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I got a bit of good news today. Ms. Diva’s former Dance instructor, April Albright, is opening a dance studio downtown!
The studio, You Should Be Dancing, is located at 215 East Main Street in Rogersville (beside East Tennessee Pest Control and across from Citizens Bank of East Tennessee.)
You Should Be Dancing will be holding [...]

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On Friday, December 14, the Hawkins County Yarnspinners will gather at the Local Artists Gallery, on the corner of Main and Church Streets at 7:00PM. Listeners and performers are welcome!

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Low lake levels caused boating sales and service to go into sharp decline during the dry, hot summer months.
From STAN JOHNSON @ Citizen Tribune:
The low levels of area lakes due to extended drought has taken a serious toll on boat businesses.

Ed Teague, sales and service manager at Linda’s Lakeside Marine on Highway 25E in Bean [...]

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Basketball try-outs for the Rogersville City Park and Rec league will be held tomorrow (Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007) beginning at 9:30AM. These try-outs will be held in the old gym at Rogersville City School.
All new players are required to attend.
What this means for parents: the children will wrestle the ball around [...]

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Rogersville’s Trunk or Treat turned out to be an unexpectedly large shindig. According to Ms. Kandy at the Mountain Star Mall, the Chamber of Commerce estimates a whopping 1600 children participated in the event. And this number doesn’t include the masses of costumed adults and teens.
Mr. Smartypants and Ms. [...]

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This weekend is Heritage Days, Rogersville’s weekend long celebration of history and culture. What this means for me is – company’s coming.
Each year during the festival, a host of family and friends who’ve long since flown the Hawkins County coop, will return to roost, reunite, and temporarily fill my space with laughter, voices, jokes, [...]

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The date for Heritage Days festival has been set. The entertainment schedule released and events & exhibits planned. (Check pages for links to featured entertainers/performers.) I was thrilled to learn the festival will be held during a weekend when I am scheduled to be home.
You know I hate to miss anything featuring food [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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