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Senior Center seeking Yard Sale donations The Morristown Senior Center is continuing to accept donations from the community for its Yard Sale to be held Saturday, June 10. Items can be dropped off at the Center from 9 a.m. to…

F With the arrival of summer, the efforts to honor the legacy of two boys from the Lakeway Area and promote awareness of Electric Shock Drowning continue. In July of 2012, Noah Dean Winstead, 10, and Nate Lynam, 11 died…

S The Daily Bread in Morristown announced that the Food Drive held on May 13 was a massive success. Larry Shropshire, Daily Bread executive director, said carriers collected 19,416 pounds of food – the most ever for the food drive.

Britain’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their way to the Paddock, when they saw Steve Donoghue win his first Oaks at Epsom, England, on June 4, 1937.

Sara Jarnigan has been named the 2023 National Dairy Month Chairman for Hamblen County. Jarnigan will be honored June 8 at the Tennessee June Dairy Month Kickoff Event at Ellington Agricultural Center in Nashville. The event includes recognition from Brian…

Williams graduates from Walters State with Applied Science degree in Surgical Technology Former Morristown West High School standout in Volleyball and Basketball Jasmine Monique Williams graduated from West in 2016. She was on the All-Conference team and MVP in 2016…

F U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger’s Medicare transparency bill, the Promoting Transparency and Healthy Competition in Medicare Act, advanced out of the Energy and Commerce Committee as a component of the PATIENT Act. The bipartisan legislation will require public reporting of…

F As the academic year comes to a close, 95 students from across Tennessee are preparing to join the Volunteer family in the fall as the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s second class of Distinguished Tennessean Scholars. UT launched the Distinguished…

F Rose Center announces a free event at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 9 to celebrate the new sound and lighting equipment upgrades in Prater Hall. The evening will showcase a variety of local talent, including Dolly Parton impersonator, Wendy…

Grave Houses: A Southern Tradition From the earliest times humans have chosen to commemorate and protect certain burials with pyramids, mounds, gifts and elaborate markers. Locally we can find nice fences surrounding the graves of families who perished in the…