Like most service organizations that rely on the community’s kindness, the Washington County/Johnson City Animal Shelter is struggling amid th…
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has touched nearly every aspect of our lives and our communities.
Can you get the coronavirus from secondhand smoke?
Aug. 4, 1882: The Knoxville Daily Chronicle reported the circus would be in Johnson City the following day.
Limestone Cove Market & Deli offers great escape from ‘Interesting Times’
Aug. 2, 1873: The Daily Press and Herald, a newspaper in Knoxville, reported of a cholera outbreak in Jonesboro, which we now spell Jonesborou…
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Northeast Tennessee – and Tennessee as a state – has so much to be proud of and so many things to hold high. This is not one of them.
With early voting underway for state primaries and local elections, it’s important to be an informed voter, and we saw why recently.
Johnson City’s Board of Education made the right call Monday by postponing the school district’s opening by a week. We suspect it will take ev…
When illegal behavior continues unabated, odds are the legal limit of the punishment is insufficient to serve as a deterrence. That’s why scou…
And now for some good news from Congress and the president.
Earlier this month, a Jonesborough church donated $1,000 each to the town police department’s 23 employees.
With the start to the school year in just a few weeks, many parents and teachers in our area still don’t know whether students will be attendi…
OK folks, let’s settle this nonsensical comparison once and for all.
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Been to The Majestic lately? How about The Liberty, The Sevier or The Tennessee? You’d need a time machine for any of them.
Stubborn, egocentric people forced Washington County Mayor Joe Grandy’s hand. He had no choice Monday but to follow neighboring Sullivan Count…
When emotions take over and leave reason behind, rarely anything but confusion, anger and resentment result.
Public health experts have been warning us for weeks of the importance of preventative practices against COVID-19, but we may be nearing our l…
It's unfortunately beyond the power of the Supreme Court to abolish the electoral college, a hopelessly antiquated and unfair way to choose th…
Tennessee lawmakers need to get their act together if the state is to fully reopen the economy, which must happen, albeit with specific precau…
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Northeast Tennessee, like the rest of the U.S., has heard a lot of shouting of late. Whether it be about novel coronavirus, racial injustice o…
This weekend brings the second major holiday period of the novel coronavirus pandemic. While we wish we could say we were further along on Jul…
Knock it off, knucklehead. Yes, we’re talking to you — the guy who just bought your family enough fireworks to blow up Fort Knox.
You could see this one coming more obviously than a hanging curveball.
You can live in Washington, D.C., amid the nation's cherished monuments to democracy and representative government — the U.S. Capitol, the sta…
Johnson City could soon open its doors to the intoxicating liquor trade.
In recent days we have witnessed two events that enforce the glaring fact that many — far, far too many — people continue to ignore the presen…