Robert Houk

3 days ago | johnsoncitypress.com | Robert Houk

Washington County commissioners have approved the first stage of a countywide fire protection plan with details and additional funding to come later. The board voted 10 to 4, with one member absent, on Monday to give its blessings to a plan that calls for the Jonesborough Fire Department to continue providing firefighting services to areas outside the town’s corporate boundaries.

4 days ago | timesnews.net | Robert Houk

Washington County commissioners have approved the first stage of a countywide fire protection plan with details and additional funding to come later. The board voted 10 to 4, with one member absent, on Monday to give its blessings to a plan that calls for the Jonesborough Fire Department to continue providing firefighting services to areas outside the town’s corporate boundaries.

4 days ago | timesnews.net | Robert Houk

William Monk was named Washington County’s interim General Sessions Court Part I judge on Monday. Monk, who has served 21 years as an assistant prosecutor in the First Judicial District Attorney General’s Office, will fill a vacancy on the bench created by the upcoming retirement of Judge Robert Lincoln. He will be sworn into office in July. Washington County commissioners appointed Monk on Monday after whittling down the number of nominees for the position in three separate votes.

4 days ago | johnsoncitypress.com | Robert Houk

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1 week ago | timesnews.net | Robert Houk

A dispute over eligible voting members of its executive committee has created a division in the Washington County Republican Party. GOP leaders say the executive committee membership has been divided 6 to 6 since the party elected new officers earlier this year. Danielle Goodrich, who was narrowly elected chair of the Washington County Republican Party in March, said the party’s reorganization saw two slates of candidates on the ballot.