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After spending a year and a half as a case manager with the Eighth Judicial Drug Court, Amy Long is moving up.
Beginning this week, she became the court’s new program coordinator. It was a position left vacant when Jonathan Finley, the previous coordinator and Long’s mentor, left to assume his role as Campbell County’s new chief deputy.

Alleged inappropriate contact with a patient recently landed St. Mary’s Medical Center of Campbell County and one of its employees in the center of a court action.
On Aug. 24 Earnest A. Rouse filed a complaint in circuit court alleging that while he was a patient at the hospital, employee Roger Leach committed sexual battery against him.
Rouse’s attorney Richard Baker asserts that while Rouse was a patient at SMMC in August 2009 on “repeated occasions” Leach attempted to sexually molest him.

Taking out the trash landed a Caryville man in jail this week.

Early Monday morning, sanitation workers observed smoke rising from trash bags at a Caryville home that were destined for disposal.

The Caryville Police Department responded to the call around 7:30 a.m. and discovered several meth components sizzling inside the bags caused by a chemical reaction, said Caryville Police Chief Johnny Jones.

Good times filled with music, crafts, laughter and games will be held this weekend at the Mountain Heritage Festival.

The annual event has been held in the mountains of Stinking Creek for the past four decades. Originally taking shape at a kitchen table as friends planned the first event to be held down by the water.

The community event quickly outgrew the small creek side where it started and moved 10 miles down the road to the Mountain Heritage Field where it is still held annually.