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BLOUNTVILLE — Plans for a new access road to Sullivan County’s under-construction West Ridge High School are at a dead end (pun intended) at least for the time being. The more than $65 million school will not get an access road off Jericho Drive next to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee, the county commission decided in a called meeting held virtually on Tuesday night. The new school, near Exit 63 of Interstate 81, is off Lynn Road, a curvy, two-lane route with multiple inclines. The road is partly in Kingsport and partly in Sullivan County. The county plan moving forw...

BLOUNTVILLE — Where public entities have failed to build better access to a new Sullivan County high school opening next August, a public-private partnership called Jericho Partners may come to the rescue. The idea, if it works, would get the access road to West Ridge High School on Lynn Road off Exit 63 of Interstate 81 in place by the August 2021 opening of the 1,700- to 1,900-student school. And involved with the potential project is Jim Belgeri, the former Sullivan County commissioner of roads and a civil engineer who proposed a West Ridge access road project and funding for it when ...