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Among laughter and spine tingling chills, Fish Bait-The Movie premiered to a full house at Flat Hollow Marina on Saturday night.

Flat Hollow Marina went all out for the horror comedy flick. Restaurant manager Lance Parker created a special menu to accompany the movie with items such as chum sandwiches, road kill and brain bites. There was plenty of seating for the packed house and even popcorn for the moviegoers. As marina owner Gary Farwick reminded the crowd, “For tonight, this ceases to be restaurant and is now a theater, so keep it quiet.”

Cold wind rattles the colorful fall leaves as mist drifts into the hollows like the smoke that it is akin to here in these East Tennessee hills. It blankets the fields that have already been burned gold by the sun and made brittle by the year’s first frost. Harvest time is over and corn shocks and carved pumpkins placed in yards mean one thing; it is almost Halloween. It is the time here in East Tennessee when the ghosts roam and the haunted hollows beckon; the witching hour is near.

 In most cases by the time a plea agreement gets before a judge, the problems have been worked out. However, that was not the case for Raymond Gibbs on Monday. Agreeing he would plead guilty to indecent exposure and sexual battery, Gibbs stood before Criminal Court Judge Shayne Sexton. But, before the judge could sign off on what prosecutors and Gibbs’ attorney had agreed to, Assistant District Attorney General Scarlet Ellis interjected. “The mother (of the victim) wishes to address the court,” Ellis said.

Rain came down in buckets late Friday afternoon not long before Campbell County High School’s football homecoming game against district rival Knoxville Central.

Though the sudden storm forced postponement of kickoff by half an hour, the rain appeared to water more than the grass at L. Hope Dossett Stadium.