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ELIZABETHTON — A new organization is being set up in Carter County and Elizabethton to provide a one-stop resource center to meet the needs of the homeless population in the region. The Carter Compassion Center received confirmation from the Internal Revenue Service last week that its 501 ( c ) 3 designation had been approved. It was the latest step forward for a group that formed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but which has still managed to maintain momentum in meeting its mission of ministering to the homeless. It got its start a couple of years ago with an aim of the Healt...

Donation of 28 acres accepted to add to trail ELIZABETHTON — By a 21-2 vote, the Carter County Commission voted Thursday to accept a donation of 28 acres of land between Valley Forge and Hampton that could extend the Tweetsie Trail by 4.5 miles and provide connections with the Hampton Springs Watershed Mountain Bicycle Trail and Green Bridge Park in Hampton. The property being donated is the route by which the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad used to operate a narrow gauge rail line between Valley Forge and Hampton. It extends from Mill Pond in Valley Forge to Railroad St...

ELIZABETHTON — The Carter County Commission voted 15-8 on Monday night to stop an apparently unintended distribution of county sales tax revenue to the Elizabethton City School System.

ELIZABETHTON — One of the items the Carter County Commission will consider during its next meeting on March 15 will be a resolution declaring the county as a “sanctuary county”

ELIZABETHTON — The cost of using the Carter County Landfill will be going up on March 1. The Carter County Commission approved a recommendation from the Landfill Committee to raise the tipping fee by $9.50 per ton for both household garbage and for demolition waste. The cost will be going from $42.50 to $52 per ton. The disposal cost for bagged trash will remain $1 for each standard size garbage bag. The Commission approved the increase by a vote of 19-4. Voting against the increase were: Robert Acuff, Randall Jenkins, Sonja Culler and Kelly Collins. The Landfill Committee approved the i...