Piney Flats News

Greeneville-Greene County Municipal Airport was a busy place on Saturday, with five airplanes and a helicopter taking youngsters on their first flights, 50 young people in all.

A local meteorologist said voters will find clear skies and 70 degree temperatures when they hit the polls to cast their ballots in today's Bristol and Bluff City elections.

Jim and Mary Ann Hager have spent the past 14 months trying to protect a cluster of 120-year-old buildings that sits quietly between a Sullivan County industrial park and one of the county's fastest-growing commercial corridors.

In nearly a half-century of farming, Wayne Scott helped put strawberries on the map of Northeast Tennessee.

Sullivan County officials got their first look this morning at a $200 million plan to build three new schools over the next decade and close and make extensive renovations to others.

Randy Brown of Mosheim, Tenn., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Volunteer Division tournament on Douglas Lake Saturday with a five-bass limit weighing 18 pounds, 14 ounces.

As city officials chose the company they want to provide speed-enforcement cameras, Police Chief David Nelson said Thursday it will be at least four months before the devices are installed along a 2-mile section of U.S. 11E.

Karla Toler remembers the spring of 2007 in three ways. It was that spring when she and her husband went to Michigan on vacation and when the couple finally decided to pave the driveway in front of their house near the corner of Stanfield Road and Old Elizabethton Highway.

PINEY FLATS, Tenn. - Delilah was pinned, yet placated, under T.J. DeWitt's skillful hands Saturday as he snipped thick tufts of oily wool from her hide.

Rolling out to the famous Ridgewood Barbeque, between Bluff City and Elizabethton, I glanced at my map and discovered I was in a place called Rock Hill, Tenn.

Fearing they might be forced to raise property taxes later this year, Sullivan County commissioners Monday narrowly rejected giving the county's highway department an extra $500,000 for paving.

That's a message the Bluff City Board of Mayor and Alderman sent four community organizations after voting Thursday to restructure how it distributes charitable donations in the wake of this year's economic ...

Modern Forge, a company based in Piney Flats that heats and shapes steel, confirmed they let 33 workers go this week.

Two Tri-Cities businesses are blaming recent layoffs on the tight economy and a drop in demand for helicopter parts and services.

For weeks, you might say, I fostered a whole bunch of dogs. I simply had to. I had adopted a stray dog, Molly, who subsequently gave birth to nine puppies.

Two cost-saving measures coming before the Sullivan County Commission have angered elected officials who claim commissioners are trying to micromanage their financial affairs.

ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY about gunsmith Jerry Baber and the remote-controlled armed machines he has created in partnership with two robotics companies.

A plan to save Sullivan County money by freezing out taxpayer-funded travel has drawn criticism from at least one county official who thinks it is an unnecessary step and would keep him from doing his job.

This winters' cold has meant major problems for water lines in the Tri-Cities region.

Some quick thinking and a well-organized community might have saved a local middle school from the brink of closure.