HUNDREDS OF JOBS FORTHCOMING IN ROANE COUNTY? COQUÍ SAYS YES
Roane County could see in excess of 200 jobs in the near future. Coquí Radiopharmaceuticals Corporation has announced its intention to invest $500 million at a new medical isotope production facility ...
BRAD PAISLEY BREAKS GROUND ON FREE GROCERY STORE IN NASHVILLE
Brad Paisley hopped into the cab of a backhoe Wednesday, to dig up the first pile of dirt in what will be a free grocery store designed to support needy Nashville families. The Store, a partnership ...
MAY UNANIMOUSLY VOTED IN AS PRESIDENT OF ROANE ALLIANCE
The Roane Alliance board last week appointed Pam May as its new president. May has been with the alliance for 11 years, serving as tourism director and vice president of operations. She also was appoi ...
PROPOSED TN LAW REMOVES AMUSEMENT TAX FROM GYM MEMBERSHIPS
Tennessee lawmakers aren't breaking a sweat over a proposal designed to repeal a $10 million amusement tax on gym memberships. House members unanimously agreed to sign off on the measure on Thursda ...
VERIZON CONFIRMS TEXTING OUTAGE ALONG EAST COAST, INCLUDING PARTS OF TENNESSEE
If you’re a Verizon customer and haven’t been able to text today, there’s a good reason: a widespread East Coast service outage. A tweet issued by Verizon Wireless this morning said “a ton of custo ...
SULLIVAN COUNTY RECYCLING PLANT CLOSING; KNOXVILLE NOW CLOSEST FACILITY
When Tri-Cities Waste Paper in Kingsport closes Friday, it’ll leave Sullivan County without a plant to handle paper and plastic recycling. Asheville Waste Paper, Tri-Cities’ parent company, has not c ...
MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENTS & NEW JOBS ANNOUNCED IN RHEA, SEQUATCHIE COUNTIES
More than 300 jobs and $11 million in investments are coming to rural towns in East Tennessee. Governor Bill Lee and the Department of Economic and Community Development announced Wednesday two sep ...
DOLLAR TREE MAY CLOSE AS MANY AS 390 FAMILY DOLLAR STORES
Virginia-based Dollar Tree Inc., which acquired Family Dollar in 2015 for nearly $9 billion, is set to close as many as 390 Family Dollar locations this year and will rebrand some 200 others as Dollar ...
CHICK-FIL-A IS NOW SERVING FISH SANDWICHES FOR LENT
If you're wishing for fish this Lenten season, your wish has come true. Chick-fil-A is making the rounds on social media this Ash Wednesday as the company announces the return of its limited-time f ...
NEW NASHVILLE CLINIC SEEKS TO ‘DE-STIGMATIZE’ ABORTION
With locations already in the greater Washington, D.C. area, Chicago and Atlanta, a healthcare company that wraps itself in outspoken support of abortion today opened a new facility in Nashville. C ...
POPULAR FROZEN-BEVERAGE COMPANY RELOCATING HQ TO TENNESSEE
Governor Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced today an iconic frozen-beverage company is pulling up its California roots for the friendlier bu ...
AXE-THROWING BAR TO OPEN IN KNOXVILLE
It’s a bar… it’s an axe-throwing venue… wait, it’s both. And now Craft Axe Throwing is planning to open a Knoxville location sometime this spring. The company website describes Craft Axe Throwing as ...
