New Market News

The letter says the mayors believe the intermodal transport facility that would be built near New Market would boost the economies of their counties with jobs and tax revenues.

Harvey Young speaks about a proposed Norfolk Southern truck-train facility in Jefferson County during a community meeting hosted by the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.

Knox County has spent millions of dollars on Eastbridge Industrial Park. It sits on Mine Road in Mascot with hundreds of acres of expensive graded land still empty.

Jefferson County residents are asking Norfolk Southern Railroad executives to change their minds about a plant to build an intermodal transport facility in the New Market area.

Jack Kramer sold his farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and relocated to east Tennessee for a chance to raise cattle and restore a piece of New Market history.

Norfolk Southern is aggressively seeking to buy land for a major rail yard adjacent to the elementary school at New Market, Tenn.

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. - Harvey Young said he searched for 35 years before he found the farm he wanted to buy and build his home on.

The Scope was in Savannah on Thursday and Friday, so there wasn't much fresh news on the blog.

The Jefferson County mayor released a statement Wednesday, confirming plans with Norfolk-Southern for a new rail-to-truck facility.

"It will be a huge facility that runs 24 hours a day, that's lit up like a city, have tall cranes.

A custom built log home up for sale in New Market was destroyed early Wednesday morning when a fire from the night before rekindled.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - 10 News has obtained Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce documents that outline a $133 million private-public partnership with Norfolk Southern to build an intermodal rail-and-truck transport facility.

A Tuesday evening fire in New Market left the homeowner with only minor injuries but resulted in about $200,000 in property damage.

A single-vehicle crash in New Market resulted in a driver, a passenger, a firefighter, and two EMS workers being taken to the hospital Friday morning.

"I would love to not to have to use the chemicals. They are extremely expensive and a pain to put on and I don't like to handle them, but I'm not concerned about the safety of it," Danny Shelton says.

Discount retailer Salvage Unlimited.com has opened a new location in Sevierville.

Michelle Ann Woody, daughter of Don and Diane Woody, of Morristown, is engaged to marry J.R. Byrd, son of Cindi Byrd and Les Byrd, both of New Market, at 2 p.m. May 16 at Manley Baptist Church, Morristown.

Suspect arrested as friends mourn teens killed in wreck 3 fire departments respond to New Market fire Firefighters were on the scene of a house fire for more than an hour and a half Monday morning in New Market.

PHOTOS SUBMITTED You never know who you might come across in your travels. Last weekend, Newport Police Chief Maurice Shults and his wife were driving in Western North Carolina.

You might call them cookies for a cause. On Saturday morning, some East Tennessee Girl Scouts used some of their cookie money profits to hold a food pantry for area families in need.