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ELIZABETHTON — Donna and Keith Fee are expecting a visit in the coming weeks from officials of “Guinness World Records.” The reason for the stop is that the Fees may have the largest collection of Winnie the Pooh items in the world.
The last time Jonesborough celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, Washington County had not yet confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus (COVI…
Tennessee’s legislative branch of government has been a focus of two major FBI undercover investigations in the past 32 years.
A retired Milligan University professor has completed work on a book that he hopes will call attention to an important figure in Johnson City’…
Although its Senate sponsor isn’t optimistic it will sail through the Legislature this session, a bill introduced in the General Assembly woul…
Bryan Bernard, a senior at Sullivan South High School, was initially on the fence about joining the Upward Bound program at East Tennessee Sta…
Northeast Tennessee reported 99 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, along with four new virus-related fatalities.
It has been over a decade since Dobyns-Bennett reached the state basketball tournament.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A tumultuous season came to an end for the East Tennessee State basketball team Sunday.
KNOXVILLE — Bearden showed why it’s considered one of the favorites to win the Class AAA girls state basketball championship this season by th…
Special Report: COVID-19
Less than a year since reporting its first death, Northeast Tennessee’s novel coronavirus de…
Ballad Health reported 78 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in its hospitals on Wednesday, a…
Tennessee will receive 54,000 doses of the recently authorized Johnson & Johnson COVID-1…
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History
March 8, 1888: The Comet opined, “There is not a newspaper in the First Congressional District opposing Bob Taylor that did not oppose him two years ago, yet, he got the district practically solid then, as he will do again.”
March 7, 1872: The Herald and Tribune reported news about Flag Pond Seminary “W.E. Tilson in writing us about this school says: ‘The Trustees of Flag Pond Seminary have again procured the services of our former teachers, Mr. James H. Sams, for an other (sic) ten months session. Our school wi…
March 6, 1898: The Chattanooga Sunday Times reported that the smallpox epidemic was getting better in Jonesboro. With a Jonesboro dateline, readers learned, “”There is a marked improvement in the smallpox scare affliction in upper East Tennessee, so that the quarantine has been raised.”
March 5, 1899: The Chattanooga Sunday Times reported on recent damaging weather in Johnson City. With a dateline from Johnson City, and a date from March 4, readers learned, “The heaviest rain and electric storm for many years visited this section on Thursday. The rain came down in torrents,…