Lenoir City News

From Staff Reports Originally published: November 19. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 18.

From Staff Reports Originally published: November 20. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 19.

Schematic plans for a new City Hall in Lenoir City have been completed by the architectural and design firm McCarty Holsaple McCarty with input from the various city departments intended to take up residence in the building.

A key group in bringing tourism to East Tennessee faced the possibility of closing its doors.

Could a rate increase be on the horizon for Lenoir City Utilities Board customers? That was the question at LCUB's monthly board meeting, Monday, Oct.

Charlie Price cleans a Parker double-barrel hammer G grade shotgun at his home Tuesday in Kingston.

A last-minute cash infusion provided by Lenoir City will assure that the Loudon County Visitors Bureau stays open another year.

A Farragut home went up in flames Tuesday night, forcing firefighters to call for backup.

Veronica Ross, 11, spins yarn on a drop spindle at her home Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 in Lenoir City.

My father lives in what once was a pine thicket 30 years ago. When he built his house, he thinned 1/2 the pines out leaving the hardwood trees.

The dictionary defines "knapping" as the process of using quick, hard blows to shape primitive tools out of flint and other stones.

Nineteen Danish students arrived in Washington D.C. on Oct. 5. Less than a week later they were welcomed by an equal number of students from Lenoir City High School along with community members.

The first frosts of this fall and the end of two years of drought have created a potentially deadly combination for cattle in East Tennessee.

With H1N1 still making headlines because of vaccine shortages and the usual scramble to get a shot to ward off seasonal flu, the topic of flu in general is on everyone's mind these days.

Clean energy from the sun is being harvested on a rooftop in downtown Lenoir City, out of view from the pedestrians walking the sidewalk below.

When Katy Miller started working at the Lenoir City Post Office in 1978, a first-class stamp cost $13 cents, female postal clerks were uncommon locally, and electronic automation and computerization were still to come for the agency.

Many people walk or run to help fight breast cancer. Kim Green, a Lenoir City artist, paints.

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- A security firm has won a major contract to protect U.S. bases in Iraq.

In a special-called meeting Friday, Oct. 23, Lenoir City Utilities Board appointed LCUB attorney and assistant general manager Shannon Littleton as interim general manager, effective immediately.

A single car crash in Loudon County this afternoon killed one person and injured two others, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.