Mark Brown

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Alex O’Hare is youngest C-N student ever Carson-Newman University Professor of Mathematics Dr. Alden Starnes was recently having a post-class conversation with one of his students. “What comes after calculus?” asked the student, Alex O’Hare. “So …” answered Starnes, pausing as if he were unfolding a map.

2 months ago | standardbanner.com | Mark Brown

Target for office opening is April What Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Shelia Wiggins has promised will be a “big year” kicks into high gear next week. A week from today is the organization’s annual banquet, its “We Mean Business” capital campaign is near and a 5K run and its traditional golf tournament will be held later this spring. Along with those events, the […]

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Deadline is February 28 The tax deadline for New Market property owners is February 28, two weeks from tomorrow. Therefore, City Recorder Gloria Larrance expects the municipality’s coffers will see an influx of revenue in the coming days. “We should get a great big one (boost) this time,” she told a three-member Council quorum Monday evening. “Well, this month and next month because a […]

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Hootenanny planned April 13 Jacob Rex is learning a lot about grief – mostly, that it does not go away. Even so, he has found ways to invest the pain generated by his little sister’s loss on October 17. HalieAnn Rex, a JCHS alumna and ETSU graduate assistant, had sustained injuries five days earlier when a car struck her on the bike Jacob had […]

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Wrinkle: ‘Lots of winter left’ Over the four months since Hurricane Helene, Mike Wrinkle has seen the depth of need that untold numbers of families still experience in Roan Mountain, Tennessee, and 30 miles south to Spruce Pine, North Carolina, and other communities across the region. The site of a family unit that lost everything continues to give him a strong umph in working to […]