John Thompson

ELIZABETHTON — Several Carter County families in the Laurels community may soon be able to disconnect from their private wells that have been their only source of water and be able to connect with a newly extended water line from the city of Elizabethton.

ELIZABETHTON — The members of the Elizabethton City Council are hard at work on developing the budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year and on Monday the panel held its second workshop session before going into a retreat in a couple of weeks. Most of the work on Monday was an examination of the general fund. The total expenditures for the 2023-2024 fiscal year is $26,448,970 I

ELIZABETHTON — The comments made by Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Jason Mumpower on April 4 continued to echo through the Carter County Courthouse on Monday evening, as several county commissioners responded to Manpower's assertion that while the county was in good financial health, the county still had a serious problem because its financial management was very poor.

By JOHN THOMPSON [email protected] ELIZABETHTON — Louis Greene gave more than just a check for $10,000 on Tuesday to help

ELIZABETHTON — The efforts by the Budget Committee of the Carter County Commission to hold down increases in the budgets of the various outside agencies received some unwelcome news from the Carter County Emergency Communications District on Tuesday evening.

Some of the students in the Carter County School System dual enrollment class on emergency medicine. The students include: Madisyn Vandeventer of Unaka High School, Desiree Street of Happy Valley

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ELIZABETHTON — The Carter County School System has received a lot of publicity in the past few years about its career and technical education programs that not only prepare students to immediately step into jobs in industry and technology, but provide the students with a head start in obtaining the degrees and credentials to qualify for those jobs.

Robert Sorrell's latest book on the Tri-Cities and the surrounding mountainous region is now out in area bookstores. The book is entitled Secret Appalachian Highlands: A guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure

ELIZABETHTON — In a tough decision to balance the budget, the Carter County School Board voted overwhelmingly Thursday night to permanently close one of its most popular schools, Little Milligan Elementary School. The school will close at the end of the current school year.