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Earlier this year, we praised the Loudon County Solid Waste Disposal Commission for a spirit of cooperation as members negotiated an amendment…
Much has changed in the last several years with the Loudon County Solid Waste Disposal Commission.
Earlier this year, we praised the Loudon County Solid Waste Disposal Commission for a spirit of cooperation as members negotiated an amendment…
Much has changed in the last several years with the Loudon County Solid Waste Disposal Commission.
EDITOR’S NOTE: To mark the Christmas season, we thought it appropriate this year to reprint below an editorial that appeared in 1897 in the Ne…
The poor treatment of the open meetings act by local officials was on full display last week when Loudon City Council pretty much ignored the …
The fight against opioids was pushed to the forefront recently in Loudon County.
Voters in Lenoir City get to decide in November on a half-cent sales tax increase generally earmarked for school safety.
No matter how Lenoir City government characterizes its proposed stormwater utility fee, which is scheduled to come up for a final city council…
We learned Friday about a private, unannounced meeting held Thursday by the Lenoir City Board of Education. A report about that meeting can be…
Loudon County Jail was decertified by the Tennessee Corrections Institute more than nine months ago. In fact, nearly a year has passed since t…
As many readers are aware, today’s edition includes a front-page story announcing that the assets of Jones Media, the family company which has…
While the Lenoir City Utilities Board has a plan to add an 80-mile fiber optic cable from U.S. Highway 321 to parts of west Knox County, with …
Just when we thought members of the Loudon County Corrections Partnership were working toward a relatively cost-effective and common sense sol…
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Plans that Lenoir City and Tennessee Department of Transportation officials have laid out for the bustling U.S. Highway 321/Highway 11 interse…
EDITOR’S NOTE: To mark the Christmas season, we thought it appropriate this year to reprint below an editorial that appeared in 1897 in the Ne…
After residents and government officials across East Tennessee gathered last week for the first of three public hearings on a proposal to perm…
This might be a good time to give a reality check to Loudon County Commission, some of whom, after passing a 2015-16 budget that included an $…
As the Loudon County Corrections Partnership Committee prepares to move forward on a plan to renovate and upgrade the current Justice Center p…
We were troubled by news this week that not only are state officials considering a move to allow government offices to charge a fee to inspect…
We were pleased to report this week that test scores, while not off the charts, at least indicate that the educational needle seems to be movi…
We were struck this week by the almost stunning juxtaposition of two concurrent events, both of which highlight a real divide that seems to ex…
If readers take away any message from our examination of this year’s National KIDS COUNT Data Book report, we hope it will be that we as a com…
Although Loudon County officials have wrangled with Tate & Lyle and Kimberly-Clark for the better part of four years over a property tax d…
While we have reported on the pill epidemic in Loudon County seemingly trumping all other law enforcement concerns at the moment, one problem …
What seems abundantly clear after analyzing 2014 crime data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, taking a look at yearly statistics at …
With commission having already approved funding for phase two of Board of Education construction projects at Loudon High and Highland Park Ele…
While graduation from high school is traditionally a seminal moment in the lives of many students as they embark on a new life in college or s…
