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Black Knights embark on first playoff run since 2011
High Point -- The groundswell of popularity garnered by the Black Knights this year propelled Robbinsville into the postseason for the first time since 2011. In kind, the return to the playoffs Wednesday was perhaps the program's best showing in years -- even though the Knights fell victim to a no-hitter.
Local students taking part in Tellico Eco Days event
The Cherokee National Forest is hosting an annual environmental education event for children from Monroe County Schools, Sweetwater City Schools and the Barefoot University Homeschool Group on May 6 through May 9 at the Indian Boundary Recreation Area. The Tellico Eco Days event will provide an opportunity for hands-on outdoor learning in small group stations led by natural resource professionals. Since the event started in 2008, this environmental education event...
Monroe County Criminal Court for April 2024
Monroe County Criminal Court held a short session in April, hearing pleas and handing down indictments. Pleas heard included: Tabitha Jean Biggam, 36, Ohio Avenue, Etowah, criminal simulation $2,500-$10,000, 3 years suspended, make restitution. Robbie Lee Boughton, 53, Moody Hollow Road, Powell, felony evading arrest, 1 year at 30 percent; simple possession of meth, $750,...
Man doesn't have any warrants, gets arrested anyway
An area man didn’t have any current warrants for his arrest, but when a Monroe County sheriff’s deputy stood next to him at a store counter, he saw something that made him suspicious. Deputy Nicholas Crawford said he and another deputy were at Skyway Mart in Madisonville when they noticed a man they knew had a past arrest history and might have warrants on him. But a check showed he...
Sign ups open for summer 4-H camps
Youth in Monroe County in fourth through eighth grades can attend 4-H Camp at Clyde Austin 4-H Center in Greeneville. The dates for camp are as follows: • Junior 4-H Camp (fourth through sixth grades) will take place from May 27- 31. The cost to attend is $330 per student. • Junior High 4-H Camp...
Plot to mail drugs to jail foiled at the justice center
Two men apparently planning on using the U.S. Postal Service to get drugs into the Monroe County Jail were uncovered by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department recently. MCSD Det. Conway Mason said he began investigating William Johnson and Hunter Hawkins in March after receiving information the men were planning on mailing drugs to the justice center/jail where Johnson was an inmate. Mason said he found Hawkins was going to mail...
After three years, man arrested for stalking Sweetwater woman
It took nearly three years, but a Knoxville man who was charged with stalking after he called 911 and claimed a woman, who refused to talk to him, was having a heart attack in 2021, was recently arrested. On July 21 of that year, Monroe County Sheriff’s Det. Billy Littleton said he was sent to a Sierra Drive home near Sweetwater on a false medical call. Dispatch told him a man had called 911 and said a woman he was talking to on the phone...
Woman declares deputy is an alien wearing someone else's tattoos
A woman either having a mental breakdown or under the influence of narcotics was arrested the morning of May 2. Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Long said he was sent to Cedar Lane Road on a call of a suspicious woman and found Katherine Lawrence in the middle of Old Federal Road after searching the area. Long said he talked to Lawrence and she said she wanted to make a...
Baseball Recap: Robbinsville comes up short despite Quinn Jumper's strong performance
Robbinsville was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their third straight loss. They lost 16-7 to the Murphy Bulldogs. The result was an unpleasant reminder to Robbinsville of the 5-0 defeat they experienced in the pair's previous head-to-head fixture back in April of 2023.
Sugar Creek & Dixie Next for Schaeffer Oil Spring Nationals
BRASSTOWN, NC-As the Schaeffer’s Oil Spring Nationals Series presented by Coltman Farms Racing and fueled by Sunoco season heads down the homestretch, the miniseries will invade the Peach State for a pair of pivotal point races over the May 3-4 weekend. Up first will be a stop at Sugar Creek Raceway, as the tour makes its inaugural visit to the Blue Ridge, Georgia oval this Friday night for a $7,553 to win showdown. The doubleheader weekend will then conclude in a big way on Saturday evening at the historic Dixie Speedway with a $10,053 top prize up for grabs at the Woodstock, Georgia venue.
Kingston walk-off knocks Tellico into elimination bracket
Tellico Plains could only watch as Macey Neal’s single line drive left the infield off a Lady Bears’ glove. The Kingston batter’s hit pushed a game-winning run across the plate in the bottom of the eighth, outdoing Tellico’s defensive gem and knocking the Lady Bears into the District 3-2A elimination bracket. “We played really good defense. That just got some timely hits,” Tellico Plains coach Don Swanson said. ...
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