Strawberry Plains News

I read with interest about the intermodal yard Norfolk Southern plans to build in New Market.

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.

Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble? Starts the familiar country gospel song. People in East Tennessee were asking each other a similar question recently.

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.

Norfolk Southern isn't interested in buying any of Debbie Berry's 20 acres. Her property - which has been in her family for 70 years - lies at the very end of the proposed site of an intermodal rail yard.

Legislators plan to amend the bill so that all city- and county-owned parks, ballfields and playgrounds will remain off limits to guns but state and national parks will be opened.

The sponsor of a "guns in parks" legislation sitting on Gov. Phil Bredesen's desk said today the "deal is off" on a compromise with the governor.

The sponsor of a bill to allow handguns to be carried in city or county parks in Tennessee said Thursday he's abandoning the provision in exchange for the governor's commitment not to veto a separate bill about weapons in restaurants.

It was a reunion for Presley with two rescue horses, Max and Bandit, introduced to the public in January when Elvis Presley's birthday was commemorated.

A bill to allow guns in state and local parks passed the state House on Tuesday and is now headed to Gov.

A man working on the renovations taking place at Georgetowna s Wal Mart store was killed early Tuesday morning.

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.

Sometimes you come across comments that leave you shaking your head and I had such a moment this morning when I was skimming through the latest copy of Country Weekly magazine.

With cooperation from the state Department of Agriculture, some state legislators are tentatively seeking ways to process horse meat in Tennessee, either for consumption by humans in other nations or animals in zoos.

Finally there's something Pith and Rep. Frank Niceley can agree upon. The arch-conservative legislator wants to create a law allowing horse meat processing in Tennessee .

A proposal that would authorize the selling of raw milk has passed the House. The measure sponsored by Rep.

The House joined the Senate today in approving legislation to require that coal ash storage facilities created or expanded in the future have a liner to prevent leakage.

A tree trimming company employee from Smyrna has been charged in the traffic death of a motorcyclist in Knoxville.

Both bills must still pass the Senate before becoming law. The Senate version of the local parks bill is scheduled for review Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

According to Knox County dispatchers, an accident involving several vehicles on I-40 near mile marker 395 in Strawberry Plains happened a little before 4:00am on Thursday morning.