Polk County News

Roy Joe Angel Construction has completed work on the Polk County Water Line Extension project.

Polk County's unemployment rate was 13.1% in December, up from 12.7% in November and 11.4% in December 2010.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation will begin replacing two bridges on Spring Place Road beginning Feb.

There's something special happening in Benton on Thursday evenings: Open Mic night at the Newspaper Book Shop/Polk County News office.

Questions were raised after a handful of residents checked a voter registration website to find they appeared to have been purged.

Questions were raised after a handful of residents checked a voter registration website to find they appeared to have been purged.

At the Jan. 19 meeting, commissioners were told that the Library Board would like to move the library from the lower level of the Courthouse to the building soon to be vacated by the Benton Family Health Care Center.

Local Breast Cancer Survivor Louise Hale of Ocoee and her brother Howard Miller have released their first book titled "13 Minutes To Live," t Penny and the children were all invited to New York to help write a book for other children to get through domestic violence.

The Taylor family of Springtown is taking one day at a time after a Christmas morning fire destroyed their home.

Video surveillance has been installed at the county's convenience centers to identify people leaving garbage outside the fence at the convenience centers or throwing it over the fence when the centers are closed.

Gerald and Kathi Barrett's first years of what they thought would be glorious retirement to quiet, beautiful Tennessee have become a fight with land developers who promised more than they could deliver.

This is the 1972 Nurse's Aide Class held at Fannin Co. Vocational High School. Most of these ladies worked at Copper Basin and surrounding areas.

Polk County 9-1-1 Board of Directors The Board of Directors of the Polk County 9-1-1 Emergency Communications District will meet at 3:00 p.m. on February 8 at the Polk County District Office on Highway 64, or such other location as may be posted, where and which time the Board will consider any matter that may be properly presented.

Penny Waldroup, victim of an October, 2006 attack by her estranged husband Brad Waldroup, will appear Monday January 16 on Dr.

The driver of a calcine truck that tipped over and was hit head-on by an empty truck is lucky to be alive, according to those working the wreck The collision happened around 6:45 a.m. Dec.

Lee University's Encore Program, which offers people age 60 and over the opportunity to take university courses, has a new line up of specially-designed mini-courses for the spring.

Echoes of a time long past, of trading with the Cherokees and mail carried by horseback and rail, live on in a tiny post office nestled in the steep, mountainous terrain of western Polk County.