By Wade Littleton Tribune Staff Writer Hamblen County’s final school with the “Open-Concept” style has closed its building for modernization. Wednesday, faculty, members of the Hamblen County Board of Education, Superintendent of Schools Arnold Bunch, Jr., along with County Mayor Chris Cutshaw and many others gathered at John Hay Elementary School to turn dirt on…
By Drew C. Robinson Tribune Staff Writer Strong weather on Saturday dampened turnout at the Eighth of August Jubilee Celebration at Fulton-Hill Park, but the Tams played on and those who stayed or came back after the storm had a good time. The Morristown Task Force on Diversity organized the event. The Eighth of August…
By Lane Moore Before you ever see the boats, you hear the lake. Water gently taps against the dock. Fish ripple the surface as a little girl scatters handfuls of food into Cherokee Lake. Baby turtles drift quietly through the shallows. Beyond them, the Smoky Mountains rise in every direction, and the historic German Creek…
From Contributed Reports A Hamblen County sixth-grade homeschooler has read more than 33,000 reading minutes this summer to receive the top award in a statewide…