Author: Tabitha Evans Moore (Tabitha Evans Moore)

PUBLIC MEETINGS | Lynchburg’s sewer billing is automatic inside the Urban Services District. A 1948 Main Street house was the exception, and the only record of it was what people remembered. Now MUD is offering its owner a partial refund.

STATE NEWS | State Parks in Tennessee generate nearly $550 million is revenue for our state. They want your input for the future plans of several including nearby Henry Horton State Park.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a look at who hunted these hollows, how the land changed hands, and why a federal mapping mistake opened the Elk River country to settlers.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | The Times caught up with country music star and unofficial local Blake Redferrin to chat about Jiffy Mart sausage biscuits, the ketchup packet incident, and his Friday performance at the third annual Jack Daniel's Barbecue Bash.

PUBLIC MEETINGS | Some members felt strongly that growth should not come at the expense of existing taxpayers. Others argued Moore County faces a housing shortage and that growth is what funds infrastructure. Either way, a one-year moratorium on new residential subdivisions of four or more lots, requested by the Metro Council, is headed back to that body for a vote.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | There's the official Jack Daniel's Barbecue schedule of events and then there's the happenings only locals know about. The Northcutt's annual Jack Daniel's Yard Sale is one of them.

LOCAL NEWS | Snail mail, a flower fund and memories of class trip shenanigans: How Moore County High’s class of 1976 has held together for 50 years