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The first tax-free holiday weekend in Tennessee focuses on clothing and other back-to-school items. It begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 31 and ends Sunday, August 2 at 11:59 p.m. During this time, clothing, school supplies, and computers and other qualifying electronic devices may

It happens every year — kitten season — and the Washington County/Johnson City Animal Shelter is reaching out to the public to find forever homes for as many as 75 felines An adoption event earlier this year helped some, with 44 cats and kittens finding

East Tennessee State University will host a Virtual Student Days event on July 13-14 to inform incoming freshmen and their families about the fall semester of 2020. According to a release, the two-day event will feature videos about the upcoming semester, opportunities to interact with

  Fourteen-year-old Macaire Everett and her 9-year-old little brother, Camden, needed something to do when they finished their distance learning lessons each day during the long months of COVID-19 quarantine this spring. Macaire, who just graduated from middle school and is heading to high school

A local Virginia high school student has been named one of the five finalists in the Duck Tape brand’s “2020 Duck Tape Stuck at Prom Contest.” Ainsley Dunning, a student at John S. Battle High School, created a dress made of the tape to wear

Families across Tennessee still have time to apply for an important program designed to help support them through the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS) has extended the deadline to apply for the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program until Monday, July