Athens News

The Fourth of July party is back on for the city of Athens. Park officials announced Thursday that the city met its fundraising goal of $18,000 dollars to put on this year's fireworks show.

The local chamber of commerce was flooded with angry e-mails, threatened with boycotts and besieged with publicity after it invited Alabama coach Nick Saban to its annual benefit dinner.

Knox County health officials will begin spraying for mosquitos in South Knoxville this week to combat the West Nile Virus.

"One day I said wrong side of the brain working so I went to Vermont and started working with two master glass blowers," Paula Marksbury said.

So far, the Athens Parks Foundation says that $4200 has been pledged to fund the July 4 fireworks show.

Regions Tradition Celebrity Pro-Am at Shoal Creek Golf Course Wednesday June 5, 2013.

It looks like the massive annual July 4 fireworks show in Athens is now back on, all thanks to donations from the community.

Out of the 35 years the Rev. Marvin Savola has pastored churches, the one miracle that touched him the most happened a year ago to Savola himself.

Bethel Presbyterian/Kingston United Methodist "Following in Jesus' Footsteps: Inspired by Marketplace 29 A.D." is the theme of the Bible school planned by Bethel Presbyterian Church, Kingston, and Kingston United Methodist Church.

DENSO donates to schools Photo by Autumn Hughes DENSO Manufacturing Athens Tennessee, Inc., held its "Football Competition" activity earlier this year, which raises money for area schools.

Bender Realty has welcomed two new additions, Billie Stevens and Troy Goins, to its residential sales team.

Bethel Presbyterian/Kingston United Methodist "Following in Jesus' Footsteps: Inspired by Marketplace 29 A.D." is the theme of the Bible school planned by Bethel Presbyterian Church, Kingston, and Kingston United Methodist Church.

Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely and several deputies have arrested two men and a teenage girl on a house boat in the Elk River on charges related to the manufacture of methamphetamines.

A Kittery man is facing federal charges after requesting nude images of a juvenile girl from Tennessee, according to police.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation obtained federal warrants for a Maine man in a child pornography investigation that resulted in his arrest earlier this week.