There’s a thin line between normal and insane. I think I’m standing on it… which would explain the big blob of crazy on my shoe.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2007
Don Fenley reports that the Sullivan County Ethics Committee is hard at work drafting detailed policy on what types of gifts leaders can and cannot accept.
The County’s current ethics code prohibits officials and employees from accepting gifts that a “reasonable person would understand was intended to influence the vote, official action, or judgment of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2007
You know you’ve been married too long when your fantasy is to have your husband naked 24 hours a day/7 days a week… only because this would reduce the amount of laundry he generates.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2007
Let’s say, hypothetically, a person skipped their 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 spring-cleaning frenzy – but in early Fall of 2008, this person was bitten by the cleaning bug. By the laws governing domestic crap, could this one big `bout of cleaning, which includes windows and corners, count for all five years?
If so, then this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2007
According to the Kingsport Times-News:
The Elizabethton Police Department is searching for a large man who robbed Elizabethton’s Security Federal Bank at 510 Charlie Robinson Drive, on Monday. The man was able to escape with an undetermined amount of money.
The suspect was described by bank tellers as being in his late 40s, about 5 feet, [...]
Posted in Local Characters on Aug 29th, 2007
The Bonnie Blue Farms will not be open to the public this Fall. Myers Pumpkin Patch, however, will remain in business (Sept. 1 – Oct 31st) despite dire predictions that the recent drought will adversely affect pumpkins crops and result in severe shortage of jack-o-lantern supplies and Thanksgiving pies.
Posted in Blog on Aug 29th, 2007
I am not trying to be sarcastic, but Norfolk Southern trains have derailed twice within a two day period, one of those derailments resulting in a toxic spill similar to the one last month in Kentucky. These derailments and spills can become rather costly – and at this point, one might suspect the [...]
Posted in Hawkins County on Aug 28th, 2007
Last Summer, Jim Beller of the Rogersville Review reported on radioactive contamination in the Carter’s Valley landfill. No, not the kind of contamination caused by leftover portions of Uncle Bob’s Mean Bean Hellfire Chili (although the substance can eat through melamine plates and damage tooth enamel.)
Back in May, officials from the Tennessee [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2007
An amazing tale inspired by the true story of captive dolphins swept out to sea by Hurricane Katrina has earned a 10-year-old Kingsport, TN author national acclaim.
McKenna Andrews used real events as inspiration for her first book, “Riding The Storm Out.”
The story follows a young dolphin, Noah, as Katrina washes him from his tank to [...]
Posted in Hawkins County on Aug 22nd, 2007
Carters Valley VFD says: more money by September 1 or they’re pulling out of the Phipps Bend substation.
The Carters Valley Volunteer Fire Department took over the substation in Phipps Bend Industrial Park approximately six years ago. The department received no additional funding for management of the substation.
If the Department gives up management of [...]
Posted in Hawkins County on Aug 22nd, 2007
According to Rogersville Police Chief Doug Nelson, early Tuesday morning, a white male burglarized the U-Save Drug Store in the Food City shopping center on 66 by smashing the glass front door.
Video surveillance shows him walking straight to the narcotics section and depositing a large amount of OxyContin and hydrocodone into a sack before leaving [...]
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