DeMarCaTionVille

I’m not a regular television viewer.  (This isn’t one of those highbrow I’m-too-good-for-teevee things. It has more to do with the fact that, when we watch prime time, the kids tend to notice movie promos or news teasers, both of which lead to uncomfortable questions, such as “what is a sexually-intense thriller?” and “why [...]

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Hank Hayes covered the Rogersville/Hawkins County Chamber of Commerce legislative breakfast Saturday morning, where  Phil Roe discussed the stimulus bill.
“We got it at 9 o’clock yesterday morning and voted at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon,” Roe said of the bill. “No one has read this bill. I can promise you not one senator, not one representative [...]

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TRW Automotive in Rogersville is in the process of calling back hourly employees, who were temporarily laid-off early last year,  for the purpose of a plant-wide permanent layoff of approximately 40-50 workers,  which will begin next week.  The local factory will eliminate it’s third shift, and remaining workers will be shifted to the floor to [...]

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The Smartypants Version

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A group of approximately six parents, with a few occasional drop-ins, picketed outside Hawkins Elementary School to protest the fact that 4th grade science teacher, Veleka Setsor, is still in the classroom.   (More photos here)

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UPDATE BELOW
A persistent little reporter from WJHL created quite a stir in Hawkins County this afternoon when she spent some time bouncing around the Hawkins Elementary School car-rider’s pick-up line asking parents what they thought about last Tuesday’s (2/3) arrest of the 4th grade Science/Social Studies teacher.
Most of them knew nothing about it.

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I normally don’t keep up with the Tennessee Democratic Party.  It’s not that I have anything against Democrats.  It’s just that I live in East Tennessee.  This means, even if I wanted to embrace my Democraticyishness, it’d be pointless to do so.  For the record, I don’t want to embrace my Democraticyishness… any more than [...]

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Big D, a stringer for Grainger Today and a right fine fellow, attended the Rogersville BMA meeting last night.
He comments:

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* Hawkins County schools will be closed again tomorrow  (Thursday 2/5/09.)   Head here to keep track of other local closings, cancellations and delays.
* Traffic in town is slow.  The main roads are clear, but the sidewalks are slippery – at least I assume they are since I saw a fella in a suit [...]

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Kingsport Times News reports that a Hawkins County volunteer firefighter’s home was destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon, leaving him, his girlfriend and their 3-year-old son homeless.
Johnny Maddox, member of the Striggersville Volunteer Fire Department and Hawkins Couty HAZ-MAT team, arrived at his mobile home shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday to find smoke pouring from the [...]

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