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06/26/2025

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Ribbon cutting held for The Gathering
06/26/2025

Ribbon cutting held for The Gathering

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Add Brody Carr’s name to an esteemed list of players to come through the Jefferson County High School baseball program.
06/26/2025

Add Brody Carr’s name to an esteemed list of players to come through the Jefferson County High School baseball program.

Add Brody Carr’s name to an esteemed list of players to come through the Jefferson County High School baseball program.  The junior left-hander posted elite numbers, both on the mound and at the plate, as he was a key presence in guiding the Patriots to their first regular-season district title i...

CIRCUIT COURT: Dandridge man sentenced for drug-peddling, fleeing arrest
06/26/2025

CIRCUIT COURT: Dandridge man sentenced for drug-peddling, fleeing arrest

A Dandridge man was sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty to fleeing police, who were attempting to arrest him on drug-peddling indictments. Jeremy Eugene Ball, 44, of 2307 Gunter Hollow Road, was ordered to serve 12 months of the sentence, with the remainder on supervised probation, after ent...

Solar scholarships announced by Clearloop, Intuit
06/26/2025

Solar scholarships announced by Clearloop, Intuit

Five Jefferson County High graduates are the recipients of the inaugural round of scholarships associated with a 2.8 megawatt solar farm in White Pine. Last May, global software company Intuit and outdoor adventure brand REI “flipped the switch” on the 30-acre White Pine Solar Farm, which will p...

Attorney: in-house subdivision approval okayed in 2006
06/26/2025

Attorney: in-house subdivision approval okayed in 2006

County Planners apparently delegated authority for the zoning officer to approve minor two-lot subdivisions nearly 20 years ago, according to a preliminary report from the county attorney. The practice was called into question recently when staff approved a two-lot subdivision in-house to resolve an...

Niceley remembered as ‘great friend to Jefferson County’
06/26/2025

Niceley remembered as ‘great friend to Jefferson County’

Former state senator Frank Niceley, 78, died last Thursday after suffering a heart attack while working on his farm in Strawberry Plains. The 24-year veteran of the state legislature was “doing what he loved” – farming – during his last hours, family members said. Tributes have poured in fro...

New Jefferson Memorial Hospital CEO arrives
06/26/2025

New Jefferson Memorial Hospital CEO arrives

To some degree, Shane Watson evolved into being an executive hospital administrator from his abiding interest in people and their welfare. “It was 1994. And you know, I really didn't know what I wanted to do, to be honest with you,” he noted Tuesday morning, his second day as the new CEO of Jeff...

Kramers moving on, but their legacy remains
06/26/2025

Kramers moving on, but their legacy remains

When they moved to East Tennessee in 1998, Jack and Beverly Kramer weren’t necessarily expecting to be adopted by the community. “It just happened,” Jack recalled. “I don’t think either one of us realized as it was happening. We just got involved in this and that – and pretty soon the co...

JEFFERSON CITY PLANNERS: More homes in Jefferson City’s future
06/26/2025

JEFFERSON CITY PLANNERS: More homes in Jefferson City’s future

In separate actions, Jefferson City’s Regional Planning Commission nudged forward two housing developments that, when completed, will add almost 110 homes to the market. First came the body’s review of a plan of services the municipality would provide to a 58-home planned unit development (PUD) ...

Gibson removed as election administrator
06/26/2025

Gibson removed as election administrator

Members of the Jefferson County Election Commission voted to remove Administrator of Elections Charles Gibson during a meeting last Wednesday. Gibson had been administrator for 16 years. He was hired by the Commission in May 2009 after the change from Democrat to Republican majority in the Tennessee...

COUNTY COMMISSION: Vote set tonight on property tax increase
06/26/2025

COUNTY COMMISSION: Vote set tonight on property tax increase

County Commission meets tonight to consider a four percent increase in the property tax rate that would help balance a $200 million 2025-budget that is $1.4 million in the red. The group already approved a new $35 wheel tax this spring to replace a $25 one allowed to “sunset” last year, so the p...

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