Mountain City News

Wednesday, July 8th will mark the second year for The Tomahawk's award-winning tribute to our military.

Michael Jackson has died at age 50 after being rushed to UCLA Medical Center, NBC News has confirmed.

In my quest to find historical information about Tennessee, Johnson County or Mountain City, I often am surprised by the generosity of the folks I encounter as I search.

In a surprise announcement at the monthly commissioners meeting, Mayor Dick Grayson has decided not to run for another four-year term of office as the mayor of Johnson County, Tennessee.

Jerry Cravens, a retired General Motors employee, has been reconditioning old bikes for an East Tennessee ministry in Elizabethton and Mountain City for four years.

The Johnson County Chamber of Commerce celebrated the 27th annual dinner and awards ceremony last Friday at the Talons Restaurant on RedTail Golf Course.

A few days ago I was pleased to be able to arrange a meeting between two men who had never met but who discovered they had something in common genealogically.

Kody Norris and Tom Isaacs have been playing bluegrass together since the late 1990s.

A large crowd had gathered in the courtroom and spilled into the hallway at the Johnson County Courthouse on Friday, May 22, 2009.

Acting upon a tip, agents with the First Judicial Drug Task Force, United States Forestry Service, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms division and the Johnson County Sheriff's Department executed a search warrant on a local residence, which led to the discovery of approximately 800 marijuana plants growing on Fall Branch Road.

A Friday afternoon accident in the Wal-mart parking lot left a pedestrian with minor injuries, but ones severe enough to be taken to the hospital by ambulance to be checked out.

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Proving it has more legislative fish to fry than guns in bars, guns in restaurants, guns in parks, guns in supermarkets and guns at dog dippings, store openings, flea markets, bar mitzvahs, watermelon cuttings and barn raisings, the Tennessee General Assembly will take up another important issue Tuesday.

Texas native Ken Wiley was still a teenager when he joined the Coast Guard and was shipped off to the Marshall Islands during World War II, where he drove landing vehicles full of troops onto beaches strewn with enemy combatants.

There is a sense of excitement in the halls of the schools in Johnson County. The end of the school year is quickly approaching.

In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't live during certain periods of time and certain places.

Authorities said a woman wasn't wearing any clothes when she knocked on stranger's door in the middle of the night to ask for cigarettes.

While preparing for this year's graduation tab, I have find myself looking back at my own graduation some 20 years ago from Johnson County High School amazed at how much my perspective has changed in two short decades.

On this beautiful spring weekend, the local garden shops and nurseries in Johnson County were hopping with customers coming in and purchasing flowers, bedding and seeds for both their flower and vegetable gardens.

I am often amazed at how far this column reaches. I get notes, letters, e-mails, and phone calls from folks who live in cities and towns far removed from Johnson County and Mountain City.