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  • Cougars fed before each game

    Joking and laughing as they exit their vehicles, members of the Campbell County High School football team make their way toward the family life center of Cedar Hill Baptist Church. There they are greeted at the door by a firm handshake and a friendly smile from pastor Ronnie Arnold.

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  • Young and in love; couple to remarry after 30 years

    At 16 years old, Mitch Belew and Robin Wright were in love.

    They got married the same year as the high school prom by forging their birth certificates.

    It was a Saturday on May 27, 1978 when they changed the dates on their birth certificates. The clerk in Jellico noticed the modifications, prompting the young couple straight to Williamsburg, Ky., were they were married.

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  • Country music festival headed this way

    A festival drawing a possible crowd of over 10,000 people is coming to the shores of Norris Lake this May.

    SuperTwang is a festival with southern personality, according to its producers.

    Festival Producer of United Festival Company Hal Royce has been searching for a venue in Tennessee to plan a large rustic style country music festival for over 20 years.

    His search finally ended in Claiborne County.

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  • Working mom wins college scholarship for Christmas

    Five children and 26 years later, Darlene Brown of LaFollette is furthering her education. The decision to go back to school was difficult, she said. But Project Working Mom made it possible.

    The Project Working Mom scholarship program, developed by eLearners.com, held an essay contest from the web resource of Education Dynamics. Working moms or dads who wanted to earn an online degree could apply.

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  • Christmas comedy comes to Indiana Avenue

    Tickets have sold out for the only showing of “A Cricket County City Christmas.”

    The comedy dinner theater at Indiana Avenue Baptist Church this Friday will feature local actors, some deputing for the first time on stage.

    The script was taken from a playhouse company and features two related families coming together for the holidays with very different personalities.

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  • From businessman to artist

    Nick Thompson is following his dreams.

    After 38 years in the furniture sales business, he is setting out to make custom furniture.

    At eight-years-old Thompson’s father got him excited about woodwork by buying him an electric jigsaw for his birthday.

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  • MOPS meetings are off to a good start

    Meeting other mothers is the first step to creating relationships and answering questions about rearing small children.

    That‘s why MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) are forming in LaFollette.

    Despite the different emotions of mothers, the local group is putting mothering into perspective with bi-monthly gatherings.

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  • McCullah trades comforts of home for 11-month mission

     Where in the world is Cody McCullah?  That is a question the LaFollette native’s family and friends will likely be asking a lot over the next 11 months.

    McCullah said he was cruising along in his life as a graduate student and finance company analyst when he attended a conference with his church that made him begin to question the direction of his life.

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  • A dream comes true for Tatum

    It was a year ago when Tatum Croft was diagnosed with leukemia. She was only three-years-old when she started to receive treatment twice a week, a process that is draining for an adult and twice as much for a child.

    During those initial treatments she signed up for the Dream Connection, a non-profit organization granting wishes to children in East Tennessee.

    The group behind the Dream Connection believes a dream come true to a child can give back, in some small way, that which disease and illness have taken away.

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  • Three women dedicate their lives to their jobs

    How many employers can say they have a staff member that has been with them 50 plus years? At least three in Campbell County can.
    China Willoughby with the Department of Children’s Services, Ruby Childress with Valley View Elementary School and Mildred Asbury with Peoples Bank of the South share over 150 years of hard work toward their chosen professions.
    Starting as a junior stenographer in September 1952, Willoughby has worked 58 years for the department of social services.

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