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UCHRA to Open Day Reporting Centers in Three Judicial Districts in Upper Cumberland
In the coming months, the Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency (UCHRA) will open day reporting centers throughout the Upper Cumberland. These day reporting centers will serve the 13th, 15th, and 31s...
Sep 23, 2022
Cumberland County To Receive Over $26 Million To Improve Broadband Access In Rural Areas
In an interview this week with John Pirsos of WVLT, Cumberland County Mayor Allen Foster said the county is set to receive an additional $26.5 million in grant funding from the state to improve broadb...
Sep 22, 2022
Sobriety Checkpoints In Cumberland County Friday, September 23, 2022
Crossville Police Department, Fairfield Glade Police Department and the Tennessee Highway Safety Office, will be conducting sobriety checkpoints from 6 p.m.-12 a.m. on Friday, September 23, 2022. The ...
Ronni Chase Sep 22, 2022
2022 Free Youth Deer Hunt Registration Underway for Opportunity to Record First Harvest
Youth between the ages of 10-16, who are hunter safety certified and who have never harvested a deer, are eligible to win a spot in the Free Youth Deer Hunt at Buffalo Ridge Refuge in Humphreys County...
Ronni Chase Sep 22, 2022
Lee, Salyers Announce Creation of Savage Gulf State Park
Governor Bill Lee and Commissioner David Salyers of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) have announced the creation of Savage Gulf State Park in Grundy and Sequatchie count...
Sep 22, 2022
Tennessee National Guard rescues hiker near Appalachian Trail
A medical flight crew from the Tennessee National Guard conducted an emergency air evacuation of a 56-year-old hiker suffering chest pains along the Appalachian Trail on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. At ap...
Sep 22, 2022
Cumberland County's August Jobless Rate Is 4.3 Percent, Down 0.5 Percent From July
Cumberland County's August unemployment rate was 4.3 percent. That is a decrease of 0.5 percent from July's rate of 4.8 percent and down 0.1 percent from the same time last year. Every county in Tenne...
Sep 22, 2022
Man Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting Crossville Walmart Employee
A Cleveland man was arrested after he allegedly assaulted an employee at the Crossville Walmart. Police say the employee saw the man, later identified as 22-year-old Logan Dewayne Gibby, conceal a bea...
Sep 22, 2022
Legendary Local Weatherman, Steve Norris, Passes Away At 63
Legendary meteorologist Steve Norris, of Crossville, passed away Thursday morning from complications due to pneumonia. He was 63. For 46 years Steve Norris was a staple in people's lives for accurate ...
Ronni Chase Sep 22, 2022
Cumberland County's COVID-19 Deaths Now 337
Cumberland County's coronavirus death toll increased by 1 last week to 337 on Saturday, September 17, 2022. The county's positive COVID-19 cases went up by 66 to a total of 18,296 on Saturday, Septemb...
Ronni Chase Sep 21, 2022