Madeleine the cat always takes everything in stride
Madeleine has been my cat through two bouts of radiation treatment, which is astounding on two counts: I never thought she would live to be 18 and I never thought I would have to have radiation...
View ArticleState fund needed to help people harmed by disasters
As we noted in this space back in June, one issue left unresolved in the first half of the 108th Tennessee General Assembly was a bill to give state tax breaks to victims of the 2012 flood in...
View ArticleLife on Mars is science fiction
Despite humans’ love of fantasy, fiction and fable, the duty of science is to expose or dispel fantasy as such. Still, some scientists and many others propagate a myth that we will conquer and colonize...
View ArticleVietnam veterans
In a recent letter, Herbert D. Zeigler Jr. writes he was bothered that he was not permitted to validate his military service through having a Vietnam Veteran license plate on his car. If memory serves...
View ArticleBeware the scammers who trade on the Internet
Do you have things to sell? There are several ways you can do this. You could put an ad in the newspaper, have a yard sale and use the Internet by putting items on eBay or Craigslist. Either way, the...
View ArticleQueens for a year
Blakely Bays of Piney Flats and Lexi White of Chattanooga have a lot in common.They are heavily involved in community service activities and both are highly involved collegiate students. Bays and White...
View ArticleHistoric Jonesborough focus of history study
The State of Franklin Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has completed a two-year survey of more than 300 Jonesborough homes outside the town’s established historic district that...
View ArticleAn ‘old field’ school likely stood at center of Johnson City
According to T.C. Karns, a Tennessee history writer from around the turn of the century, “old field” schools existed in this country in the 1800s, each standing in a crop-depleted field, hence the...
View ArticleWardrobe malfunction: Stoney Creek man shoots himself in chin while taking...
ELIZABETHTON — A man accidentally shot himself in the chin Sunday evening, according to the Carter County Sheriff's Department. Deputy David Caldwell reported he was dispatched the residence of...
View ArticleCarter Co. man accused of killing neighbor's dog
ELIZABETHTON — A man was arrested by the Carter County Sheriff's Department early Sunday morning on an outstanding warrant charging him with killing his neighbor's dog. Steven Eugene Melton, 65, 333...
View ArticleJCPD charge city man with stealing car
Police said they’ve charged a local man with stealing a car. A Johnson City Police Department news release said Jake Robert Malone, no address available, was arrested Monday on a charge of theft of...
View ArticleWar of ideas
I found Kenneth Gouge’s Jan. 5 column to be one example of too many of his opinions based on half-truths, exaggeration and historical inaccuracy. He’s a partisan spokesman in the ideological war going...
View ArticleLaw-abiding citizens should be able to protect themselves on trail
In response to the recent question in your paper asking if guns should be allowed in city parks by law-abiding, concealed-carry permit holders, I submit the following: Last month I received a...
View ArticleGuns in workplace
I have worked for an employer that prohibited firearms of any kind on their property for quite a few years. It was communicated via email, verbally and in print that a violation would result in...
View ArticleThe last daylily
You, too, can take your best shot on a digital camera and send it to the Johnson City Press. The best of the best will be published in upcoming editions and in our online photo galleries here on...
View ArticleMamaw's little girl
You, too, can take your best shot on a digital camera and send it to the Johnson City Press. The best of the best will be published in upcoming editions and in our online photo galleries here on...
View ArticleWilliamsport, Pa.
You, too, can take your best shot on a digital camera and send it to the Johnson City Press. The best of the best will be published in upcoming editions and in our online photo galleries here on...
View ArticleHimalayan kitten
You, too, can take your best shot on a digital camera and send it to the Johnson City Press. The best of the best will be published in upcoming editions and in our online photo galleries here on...
View ArticleSunset
You, too, can take your best shot on a digital camera and send it to the Johnson City Press. The best of the best will be published in upcoming editions and in our online photo galleries here on...
View ArticleScott Hale
You, too, can take your best shot on a digital camera and send it to the Johnson City Press. The best of the best will be published in upcoming editions and in our online photo galleries here on...
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