Madisonville News

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation at the request of the district attorney's office on May 9, according to TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm.

Three businesses and individuals were cited with selling alcohol to a person under 21 years old following a multijurisdictional, countywide alcohol compliance check that took place May 9-24, according to a release from the Blount County Sheriff's Office.

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Decoration Day will be held at Cofer Cemetery in Meigs County, Sunday. The business meeting will begin at 1 p.m. --- A tent revival will be held on Highway 411 south of Madisonville beginning today at 7 p.m. nightly.

Given a chance Tuesday to plead for mercy, a Georgia militiaman convicted in a plot to take over a Monroe County courthouse instead railed against the "mainstream media" and accused law enforcers of setting him up for assassination.

Tired of the good ole boy politics in Monroe County, is the question that founders of East Tennessee Conservatives for Action, ETC-A are asking. So are we! ETC-A was founded because of the loss of citizens rights in the political system and the over all direction our County and Country are headed. ETC-A has a three premise Goal,1- Information: The sharing of information that is pertinent to the citizens of Monroe County, 2- Participation: Participating in local politics and getting other of like mind to do the same, 3- Registration: Registering as many conservatives as possible and the encourage like minded folks to seek office. The documents that ETC-A affirm are: God's holy Word The Bible, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights. Believing the latter two were derived from the first. East Tennessee Conservatives for action got it's name through the fact when they has their first public meeting there were citizens from the surrounding counties in attendants. There have been other similar groups started in Tennessee as well. ETC-A encourages it's duplication. Meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of every month. at Los Fuentes Mexican Rest. on Hwy 411 in Madisonville. Dinner from 6:00PM meeting starts at 700PM. EVERYONE IS INVITED.

A Georgia man who told others of a plan to take over a Tennessee courthouse in his quest to oust public officials has been sentenced to four years in prison for transporting firearms across state lines with intent to cause a civil disorder.

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On the wall of Allan Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams shop in Madisonville, Tennessee, is a photograph of a tumbledown Appalachian wood shack.

A judge's ruling on what penalty range to assess for a crime so outdated none exists proved a lose-lose for both sides in the case of a Georgia militiaman convicted of bringing guns across state lines in an alleged plot to take over a Monroe County courthouse that never happened.