07/11/11 It seemed like a very promising development last month when Washington County commissioners were talking about buying a commercial building between Johnson City and Jonesborough to become the new home for the Johnson City/Washington County Animal Shelter.
07/02/11 For Connecticut native Ashleigh Fairclough, being at Freedom Hall Saturday for the 26th Annual Pepsi Independence Day Celebration presented by Hometown IGA was the perfect place to be in order to ring in another Fourth of July weekend.
06/27/11 The fourth Lyndon Rains Memorial Golf Tournament to benefit the Rains Foundation will be played July 16, at Deer Creek Golf Course.
06/27/11 The Cumberland County Mountaineer Junior Football and Cheerleading league and the Cumberland County High School Jet Football and Cheerleading program are teaming up to host a football and cheerleading camp for Pre-K through eighth grade July 18-22.
06/24/11 Residents are being asked to use the Jonesborough office for county business while the Washington County, Tennessee clerk's office moves from downtown Johnson City.
06/23/11 Rain and lightening delays couldn't stop Ed and Brad Stevens from dominating the 32nd Annual Father-Son Championship played June 19-20 at Stonehenge Golf Course in Crossville, TN.
06/19/11 Appalachian GhostWalks East Tennessee Ghost Tours introduces the new, year-round "Haunted Historic Gatlinburg GhostWalk" and the new, year-round "Legendary Cherokee Bigfoot Adventure Tour" hosted at Bays Mountain Park and Planetarium.
06/18/11 Officials in Washington County are trying to decide the best way to deal with the growing number of abandoned homes.
06/17/11 After a brilliant week at the Tennessee Women's Amateur, Kendall Martindale needed just a solid round of golf to easily capture the championship.
06/17/11 Elizabethton Mayor Curt Alexander pleaded guilty Thursday to paying a prostitute for sex at a Johnson City motel last month. Alexander appeared in Washington County Sessions Court in Jonesborough before Judge James Nidiffer and pleaded guilty under judicial diversion to patronizing prostitution.
06/16/11 It might seem hard to believe, but at 18 years old Kendall Martindale is considered a veteran when it comes to the Tennessee Women's Amateur Championship.
06/16/11 Festivals/Funn Neighborhood appreciation spaghetti supper - 4-7 p.m. Friday, June 24, Free and Accepted Masons, S. Knoxville Lodge 769, 321 Higgins Ave. Free. Info: Ken Godfrey, 865-604-8477.
06/07/11 Mother Nature greeted racers and fans alike with near perfect racing conditions as Wythe Raceway continued its 42nd season of racing.
05/20/11 A seven-year drug investigation recently netted a Sullivan Central High School teacher along with 22 other suspects from Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and Michigan.
05/20/11 The Tennessee legislature late Friday ended 33 years of collective bargaining by teachers.
05/19/11 Federal and local law enforcement called it operation "Street Sweeper" when--a little more than an hour ago--they revealed the results of an almost decade long investigation.
05/19/11 State House members voted Thursday to heavily restrict collective bargaining for teachers following more than four hours of sometimes contentious debate.
05/19/11 Disaster Recovery Centers in East Tennessee counties will change their hours of operations starting on May 22.
05/14/11 Two weeks before the latest tornado outbreak, we were telling you about an EF-1 tornado that touched down just out side Jonesborough. A part of that storm delivered straight-line winds to Johnson City, especially the VA Medical Center. Watch Video
04/28/11 People in Washington County, Tennessee's Liberty Community are starting to pick up the destruction left by storms that passed through the area Wednesday night into Monday morning. | 
