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Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson, seated bottom, and Chief Deputy Tony Allen, standing far right, appealed to the county commission's Budget Committee Tuesday to return funding in the proposed 2020-21 county budget to cover a requested 7.5 percent across the board pay increase for his staff. The committee took no action Tuesday on Lawson's request.
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Hawkins County Commission

Hawkins budget with $752K deficit ready for review by full county commission

Hawkins County commissioners finalized the second draft of the proposed 2020-21 fiscal year budget Tuesday, which shows a $752,374 deficit, although county finance director Eric Buchanan told commissioners the reality isn't nearly as bad as that sounds.

Jul 8, 2020 at 5:27 PM
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COVID-19 in Northeast Tennessee

Tennessee posts almost 2,500 new COVID-19 cases

Tennessee reached a pandemic-high total of almost 2,500 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, with 44 new cases reported in Northeast Tennessee.

Jul 8, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Column

TSSAA needs to put student-athletes first

Which of the four TSSAA options for high school football is best? Actually it’s Option 5.

Jul 8, 2020 at 1:00 PM
Kingsport Carousel – Team Public Works
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Public art

Kingsport seeking entries for stormwater drain art contest

The deadline to submit entries is Aug. 7 and winners will be selected by Aug. 21. The five winning artists will receive $100 and their chance to leave their artistic talents on the streets of Kingsport.

Jul 8, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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Diane M. Jordan

Blountville

Jul 8, 2020 at 11:12 AM
The Times News has teamed up with area clergy to share "Words of Comfort" daily on the front page of our print edition and here online at TimesNews.Net. Any member of the clergy who'd like to get involved can contact Carmen Musick at cmusick@timesnews.net.
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Words of Comfort

Beyond fear, there is great beauty

Sometimes it seems this world wants us hunkered in our bunkers, living in fear of the next great cataclysm; but God has a different message for us, one given to a people who were unsure of the dangers they were surrounded by.

Jul 8, 2020 at 11:00 AM
Riley Brinn and Dannah Persinger go up for the block on Susie Chatman during Daniel Boone's practice on Tuesday.
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Sports Live

Under new guidelines, volleyball looks to rally

Even though football and girls soccer may be put on hold for a few weeks following the extension of Gov. Bill Lee’s state of emergency because of the coronavirus pandemic, volleyball marches on.

Jul 8, 2020 at 10:00 AM
Members of the New Panther Initiative — a Black Lives Matter group — and other supporters gathered at Covered Bridge Park in Elizabethton to protest racial inequality and injustices. Counter-protesters, many of whom wore shirts, hats and flags supporting U.S. President Donald Trump, jeered at the protesters as they entered the park, with several shouting racial slurs and obscenities at them.
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Rogersville Police Department

Rogersville police prepared for Saturday's scheduled BLM protest

“If everybody who comes down here is real nice, that will be fine. If they're not, they'll probably go home a whole lot unhappier then when they came here. That's about all I can tell them.” — RPD Chief Doug Nelson

Jul 8, 2020 at 9:15 AM
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Don Louviere, “The Voice of Food City”

Weber City, VA

Jul 8, 2020 at 9:07 AM
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Linda Varlene Willis

Surgoinsville

Jul 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM
New Seiver Middle School Principal Kelli Seymour
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Sevier Middle School

Kelli Seymour named new Sevier Middle principal

She has been principal of Roosevelt Elementary the past three years.

Jul 8, 2020 at 8:30 AM
The 1975 Wake Forest golf team — which won the NCAA title by a record 33 shots — featured, from left: Tim Saylor, Jay Haas, Curtis Strange, David Thore, Bob Byman, Bill Argabrite and coach Jesse Haddock.
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NCAA golf

Argabrite looks back at college golf’s ‘greatest team’

Kingsport’s Bill Argabrite has never been to the Golf World Hall of Fame, but he’s in it — in a photo as a member of the 1975 Wake Forest national championship team.

Jul 8, 2020 at 12:52 AM
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Rogersville Police Department

Police say grandmother was passed out on drugs while babysitting 2-year-old

A Hawkins County woman who was supposed to be babysitting her 2-year-old granddaughter Sunday evening was charged with child neglect after she was allegedly found passed out on drugs while the toddler was roaming her apartment complex.

Jul 8, 2020 at 5:26 PM
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Opinion

Editorial: Candidates, how about some originality?

Local (or local-ish) candidates seeking federal office this year have managed, incredibly, to all sing the exact same tune and still offer no substance.

Jul 7, 2020 at 10:30 PM
Raiders pitcher Cody Pugh picked up the win Tuesday against The Boro in East Tennessee Summer Baseball League action in Elizabethton.
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Sports Live

Raiders outslug The Boro in ETSBL play

The Raiders scored 12 runs in the third and fourth innings to take a 15-10 win over The Boro in East Tennessee Summer Baseball League action Tuesday at Northeast Community Credit Union Field.

Jul 7, 2020 at 9:57 PM