Lenoir City News

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.

A Lenoir City man who has been incarcerated since late June in a shooting incident that left one man dead and another in critical condition has been formally indicted on first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.

Two individuals were arrested Monday in connection with a home invasion on Riverchase Drive in Lenoir City.

For the first two days of the Tennessee Mid-Amateur golf tournament, Jeff Golliher of Knoxville had been inconspicuously lurking just off the lead.

The Lenoir City Police Department is pulling out of the Loudon County Metro Narcotics Unit.

With a toothpick and a steady hand, Jeani Sharpe begins to unwind. "It takes about 3 hours just to decorate the top of the cakes." But Sharpe doesn't mind.

The state's lemon law protects consumers who buy new vehicles, but not other mechanical products like lawnmowers.

Principal Steve Millsaps of Lenoir City High School has been named East Tennessee Principal of the Year by the Education Networks of America .

An escaped prisoner from Georgia made a stop in McMinn County last week before being caught Wednesday in Lenoir City by U.S. Marshals.

The last few days has been productive for the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office with the arrest of three parties featured on the "12 Most Wanted". Johnny Hayes was located in Lenoir City, Tennessee, Carrie Walraven in Dalton, Georgia and Jarian Nelson was arrested locally.