Baileyton News

Sun Photo by Phil Gentry Work is progressing on the new Baileyton United Methodist Church.

Jeremy Cutshaw is a new barber at the Palace Barber Shop located in the Towne Square Shopping Center.

Sun Photo by Phil Gentry Employees of GRC Construction Services, of Kingsport, were working on Wednesday on the foundation for the new Baileyton United Methodist Church.

The Baileyton Board of Zoning Appeals on Thursday granted a variance for setback requirements for a garage on Bailey Street.

Sun photo by bob hurley His Purple Heart and one of his Bronze Star Medals from the days following D-Day have been lost or burned in the 65 years that have passed, but Oscar Payne, of Baileyton, has managed to hold on to this one, the second Bronze Star Medal he was awarded for heroic or meritorious service during World War II in Europe.

Two candidates, Elizabeth Sexton and incumbent Joe Waggoner, are vying for the Greeneville Water Commissioner at-large seat in the June 2 municipal election.

Two men were charged over the last two days with DUI by local law enforcement officers.

A collision Wednesday evening between a pickup truck and a horse on Horton Highway injured the horse's 17-year-old rider and required the injured horse "to be put down." Trooper David Good, who investigated the 6:45 p.m. accident about a dozen a miles north of Baileyton, said it occurred when a northbound Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by Danny ...

During a brief Wednesday night meeting, the Baileyton Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to hire Sheriff's Lt.

A trip to Baileyton on Friday to fill their car's gas tank treated a Greeneville couple to a view of a freakishly beautiful thunderstorm that had spawned tornadoes across several East Tennessee counties.

Sun Photo by Jim Feltman Lindsay Harbin, who attends North Greene High School, is The Greeneville Sun's Calendar Girl for May 2009.

A vacant mobile home at 88 Jackson Lane West in northern Greene County was destroyed early today by a fire of undetermined origin.

Revolutionary War soldier Jacob Bruner, an early 1800s settler of the Lost Mountain Community north of Baileyton, will be honored on Saturday during 10 a.m. grave-marker dedication ceremony.

The Baileyton Planning Commission will meet in called session at 7 p.m. Thursday at Baileyton Town Hall to consider site plans for construction of a new Dollar General store and a New Baileyton United Methodist Church building.

On November 24th, 2007 the sanctuary, fellowship hall, and Sunday school classrooms of Baileyton United Methodist Church were destroyed by a massive fire.

Baileyton Mayor Tommy Casteel said Wednesday that he hopes to be able to convince Family Dollar Corporation to build a Family Dollar Market on property the company has leased in Baileyton.

Some local offices will be closed this Friday, April 10, in observance of Good Friday.

Terry Lee Riddle, 38, of Flag Pond, was charged about 6 p.m. on March 31, by GPD Clifford Lawing with DUI and violating the implied consent law after a traffic stop for driving 68 mph in a 45-mph zone on the West Andrew Johnson Highway.

The Greene County Sheriff's Department is investigating a fire early Saturday that destroyed a Delta Valley Road barn and its contents.

A Dogwood Drive man reported on March 26 that told him that sometime since March 23 someone broke into his cabin and storage building in the 14000 block of Lonesome Pine Trail.