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Oneida tabs Kingston’s Layne as band director
The Oneida Special School District has named Andrew Layne its new band director, Director of Schools Dr. Jeanny Phillips announced this week. Layne, a native...Cristobal may bring rainfall, risk of severe weather to Tennessee
Tropical Storm Cristobal has dumped copious amounts of rain on parts of Mexico and appears to be taking aim at the Gulf Coast for...Tennessee’s unemployment claims drop for a fourth consecutive week
NASHVILLE — The number of continued claims for unemployment insurance has dropped in Tennessee for a fourth consecutive week, the Dept. of Labor &...Tennessee’s active coronavirus cases top 8,000 as outbreak continues to grow
There was early hope that the arrival of warmer weather would cause the outbreak of novel coronavirus to ease, months before an anticipated vaccine...
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Editorial: Isn’t it time for Tennessee to stop requiring self-quarantine while test results are awaited?
You no longer have to be sick to get tested for novel coronavirus in Tennessee. Well ahead of the national curve on testing for Covid-19...Editorial: Gov. Lee, our barbershops and salons must reopen now!
As of Friday in Scott County, you will be able to go to the grocery, have your oil changed, browse for new furniture, sit...Editorial: These students have sacrificed enough. Take summer school, extended school year off the table.
Summer school? Extended school days? Extended school year? Those are options that the Tennessee Department of Education is floating as ways to make up "missed...Editorial: With personal liberty comes personal responsibility
Let's not beat about the bush: We aren't doing enough to combat the spread of coronavirus. You don't have to venture outside Scott County to...Opinion: Gov. Andy Beshear should worry about Kentucky while Gov. Bill Lee worries about Tennessee
Ben Garrett - 0"We're all in this together." It has been a common refrain across America as the coronavirus has spread, forcing millions out of work and essentially...
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Scott County’s switch from blue county to red county
It has been called the most controversial finishes to a presidential election in America’s history — and, to date, it’s still the most tightly-contested...Rev. Sterling Adkins founded churches at Smokey Creek, Jellico Creek
On a peaceful knoll just above Jellico Creek, beneath what might very well be the largest and oldest tulip poplar in Scott County, is...‘I just had to try here first’
Ben Garrett - 0When Oneida's Katie Byrd decided to open an esthetics clinic, she knew Scott County was where she needed to beAn unusual graduation
There will be no more standing room only crowds due to Covid-19 precautions, but school administrators are doing everything they can to make sure that this year’s graduating class has a commencement ceremony that they will never forget.B.E.F.A.S.T.: Know the warning signs of stroke
Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke, accounting for approximately 800,000 strokes per year and the fifth leading cause of...
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‘This job really spoke to me’ — Lady Highlanders’ Jake Wright eager to get started
Ben Garrett - 0HUNTSVILLE — “Excited. Exuberant.” Those are the words that Jake Wright uses to describe his hire as Scott High School’s girls basketball coach. The 27-year-old,...Jackson Sharp resigns as Scott girls basketball coach
After 12 seasons and 8 regional tournament appearances, Jackson Sharp steps down as the second-winningest coach in program history.Notebook: Sports are canceled, and it sucks
Ben Garrett - 0This sucks. I'm sorry, but there's just no other way to put it. So I'll be blunt. We knew it was coming, had ample time to...What might’ve been … or might yet be
Ben Garrett - 0When coronavirus fears hit the United States and social-distancing measures began to be broadly enforced, it placed Oneida's boys basketball team's first state tournament...
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Wet weather pattern will soon be history
Friday dawned with yet another threat of scattered rain showers and thunderstorms, as an upper level low pressure system that has been stationed over...
Cristobal may bring rainfall, risk of severe weather to Tennessee
Tropical Storm Cristobal has dumped copious amounts of rain on parts of Mexico and appears to be taking aim at the Gulf Coast for...
Rise in vandalism seen in Big South Fork
BANDY CREEK — "Disheartening."
That's the word that Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area Supt. Niki S. Nicholas uses to describe vandalism within...
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Oneida tabs Kingston’s Layne as band director
The Oneida Special School District has named Andrew Layne its new band director, Director of Schools Dr. Jeanny Phillips announced this week.
Layne, a native...
Cristobal may bring rainfall, risk of severe weather to Tennessee
Tropical Storm Cristobal has dumped copious amounts of rain on parts of Mexico and appears to be taking aim at the Gulf Coast for...
Tennessee’s unemployment claims drop for a fourth consecutive week
NASHVILLE — The number of continued claims for unemployment insurance has dropped in Tennessee for a fourth consecutive week, the Dept. of Labor &...
Tennessee’s active coronavirus cases top 8,000 as outbreak continues to grow
There was early hope that the arrival of warmer weather would cause the outbreak of novel coronavirus to ease, months before an anticipated vaccine...
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