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5 hrs ago Tracey Fields, right,  was named as the Senior Center Resources and Public Transit Volunteer Of The Year, for not only stepping up individually, but rounding up others to help. She was presented the award by Trina Sanders Coldiron, the community liaison for SCRPT. The Senior Center Resources and Public Transit, SCRPT, welcomed the spring season in style Thursday, by hosting a Tea and Fashion Show at the Landmark on Lee Street. Not only was the event a chance for those attending to ...

Amazon is apologizing to U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan after directing an “incorrect” tweet at the Black Earth Democrat last week about whether employees of the online retail behemoth need to use bottles to relieve themselves. Last week — as an attempt to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama was underway — Pocan responded on Twitter to an Amazon executive who called the business a “progressive workplace,” arguing Amazon engages in union-busting and makes “workers ur...

ELIZABETHTON — The Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department is planning to use a private company at three of its concession stands this season. Bruce Miller, doing business as MaxDogs, has been selected to operate the stands at Lions Park Field, Cat Island Park and Franklin Pool. MaxDogs has successfully operated concessions stands in the past for the city at Joe O’Brien Field and Franklin Pool. The new agreement would be for two years and is set to be approved by the Elizabethton...

For some, it will actually be different when they return. Some local business owners used the state-mandated restrictions on indoor dining to do some long-overdue renovations and upgrades that made doing business possible during the pandemic. The Wild Dog Saloon on 22nd Street expanded the outdoor patio area and added a walk-up window. Other businesses redecorated the entire dining area, such as Benny’s Grill on Pershing Road, which also included more spacing between tables and extra seati...

Owning and operating a restaurant is not the easiest of endeavors. Carlos Weir and his wife, Erika, have accepted the challenge of running not one but two local restaurants. The first, Las Chabelas, opened in Brawley on Main Street in 2003 with only four tables, two booths and three employees. The second restaurant is The Courtroom Bourbons and Grill in El Centro, which opened in 2014. Carlos Weir is native Californian who grew up in the greater Los Angeles area and moved to Imperial Valley mor...

By Ashley Stieb | Guest columnist Apr 4, 2021 Apr 4, 2021 As a millennial, buying a home is already hard enough. Trying to save up enough money for an average 6% down payment, trying to determine how much home we can afford, trying to find the time to house hunt, and battling debt to income ratio. Now we are dealing with a seller’s market with some of the lowest interest rates we have seen in years and a pandemic. Many of my fellow millennials are trying to take advantage of th...

Apr 4, 2021 Pictured is a lot that recently sold in Norman. Thirty year mortgage rates are on the rise. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript The rate for a 30-year mortgage is increasing to the highest level since June, but that doesn’t seem to be slowing the market in Norman, according to local experts. According to weekly data released by federally chartered home loan mortgage corporation Freddie Mac, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 3.18% for the week ...

Driving past the ball fields near my house the other evening, I experienced waves of nostalgia, the stabby kind, the “aw, gee, shucks” heartwarming kind, worthy of a Hallmark Channel Movie. You know for certain spring’s arrived when the daffodils push themselves out of the hard, cold earth, … More Headlines

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Carboy Winery, the fast-growing wine business founded on the Front Range, is expanding to its fourth location in the state after purchasing Mount Garfield Estate in Palisade. The five-year old business began with a single location in Littleton and has since expanded to locations in Denver and Breckenridge, said Kevin Webber, one of the winery’s managing partners. The company began by bringing in wine pressed from out-of-state grapes, but has since invested in making wine with Colorado-grow...