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February 24, 2025
Author: Tabitha Evans Moore (Tabitha Evans Moore)
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JD BBQ Like a Local: Lynchburg’s Black Label Smokers compete for third straight year
It wouldn’t be a complete Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue without a home team of Jack employees vying for the prize. For the third year in a row, Black Label Smokers will compete in the Shade Tree Division this weekend. Made up of Jack Daniel employees Jason Bobo, Joseph Caldwell, Wesley Richardson, and Daniel...
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JD BBQ Like a Local: The art of the team name
Barbecue aficionados formed the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) back in 1985 to launch a local competitive barbecue cooking team. Since then, it’s bloomed into the overseer of hundreds of “sanctioned” events across the country and boasts over 20,000 members. And many of them belong to homegrown barbecue team with some of the quirkiest names...
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Motlow offers help with FAFSA
Need help with those pesky FAFSA forms? Motlow's got an event for that.
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Get #WeAreMC updates on your phone
Forget Snowbird. Get instant school closing information this winter with #WeAreMC.
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World’s Largest Treehouse burns down in Crossville
STATE NEWS — An East Tennessee landmark went up in smoke around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night. According to Cumberland County Fire officials, the Minister’s Treehouse, located on Beehive Lane – a 100 foot high building made of found wood – burned to the ground in less than 15 minutes. Built in the early 1990’s by...
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JD BBQ Like a Local: The Mystery of Remus Powers
If there’s one question we consistently get each year, it’s who’s the guy in the bowler hat? Legendary barbecue judge Ardie Davis aka Remus Powers visits Lynchburg each October. The Jack Daniel World Championship Invitational Barbecue honored him as featured judge in 2008 and the Judges’ Choice Award in 2002. In 2016, industry leaders inducted...
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Raider, Richland Preview: Game moved to Thursday
LOCAL NEWS | Sports — Friday night lights will move to Thursday night this week. On Wednesday, school officials announced that the Raiders district game against Richland would be moved to Thursday night to avoid impending bad weather. It’s one of two crucial district games left on the regular season schedule and it’s a must...
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Metro Council extends beer sales hours
LOCAL NEWS — The Metro Council voted on a Metro Beer Board recommendation to extend Sunday beer sales from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. to 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. When asked about the recommendation, Beer Board Chair Bufford Jennings stated he had, “no strong feelings either way” but had been asked to present the...
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JD BBQ Like a Local: Lynchburg vet and team compete at The Jack
It’s no secret that tiny Lynchburg will swell by around 40,000 visitors and nearly 150 barbecue teams this Saturday, but a couple of these teams don’t have too far to travel. Both Black Label Smokers and the Swine Time Boys from Lynchburg and Barking Pig BBQ from nearby Shebyville will most compete in the Shade...