Tennessee Arts Commission’s “Arts Build Communities” grant.The mural will be displayed on six panels at the city’s surplus storage building, which once served as an ice production facility. Experienced artists will also be there … Read more
Students at Sullivan East High School are able to shop for free in the campus SWAG Shop thats comes complete with clothing items and even necessary resources like deodorant and even shoes and even provides students with a place to go to talk. All the items in the SWAG SHOP comes from donations according to … Read more
While Depot Street in downtown Greeneville has been under construction for more than two years the town is now taking the final step to complete the revitalization project.On Monday, the town closed Main Street from Church Street to Summers Street so that construction crews could begin redoing the infrastructure. Officials said the work should take … Read more
Startling revelation in a new report shows Northeast Tennessee is at “severe risk of human trafficking,” according to a recently released study by Engage Together in partnership with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) Human Trafficking Task Force and other organizations.Greene County ranks 10th out of 21 counties studied in northeast Tennessee the report states.
A no pet policy that hasn’t been enforced until now has tenants of the Indian Hills Apartments in Greeneville upset about a new enforcement.Tenants say following a recent change of management at the 52-unit, government-subsidized complex at 48 Indian Hills Circle, all residents received a notice on their doors Sept. 12 advising them they had … Read more
Since her sister’s sudden passing away in 2019 Marquetta Bishop has taken on the care of her sister’s three children, but before now without a real place to call home in Kingsport. Now with the immense help of Holsten Habitat for Humanity Marquetta has the keys to a brand new home following 2800 hours of … Read more
A Hawkins County man did it ands is back home after hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. 56 year old Charles Grubb finished the journey on his 56th birthday that he began in 2012.The trail is about 2,200 miles and spans up and down the East Coast. As for advice to the next hike would be … Read more
Exciting construction news. The intersection of College and East Depot streets will reopen on Monday as work crews finish up work in that area of the town’s Depot Street revitalization project and move to the intersection of Main and Depot streets.Brick work on corners of the College Street intersection sidewalks will be wrapped up in … Read more
It’ll be fun and full of facts as Lowe’s Home Improvement store will host a Fire Safety Day 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14. in the store parking lot in Greene County.It will be a “meet and greet” with officials from the Greeneville Fire Department, Emergency Management Agency, Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad, Greeneville Police … Read more
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving woman in the Senate, has died. She was 90. She was elected to the Senate in 1992. She became mayor of San Francisco in 1978 after Mayor George Moscone was gunned down beside Supervisor Harvey Milk by a disgruntled former supervisor. Feinstein found Milk’s body.In the Senate, she was … Read more