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The website features general news information, links to weather, industrial and tourism information, a classified section and obituaries. It is a part of a network of similar sites in the Tri-Cities, Greeneville, Morristown, Newport, Lenoir City, Sweetwater, Athens and other communities throughout Northeast Tennessee.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The Athens Post was founded in 1848 as a weekly. [4] It ceased publication in 1917. [5] The Athenian was founded in 1883, [6] with an 1886 circulation of about 1,000. [7] In its early history it billed itself as a Republican newspaper published weekly on Fridays. [8]
The Daily News Journal is the result of several newspaper merges across time, with the earliest ancestor being The Murfreesboro News in 1850. [5] Two different newspapers went bankrupt and merged their assets together to create the Daily News Journal in 1931. One of these papers was called The Home Journal and was founded by Chip Henderson in ...
Active in the local Democratic Party, Cantrell was elected Sheriff of McMinn County in 1936. He was re-elected in 1938 and 1940. Like his Republican predecessors, he built a local political machine. He was elected to the Tennessee Senate representing McMinn County's district in 1942 and re-elected in 1944. He also served as county judge from ...
Shifflett had been booked on a probation violation charge, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. Shifflett had "some sort of medical emergencyâ according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations. Jail or Agency: Anderson County Detention Facility; State: Tennessee; Date arrested or booked: 4/13/2016; Date of death: 4/14/2016; Age at death: 58
The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of predatory policing, police brutality, political corruption, and voter ...
Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Tennessee", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century) Glenn A. Himebaugh. "Publishing". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. (Includes information about newspapers)