ONE MORE BEAUTIFUL DAY
Thursday is going to be another beautiful day with temperatures in the low 70s under partly sunny skies, it will be a breezy day with wind from the south 10 to 20 miles an hour. I think Friday is goin ...
UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 24,133 active cases (down 199) in Tennessee out of 786,597 total cases (UP 1,355) •762,464 recovered ...
THREAT DEEMED “NON-CREDIBLE” AT HARRIMAN HIGH SCHOOL
At 1 p.m. eastern today (March 10, 2021), Harriman High School received a general threat via telephone. Out of an abundance of caution, the emergency operations plan was initiated. Students were moved ...
BILLY ASHBURN, JR., AGE 81
Funeral services for Billy Ashburn, Jr., age 81, of Crossville, will be held Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1 p.m. central at Bilbrey Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Tolletts Chapel Cemetery. Visitatio ...
NUMEROUS PROJECTS ENHANCE DOLLYWOOD GUEST EXPERIENCE FOR 2021 AND BEYOND
While no one could have predicted how Dollywood’s 35th anniversary season would begin in 2020, a strong finish to the year—coupled with extremely positive guest reviews of the overall park experience— ...
FIREFIGHTERS CONTINUE TO BATTLE 1,200 ACRE BLAZE IN FENTRESS COUNTY
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture said that 10 percent of the 1,200 acre fire has been contained in Fentress County as of noon today (March 10, 2021). It is in a rugged area a few miles southwes ...
FOSTER STEPS DOWN AS JETS BOYS BASKETBALL HEAD COACH
There will be a new head boys basketball coach soon at Cumberland County High School. Officials there say Will Foster, who led the Jets team for 12 seasons and was with the program for 15, has stepped ...
MAHANEY CHARGED AFTER POLICE PURSUIT ON GENESIS ROAD
A Cumberland County deputy attempted to stop a motorist on Genesis Road late last night for not having working brake lights. The arrest report states the driver, 37-year-old Melanie Ann Mahaney of Cro ...
RASH OF CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS CONTINUE
The rash of catalytic converter thefts continue in Cumberland County. Deputies responded to Aviagen on Tennessee Outdoors Drive Monday where two of them were cut off work trucks on site. No suspects w ...
FAMILIAR SEX OFFENDER TO AUTHORITIES ARRESTED AGAIN NEAR PEAVINE ROAD AND I-40
A sex offender very familiar to law enforcement in Crossville was arrested again last night. Police stopped a motorist on the east bound on ramp of I-40 at Peavine Road in a Toyota pickup for having a ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY FARM BUREAU WOMEN ANNOUNCE “GIVE BACK PROGRAM”
As part of the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation’s 100 Years celebration, the Cumberland County Farm Bureau Women has announced they will be participating in the “Farm Bureau Gives Back” program. This ...
PEDESTRIAN HIT BY VEHICLE ON HIGHWAY 68 NEAR ALLOWAY
Troopers and medics responded to a vehicle versus a pedestrian accident Monday on Highway 68 just north of the Alloway community in Cumberland County. The report released this morning states a 2004 Po ...
