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Kingsport Home Builders, Elizabethton TCAT dedicate renovated house

The Home Builders Association of Greater Kingsport and the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Elizabethton held a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony to highlight the results of a six-month...
Unicoi Hospital resuce

Northeast Tennessee flooding leaves 11 dead, more than 20 missing

Eleven people are confirmed dead and more than 20 are missing following flooding caused by the landfall of Hurricane Helene in East Tennessee.

Of the 11 deaths, four deaths were confirmed in Unicoi...
Middle Point

Solid waste disposal a growing, statewide issue

With an increasing population generating more trash and more than a dozen of the state’s landfills set to close their doors in the next decade, solid waste officials are hoping to energize the...
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News Across Tennessee

Cookeville celebrates ground breaking of TTU engineering building, nuclear program expansion

Gov. Bill Lee, officials with Tennessee Technological University, and Cookeville officials were on hand to cut the ribbon on the new college of engineering building while the governor presented a $1 million Nuclear Fund grant to the university to support existing nuclear programs as well as develop...

Three Tennessee cities get share in $3.3M from DRA

Three Tennessee cities will share in more than $3.3 million in federal funds provided to the Delta Regional Authority through the States’ Economic Development Assistance Program. 

A coordinated effort among DRA, its Board of Governors and Local Development Districts, SEDAP aims to improve basic...

FEMA grant helps Nolensville Fire and Rescue purchase life-saving gear

The Nolensville Fire and Rescue Department has received a $17,000 Assistance to Firefighters Grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to purchase new live-saving tools. Nolensville will use the funds to purchase eight self-contained breathing apparatuses with masks and 16 air...

Anderson-DuBose Company to locate first Tennessee facility in Jefferson City

The Anderson-DuBose Company officials announced the company will invest nearly $40 million by locating its first operations in Tennessee to Jefferson City. The new distribution facility will house 80 new jobs upon completion of the project. The company is a major distributor for McDonald’s, and this...

Hardwood production company to expand Huntland operations

Thompson Appalachian Hardwoods officials announced the company will invest $3.9 million to expand its operations in Huntland. Through the project, Thompson Appalachian Hardwoods will create 25 new jobs to better support operations of the company’s new industrial-grade sawmill, increasing its...

Baxter, Paris, receive federal water funds

Two Tennessee municipalities have been awarded a share in $443 million in USDA Water and Waste Disposal Loans and Grants awarded to expand access to clean and reliable drinking water, sanitary waste disposal and storm water drainage for people in 24 states. The town of Baxter will use a $1 million...

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People

Martin Granum

Martin Granum
Martin Granum

Martin Granum, the city manager of Red Bank, recently received the International City/County Management Association (ICMA)’s Credentialed Manager Candidate designation. He is one of more than 1,500 local government management professionals to participate in the voluntary program. Granum has served...

Conner Caldwell

Connor Caldwell
Connor Caldwell

Conner Caldwell, the former chief of the Kingsport Fire Department, died Oct. 13, 2024, at the age of 89. Caldwell served with the Kingsport Fire Department 36 years, 17 of which he served as chief from 1978 to his retirement in 1994. Additionally, he served actively in the Tennessee Fire Service...

Jeff Abeln

Jeff Abeln
Jeff Abeln

Jeff Abeln, assistant police chief of the Collierville Police Department, died unexpectedly Oct. 14, 2024, after 37 years of service. Abeln joined the Collierville Police Department in 1987 after three years of service as a military police officer in U.S. Army. He was appointed assistant chief of...

Eric Amos

Eric Amos
Eric Amos

Eric Amos has been selected as executive director of the Tennessee Language Center. Amos previously served as the interim director for the center. He joined the center in 2018 as a senior project coordinator and was promoted to director of interpretation in 2022. He holds a bachelor’s degree in...

Michelle Roberts

Michelle Roberts
Michelle Roberts

Michelle Roberts has been selected as the new city manager of Bluff City. Roberts comes to the city with more than 10 years of experience with the Department of Veterans affairs, where she worked as a logistics management specialist, acquisition utilization specialist, and engineering technician...

State Sen. Yager jumps from plane for cancer awareness

Ken Yager

State Sen. Ken Yager, R-Kingston, found a unique way to celebrate his own cancer-free status while bringing awareness to prostate cancer and men’s health.  

Yager jumped out of an airplane at 14,000 ft above ground to celebrate over one year of being cancer-free and raise awareness for prostate...
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State Briefs

Tennessee September unemployment rate increases

Tennessee’s unemployment rate increased in September but remained 1% lower than the national rate. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said the state’s September unemployment rate was at 3.2%, up from 3.1% the previous month and a three-month record-low of 3% between May and...

Tennessee's September revenues $101.2M above estimates

Tennessee revenues exceeded budgeted estimates for the month of September.  

Finance and Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson reported total September tax revenues were $2.2 billion, $101.2 million more than the budgeted estimate and $18.9 million more than September 2023. The total tax growth rate...

FBI to open new Nashville headquarters, continue field offices in Knoxville, Memphis

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has moved its main Tennessee headquarters to a new office in Nashville, but said it will continue to operate “resident agencies” in Memphis and Knoxville.  Instead of having two separate sets of leadership operating in Knoxville and Memphis, FBI Director Chris...

State seeks help in white oak restoration efforts

A new initiative is seeking to aid in the restoration of native white oaks across Tennessee. The Tennessee White Oak Initiative is a cooperative effort between the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry (TDF), TDF’s East Tennessee Nursery, the University of Tennessee Extension, and...

New Comptroller guidance issued for volunteer fire departments

The Tennessee Comptroller’s division of Local Government Audit has launched a new resource designed to improve and emphasize the importance of good financial management within Tennessee’s hundreds of volunteer fire departments.

“While volunteer fire departments provide essential services across the...

Franklin, Lake and White counties selected for Property Evaluation Program

The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) announced Franklin, Lake and White counties were selected to participate in the latest round of the Select Tennessee Property Evaluation Program (PEP). 

PEP evaluates potential industrial properties, advising counties on...
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