Jamestown News

The Tennessee Historical Commission has announced 21 recipients of its 2009 Certificate of Merit Awards. The awards program, begun by the Commission in 1975, recognizes individuals or groups throughout the state that have worked to conserve or highlight Tennessee’s cultural heritage during the past year.

For the first time, in a hushed courtroom bursting with heart-sick grief, the father of a young daughter and granddaughter gunned down unmercifully in a church parking lot faced the man who moments earlier admitted to their killings.

The Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation is planning a York Summer Ball benefit to help in the restoration of the historic York Institute in Jamestown.

Gov. Phil Bredesen signed legislation Friday that opens public parks to handguns, even though a deal to exempt local parks broke down.

In past years hunters in Unit B were limited to one deer during muzzleloader season and either-sex hunting was allowed during the first five days of the first season only. This coming season hunters will be allowed to kill three bucks in muzzleloader season and six counties - Knox, Hawkins, Sullivan, Polk, Fentress, Morgan and Pickett - will be open to either-sex hunting all 14 days with the limit one doe and three bucks.

Tennessee doesn't just have terrific state parks but is the home to National Parks too.

The Upper Cumberland Arts Alliance is offering a course of "One Stroke Painting" with Donna Dewberry of Rugby on Friday and Saturday, June 12-13, at First Baptist Church, 306 E. Central Ave., Jamestown.

The number of suspected and confirmed tornadoes in East Tennessee from Friday's storms is now up to seven.

Revisit the past Saturday and May 17 at Historic Rugby's Festival of British and Appalachian Culture.

Officials say they won't know the total damages left behind by Friday night's apparent tornado in Scott County until next week.

Tennessee will have six recognized American Indian tribes if legislation approved by a House subcommittee Wednesday becomes law.

During severe storms Friday evening, two homes were destroyed in the Fairview area of Scott County.

Storms moved across much of Tennessee on Friday, toppling trees and causing a possible tornado in Fentress County.

A motorist who performed a U-turn in front of a Crossville Police Officer to enter a service station parking lot ended up traveling to jail, along with his two passengers.

I often feel anxious in April: there is so much to do in the yard, and at the same time there are so many opportunities to go on wildflower walks and attend nature programs.

A long-standing and historically significant school building in Jamestown has found a new place on the National Register of Historic Places.

Margaret Claire Messenger, 86, formerly of 1048 N. Main St., Jamestown died at 12:45 p.m. Thursday in the Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation Center.

A lot has changed at the site of the old York Institute school building over the past several weeks.

Two arrests have been made in the case of a Fentress County church attacked by vandals, according to the Fentress County Sheriff's Department.

The foundation, which carries on the work of famed World War I hero Alvin C. York , is raising funds to renovate the York Institute School in Jamestown, Tenn.