News Staff The fundraising campaign for the United Way of Bristol Tennessee and Virginia has raised more than 325-thousand dollars. The money for United Way will go towards providing various resources like childcare development, reuniting unsheltered people with their families back home in other communities, and providing rides to and from work for employees without transportation.
Ballad Health and Southern Appalachian Medical Management (SAMM) have donated 50-thousand dollars to a local food bank during Hunger Action Month.A release from Ballad Health states the hospital system and SAMM, which represents local orthopedic surgeon practices, teamed up for a second year to donate to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee.Second Harvest received … Read more
The Washington County, Tennessee Commission denied a resolution this week to rezone 200 acres in Gray where a solar power company, Silicon Ranch, wants to build a 12 megawatt (MW) solar farm. The proposal required a rezoning from A-1 (general agriculture) to A-3 (agriculture-business). AFter comments by several neighbors of the farm currently owned by … Read more
A free Child Safety Fair sponsored by the Greeneville Moose Lodge 692, and a blood drive, are going to be held Saturday, Oct. 7, at the lodge. The fair will feature local law enforcement and first responders, and fire trucks that children can see up close, according to organizer Vanessa Winterstein. Parents or caregivers will … Read more
The Hawkins County Commission has appointed the temporary full-time replacement for suspended juvenile judge Daniel Boyd.Amy Skelton was appointed Monday, according to Hawkins County Mayor Mark DeWitte.Skelton’s salary will equate to $193,194 annually and she will serve until the end of the 2024 election season.
A November trial date is now set for a former treasurer of the Sunnyside Volunteer Fire Department charged with theft of property valued over $10,000 but less than $60,000.Misty Spring Taylor, 45, appeared Sept. 15 for arraignment in Greene County Criminal Court. A jury trial date of Nov. 21 was set. Circuit Court Judge Alex … Read more
With many reidents attending the meeting and opposing the change Hawkins County commissioners voted to not give themselves the power to approve certain nuisance laws.Tennessee’s County Powers Act allows county commissions to pass ordinances like city governments that regulate nuisances. But before they can exercise those powers, county commissions have to pass a resolution.
The Baileyton Veterans Memorial, the first phase of which was completed in Aug. 2022, is now in the process of having a commemorative walkway installed around it. The memorial recognizes local Greene County veterans who served in all branches of the United States armed forces and is located in the Baileyton Park, 6723 Horton Highway, … Read more
Greene County law enforcement agencies were among those statewide to benefit from $28.5 million in federal grant funds distributed from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for the 2023-2024 federal fiscal year, according to a news release from the Tennessee Highway Safety Office. 193 thousand dollars was received for DUI enforcement and the Greene County … Read more
Pins and Friends on State Street in downtown Bristol hosted a pancake breakfast and silent auction over the weekend for a Sullivan County family dealing with a childhood cancer diagnosis.Nearly $1,000 dollars was raised to benefit the family of 12-year-old Levi Wade.Levi was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in August after he was flown to Memphis … Read more