Training for the Crackdown

According to the Tribune, the Morristown Police Department plans to turn up the heat on individuals who carry forged alien registration cards, driver’s licenses and Social Security cards. All uniformed and civilian MPD employees will undergo training next month to help them recognize bogus ID cards that are routinely presented by illegal aliens. Detectives will [...]

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Uranium Increase

Dear U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: WTF? While browsing the Greeneville Sun, this headline grabbed my eye – Nuclear Regulatory Commission Grants NFS Request To Increase Uranium At Its Facility In Erwin Surely, you don’t mean the same Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. which was exploring a possible sale back in August – and the same one [...]

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Weather Channel Documentary starring Parched Locals

The Sun reports that Weather Channel television crew will broadcast “live” from Greeneville on Monday morning, Dec. 17, during the airing of a program about drought problems across the Southeast. Bill Brown, director of the Greeneville-Greene County Office of Emergency Management, said the series called “H2NO” that focuses on the distribution of free drinking water [...]

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Keep Dreamin' of a White Christmas

Despite the fact that we had record-breaking high of 75 yesterday: Don Fenley may be onto something. The National Weather Service is indeed calling for snow this weekend – and last night, on the trip home from the Bristol Motor Speedway, we encountered salt spreaders on the road. As early as this morning, locals were [...]

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Keep Dreamin’ of a White Christmas

Despite the fact that we had record-breaking high of 75 yesterday: Don Fenley may be onto something. The National Weather Service is indeed calling for snow this weekend – and last night, on the trip home from the Bristol Motor Speedway, we encountered salt spreaders on the road. As early as this morning, locals were [...]

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Free Hay!

Last night, a Sullivan County woman contacted WCYB and offered free hay for anyone willing to cut it. If interested, contact 423-538-0834 and ask for Denise. She has a field that hasn`t been mowed yet and if you mow it – it’s yours.

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Ron Paul's Really Small Rally

Sun Photo by Tom Yancey According to Sun reports, about 25 supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul gathered at the Greene County Courthouse at noon this Saturday for a rally. During the rally, Mahmood “Michael” Sabri, of Johnson City, who ran for Congress as an independent in 2006, composed his own doctrine, and serves [...]

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Ron Paul’s Really Small Rally

Sun Photo by Tom Yancey According to Sun reports, about 25 supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul gathered at the Greene County Courthouse at noon this Saturday for a rally. During the rally, Mahmood “Michael” Sabri, of Johnson City, who ran for Congress as an independent in 2006, composed his own doctrine, and serves [...]

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Fear of Public Utilities Leads to Arrest

The Times-News reports a Surgoinsville man known by police for his fear of public utilities allegedly cut cable TV lines and electrical ground wires on four consecutive days last week, reportedly fearing that radiation was harming his family. On the fourth day deputies were called to investigate, and due to the location of the cut [...]

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Reticence Speaks Volumes

Ray Snader at Citizen Tribune reports: The judge (John Bell) who placed 16-year-old Jordan Kaleb Shelton in state custody told the late boy’s mother she should exercise her rights against the state to the fullest extent of the law. Kaleb Shelton had been removed from his mother’s home earlier this year due to truancy. The [...]

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