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Few high school athletes will have the opportunity to continue playing the sport they love at the collegiate level and b...
07/24/2025

Few high school athletes will have the opportunity to continue playing the sport they love at the collegiate level and beyond.

Madee Denton was one of the lucky few to break through and earn a spot at that next level. Now, she wants to do her part to help the youth in the area chase and realize their own dreams.

Few high school athletes will have the opportunity to continue playing the sport they love at the collegiate level and beyond.  Madee Denton was one of the lucky few to break through and earn a spot at that next level. Now, she wants to do her part to help the youth in the area chase and realize th...

With summer sessions winding down, the Jefferson County Patriots hit the field one final time for 7-on-7 work last week.
07/24/2025

With summer sessions winding down, the Jefferson County Patriots hit the field one final time for 7-on-7 work last week.

GREENEVILLE - With summer sessions winding down, the Jefferson County Patriots hit the field one final time for 7-on-7 work last week. On Thursday, JCHS made the trip to Greeneville for a five-team event with the likes of the Greene Devils, Elizabethton, Abingdon (Va.), and Daniel Boone for a jam-pa...

Barracudas’ win streak snapped at Sugarwood
07/24/2025

Barracudas’ win streak snapped at Sugarwood

As the duals meet summer swim season drew to an end last week for the Jefferson City Swim Club Barracudas, so, too, did the program’s win streak that spanned more than a full year. Taking on a former power in a higher league, the JCSC Barracudas still held their own in a tight 397-339 defeat at Su...

New Life Care van means more trips for residents
07/24/2025

New Life Care van means more trips for residents

Residents of Life Care of Jefferson City will have the opportunity to take more trips with the addition of a new 12-passenger accessible van. A brunch event and ribbon-cutting hosted by the Jefferson County Chamber Tuesday morning officially commissioned the van. "We're happy to have this van to be....

Police Reports
07/24/2025

Police Reports

Truck driver dies in Deep Springs crash The driver of a box truck was killed Saturday in an accident on Deep Springs Road, troopers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol reported. Donnie G. Cogburn, 29, was headed north on the road when he swerved off the roadway to the right to avoid a vehicle that had...

Services held for Nyrstar miner killed in accident
07/24/2025

Services held for Nyrstar miner killed in accident

Funeral services were held Monday for a father of three killed in a zinc-mining accident July 12 at the Nystar Young Mine in Strawberry Plains. Alan Leon Whitaker, 36, is survived by his fiance, two children, and a third “soon to be born,” according to his obituary. He was working as a loader op...

JEFFERSON CITY COUNCIL: Annexation of Crooke Road parcel due for vote
07/24/2025

JEFFERSON CITY COUNCIL: Annexation of Crooke Road parcel due for vote

Jefferson City Council will soon consider a plan of services for a 58-home planned unit development (PUD) on 11.5 acres bordering Crooke Road. Having purchased the Mossy Creek Farms parcel, Frank Lawson seeks to utilize R-3 (high density) zoning, as the development will feature approximately 4.78 ho...

Paramedic dies in traffic accident
07/24/2025

Paramedic dies in traffic accident

A Jefferson County paramedic died in a one-vehicle accident Tuesday evening in Hancock County, according to a preliminary report from Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers. Cody A. Satterfield, 27, was killed when his 2021 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup ran off the right side of Kyles Ford Highway and traveled d...

Landfill woes frustrate local mayors
07/24/2025

Landfill woes frustrate local mayors

The leaders of Jefferson County’s four municipalities are equally chafed over the news that the county landfill will not accept their Class III/Class IV waste beginning a week from today. While seeking to ascertain just how four years of inaction happened, each jurisdiction is having to figure out...

Nathan Bugg hired as new Administrator of Elections
07/24/2025

Nathan Bugg hired as new Administrator of Elections

Jefferson County Election Commissioners hired Nathan T. Bugg as the new administrator of elections during a brief meeting yesterday morning. Bugg, who is currently Republican machine technician, is a Jefferson County native who has been active in local election work since 2009. He is also a career e...

Interstate crash injures seven at I-81/40 split
07/24/2025

Interstate crash injures seven at I-81/40 split

Seven people, including four youths, were injured Tuesday in a head-on crash on Interstate 81, troopers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol reported. The accident occurred at 3:18 p.m. when the driver of a 2011 Honda Odyssey minivan, headed south on I-81 near mile-marker one, used a cross-over through...

Hot weather relief
07/24/2025

Hot weather relief

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