Cumberland Gap News

Twenty-first century travelers expect to get to places quickly, but sometimes Mother Nature gives us a reason to slow down.

The Cumberland Gap Board of Mayor and Alderman met briefly on Monday night to discuss monthly financial and community matters.

Rodney Atkins' song A'If YouA*re Going Through Hell A' became the No. 1 Billboard country song of the year in 2006.

West Tennessee's 185-mile stretch of the Great River Road has been added to the federal government's America's Byways program, raising hopes for more tourism dollars in communities along the route from Memphis to the Kentucky border.

In East Tennessee it's beginning to feel more like Spring than Fall. Rain, Rain, go away is becoming a battle cry at work, at school and on Facebook.

A recent chemical spill at Smithfield's Middlesboro plant that polluted the city and wiped out all of the canal's fish prompted several citizens to speak up at Tuesday's council meeting.

Farragut High School running back De'Andre Purty promised his offensive linemen a nice selection of new socks if he won PrepXtra offensive player of the week this season.

Officials say the spill happened this weekend after some work at Cumberland Gap Provision in Middlesboro.

Melungeon is a term applied to many people of the Southeastern United States, mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia: East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and East Kentucky.

On Monday evening, the Board of Mayor and Alderman assembled in regular session at the Cumberland Gap Town Hall.

Though country singer Rodney Atkins didn't get his first guitar until one Christmas in high school, he took to the instrument instantly and was soon playing anywhere he could around his Cumberland Gap, TN, home.

On Monday evening, the Board of Mayor and Alderman assembled in regular session at the Cumberland Gap Town Hall.

On Monday evening, the Board of Mayor and Alderman assembled in regular session at the Cumberland Gap Town Hall.

A home invasion that happened last Thursday night in Cumberland Gap has been solved, according to a press release from the Claiborne County Sheriff's Department.

A Cumberland Gap man was arrested Thursday night for a home invasion that left another man beaten and stabbed, according to the Claiborne County Sheriff's Department.

The Claiborne County Sheriff's Office has announced an arrest in connection with a violent home invasion on Tipprel Road Thursday night.

Rodney Atkins may be a man of few words, but this quiet country singer is quickly amassing a body of hits that speaks loudly to his place as one of Nashville's emerging power players.

The songs of battle filled the air on July 18 at Fort Donaldson National Battle Field once again.

I am looking for the descendants of John R. Graham b.12Dec1872KY and d.9Jan1943GafneySC and Mildred Burskie Laura Harvey Graham b.Jul1877VA and d. 2Jul1954GafneySC of Gafney via their daughter Mildred Winifred L. GRAHAM b.25Apr Cumberland Gap TN who is listed in her Father's Funeral Home records as Mrs W E 'Willie' Marshall.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park isn't the only park celebrating a milestone this year.