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Eric Banner gets 8-year sentence on weapon possession by felon plea

ELIZABETHTON — A man who had been accused of holding a Domino’s delivery driver at gunpoint in 2020 pleaded guilty in Carter County Criminal Court on Tuesday on charges of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and aggravated assault. Eric Rodney Banner, 47, was sentenced by Criminal Court Judge Lisa Rice to eight years on the unlawful possession charge. That sentence is to run consecutively to a three-year sentence for a conviction in Unicoi County. Banner was categorized as a standard offender and will have to serve 30 percent of the sentence before he is eligible for parole. On the aggravated assault charge, Rice sentenced Banner to three years, to run concurrently with the unlawful possession sentence.

Carter County Budget Committee seeks to help fund Hampton Watershed mountain bike trails

ELIZABETHTON — It appears that a mountain bike project on the Hampton Springs Watershed is receiving support from both City Council members from Elizabethton and county commissioners from Carter County. The latest incident of cooperation was on display Monday evening in the meeting of the Budget Committee of the Carter County Commission. The Budget Committee voted to recommend the county donate $75,000 to city-owned property at the watershed to help expand a mountain bike trail system. Wesley Bradley, trail liaison with the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association, discussed the various phases of trail development on the 238-acre hilly watershed property the city owns in Hampton, just blocks from Hampton High School and Hampton Elementary School. Although the property is several miles from Elizabethton, the city owns it because the springs flowing in the city provide over half of the city’s drinking water. The city acquired part of the property when it appeared the land was

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