Affidavits being accepted for Road Commissioner in the 6th district.
Please pick up necessary papers at Union County Clerk's Office.
Affidavits being accepted for County Commissioner in the 2nd district.
Please pick up necessary papers at Union County Clerk's Office.
I was just thinking about Irene today and wanted to include this audience in reading what I wrote about Irene back in 2008.
Irene Tolliver Hamilton celebrated her 90th birthday at a grand party given by her daughter, Betty Hamilton Bullen, on Sunday afternoon, October 26, 2008, at the Optimists Building in Maynardville.
A partnership between Union County government and the Union County Chamber of Commerce has reaped rewards this summer. In April, Union County Mayor Mike Williams' office and the Chamber applied for an asset enhancement grant from the Tennessee Department of Economic Development, a grant program aimed at helping counties identified as "distressed" by high unemployment rates, low per capita incomes and other factors.
Howdy! I will be offering some of my favorite recipes for awhile. I am Shirley McMurtrie and I have been in Tennessee about 30 years. East Tennessee is just about the best place to live. The climate is great, the country music is great and, best of all, the people are great. This is home.
It was the year 2000 when Chantay Collins first held Summer Reading at Maynardville Public Library. The program, aimed and keeping kids reading during the summer months, started with just 20 kids. This year, participants will top 300, and those kids have clocked more than 10,000 hours of reading so far.
“It’s just snowballed,” said Collins, who is the director of Maynardville Public Library. “We went from having it in the library to next door in the Senior Center because we have so many kids.”
Research can just be trying for years, but oh, the JOY when you finally find the answer. I don’t know how often folk trip into downtown Knoxville, but I find it increasingly difficult to find convenient parking. I think the convenient parking in downtown Knoxville is terribly expensive.
Does he need one of my kidneys? That was my first response when I heard that Aaron, a man I had only met a couple of times, was in kidney failure and was on the transplant list. Can God put something on your heart that quick?
Five years ago, Preservation Union County set out to restore historic Oak Grove School in Sharps Chapel. And now that labor of love is nearing completion as Preservation Union County board member Betty Bullen hopes to hold an open house at the completed building before the end of summer 2017.
The Luttrell community was shocked to learn that on Saturday morning, April 16, 1904, Lyde Hubbs and his son, Parlin Hubbs, were killed in a tragic collision of the hack, in which they were riding, and passenger train, No. 6. The train tracks were owned by a company called KCG & LRR, and train No. 6 was due to arrive in Knoxville at 9:10 am. Just as the hack reached the tracks the train slammed into the team of horses and both horses were killed instantly having been carried a considerable distance down the tracks.
Weight loss is a subject that seems to be in center headlines recently. The reason for this, is so many disease processes lead back to the foods and drinks that we consume daily.
True…we are genetically predisposed to certain illnesses, but overall what we consume and environmental factors play a huge role in our health.