Today's News

Allegedly impaired people should not go to gas stations to play the quarters machine. That is the moral of the story for a Jacksboro man.

LaFollette Police Officer James Farmer was called to the Shell station on Jacksboro Pike to investigate reports of an impaired person on the premises. At the station Farmer noted an unoccupied vehicle was running outside the store.

Reports of a fight involving a weapon summoned officers to a Linden Circle address last week.

On Jan. 7, LaFollette Police Officer James Farmer went to 428 Linden Circle after receiving reports of a fight.

At the scene a witness stated he had brought Dustin Hawkins to the residence to retrieve his car. The witness reported when Hawkins knocked on the door to get his keys from his girlfriend, Jeffery Lynn Bolton, 47, of 428 Linden Circle, came out of the residence and began cursing at Hawkins and allegedly pushed him down the steps, records indicate.

In a rare occurrence the commission’s budget and finance committee almost breezed through all 16 January budget amendments without debate Monday night.

But the group hit a snag when Commissioner Beverly Hall took issue with an amendment allowing a $1,000 donation to Toys for Tots.

In a previous meeting County Mayor William Baird proposed that the proceeds generated from the sale of scrap metal obtained during courthouse renovation go to Toys for Tots. 

A local volunteer fire department is facing financial penalties after failing to receive a grant.

On Monday evening, members of the EMS committee met to discuss what course of action to take to retrieve $3,000 paid to the Pinecrest Volunteer Fire Department that was intended to be used as matching funds for a grant from the state’s forestry division.