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B Morristown-Hamblen EMS Department invited several local first responders to its facility to provide them with several mental health resources. Danny Houseright, director of Morristown-Hamblen EMS, highlighted the importance of mental health awareness for first responders. “There’s a pandemic going…

F A Greeneville grocery store was among several in the region to receive a bomb threat over the last few weeks. The Greeneville Food City was evacuated Sunday afternoon after a bomb threat was called into the store. According to…

B The city of Morristown’s total budget for fiscal year 2024 of $68.9 million will not include an increase in the property tax rate. During his presentation on May 12, City Administrator Tony Cox explained the revenue plan for the…

F Average gasoline prices in Tennessee have risen 4.8 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.14/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,821 stations in Tennessee. Prices in Tennessee are 22.9 cents per gallon lower than a month…

F Morristown Utilities has earned the American Public Power Association’s Safety Award of Excellence for safe operating practices in 2022. The utility earned the second place award in the category for utilities with 156,000 worker-hours of annual worker exposure. “Safety…

A Over 2,000 WAAC’s take part in a mass calisthenics exercise in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., May 15, 1943. The recruits are instructed by trained physical education teachers in exercises designed to make them physically fit.

Midnight Elevation 991.63 Work on Douglas Dam began in February 1942 and was completed on a crash schedule in just 12 months and 17 days—a world record for projects of equivalent size. It is a hydroelectric facility with four generating…

Midnight Elevation: 1061.58 Cherokee was built to generate hydroelectric power during the World War II emergency, but it also plays an important role as one of the chains of TVA-managed reservoirs that have prevented billions of dollars in flood damage…

High 83 Lo 60 Day: Mostly cloudy and humid; thunderstorms this afternoon Probability of Precipitation 70% Probability of Thunderstorms 42% Night: Cloudy overnight

B Grab your family and friends and get ready to have a berry good time this coming Saturday at the 17th annual Morristown Strawberry Festival. The Strawberry Festival is free to the community and is one of the biggest spring…