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York supporters sound off on 'misinformation'
... press conference is just the first step the school's supporters are taking to fight a recent campaign around Fentress County to demolish the school. That campaign started soon after the Jamestown City Council voted to issue the stop work order as ...
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Work Stopped At Crumbling York School
... engineers, experts in their area to say this building is strong and it's not going to fall in," said Fentress County Executive John Mullinix. A preservation group plans to stabilize the building by early 2009. "I want to save this building. I want ...
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Officials at odds over fate of Alvin C. York Institute
The Alvin C. York Institute, founded by the legendary WWI hero from Pall Mall, is still the pride of Fentress County, according to many residents and officials.
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... Brian Smith officiating. Burial followed in Crossville City Cemetery. Mrs. Smith was born Jan. 29, 1916, in Fentress County, the daughter of Abraham L. and Dicey E. Stephens Franklin. She was married 57 years to her husband, the late Edgar Smith. ...
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Ruppe, Yager on the campaign trail
... counties at $38,172. Four of the counties had a median household income less than $31,000. The lowest was Fentress County at $25,926. One man in the audience wanted to know what Ruppe and Yager would do to help people in the district improve their ...
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Safety concerns halt work at old York school
... to the Sgt. York Patriotic Foundation. The organization planned to stabilize the 81-year-old structure in Fentress County and then restore it. Bob Lane, the city's building inspector and codes enforcement officer, said the order was executed Tuesday ...
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War hero's home, history entertain annually
PALL MALL, TENN. - North of Crossville and south of the Kentucky line, rugged Fentress County grows in fame for its beauty and many miles of horseback riding trails, but one native's name has garnered ...
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Council seeks to prevent restoration of institute
... York, of Pall Mall, came back from the war with the goal of improving the education of the children in rural Fentress County. He used his own money to build the school, which opened in 1927. The state eventually took it over and opened a new school ...
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Gas prices top $5.00 in Fentress County
By noon Friday, a number of gas stations in Fentress County were out of gas or close to it.
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City Council seeks to prevent restoration of York Institute
... York, of Pall Mall, came back from the war with the goal of improving the education of the children in rural Fentress County. He used his own money to build the school, which opened in 1927. The state eventually took it over and opened a new school ...
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2 die during 2007 hunting accidents
... a turkey. "Shooter fired upon victim, striking him in the hands, forearm and thigh," the report states. - In Fentress County on Nov. 17, 2007, a 17-year-old deer hunter had returned from a hunting trip and was unloading his firearm, a rifle. "The ...
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Jobless rate continues steady climb
... to 7.8%. Morgan County also posted a decreased unemployment rate, down three-tenths of a point to 8.1%. In Fentress County, the jobless rate climbed from 9.2% to 9.7%, and in Pickett County, the jobless rate jumped from 9.8% to 10.7%. Pickett was ...
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... on my to-do list." The sale was kicked off in 1987, when Mike Walker, who was then the county executive of Fentress County, Tenn., formed the idea of an annual huge yard sale to attract travelers from the interstate system to the smaller, scenic ...
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Gas prices may have decreased traffic at World's Longest Yard Sale
... ack up and move out during the next couple of days. The sale is headquartered in Jamestown, Tennessee at the Fentress County Chamber of Commerce. http://www.jamestowntn.org/ http://www.127sale.com/
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Newbies set up shop in Crossville for World's Longest Yard Sale
... the route so far this year, with almost every available motel room in the area full. The sale started in Fentress County back in 1987. The idea was to showcase all that back roads have to offer, and participation has grown ever since. Newbies set up ...
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Church hopes to save during U.S. 127 yard sale
... year," she said. The U.S. 127 Corridor Sale is headquartered in Jamestown, Tenn. It was started by a former Fentress County executive to bring travelers from the interstates to less traveled highways of Kentucky and Tennessee, according to the U.S. ...
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Five-State Yard Sale Gets Under Way
... set up shop on U.S. Highway 127 - from Gadsden, Ala. to West Unity, Ohio. The event began in 1987 by the Fentress County Chamber of Commerce in Jamestown, Tenn., to show that rural communities had something to offer. The multistate sale runs through ...
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Voting underway at local, state polling stations
Polling stations across the state opened Thursday morning for election day. At Inskip Elementary's polling center, a power outage Thursday morning means balloting machines are operating on battery power.
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The sale starts august 7th and goes through August the 10th! Lucky for us it is headquartered in Jamestown, TN at the Fentress County Chamber of Commerce .
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Workers back at Norwalk even as future pending
... footing. It seems things are going very well up there." Norwalk recently moved its lumber operations to Fentress County, a process the company phased out at its Cookeville plant late last year. The company also operates a saw mill in Byrdstown and ...
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