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Wishing you all the best from the staff here at KTV - please have a great Christmas, and a wonderful New Year, and be safe and careful. Take care!!

Don’t miss this year’s biggest Halloween Bash! The Downtown Kingsport Costume Pub Crawl kicks off Halloween night, and should be huge - downtown family fun and a half-marathon give way to a late-night pub crawl full of fun and adventure. And LIVE music. And ScaryOke. And Drink Specials. Crazy Fun.

So Come On Out!!!

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The newest addition to the Kingsport.TV arsenal seems to be the best, and we are only getting better!

Take the time to visit with James Phillips as he makes his way through the Tri-Cities and beyond, finding new and inventive ways to get involved with sports, leisure, and enjoyment. And it’s all on camera.

While traveling along the kingsport.tv website, don’t forget to stop in and check the Staff Picks section - you may find a few things that interest you, such as:

Playing for Change - Stand By Me



The Hunt For Gollum Trailer



Phish at Thompson-Bolling Arena



Gore Vidal Comments on the State of Liberty

There’s plenty going on over here at kingsport.tv - just take a minute to roam around and see what we have to offer.

Thanks.

Big things are about to happen on Kingsport.tv. There are plenty of new programs and ideas in the works here with the KTV staff, so keep checking back to see what happens.

Also - John Moorehouse has entered the video fray, and uploaded two new videos to the site - one of which highlights an interview with former UT greats Peyton Manning and Phil Fulmer golfing at the Ridges - check it out!!

And keep an eye out for Kingsport.TV!!

Sometimes young people surprise you, and prove that they can be intelligent, witty, determined, pleasant, and insightful. We have video to prove it. These were filmed at the TN/VA Scholars Program during their annual picnic and awards presentation.

This is it….

On today’s show, we hit on the following:

The Kingsport BMA is asking for money from taxpayers for education - there’s a new school in town, and it needs to be funded. Projected costs are more than projected revenues for next year, and are expected to fall about one-and-a-half million dollars short.

The Clinch Mountain Music Festival has been announced and set for June 12 and 13. There’s a good lineup this year, and several new items on the agenda. Go to www.clinchfest.net to see all they have to offer.

Kingsport played host to a modern day “tea party” yesterday (Video at timesnews.net), as General Growth Properties filed for bankruptcy, leaving the Mall property in question. A big drug sting in Appalachia and Big Stone also made the news. Go to timesnews.net to read about it all.

All that and more in one quick shot - that’s the Dailies.

Here’s the video:

Mayor Dennis Phillips said Tuesday he intends to ask City Attorney Mike Billingsley to brief the Board of Mayor and Aldermen next week on the situation involving Officer Bryan Carter. Carter, an 11-year veteran with the Kingsport Police Department, was suspended three days without pay in February after a TBI probe of Carter’s traffic stop of two Mexican citizens in which he kept money seized from the suspects. In February 2003, it was found that Carter had not turned in a gun, three ammunition clips and a bottle of Absolut vodka to the evidence unit. The items were seized 11 months prior while Carter was moonlighting as a security officer at Coconuts nightclub. In April 2005, police called Carter at his home because he had failed to turn in money seized during an arrest the previous evening. For each incident, Carter was suspended for eight hours without pay.

Modern Medicine is reporting that the Appalachian Mountains of northeastern Tennessee around Johnson City remain a hot spot for the fungal infection blastomycosis, according to study findings published in the April issue of the journal Chest. Researchers found that the disease has remained clinically constant over two study periods, and that it remains endemic to the region with more than half of all cases from 1996 to 2005 occurring in Washington and Unicoi counties. So, next time you say you have an itch to get out of town, you just might mean it.

In other area news, the cause of a fire on Swadley Road in Johnson City is still under investigation, but one theory is that marijuana grow lamps may have sparked the blaze. Republican members of the Sullivan County Election Commission named Sullivan County Republican Party Chairman Jason Booher on Tuesday to the post of Sullivan County administrator of elections, and 24 projects in Washington, Carter and Unicoi counties made the list of around 450 state transportation projects released Tuesday by Gov. Phil Bredesen that will receive federal stimulus funds.

All that and more on today’s edition of the Daiies.

The video:

On today’s Dailies, Diana and I covered the following:

An elderly woman is dead, and three more were injured in a Church Hill apartment fire. Church Hill police say two men acted heroically during a fire at The Landings apartments in Church Hill Sunday afternoon, saving one man from a burning apartment. The men, both neighbors at The Landings, were attempting to rescue another woman from that same apartment when the victim’s oxygen tank exploded. We showed video from timesnews.net.

The Kingsport Farmers Market will be opening this week at its new home on the old Quebecor property, a location the farmers are excited about due to the high visibility of the site. The farmers market for years was located in the parking lot behind the Kingsport Public Library. Now, city staff have been working to relocate the farmers market to the old Quebecor property — specifically, the corner of Center and Clinchfield. The farmers market will open this Saturday, April 18, and as usual will be open Wednesday and Saturday mornings.

In other area news, Jessica R. Adkins was charged in Johnson City with first-degree murder in the death of her 2 month old daughter, Kaylie Adkins. The child’s father, Russell D. Long, was previously arrested and charged with first-degree murder on March 13. State senator Mike Faulk is pushing for a “Repeat DUI Offender” registry similar to the state sex offender registry people can check out on the Internet, and fund-raising efforts for the rebuilding of the High Knob Observation Tower that was destroyed by fire on Halloween of ‘07 have topped $108,000.

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