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Dwindling tax revenues, record unemployment and rising costs have left municipalities across the country with severe budget shortfalls. In res…
Every year the Boone Lake Association conducts a one-day cleanup of the lake by hundreds of volunteers, but this year's effort will be especia…
Gate City High School is known throughout Virginia as a sports powerhouse. But it's not just athleticism that makes Gate City and Scott County…
A meeting on the last-minute plan for traffic flow at West Ridge High School revealed that it can't be completed before the school opens in August.
Some words carry emotional force such that using them creates an immediate negative reaction on the part of the listener or reader. That makes…
Kingsport taxpayers are facing sticker shock — again. Such things happen when long-range planning is either nonexistent, or poorly executed. A…
In February 2019, the Sullivan County Commission hired an architect who is nearly finished with the jail plans as far as having them ready to …
A year after COVID-19 ravaged New York City, infections there are creeping up again and in other hot spots across the country, despite the lar…
This year April showers will bring not just flowers but continued damage from some of the worst flooding in parts of Tennessee in a decade, wh…
The George L. Carter Railroad Museum's 5,000 square feet of exhibits has outgrown its space at East Tennessee State University, and the museum…
Two years ago, the state gave cities and counties authority to ban tobacco products in playgrounds, but that legislation didn't go far enough.…
Whether it’s 60 votes for cloture or senators yammering about recipes for green bean casseroles, I like the filibuster and want to see it cont…
What makes a "free" state? According to "Freedom in the 50 States," it's the ability to "dispose of one’s own life, liberty, and justly acquir…
East Tennessee State University is relaunching a committee created in 2012 following its centennial, to set a vision for the next 25 years.
There are an estimated 100 million pieces of litter on TDOT rights of way, and beverage containers, lids and straws are the biggest problem.
When Boone Dam power generation was halted and the lake drawn down for repairs, TVA decided that it was causing a financial hardship on local …
As reader Pamela Burns of Church Hill reminded in a recent letter to the editor, some individuals feel they are above the law when it comes to…
March 14 marked the beginning of National Tired and Grouchy Week in much of the United States as we participated in the annual gimmick of “spr…
As COVID-19 locked down much of the nation and folks sheltered in place over the past 12 months, nearly 700 individuals moved to Kingsport in …
We reached out to leadership in Hawkins County to get a sense of what they plan to do with more than $11 million they didn't expect when they …
Keep Tennessee Beautiful is launching Trashercise, a statewide roadway cleanup, and Keep Kingsport Beautiful is taking part. The program inten…
Any member of Kingsport's significant senior community can give you directions to the Haggle Shop. And if you ask, they might be able to offer…
The Hawkins County Board of Education will take a month to consider whether it will join a suit lining up Tennessee school systems as plaintif…
Do the owners of Dr. Seuss Enterprises really, truly, deep down feel that the discontinued titles might damage young minds? Well, maybe. But t…
2020 was the toughest year the Downtown Kingsport Association and Kingsport Chamber of Commerce have faced, and they came through with flying …
The Mount Carmel BMA has voted to guarantee City Manager Mike Housewright a six-month severance package should he be terminated without cause.
The pandemic has had an extraordinary impact on the world, and recovering from it may require exceptional efforts, such as proposed by Sulliva…
The creation of Ballad Health through the merger of Wellmont Health System and Mountain States Health Alliance continues to pay dividends to i…