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Former Gate City Blue Devil Mac McClung goes to the basket in a 2018 home game against Daniel Boone.

McClung chooses Texas Tech
As a football player at Twin Springs, Keith Warner helped lead the Titans to back-to-back Region 1D runner-up finishes in 2003 and 2004. Now entering his third year as coach of the Titans, he’s hoping he and his staff can continue to instill winning ways in their team.

Titans’ Warner sees accountability as key to building winning tradition

Kingsport police investigating Highland shooting

Photo gallery: Downtown murals
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Tuesday explains his order making the wearing of face masks mandatory in most Virginia businesses.

Northam: Wearing face masks now mandatory

Bays Mountain Park features over 25 miles of beautiful hiking trails that cover most of the 3500 acres of the park.
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Outdoors

Bays Mountain Park taking 'first steps toward normal operations'

Bays Mountain Park has remained opened during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the nature center was closed and all programs were halted. Beginning on Monday, some programming will resume and the nature center will reopen.

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Times News Blog: Latest on local impact of COVID-19

The latest on schedule changes, local decisions and other updates related to COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia

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Tastes

Go Mediterranean for health, longevity and delicious tastes

Although we are far from the Mediterranean, there are easy ways we can go Mediterranean even while living in a land-locked state.

Yesterday at 10:30 PM
The .58-caliber Enfield rifle made quick work of a Coke can at 50-yards. But Ned Jilton II admits it might be awhile before he could score that clean a hit again.
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Column

Hands-on history: Muzzleloading through the ages, part two

Last week I wrote about two of the earliest muzzleloading blackpowder firearms used in the colonies — the matchlock and the wheel lock — and the fun of firing the matchlock. Now we move ahead to the muzzleloading firearms that replaced them and brought this country through the Revolution and the Civil War: the flintlock and the percussion rifle.

Yesterday at 9:45 PM
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Mount carmel Police Department

Police say hit-and-run suspect left injured child with mom, fled on foot

A Kingsport man was being held in the Hawkins County Jail without bond pending a court hearing Wednesday after he allegedly caused a wreck in Mount Carmel with his unrestrained 3-year-old child in the vehicle last Thursday afternoon.

Yesterday at 8:45 PM
When a library staff member brings out the books, hold your driver’s license up to the window so your identity can be verified. Your books will then be placed in your trunk.
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Library

Kingsport Library to offer curbside service

All returns must be placed by you in the outside book returns. Staff members are unable to take your returns at curbside delivery.

Yesterday at 7:30 PM
Cars pass an empty grandstand at the start of a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway Monday, May 25, 2020, in Concord, N.C.
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Bristol Motor Speedway

SMI chief expects NASCAR to be first major sport with fans

The grandstands will be empty for this weekend’s races at Bristol Motor Speedway, but Speedway Motorsports President and CEO Marcus Smith believes NASCAR will be the first major sport with fans in attendance.

Yesterday at 6:30 PM
Saturday afternoon on the shores at Riverbend campground Tyler, Trevor and Marley Belle Brooks launch their vessels onto the Western Prong of the Little Pigeon River for destinations unknown.
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travel

Novice explorers discover 'Northwest Passage' to restaurant on Pigeon Forge river

Not unlike the Lewis and Clark expedition, on Saturday, May 23, 2020, a group of intrepid explorers departed the Riverbend Campground in Pigeon Forge, floating along the Western Prong of the Little Pigeon River with limited knowledge of what lay ahead.

Yesterday at 6:00 PM
The May 26, 2020 online Kingpsort Board of Education meeting Tuesday, May 20. It and the following work session lasted about 30 minutes. The board, among other things, bought English texts and resources and computers.
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Kingsport City Schools

Kingsport school board OKs textbook, computer and parking spending

The largest items approved was up to $705,000 for a blanket adoption of textbooks and digital resources for the next six year of English/language arts instruction in grades K-12.

Yesterday at 5:00 PM
Former Gate City Blue Devil Mac McClung goes to the basket in a 2018 home game against Daniel Boone.
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Sports Live

McClung chooses Texas Tech

The former Gate City basketball standout announced with a 10-second video on his Twitter feed with the caption “Wreck ’Em!” that he is transferring to Texas Tech from Georgetown.

Yesterday at 4:32 PM
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COVID-19 in Northeast Tennessee

One new COVID-19 case in Greene County; testing sites open in Northeast Tennessee

Northeast Tennessee added a new confirmed COVID-19 case Wednesday, while far Southwest Virginia remained level in cases and deaths.

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Sports Live

Deacons' prayers answered with 1952 upset of Greenwave

The 1940s could arguably be called the heyday for Southwest Virginia boys basketball.

Yesterday at 4:00 PM
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Goodwill reopens store in Green Acres

The Goodwill store in the Green Acres Shopping Center on North Eastman Road reopened on Monday.

Yesterday at 3:00 PM
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken wave as they walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on their way to Pad 39-A, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The two astronauts will fly on a SpaceX test flight to the International Space Station. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts will blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, a first for a private company. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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SpaceX

2 U.S. astronauts arrive at launch pad for SpaceX launch

Two NASA astronauts climbed aboard a SpaceX rocket ship Wednesday for liftoff on a history-making flight that was seen as a giant leap forward for the booming business of commercial space travel.

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Mountain Empire Community College

MECC plans for online fall 2020 semester

Mountain Empire Community College has chosen a primarily online route for its fall 2020 semester, and students will see tuition remain level for that period.

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