Loudon County News

Hundreds of bins and boxes of bagged food items - rice, pasta, canned goods and meats - filled the loading dock area shoulder high, lined pantry walls and spilled over into the kitchen area Monday at the Good Samaritan Center in Lenoir City.

Loudon County officials have estimated that the certified property tax rate could see an increase in the next fiscal year to compensate for a historic decrease in assessed property values during the latest four-year reappraisal.

Loudon County Board of Education on Thursday passed a $36 million budget that includes a 3 percent raise for certified teachers and funding to boost the system's technology infrastructure in preparation for new state testing standards set to be fully instituted by 2014.

After tallying the donations, the pantry collected 16,000 pounds and 20,000 items of food, and it expects more in the coming days.

The Monroe County, Loudon County, and Athens Area Chambers of Commerce are sponsoring the first East Tennessee Great Region Summit to be held at Hiwassee College on Thursday, May 23.

The Daily Times Charles Blalock and Sons of Sevierville is working on a 1.5-mile project near Lenoir City which includes construction of three new bridges and dismantling the existing bridge over Fort Loudoun Dam.

Loudon County Commission hopes to move one step closer to addressing delinquent properties in Tellico Village.

Legislators representing Loudon County will go back to the drawing board to work on changes in real estate law that could affect the disposition of tax-delinquent properties across the state.

School administrators and local first responders are weighing in as several schools across East Tennessee cut their driver's education programs.

Elementary schoolers from all around Loudon County gathered together at Lenoir City Middle School for the 24th running of the Robert Towns Invitational Track Meet.

A Loudon house once used for making meth was put on the market recently. But is it, or any meth house, a home you'd want to buy? A Loudon house once used for making meth was put on the market recently.

Blount County's population growth is causing it to lose the public transportation services provided by the East Tennessee Human Resources Agency.

Sequoyah football coach and athletic director Bill Satterfield has been elected as a Class of 2013 inductee into the Blount County Sports Hall of Fame.

A Blount County grand jury will hear the case of a teacher at Greenback school who is charged with solicitation of aggravated statutory rape and sexual exploitation of a minor.

Using a model similar to the Cumberland Region Tomorrow collaborative effort of city and county officials in the Nashville area, Plan East Tennessee developers are working to highlight some of the strong commonalities among the region's five counties as part of an effort to further enhance quality of life and draw newcomers.

A Knox County judge ruled in favor of Pilot Flying J, denying a motion for an injunction that would have forced company employees to stop reaching out to clients in the wake of a rebate scandal.

After a court removed 293 Tellico Village properties in delinquent tax status from public auction to prevent Loudon County from paying Property Owners Association assessments on the depressed lots, the properties will likely stay in their current status since a piece of legislation attempting to address the dilemma appears defunct.

It now appears that Loudon sludge more likely will be taken to the Matlock Bend Landfill rather than to the McMinn County Landfill in Athens, Loudon Utility Board members learned Monday.

A female teacher in the Loudon County school system is now under investigation after allegations of an inappropriate relationship with one of her students.

Deputies locked down a local school and evacuated several homes in Morgan County Tuesday morning while officials worked to detonate several bombs found on private property.