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According to a press release issued by the County Mayor’s office on behalf of Veterans Services Director Leon Jaquet, the Clinton American Legion Post #172, in partnership with The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #12051, AMVETS Post #2 and Disabled American Veterans Chapter 26, jointly have determined that the 14th …

A Corryton man picked the wrong time, and place, to take a nap last week in Clinton. According to a report from the Clinton Police Department, officers were called to Git N Go #2 on North Charles Seivers Boulevard shortly before 8:30 am Tuesday (Sept. 15th) after a man was …

Eugene Gallaher, the longtime president of the Green McAdoo Cultural Organization, passed away last week at the age of 68 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Gallaher is being remembered as a fixture in youth sports, his church, and the community as a whole. Mr. Gallaher passed away on Friday …

The deadline to register to vote in time to participate in the November 3rd Presidential election is October 5th, but today (September 22nd) is National Voter Registration Day. National Voter Registration Day is celebrated every year on the fourth Tuesday of September. First celebrated in 2012, it is a nonpartisan …

(TN Department of Agriculture) Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) today announced Coronavirus Agricultural and Forestry Business (CAFB) Fund awards to farm and forestry businesses. TDA established the CAFB Fund with CARES Act resources to help ensure stability of the food supply chain and agribusiness …

The Tennessee Wildlife Federation’s popular Hunters for the Hungry program is now accepting deer donations for the 2020 hunting season. More than 60 processors across the state are accepting donations of deer to feed Tennessee families in need. To see processors currently participating, visit www.tnwf.org/processors. “Because of COVID-19, more Tennesseans …

(TN Highway Safety Office press release) September 21 – 26, the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) promotes National Child Passenger Safety Week to help parents ensure their children ride as safely as possible. Every day in America, millions of parents travel with children in their vehicles. While some children are …

Officials in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are looking for any information to help identify whoever vandalized the Foothills Parkway West Entrance Sign near the Highway 321 intersection in Walland sometime late Friday night or early Sunday morning, the 18th and 19th of this month. In a release asking …

This morning, the city of Clinton’s TDOT Project Liaison, Lynn Murphy, provided the latest update on the Lewallen Bridge Replacement project. If you have driven by the work site, you can see the amount of progress that has been made, and today, Murphy provided us with a rundown of what …

The Anderson County Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting this evening (Monday, September 21st), both electonically and in person. The meeting will begin with the reading of a proclamation honoring the 65th anniversary of the desegregation of Oak Ridge High School, and a public hearing on rezoning a piece …