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Today's News

  • What to do when we reach the end of our rope!

     People today sense that we are rushing madly toward a climactic point in history. Authorities trying to discover the basic cause of the world’s ills. Millions of dollars are spent to find an answer to international problems. The stockpile of America’s problems mount higher and higher and out leaders can’t come up with an answer to what to do about it.

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  • The World’s Greatest Violinist

    “. . . My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (See 2 Corinthian, s 12:7-10).

     

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  • Lord-willing, we’ll go back out there again next year

    “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; he has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives; to comfort all who mourn, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning; that they might be called trees of righteousness, that He may be glorified.  And they shall rebuild the old ruins” (Isaiah 61:1-4).

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  • Two arrested for growing marijuana

    An anonymous tip led to arrests for the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department last week.

    On Aug. 6 CCSD detectives went to an address on Demory Road to investigate reports of possible drug activity. At the scene the detectives observed several of what they believed to be marijuana plants growing in planters beside the front porch.

    Records indicate Detective John Long obtained a search warrant and went back to the residence.

    As a result a number of other plants also reported to be marijuana were found.

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  • Seatbelt violations end with arrests

    Seatbelt violations led to bigger problems during separate instances last week.

    Last Tuesday Campbell County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Vann stopped a multi-colored BMW near Eagle Market in Jacksboro when he observed the front seat passenger wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

    During the stop Donna Melissa Farmer, 38, of 104 Gamble Road, allegedly gave Vann numerous birthdays, social security numbers and a false name before he was able to determine her true identity.

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  • Fallen tree kills one

    A freak accident claimed the life of a Jacksboro man last week.

    According to THP Trooper Warren Crumpley’s report, Terry W. Russell, 41, of Alpine Drive, Jacksboro, was driving north on Davis Chapel Road when a tree fell and struck the top and front of his vehicle.

    The incident happened near the intersection of Bolinger Lane and Davis Chapel Road. Records indicate Russell died at the scene.

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  • Fallen tree kills one

    A freak accident claimed the life of a Jacksboro man last week.

    According to THP Trooper Warren Crumpley’s report, Terry W. Russell, 41, of Alpine Drive, Jacksboro, was driving north on Davis Chapel Road when a tree fell and struck the top and front of his vehicle.

    The incident happened near the intersection of Bolinger Lane and Davis Chapel Road. Records indicate Russell died at the scene.

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  • Ayers named new election commission administrator

    A changing of the guard of sorts is on the horizon for the Campbell County Election Commission.

    With long-time administrator Dean Sexton poised to retire at the end of September members of the election commission began making preparations for her departure at their August meeting.

    According to Mark Wells, election commission chairman, it was then that current Deputy Mayor Ann Ayers was voted in as Sexton’s replacement.

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  • Jellico raises vetoed

     At the previous meeting of Jellico’s Board of Mayor and Alderman, on July 28, a last minute motion was passed that gave the town’s employees a three percent raise. The next day mayor Les Stiers vetoed this decision after contacting the different aldermen.

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  • Jellico utilities’ water wells project to be finished Sept. 1

     The water wells project should be completed by Sept. 1, and will cost Jellico Electric and Water System $1.3 million.

    The original completion date for the project was February, but the board had given contractor Allen Cozy until April. 

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