In then aftermath of flooding from tropical Storm Fred on Tuesday night & early Wednesday morning…Cocke County officials are discussing implementing a county-wide notification system. County mayor Crystal Ottinger says that the county actually...
Get ready for some bluegrass. The Cocke County Bluegrass Festival is this Saturday August 21st at the Cocke County A&I Fairgrounds. Gates will open at noon and the music will kick off at 1…headlining...
A school in Boone, NC was locked down on Wednesday due to someone saying they were a distraught child calling 911 and saying they were at the high school and were going to start...
Vaccine mandates are affecting the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion coming up in September as well. Organizers of the event made the announcement yesterday that they would not impose a vaccine mandate or negative...
Cocke County authorities may have had to help in evacuations Tuesday night, but it pails in comparison to what Greene County authorities had to deal with on Wednesday afternoon… a naked man floating down...
In the midst of all the rain yesterday, a church was destroyed by…fire. The Riverview Community Seventh Day Adventist Church in Greene County is reported as a total loss following a fire that was...
Cocke County dealing with flooding this morning. Rainfall from tropical storm Fred, plus runoff and water coming from North Carolina creating headaches for Cocke County . The Pigeon River is already over its banks...
The Newport/Cocke County EDC and the Cocke County Partnership’s monthly board meeting to be held tomorrow, Thursday August 19th has been cancelled. Jennifer Brown of the Cocke County partnership says that the agenda that...
Flood waters invaded Cocke County overnight. In Hartford, the Pigeon River left its banks and flooded Hartford Road…waters so swift they even overturned a car. The waters have receded somewhat for now in that...
A man in Del Rio reported to Cocke County police that he had been the victim of credit card fraud. Barry Bowlus of Del Rio told deputies that the number and information for his...