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Washington County commissioners are slated to vote on a grant application later this month to help provide water to homes in the Taylor Bridge Road area. Meanwhile, members of the Washington County Water Task Force met Friday and discussed a process to determine how to prioritize other underserved communities in need of utility water. County Commissioner Bryan Davenport, the chairman of the task force, said the panel will be asked to make “data-driven decisions” on where the county sh...

LAGRANGE — Jim Young, a LaGrange County native and area businessman, was elected by the Republican Party Thursday night to take over the open seat on the LaGrange County Council. That seat opened when former county council president, Peter Cook was elected at a Republican Party caucus last month to fill the open seat on the LaGrange County Board of Commissioners. Young was one of five people vying for the open seat. Those candidates included LaGrange businessman Joe Billman, former Lakelan...

“How many Floridians have died or acquired chronic medical conditions because the state did not allocate as much vaccine as particular areas required while providing more vaccine than was fair

Mar 13, 2021 Hunt County Judge Bobby Stovall addresses the audience seated in the Texan Theater Friday for the “State Of The City” and “State of the County” addresses during the Greenville Chamber of Commerce Quarterly Luncheon. City of Greenville and Hunt County leaders told a crowd inside the Texan Theater Friday that  the local governments were able to deal with the effects of COVID-19 and then a major winter storm and come out strong. “I see a rapidly growing cit...

Stand face-to-face with SUE the Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the world’s most famous dinosaurs.

Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency In our increasingly secular age, being on the side of science is similar to being on the side of God — a way to settle an argument by not actually making an argument. Just enlist an unassailable authority and move on. That’s how Joe Biden campaigned for president, vowing to “follow the science” on the COVID-19 pandemic wherever it led him. Only now it seems like he’s leading the science as much as the science is leading...

Gov. Eric Holcomb indirectly confronted lawmakers about their efforts to undo the emergency powers he utilized throughout the course of the pandemic, including the statewide mask mandate and building capacity

Northeast Tennessee counties reported more than 100 new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections for the second-straight day on Thursday, the first time in three weeks the region saw consecutive days with

Around this time last year, the town of Conway discussed at our deliberative session a resolution I introduced calling for the state to create an independent redistricting committee to draw

ASHLAND The Ashland City Commission had its first meeting open to the public in months on Thursday.