Blountville News

Sullivan County Commissioner Dwight King, of Piney Flats, told the other commissioners that the service is costing the county's Highway Department $200,000 a year, and the county attorney has expressed concerns about the legality of the service.

The Sullivan County Executive Committee was supposed to hold a work session Monday to look at potential cuts to a proposed 2012/13 budget that is nearly $10 million out of balance.

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. An inmate at the Sullivan County Jail was in critical condition at a local hospital after authorities found him injured in his cell.

Chances are in the next few weeks you'll be heading out on a summer vacation and an extra set of eyes watching over your home, can be a great sense of comfort.

Kacie Hauldren TTC Director Dean Blevins made the announcement welcoming Hauldren to the faculty.Hauldren received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from East Tennessee State University and Master of Science in Nursing degree from King College in Bristol.

Republican District 3 state representative candidate Timothy Hill of Blountville has been endorsed by State Rep.

The call came in to the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department around 10am Thursday that a meth lab was suspected to be operating out of a home on Florence Drive in Blountville.

A Florence Drive home is under quarantine after authorities found thousands of hypodermic needles and meth-making materials in a dump outside it.

I have spent only a few days here and there and only one night in my personal treks on the Appalachian Trail.

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BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys will be meeting with Sullivan County Sheriff's Office officials this week.

Eddie Bass of Prospect refused to say until the end whether he would try to pull the measure backed by the National Rifle Association directly to the floor.In the waning moments of the session he took to the microphone and began making the motion, but then joked that he was reading the wrong paper.

Muskingum won the opener 3-2, but lost 9-6 to Ohio Northern in the nightcap Sunday as the Muskies... Every chance he gets, John Kasich lets it be known he does not care whose ox is gored by his... Parker Roahrig has been racing as long as he can remember.

Parker Roahrig has been racing as long as he can remember. The 8-year-old Nashport racer recently won a plaque and a medal at one of the AMA ATV MX National Championship races in Blountville, Tenn.

"I ordered all the cars that officers take home to be parked in Blountville or Kingsport at least until July 1 of this year," said Wayne Anderson, Sullivan County Sheriff.

Members of the Blountville Elementary School Student Leadership Team lead a cheer during a school-wide pep rally on Friday to get students ready for the TCAP tests that start today.

Allison Rebecca Brown and Joshua Dean Lancaster were married at five o'clock in the evening on April 14, 2012, at the Allandale Mansion in Kingsport, Tennessee.