Happening the first week of the fall season, the Townsend Fall Heritage Festival honors Appalachian traditions while inspiring future generations. From the first fiddle note to the last banjo strum, ...

Girl Scouts of Southern Appalachians announced that Exploremores™, a Rocky Road ice cream-inspired sandwich cookie, will join ...

Tennessee Valley Fair kicks off in Chilhowee Park. By Mike Steely. Senior Writer. [email protected]. Although its future ...

There were several bumps along the way before the season ended, but the team’s performance from Sept. 2 against Colorado ...

R.T. Everette, Jr., most commonly known as Tommy, was the first to be inducted into the inaugural Karns High School Athletic ...

Catching Up With George Bove. By Mike Steely. Senior Writer. [email protected]. I’ve known George Bove for several years ...

Iowa’s Cantankerous Congressman Harold Royce “H. R.” Gross. By Ray Hill It is fair to say there was not a speck of ...

If you want to write laws, run for office. By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ll admit at the start of this essay that I’m not a legal expert, and perhaps I’m in over my head with this topic. But that’s OK because ...

Your Case is in Good Hands. By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor. As humans living on the planet we call Earth, we are fully aware that there are diverse be ...

Getting from Williamsburg to Cumberland Falls, which actually has a Corbin, Kentucky, address, means following I-75 north to the second Williamsburg exit and taking Highway 25W until it turns left ...

A motion in limine (pronounced lim-in-ee) is a legal request made to the judge before a trial starts, asking the judge to decide ahead of time whether certain evidence can or cannot be mentioned in ...

Musings on Vacation. By Joe Rector. The past week, Amy and I returned to our favorite vacation spot, Isle of Palms, South Carolina. We’ve traveled over the mountains to reach th ...