Johnson County News

I enjoy a variety of music. As I was growing up in Johnson County, my exposure to music was primarily to folk or country music.

Up before the sun rises every day, these teenagers are fixing breakfast from scratch on an old iron cook stove by the light of a kerosene lamp.

The United Way of Mountain City/Johnson County 2009 campaign is now in full swing.

Residents were devastated when the news hit Johnson County last week of the murder of Marla Jo Grindstaff Abel, 43, who had moved to Greenbrier, Tennessee and worked as a nurse at Centennial Hospital.

A Tennessee native who died in the Fort Hood mass shooting will be laid to rest this week.

Approximately 16 million Americans served their country during World War II. Of those 16 million, close to 600,000 were members of the United States Marine Corps.

It's that time of year again where friends and family gather together for the holidays.

Tennessee State Treasurer David H. Lillard, Jr., accompanied by Rep. Jason Mumpower, Rep.

West Greene High School received the Blue Ridge Athletic Conference Ralph Stout Sportsmanship Award during Monday night's banquet and meeting of the Region 1 Football Officials Association held in Johnson City.

The members of the 776th from Johnson County have been busy enjoying their families and friends since their return.

The dedicated volunteers on the second annual Pumpkin Festival committee have worked hard to improve last year's already successful event.

Johnson County's own National Guard soldiers will be returning home today. Plans are to leave the Guard's volunteer training site in Smyrna, Tennessee by bus about noon today with expected arrival in Mountain City around 6:00 p.m. Tennessee State Troopers will provide an official escort for the returning soldiers.

There are only a few of what could be called country stores left in Johnson County.

Mountain City, TN 37683 National Guard Armory in Mountain City, TN, 1923 South Shady Street cost: $0 + HUMANE SOCIETY RUMMAGE SALE The Johnson County Humane Society will hold its Semi-Annual Rummage Sale on Saturday, October 3 at the National Guard Armory in Mountain City, 1923 South Shady Street from 8:00 A.M. till 2:00 P.M. We will be setting up ...

Watauga County law enforcement and Tennessee law enforcement agencies collaborated Friday for their annual Hands Across the Border checkpoint on U.S. 421.

It is of much interest to me that the area that is now Johnson County has been under so many different governmental bodies.

The already fatal ambulance crash that killed Alicia Wood McCoy instantly on Tuesday of last week also claimed the life of Johnson County Rescue Squad member Joe Barlow Friday afternoon.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol says a driver crossed the center line of a northeast Tennessee highway, crashing into an ambulance and leaving the patient dead and the emergency driver in critical condition.

Johnson Co., Tenn. - The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal wreck that occurred last night in Johnson County involving a car and an ambulance.

Although Wes Sherman thoroughly enjoyed Roy Brown's art class while at Johnson County High School, he had no idea that art would consume his future, catapulting him to national celebrity as a renowned abstract painter.