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Truck Auction at T & C Diesel Truck & Trailer! – April 2, 2024

Truck Auction at T & C Diesel Truck & Trailer! Truck Auction at T & C Diesel Truck & Trailer. 1630 E. Highway 25 70 Dandridge, TN 37725. April 2nd, 2024 from 11am to 11:30am. 2014 Volvo VNL 6, 12.8L (780 CID) VNL – Series – VNL-64

INVITATION TO BID – Jefferson County Schools Roof Restoration Project

INVITATION TO BID – Jefferson County Schools Roof Restoration Project

INVITATION TO BID The Jefferson County Purchasing Department will be accepting Request for Proposals (RFP) for Jefferson County Schools Roof Restoration Project. For a copy of the RFP and bid specifications please contact Julie Anglea at janglea@jeffersoncountytn.gov or (865) 397-4922, ext.2115. You may also download these documents from the county website at jeffersoncountytn.gov/finance-department. Please submit […]

Rising Use of Antidepressants Among Young People Accelerated During and After Pandemic, Driven by Teenaged Girls and Women

Rising Use of Antidepressants Among Young People Accelerated During and After Pandemic, Driven by Teenaged Girls and Women

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, antidepressant use was rising among adolescents and young adults. New research shows this rise not only continued but began to accelerate through and after the COVID pandemic, according to “Antidepressant Dispensing to U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults: 2016-2022,” in the March 2024 Pediatrics (available online Feb. 26). […]

PUBLIC NOTICE – Jefferson County Board of Zoning Appeals and Regional Planning Commission Meeting, March 26, 2024

PUBLIC NOTICE – Jefferson County Board of Zoning Appeals and Regional Planning Commission Meeting, March 26, 2024

American Academy of Pediatrics Offers Health and Safety Tips on How to Keep the Fun in Sports

American Academy of Pediatrics Offers Health and Safety Tips on How to Keep the Fun in Sports

While it’s exciting to watch your child excel in single sport and devote time to it, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) encourages all parents and families to take a commonsense approach when it comes to sports training.  These days, it’s less common to see kids outside playing pick-up games or racing each other to see […]

PUBLIC NOTICE – Jefferson County Board of School Commissioners Policy Committee Meeting, March 18, 2024

PUBLIC NOTICE – Jefferson County Board of School Commissioners Policy Committee Meeting, March 18, 2024

NOTICE OF MEETING Board of School Commissioners -Policy Committee Monday, March 18, 2024 5:30 pm Central Office Conference Room This notice is given in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 442 of the public acts of Tennessee for 1974. Dr. Tommy Arnold, Director Jefferson County Schools

Renee Hamilton Presents “Stories We’ve Heard About Early America – Truth or Myth”

Renee Hamilton Presents “Stories We’ve Heard About Early America – Truth or Myth”

Renee Willingham Hamilton, State Registrar for the Tennessee Society Daughters of the American Revolution (TSDAR) entertained the members of the Martha Dandridge Washington Chapter (MDW), National Society, Daughters of the America Revolution (NSDAR), at their Eighth Anniversary in February by quizzing them on some commonly held “Stories We’ve Heard About Early America – Truth or […]

On Gratitude and Vouchers – Letter To The Editor by Troy Pulliam, President, Jefferson County Education Association

On Gratitude and Vouchers – Letter To The Editor by Troy Pulliam, President, Jefferson County Education Association

On Gratitude and Vouchers I am grateful for 26 years of teaching at Jefferson County High School and am especially grateful for the students, families, fellow educators, and the experience of educating and caring for three generations of young people. I am humbled to know that I had a very small part in making Jefferson […]

TN AG Skrmetti Issues Statement Raising Concerns Over Maine’s Proposed Legislative Assault on Federalism

TN AG Skrmetti Issues Statement Raising Concerns Over Maine’s Proposed Legislative Assault on Federalism

On Monday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti led 16 state Attorneys General in raising concerns over proposed legislation in Maine that would interfere with other states enforcing their state laws restricting childhood gender transition if those laws differed from Maine law. “We have enough disagreement in America these days without state governments reaching outside their borders […]

PUBLIC NOTICE – Personnel Committee Meeting of Jefferson County, Tennessee, March 25, 2024

PUBLIC NOTICE – Personnel Committee Meeting of Jefferson County, Tennessee, March 25, 2024

Notice of Meeting of the Personnel Committee Meeting of Jefferson County, Tennessee PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Personnel Committee Meeting of Jefferson County, Tennessee (the “County”) will meet in regular, open and public session at the Jefferson County Courthouse at 2:00 p.m., on Monday, March 25, 2024, for the purpose of considering all […]

CPI for all items rose 0.4% in February; gasoline and shelter up

CPI for all items rose 0.4% in February; gasoline and shelter up

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent in February on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.3 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.2 percent before seasonal adjustment. The index for shelter rose in February, […]

TENNESSEE SUPREME COURT ABOLISHES COURT RULE REQUIRING CORROBORATION OF ACCOMPLICE TESTIMONY

TENNESSEE SUPREME COURT ABOLISHES COURT RULE REQUIRING CORROBORATION OF ACCOMPLICE TESTIMONY

The Tennessee Supreme Court has abolished a common law rule that required testimony of a criminal defendant’s accomplice to be supported by other evidence.  The Court’s opinion abolished the accomplice-corroboration rule prospectively, which means only in future cases.  As part of that decision, the Court upheld the first-degree premeditated murder convictions of Mr. Tony Thomas, […]

Payroll employment rises by 275,000 in February; unemployment rate increases to 3.9%

Payroll employment rises by 275,000 in February; unemployment rate increases to 3.9%

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 275,000 in February, and the unemployment rate increased to 3.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in health care, in government, in food services and drinking places, in social assistance, and in transportation and warehousing. This news release presents statistics from two monthly […]

VITAL POLICY – Opinion – Consequences of Unchecked and Unlawful Immigration, Rally Scheduled at Tennessee Capitol

VITAL POLICY – Opinion – Consequences of Unchecked and Unlawful Immigration, Rally Scheduled at Tennessee Capitol

If I set out on a pilgrimage to leave the United States and move to another nation, I would learn to speak the language of that nation and abide by the laws of their government set forth for legal immigration. My goal would be to contribute and become a productive member of their society by […]

Rescue 180

Rescue 180

We are excited about the opportunity to reach out to our community and help to provide necessary tools for preventive challenges, in the area of substance misuse. In this column we will also be sharing intervention guidance as well as assist you with questions about substance misuse, and recovery. So many people in our society […]

Republican Caucus Chairman Jeremy Faison, Speaker Pro Tempore Ferrell Haile, introduce the Family Rights and Responsibilities Act

Republican Caucus Chairman Jeremy Faison, Speaker Pro Tempore Ferrell Haile, introduce the Family Rights and Responsibilities Act

House Republican Caucus Chairman Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, and Senate Speaker Pro Tempore Ferrell Haile, R-Gallatin, and have introduced legislation that explicitly lays out 12 fundamental rights of parents in Tennessee law. The Family Rights and Responsibilities Act, House Bill 2936/ Senate Bill 2749, protects parents’ fundamental rights and responsibilities to make education, health care, moral and religious […]

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