Dandridge, United States (Local)
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Steve Marion's coverage focuses on local news in Dandridge, Tennessee. He is particularly interested in government announcements, evolving stories, breaking news, and legal policy regulation related to education, entertainment news, government & politics, agriculture & farming. If you have insights or newsworthy updates pertaining to local government decisions or initiatives within Dandridge or the broader Tennessee area that align with these themes and topics covered by Steve Marion's articles, your pitch may be well received. Furthermore, if you can provide expert commentary on ongoing issues such as zoning challenges or educational developments in the region it could capture his attention.
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The Fourth Judicial District Public Defender is asking local courts to “disqualify” the prosecutorial rights of District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn and his assistants after the DA “rescinded” his retirement in the wake of indictments against him. Dunn is charged with official misconduct, two counts official oppression, retaliation for past action, coercion of a witness and civil rights intimidation on […]
East Tennessee has a history of looking for a way out of Tennessee. The first attempt occurred years before the state even existed, when frontiersmen including John Sevier established the ill-fated “State of Franklin,” which was never recognized by the United States and ended by 1788. Eight decades later, as the Civil War began, East Tennessee delegates at two conventions […]
The county’s former veterans service officer has filed a $300,000 lawsuit against Jefferson County and its County Commission chairman, alleging a “hostile work environment” that led to her resignation. In the complaint filed last Friday in Jefferson County Circuit Court, former VSO Marissa King accuses Commission Chairman Jimmy Carmichael of a pattern of “aggressive and intentionally intimidating” behavior, which she […]
It was a changing of the guard Tuesday morning at the Jefferson County Courthouse. New County Mayor Randy Bales raised his right hand to take the oath of office, as did a dozen new County Commissioners and three new School Board members. “You’re seeing democracy in action,” said Circuit Judge Jeremy Ball, who took his own oath Monday afternoon so […]
The numbers have a way of returning. 9/11. 403. 2,977. The month and day of the September 11 attacks, 25 years ago tomorrow. The number of firefighters, police and port authority officers killed at the World Trade Center. The total number of people who died that day in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. The numbers won’t leave Ken Ruggiero’s […]
Jefferson County still has a single phone booth. Beneath a tall tulip poplar at the foot of a steep ridge, just off Muddy Creek Road, it’s standing at the end of a little concrete path. Some would say it’s not connected. There’s no landline, no cellular, no satellite, only the sound of the birds on the ridge above when you […]
Dandridge Council will wait for a utility water study before approving the residential aspect of a large mixed use development on the south side of Exit 417. Meeting in regular session Tuesday, the group gave first reading approval to MUD (mixed use development) zoning for the 64-acre property off Highway 92 and Sharon Drive, where Carlyle Properties has commercial and […]
White Pine Council accepted a bid for installation of a new bar screen at the Town’s sewer plant, using a Community Development Block Grant. Meeting last Tuesday, the group also made plans to update the ordinance on door-to-door peddlers/solicitors and authorized a committee to keep citizens informed about new parking regulations for the Whispering Pines neighborhood. A $457,000 bid from […]
The clear blue morning has lasted for 25 years now. When the airplanes struck the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, nearly everyone alive at the time was left with an almost photographic record of his or her life at the moment. For Art Bohanan, however, the trauma that burned into memory began two days earlier, […]
By: Steve Marion
The numbers have a way of returning. 9/11. 403. 2,977. The month and day of the September 11 attacks, 25 years ago tomorrow. The number of firefighters, police and port authority officers killed at the World Trade Center. The total number of people who died that day in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. The numbers won’t leave Ken Ruggiero’s […]
