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Today's News

  • SPECIAL FEATURE: Mamaw's Mountain Medicine & More

     No matter what you call her—your Mamaw, Grandma, Nana, Grammy, Mimi or Granny–she surely has the cure for what ails you. A home cooked meal. A big hug. And a good smack on the rear, if you get out of line. 

    If your mamaw is from the South, she’s likely full of folk remedies from the days when a book-learned doctor was so far away that the ill would be cured—or dead—by the time he arrived. 

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  • Free fishing day puts kids outside

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    NORRIS–More than 30 volunteers and twice as many children turned out Saturday for the 11th annual Kids Fish Free Day event at the Miller Island river access area below Norris Dam.
    The Clinch River Chapter of Trout Unlimited sponsors the event the first Saturday of June every year.
    Kids had a chance to put on a pair of waders and fish for trout with the help of adult chaperones. They also got to tie their own fishing flies, take boat rides and learn about aquatic life and river conservation.

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  • CCHS football camp building a foundation

    ccannon@lafollettepress.com
    Twitter: @ChrisCannon89

    JACKSBORO–Campbell County High School hosted 80 youngsters on Monday and Tuesday for its third annual football camp.
    Participants learned speed skills, defensive techniques and offensive tactics.
    For head coach Justin Price, the camp was a big experience.

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  • It's A Miracle!: Showing Christ's 'Impact' through baseball, softball

    “How can a game have such an effect on man’s soul? The way I see it, how can it not? You don’t choose the game; it chooses you. And when it does, you become connected for life.” - 7 Days in Utopia
    This will be my first installment of a three part series of my trip to Europe to work with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
    Sometimes in life, we are called do be a part of something that is bigger than ourselves.

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  • Column: Leave the cell phones behind

    It’s been said time and time again.
    “Kids are too wrapped up in their video games, and they need to get outside.”
    However, should that adage be just for kids?
    This past weekend, I went camping at Fall Creek Falls.
    Camping in a tent under the stars, smelling themountain air and above all, having no cell phone service.
    A weekend without cell phone distraction, Facebook and Twitter.
    To say the least, it was way better than most people would think.
    To me, getting outside is something that is relaxing.

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  • 15 is the new 30

    I can remember when I was a teenager, secretly dying to be 30.
    I thought: “People would finally take me serious when I am 30.”
    Kind of like when you are in elementary school and you cannot wait to get acne—because it is a mark of age.
    Growing up, all we want to do is grow up.
    We want time to fly, years to pass, until we get to that magical age where everything comes together and life just makes sense.
    I turned 31 last weekend.
    And life still does not make any sense.

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  • No boating fatalities on Memorial Day weekend for third consecutive year

    NASHVILLE–The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is reporting that there were no boating-related fatalities reported over the 2013 Memorial Day holiday weekend. It marks the third consecutive year that the unofficial weekend start to the summer boating season has been free of boating fatalities.
    During the Memorial Day holiday period from Friday, May 24 through Monday, May 27, there were eight total reported boating accidents for the second straight year. Three of the accidents resulted in injuries and the other five were property damage accidents.

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  • Sports News 6-13-13

    June 13

    Campbell County Summer Baseball

    The Campbell County High School summer baseball team will host Powell. The nine-inning, DH rule game will begin at 6 p.m.

     

    June 13-14

    Twist N Shout Tryouts

    Twist N Shout will be having tryouts for ages 5 through 18. Cheer tryouts will be from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., as the Hip Hop Dance tryouts will last from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, contact Kimberly Harris at 566-1582.

     

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  • Shelter could reopen soon after TBI probe

    Campbell County Mayor William Baird said on Monday the shuttered Adrion W. Baird Animal Center could reopen within the next few weeks.
    The shelter closed April 11 after a viral Internet video surfaced alleging several malpractices there.
    Baird is awaiting findings from a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report before reopening the center. The county mayor’s office doesn’t know if criminal charges will filed, but administrative decisions about the center will only be made after the TBI report is finalized.

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