Sequatchie News

In days of yore - " say, last September - " Marion County-based developers the Southern Group got an unequivocal welcome from the Dade County Commission.

Optimum planting time won't come until fall, so you'll need to remember just how good these berries tasted to motivate yourself to plant a few bushes of your own.

More than 200 riders are expected this weekend at the Trials Training Center in Sequatchie, Tenn., for the AMA/NATC National Championship Series.

The National Weather Service has placed a number of Tennessee counties, including Rutherford, under a tornado watch until midnight.

May 1903 Sequatchie Valley was well represented at the Grandview commencement and everyone reported a good time while in Grandview.

Hike leaders and TDEC naturalists David Withers and Silas Mathes will take participants on an easy hike, starting at Sequatchie Cave / Owen Spring in Sequatchie and stopping for lunch at one of the many scenic spots in the area.

McMinn Central and Marion County will host Region 3-AA games. McMinn County and Ooltewah will have home field advantage in Region 3-AAA. Winners will play in region finals on Wednesday.

Bogart, a 3-year-old, 90-pound English bulldog, spends weekdays at the doublewide trailer that serves as an office for the Sequatchie Pointe development, but he's not there to protect the place.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker and Democratic U.S. Reps.

NASHVILLE - Gov. Phil Bredesen has asked President Barack Obama to declare Rutherford, McMinn, Sequatchie and Benton counties as federal disaster areas following the Good Friday tornadoes, a news release from his office announced today.

Many of you may be avoiding putting pork on the dinner table because of questions about the swine flu.

Governor Phil Bredesen recently released a final list of projects to be funded with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds , proposed bridge bonds and TDOT's regular funding mechanisms.

The National Weather Service in Morristown has issued a tornado watch until 8 p.m. for most of East Tennessee, including Blount County.

Mildred "Millie" Callaway has been named regional development specialist with TVA's economic development staff for the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee.

Weather officials today are assessing reports of tornadic activity all across the Tri-state region around Chattanooga.

Sequatchie County was slammed by the storm and authorities are assessing damage.

Sequatchie Concrete Service is one of the latest in a growing list of companies getting work with Volkswagen.

My husband asked me, "So how was your field trip this morning?" As I started to tell him, I realized no one word, no one description could possibly convey the magical beauty of the place I had just visited, right here in Cumberland County.

E. Smith Gilbert has published extensively in the United States and Great Brittan.

Hopes for a retirement home have been dashed for dozens of people, who thought they were buying lots, in a new development on Nickajack Lake in Marion County.