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Bathrooms are close, but woman uses grass
A homeless woman from Sweetwater who made her way to Indian Boundary June 12 was arrested for indecent exposure. Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Kerrie Wilburn said she went to the camping area on a call of a woman walking around exposing herself and talked to a witnesses who gave her a description and said the woman was in a tent across from them. Wilburn said before she could approach the...
Monroe County community rallying around teen facing cancer for the second time
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A teenager in Monroe County is battling brain cancer for the second time in four years. Kayla Couch, a Sophomore cheerleader at Sequoyah High School in Madisonville, was diagnosed with a Non-Germinomatous Germ Cell Tumor for the second time. The 15-year-old and her family are shocked that they will have to […]
Athens Chamber welcomes Made Well Retreat Center
A ribbon cutting was celebrated recently for the new Made Well Retreat Center at Women at the Well ministries, located at 875 County Road 655 in Athens. Shown here are Athens Area Chamber of Commerce and business representatives, Robin Nation (founder of Women at the Well), along with staff members and students of Women at the Well.
Underwood named Plant Manager of the Year
Etowah City Schools Director Dr. Mike Frazier (left) recently presented the 2023-2024 Plant Manager of the Year Award in Tennessee to Patrick Underwood at the Tennessee School Plant Manager Association conference in Gatlinburg. Underwood represents Etowah City School and serves as a board member for the TSPMA.
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