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Camp Bolivar

Camps, councils help cities connect with youth

Municipalities across Tennessee are finding unique ways to include youth in local government while educating them about municipal career paths. According to the International City/County Manager’s...
Housing

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...
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News Across Tennessee

Cleveland awarded for urban forestry, environmental health

Cleveland's Shade Tree Board has been awarded the 2024 Community Partnership Award by the Tennessee Environmental Health Association (TEHA). This honor recognizes the Board's outstanding efforts in promoting urban forestry and enhancing the environmental health of our community.The Shade Tree Board...

Roconext to establish first Tennessee location in Memphis

Reconext officials announced the company will invest more than $9 million to expand its operations and establish new operations in Memphis, the company’s first location in Tennessee. By expanding into Memphis, Reconext will create approximately 200 new jobs to better support the company’s client...

Stanton school to become first Ford community center outside Detroit

A former Stanton school building is getting a $2.1 million renovation to become the first U.S. community center opened by the Ford Motor Company outside of Detroit. The Stanton Ford Community Center will be the base for Ford’s philanthropic operations in West Tennessee, funding a revitalization of...

Jackson celebrates new runway, routes at airport

Officials cut the ribbon on a new runaway and renovated air traffic control tower at the McKeller-Sipes Regional Airport in Jackson. Local, state, and national officials joined airport staff and members of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce to celebrate both the ribbon cutting and the new service to...

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...
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People

Tommy Head

Tommy Head
Tommy Head

James Thomas “Tommy” Head, who served nine terms representing Clarksville in the Tennessee House, passed away on Oct. 19, 2024, at the age of 79. Head was first elected to represent House District 68 in 1986, and he served as chair of the House Finance, Ways and Means committee among many roles in...

Jay Evans

Jay Evans
Jay Evans

Brentwood Assistant City Manager Jay Evans is the new president of the Tennessee City Management Association (TCMA) after an induction at the organizations Fall Conference in Chattanooga.  In this role, he will also serve on the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Municipal League, a state-wide...

Jeff White

Jeff White
Jeff White

Jeff White has been selected as the new chief of the Jonesborough Fire Department. White brings more than three decades of experience in emergency services to the position, starting as a volunteer firefighter and then as a police officer with the Jonesborough Police Department. White then served...

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...
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State Briefs

Sports betting has generated $261M in tax revenue for Tennessee

Sports betting has generated more than $261 million in taxes for Tennessee since its legalization in 2019. More than $14.7 billion in sports bets have been placed in Tennessee during that period with Tennessee being the first state to go fully online for its sports betting. The industry has...

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...
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