DeMarCaTionVille

The debate of the United State House of Representative’s candidates for the 1st Tennessee Congressional District is available online for public download and distribution at “the detour.” The detour, a non-commercial/non-profit community radio service focused primarily on the Appalachia region, was the only radio station present, “working for the community while the corporate stations merely [...]

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According to the Greeneville Sun, the American Greetings Corporation announced this afternoon that it may close its plant in Greeneville.
The Cleveland, Ohio-based manufacturer of gift wrap and greeting cards said it will conduct a study to determine whether the manufacturing and distribution plants in Greeneville and those in Kalamazoo, Mich. can be consolidated, [...]

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The historic Capitol Theatre in Greeneville faces an uncertain future.
The USDA, which loaned the Little Theatre of Greeneville $500,000 in 2002 to complete a major renovation of The Capitol, has notified the organization that it is foreclosing on the loan.
A public notice advertisement scheduled to be published in the Thursday, June 5, issue of The [...]

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Earlier this month when pizza delivery guy James William Spiers III, 38, of Des Moines, fired multiple shots at an alleged robber who is accused of putting a gun to Spiers’ head, the incident made big news.
The news wasn’t that Spiers’ was nearly robbed. We’re accustomed to pizza delivery guys getting robbed. Eh, [...]

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