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3 weeks ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
Tie thwarts Bunch motion
As long as Jefferson City Council minutes exist, Vice Mayor Kevin Bunch will be recorded as voting against the second reading of the municipality’s Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget. And for those who read through the minutes or perhaps listen to the digital recording of Monday evening’s regular business session, his reasons for voting against the measure will be clear – […]
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3 weeks ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
It was just another workday some years back when something caught Greg Embrey’s eye. And though time has passed, there remains a lilt in his voice when he discusses the discovery of a family connection near Jonesborough. “I worked for Frito-Lay at the time, and I was running a route up through there. I was on the main road, whatever […]
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3 weeks ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
‘Friends’ have bright future, and a momentous heritage
Having begun 229 years ago, The Lost Creek Friends Meeting, a.k.a. the Quaker Church in New Market, was the second Friends congregation established in Tennessee, and it is the oldest in continual existence.
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1 month ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
“AmeriCorps members take an oath of service and enter these positions in good faith and with civic integrity to make a difference,” said Trenna Ricker McCauslin, who until recently was the Appalachia CARES program director for Clinch-Powell Resource Conservation and Development Council. As the liaison for AmeriCorps funding, McCauslin likely felt multiple blows on April 28, when she had to […]
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1 month ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
AEDs are on the way
New Market’s Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget will be up for final approval in the body’s June meeting, expected to be held Monday, June 9, at 7 p.m. in City Hall. In keeping with figures presented at the body’s work session, the general fund revenue is projected to be $1,252,575, almost 40 percent of which will come from local taxes – […]
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1 month ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
Wyatt: ‘Regulars are really good’
Several businesses near Chucky Pike’s intersection with Broadway Boulevard (Highway 11E) have been affected by a planned four-month Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) reconfiguration project. With the recent closure of North Chucky Pike, it would be hard to conceive that any have been harder hit than Lee’s Market and Waffle House.
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2 months ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
$35 Wheel tax passes, 19-0
A plan to renovate Jefferson Elementary School moved forward Monday evening with the passage of two budget actions that make the School Board’s $24 million plan possible. Although the School Board’s renovation plans had faced turbulence during consideration by the budget committee, Commissioner Austin Brooks had it added to Monday’s agenda.
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2 months ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
John Barnhill sees his weekly concerts as a way to pay it forward
Twice each week, John Barnhill packs up a musical instrument and heads to a pair of Jefferson City assisted living facilities as a way of expressing gratitude for his life. He plays a song verse on either his violin or trumpet and then encourages his listeners to sing it with him.
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2 months ago | 
standardbanner.com | Mark Brown
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.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
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 […]
