ELIZABETHTON â The Carter County Courthouse has lost 105 years of experience recently with the retirement of three long-serving women who served in three different parts of the local government.
Patsy Lewis worked for 45 years in the county clerkâs office. Sequa Shields worked 24 years in the property assessorâs office. Rita Ford retired in June after working 36 years, in which 18 of those years with the Board of Education and the other 18 years with the county financial management office, once the county went under the County Financial Management System of 1981. Because Ford retired a month ago, she was not available to be interviewed with Lewis and Shields.
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ELIZABETHTON â The further development of a mountain bike riding park brought together leaders from Elizabethton and Carter County on Wednesday afternoon for an exploratory session.
Over the past several years, Elizabethton has slowly developed a small system of bike trails in a 238-acre hilly watershed property the city owns in Hampton. Although the property is several miles from Elizabethton, the city owns it because the springs flowing in the area provide over half of the cityâs drinking water. The watershed above the springs were purchased to protect the area from development and pollution.
The cityâs Parks and Recreation Department has begun developing mountain bike trails on the property, and has expanded the trails by renting 52.75 acres of undeveloped land from adjacent Doe River Gorge Ministries. The result is the potential development of several miles of bike trail on elevations ranging from 1,800 feet to 3,100 feet that could be made into loops easy enough
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May 22, 1901: With a Johnson City dateline, The Knoxville Sentinel reported news about recent flood damage. âThe Watauga, Chucky and Doe rivers (sic) are higher than ever known before. The Watauga river (sic) is seven feet higher than it was in 1867. The bridges at Watauga, Embreeville, Elizabethton, Chestoa, and other places are gone. At least fifty houses have been washed out of Elizabethton.â
âAll save (sic) mills and lumber yards along these rivers are gone. The lumber mill at Watauga and the Wilder mill at Chestoa are destroyed.
âA train of loaded cars had been put upon the Watauga bridge and fifteen cars were lost.
ELIZABETHTON â With less than two months left until the new fiscal year begins, the various departments of the Carter County government are making final transfers of funds in this yearâs budget. Besides the normal adjustments made at the end of the year, departments are also making adjustments for the unprecedented impacts on the budget brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Budget Committee of the Carter County Commission heard several requests for budget adjustments during its monthly meeting on Monday night. Several of the adjustment requests came from the Carter County Sheriffâs Department, which saw several impacts in its jail operations as a result of the pandemic.