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Today's News

  • Ball field receives $20,000 for grade work in Jellico

    psawyer@lafollettepress.com

    Monday night, the Campbell County Commission approved spending $20,000 for additional grade work at a ball field in Jellico.

    While the commission awarded the contract two months ago for $55,000, additional grade work was needed in the outfield, which was below the flood plain.

    “There was some discrepancy in the engineering,” Jellico Mayor Les Stiers said.

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  • Use Twitter to stay connected during Spring Fling, Spring game

    By CHRIS CANNON
    ccannon@lafollettepress.com
    Twitter: @ChrisCannon89

    Campbell County sophomore Michaela Smith and Cumberland Gap junior Rusty Provins will both be participating in the 2013 BlueCross Spring Fling in Murfreesboro, Tn.
    Follow the LaFollette Press on Twitter @TheLPressSports for full coverage.
    Tweets will be sent for every throw, including the athletes that Smith and Provins are competing against.
    Followers can keep up-to-the-minute stats from the 2013 events.

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  • Follow us on Twitter

    Follow the LaFollette Press sports section on Twitter.
    Each day, we’re updating with stats, info, signing information and interesting things to know about Campbell County sports.
    We’re only scratching the surface of what we have planned, so follow us, and give us some suggestions.
    If you’re at a game that LaFollette Press isn’t able to attend, tweet us updates and the score. Using your tweets, we’ll help keep the rest of Campbell County informed about the happeneings.

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  • Sports News 5-23-13

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    May 23

    Smith to compete in State Championship

    Michaela Smith took fourth place in the Sectional Tournament, qualifying her for a spot in the TSSAA State Championship. The sophomore will compete at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 23 on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University.

     

    Orange and Blue Game

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  • WLAF: 60 years of broadcasting

     LaFOLLETTE—Locally-owned and operated 1450 AM WLAF celebrates 60 years on Friday with tributes from past on-air personalities, local bands and more from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Old Regions Bank Building, downtown.

    In the early 1950s, a group of LaFollette businessmen decided the community needed a radio station. 

    The group — including Ed Balloff and Ed Wheeler — eventually signed Campbell County’s first radio station, 1450 WLAF, on the air May 17, 1953. 

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  • Relay for Life set for Friday

     By PETER SAWYER

    psawyer@lafollettepress.com

    American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life will be at Jacksboro Middle School from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday. There will be much to see, hear and eat.

    “We do have food (and) entertainment,” said Cyndi Russell, Relay for Life committee co-chair.

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  • Man arrested after claiming motorcycle gang chased him

    Campbell County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Ken Daugherty was dispatched to Rarity Mountain last Thursday after a cell phone tower maintenance crew called about a man on a motorcycle.
    Michael Paul McGill, 32, of 948 Eslinger Court, Kodak, was headed south on Interstate 75 when he exited at Rarity Mountain and told four maintenance men that the Vigilantes motorcycle gang was chasing him and going to kill him, according to Daugherty.

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  • LETTERS FROM THE NEST: Billy Goats Gruff

    Ahh, Mother’s Day. That special day reserved for the ladies who wipe noses and raise future leaders.  Who sacrifice time and energy to create an atmosphere conducive to mothering and loving little ones. Most women are adorned with flowers, sweets, lovely cards or brunch on a patio overlooking the tranquil waves of the lake.
    I got a goat.

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  • Relay for Life kicks off tomorrow

    American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life will be at Jacksboro Middle School from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday. There will be much to see, hear and eat.
    “We do have food (and) entertainment,” said Cyndi Russell, Relay for Life committee co-chair.

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