Niota News

Fireworks sales are still sizzling despite the weakened economy, says Mike Pollock, a volunteer selling fireworks for Calvary Tabernacle of God.

City commissioners reversed course on one budget item during a recent meeting by deciding to retain the services of a regional planner.

McMinn County High School senior Betsy Crabtree's jaw dropped and a look of joy filled her face when she was announced as the newest McMinn County Junior Miss Saturday night.

It's one thing to get a book. But, for Carson Daugherty of Niota, it was an experience worth writing about.

Photo by Rebecca Scunziano Music teachers in McMinn County and Athens City school systems pick up their grant checks from the Arts Center.

A former McMinn County Corrections officer has found himself on the other side of the law after being indicted on charges he had sexual contact with an inmate being held at the Justice Center.

It's time for McMinn County's academic stars to shine again. The county school system is holding the 21st annual Academic Olympics with students in grades three through eight in all seven elementary schools testing their academic skills Thursday, May 14.

Photo by Anthony Dake - Kim Goforth, a volunteer dressed as Minnie Mouse, receives a hug from one of the children at Riceville School following a promotional event on Wednesday about the upcoming Kids Art Camp sponsored by the Athens Area Council for the Arts.

What began as a call about a domestic fight ended up with McMinn County Sheriff's deputies discovering 44 potted marijuana plants along with a large assortment of planting materials and drug paraphernalia.

McMinn and Meigs counties both stand to benefit from federal stimulus projects once state lawmakers give their approval.

An anonymous phone call led to two arrests on methamphteamine charges at an Athens motel.

A new academy is being constructed in the McMinn County School System for high school freshmen - but not in the traditional brick-and-mortar sense.

Submitted by Renee LaSalle on March 30, 2009 - 5:18pm. Crime McMinn County News Authorities are still looking for nearly 170-thousand dollars in shanghaied Jack Daniel's Whiskey after a stolen semi-truck turns up in McMinn County.

Photo by Anthony Dake The Niota Depot was added to the growing list of locations on the Civil War Trial route on Wednesday.

The Niota train depot is the first site in Southeast Tennessee to receive a Civil War trail marker, Mayor Martha Walden said.

Sheriff's deputies have recovered a truck stolen from a Nashville shipping company, but didn't find the $60,000 worth of whiskey that was also missing.

A stolen semi-truck was recovered Monday in Niota, but the trailer filled with more $60,000 worth of whiskey that was stolen along with it is nowhere to be found.

When the McMinn County plant where she'd worked for more than 20 years closed its doors, Connie McAllister wasn't sure at first what she would do.

A Philadelphia man is being held on $11,000 bond on charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment after he allegedly shot a bicyclist with a pellet gun, authorities say.

Built in the mid-1850s, the Niota Depot is thought to be the oldest standing railroad depot in Tennessee.