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Summer vacation is welcomed by students, teachers
With Memorial Day weekend coming up, it means summer vacation time is here for school students. Elizabethton and ...
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Congratulations to local high school, college graduates
It’s graduation time in Carter County and Northeast Tennessee. Elizabethton and Cloudland High seniors graduate tonight and the ...
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Work continues on Broad Street bridges and other county projects
Six months post-Hurricane Helene, work continues on the Broad Street Bridge as well as other bridges impacted by ...
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We are partisan — for you, our readers
On May 16, 1839, William Gannaway Brownlow, “a hell-fire-and-damnation” Methodist preacher known as “The Fighting Parson,” published the ...
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National Nurses Week celebrates ‘The Power of Nurses’
National Nurses Week is being celebrated across the nation this week with a powerful message: “The Power of ...
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Lineworkers: They keep our traffic lights, house lights on
Thursday, a dump truck hauling gravel to the Broad Street construction site brought the traffic lights down at ...
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Locally, churches and Christians urged to observe Nat’l Day of Prayer
Tomorrow is an important day in the life of our nation. All across this land, in cities and ...
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Tennessee’s proposed anti-education bill dead for the year
A bill giving Tennessee public schools the right to refuse enrollment to children without legal immigration status is ...
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Spring, the most inspiring of the seasons — sunshine, warmth, blooming flowers
We are knee-deep into spring and its activities. School kids are enjoying spring sports, and older kids are ...
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Seriously, what does Easter Sunday mean to you?
Easter is more than colored eggs, Easter baskets and bunnies, and dressing up for church on Easter Sunday. ...