Restoration to manage Claiborne hospital
TAZEWELL, Tenn. — The Claiborne County Hospital and Nursing Home Board of Directors has accepted a bid by voted 5-to-2 to accept Restoration Healthcare’s proposal to run the hospital.
Mercy Health Partners, the incumbent hospital manager, Covenant Health and Restoration Health Care developed proposals for to put a hospital administrator in place to run the Claiborne [...]
Decision on Tazewell hospital coming Thursday
The Claiborne County Hospital board is expected to recommend one of three proposals for management of the Tazewell hospital and nursing home when it meets Thursday.
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Festival Vendors Sought for Union County Festival
The 5th annual Union County Heritage Festival will be held SATURDAY OCTOBER 17th. from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Music, craft,food booths, Heritage Idol competition and Heritage Olympics as well as the 4-H competition will be held at Wilson Park; the quilt and fine arts show and competition will be held at the Roy Acuff [...]
LOLMDS at Tazewell Speedway Postponed Due to Rain
Due to heavy rain showers throughout the region, the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series’ Toyota of Knoxville 75 at Tazewell Speedway has been postponed. The $10,000 to win event has been rescheduled for Friday, August 21st.
Officials of the Tazewell Speedway and the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series made the decision to postpone the [...]
Couple says shop turned lemons into lifesaver
OAK RIDGE – Razzleberry Ice Cream Lab in Oak Ridge has been serving unusual flavors of ice cream and Italian ice for more than two years. There’s the lavender flavor, for example, and the child-friendly Superman variety.
But one flavor has taken on almost mystical properties.
“We call it miracle ice,” says MeChell Warner, 36, a loyal [...]
Former UT player killed in tree-cutting accident
Sunday morning, two Anderson County churches remembered their pastor, and former UT football player, who died in a tragic accident Saturday morning.
A friend says Terry Moore died due to internal injuries suffered while cutting a tree on his property.
Some of the congregants who showed up at Freedom Fellowship in Clinton, the church Moore planted with [...]
NWS Recognizes Claiborne County as StormReady®
The National Weather Service in Morristown, Tennessee has recognized Claiborne County, Tennessee as a StormReady® county.
“Through a partnership between the National Weather Service and emergency management, the StormReady program encourages communities to take a proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations and public awareness,” said George Mathews, meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service Morristown, [...]
Union Co. teen one in nearly half a million
(From WVLT) A 14 year old Union County girl is one in nearly half of a million. That’s because she was actually hit by lightning on June 18th while powerful storms were rolling through East Tennessee.
Madison Honaker and her family sat down with Volunteer TV News six days later to talk about the experience.
“I feel [...]