The Covered Bridge Jams will feature a hometown favorite, the Bullseye Band, Saturday, July 26, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Covered ...

A Washington County Criminal Court sentenced Rex Dale Lewis to serve a total of 22 years in prison for killing James Allen ...

Vickie Kay Greenwell Richardson, 70, passed away peacefully at the Johnson City Medical Center on July 7, 2025, after a courageous battle with cancer. Vickie was born in Elizabethton, where she lived ...

Johnson has been named the new chairman of the Imagination Library of Carter County/Elizabethton. A graduate of Hampton High ...

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Opal Clark Shell was 89 years old when she died June ...

By Joe Penza, city archivist Amazing events have occurred all throughout the history of Elizabethton and Carter County. In ...

The Carter County Long Term Recovery Group (Carter County LTRG) is proud to announce it has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Tennessee Governor’s Response and Recovery Fund to continue ...

July Fourth has come and gone for another year. This year it was great. Traffic was moving once again across the Broad Street Bridge, and there was a big crowd of people out at the Covered Bridge Park ...

By Brittnee Bryant Star Correspondent Shannon Posada, director of the Elizabethton/Carter County Animal Shelter, is speaking ...

By Sam Stockard Tennessee Lookout Responding to criticism about Tennessee’s applications for private-school vouchers, Gov. Bill Lee said this week the state doesn’t need to know whether students were ...