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- Athens parks remain open for now
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- MCSD taking steps to protect inmates, staff during coronavirus pandemic
- Resources available for farmers looking at business changes
- Encouragement to remain strong as coronavirus pandemic grows
- State unemployment rate up slightly, coronavirus affects likely not showing yet
- Unemployment claims grow 20-fold across Tennessee
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Andy Sullins is already experiencing the next level of his soccer career.
Social distancing while battling the coronavirus doesn’t have to mean holing up and not seeing sunlight for four months or longer.
Not even a full year ago, Bryce Goodner had wept tears of joy when he received his first scholarship offer to play college football.
A fundamental change is coming to high school golf in Tennessee.
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Located on the upper level of the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum is a small interesting leather workers exhibit that gives you an idea of the types of tools used while making the much-needed leather pieces everyone in the 1800s relied on.
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To the editor,
Unemployment rates are a lagging measure and for the month of February remained relatively unaffected by the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The state of Tennessee experienced an unprecedented spike in new initial unemployment claims, according to data released Thursday by the United States Department of Labor.
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William Donald Barr Jr., 72, of Athens passed away Tuesday, Ma…
Kenneth “Ken” Thurman Howell, 88 of Englewood, passed away Tue…
Ray Fagg, 76, of Ten Mile, passed away on Friday, March 20, 20…
Norma Jean Hutcheson, 54, of Athens passed away on Saturday, M…
Mrs. Zelma Beatrice McClure, 86, of Athens departed this life …
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• Donnie Branham, 43, of 127 Forrest Ave. Apt. 3, Athens, was arrested on March 24 by the Athens Police Department and charged with public intoxication. He was released on $500 bond and faces a date in General Sessions Court on April 30. Read more
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Infectious disease specialist Dr. Kent Sepkowitz explains that the way the healthcare system is built in rural America "will not work" to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
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