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Council to consider
certified city tax rate
By Brian Graves
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
Elizabethton City Council is expected to
approve a property tax rate of $1.78 at
tonight’s council meeting.
The new rate is lower than the current
$2.30; however, because of higher property
appraisals the rate is projected to earn as
much revenue for the 2006-07 budget year as
the current rate did for this year.
Approval of the proposed rate would be
the 14th straight year the city has not faced a
property tax increase.
“I am really pleased that we are able to forgo a tax increase for the citizens of Elizabethton again,” said Mayor Janie McKinney. “I
think that speaks well of our city staff who
work tirelessly and efficiently to make sure
our citizens receive the services they need
while keeping costs down.”
The council is also expected to discuss the
Lake Fun
recent MTAS report concerning possible irregularities in the recent appointment by former School Board Chairman Judy Richardson
of former board member James “Bo” Campbell.
That report suggested the appointment
was illegal and that council is the legislative
body that should make appointments to fill
the school board vacancies.
Council members will also consider increasing mileage reimbursement rates for employees; approval of agreement with TDOT
for use of property under the Broad Street
Bridge to construct the Linear/Walking Bicycle path; approval of a traffic light at the intersection of Charlie Robinson Drive and State
Route 67; approval for a multi-phase signal
on Highway 321/67; and consideration of a
request to rename the field at Douglas Park.
Council will begin at 6 p.m. setting as the
Board of Public Utilities and will immediately go into council business once the utility
agenda has been cleared.
U.S. raises airline threat
level to highest level in
response to British plot
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The U.S. government issued
its highest terrorism alert
ever for commercial flights
from Britain to the United
States early today after a terror plot was disrupted in
London, with a specific concern for tourist-filled flights
to major U.S. cities.
Terrorists had targeted
United, American and Continental airlines, two U.S.
counterterrorism
officials
said.
“The plot was to board international flights, potentially headed to the U.S., with
bombs fashioned in a way
that they would be in carryons, and blow them up in
midair,” one intelligence official said. This official said
the terrorists had hoped to
target flights to major airports in New York, Washington and California, all major
summer tourist destinations.
In addition to the highest
alert for flights from Britain,
the alert for all flights com-
ing or going from the United
States was also raised slightly, to orange. The government banned beverages, hair
gels and lotions from flights,
explaining only that liquids
emerged as a risk from the
investigation in Britain.
Multiple flights to multiple American cities were put
on alert. Specifically, these
airlines included United Airlines, American Airlines and
Continental Airlines Inc., the
two counterterrorism officials said. American and
United flights were turned
into terrorist weapons on
Sept. 11, 2001, when they
were hijacked and crashed.
It is the first time the red
alert level in the Homeland
Security warning system has
been invoked, although
there have been brief periods in the past when the orange level was applied.
Homeland Security defines
the red alert as designating a
“severe risk of terrorist attacks.”
One intelligence official
said the first-ever red alert
signaled extreme concern
within the government. “We
are concerned enough to put
the highest wall up we can,”
this official said.
Officials said the government has been aware of the
nature of the threat for several days, and President
Bush was fully briefed.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff issued
a statement overnight.
“We believe that these arrests (in London) have significantly disrupted the
threat, but we cannot be sure
that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot
completely
thwarted,”
Chertoff said in announcing
that the threat level for
flights from Britain to the
United States has been
raised to the highest “severe
or red” level.
“To
defend
further
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Imagination Library hopes
governor can attend October gala
By Steve Burwick
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
The Carter County Imagination Library (CCIL) Committee is still hoping to have
Gov. Phil Bredesen present
at the fundraising gala being
planned for Saturday, Oct.
28.
Carter County Mayor
Dale Fair told the committee
that the governor could not
commit that far ahead but
that the possibility of his attendance still looked favorable.
Various details of the
event were decided by the
committee at their regularly
scheduled meeting Wednesday, including the choice of
Merry Mary Shoppe as
caterer, the Truman Clark
Annex of Carter County
Health Department as a location and a price of $600 for
a table of six. The event will
seat about 200 people.
Four teachers, two each
from the Elizabethton City
and Carter County School
Systems, will be selected
from recommendations and
honored at the gala as Educators Hall of Fame inductees. Recommendations
Deaths
Alice L. Arnett
Johnson City
Betty H. Cable
Roan Mountain
Laura L. Grindstaff
Watauga
Iva J. Mathes
Elizabethton
David A. Sheets
Elizabethton
Photo by Eveleigh Hatfield
Tony Stewart wakeboards across South Holston Lake to beat the summer heat. South
Holston Lake along with Watauga Lake will experience early drawdowns due to dry conditions. However, with the heat of summer continuing, the lake is a refreshing and fun
place to be.
Tennessee reports $387M
in surplus tax collections
NASHVILLE (AP) — The
state collected $387 million
more than expected in the recently completed budget year,
including nearly $104 million
in funds that haven’t been appropriated in the current fiscal year.
State Finance Commissioner Dave Goetz said the unexpected revenues were driven
by corporate tax collections,
which came in at $137 million
more than planned in the fiscal year ending June 30.
Tennessee had to
raise the state sales
tax in 2002 to
balance the budget
and end a state
government
shutdown.
will be made during the
month of September, for one
retired and one deceased
member of each school system.
The Roan Mountain State
Park Conference Center was
already booked on the chosen date of the gala and
Sycamore Shoals Park was
ruled out for lack of a
kitchen.
CCIL Foundation members who have donated a
second thousand dollars will
receive six free tickets. Donations from Lone Star Restaurant to CCIL, including the
$2,500 corporate donation
and $3,470 brought in at the
pre-opening party, totaled
$5,970.
Committee member Ron-
going forward, just to be honest,” he said.
Lawmakers earlier this
year finalized a $26.1 billion
state budget that included
about $280 million to account
for the surpluses expected at
the time. That surplus was
only an estimate because the
new budget year begins before the state has final numbers on the previous year’s
tax collections.
Having extra cash on hand
is a benefit for the Legislature
as it goes into session in January, Goetz said.
“The most prudent way to
manage is to always over-collect and under-spend a little
bit on your budget,” he said.
“The cash is always good for
projects in the next year.”
State Sen. Jim Bryson, the
Republican challenger to incumbent Gov. Phil Bredesen
in this fall’s election, wants to
use some of the state’s budget
surplus to pay for a reduction
in the state’s sales tax on groceries.
Goetz said Bryson’s approach is dangerous because
it does not plan for a downturn in tax collections.
“He’s willing to jump into
something with absolutely no
plan on how to make it up,
and talks about increasing
spending on the other side,”
Goetz said.
“That’s exactly the kind of
thought that got us into trouble eight years ago, and it’s
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“Basically, it’s good news,”
Goetz said Wednesday.
But Goetz went on to warn
the lawmakers on the Fiscal
Review Committee that they
should not expect vastly higher tax collections to become a
permanent feature of budget
planning, especially because
franchise and excise taxes are
historically difficult to predict.
“It makes my stomach hurt
to think that we’re going to
bank on that kind of growth
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sent stocks lower
Wednesday.
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Sports . . . . . . . .Page 8
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A
suicide bomber detonated a
belt of explosives near a highly
revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq today, killing at least
33 people and injuring 108, an
official said.
The bomber blew himself
up while being patted down
by policemen near the Imam
Ali mosque in the Shiite holy
city of Najaf, said Dr. Munthir
al-Ithari, the head of the city’s
health directorate.
Shiite religious leaders in
Najaf accused Sunni loyalists
of former dictator Saddam
Hussein of carrying out the attack.
“We hold Takfiris (Sunni extremists) and Saddamists directly responsible for this horrible crime ... at the same time
we hold those who embrace
terrorism in Iraq and the countries supporting it as responsible,” the statement said.
In other violence today, 16
people were killed across the
country, most of them in Baghdad, including three policemen
who died in a gunfight with insurgents. Five bodies were also
found today.
The Najaf bombing occurred at about 10:30 a.m. in a
market packed with pilgrims
and shoppers in front of the
Imam Ali mosque, which contains the tomb of Prophet
Muhammad’s son-in-law, Ali.
It is one of the world’s most sacred shrines for Shiites, the minority sect of Islam.
Shakir Obeid Hassan, who
was injured in the blast, said
the suicide bomber was
stopped at the last police
checkpoint before the shrine,
which was untouched, though
all the stores facing the shrine
were damaged, he said.
“Before I reached the check-
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Dozens
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near shrine
Najaf
SOURCE: ESRI
AP
point, only a few (feet) from
the shrine, I heard a huge explosion. Something hit me on
the head and I fell. I couldn’t
hear for a while but I saw bodies and human flesh everywhere,” Hassan, 51, said from
his hospital bed.
The Grand Market, directly
in front of the shrine’s entrance, is a wide road with
shops lining both sides selling
perfumes, jewelry, clothes and
religious souvenirs, including
rings with pictures of Ali and
his son Hussein.
The aftermath of the bombing was a scene of carnage. Indistinguishable debris, boxes
of perfume bottles, sandals
and worry beads littered the
bloodied street. Volunteers
picked up human remains and
washed away the thick pools
of blood.
Najaf, 100 miles south of
Baghdad, is a major pilgrim
destination for Shiites around
the world, especially from
neighboring Iran, which is predominantly Shiite like Iraq. AlIthari said one Iranian woman
was among the 33 dead and
nine Iranians among the 108
injured.
Najaf was the scene of
heavy fighting in 2004 between
U.S. forces and the Mahdi
Army of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, until the Shiite cleri-
cal hierarchy convinced the
militiamen to give up.
Since then the city had been
tightly controlled by police and
Shiite guards, including former militiamen. The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini lived for years in exile in Najaf and Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah,
studied there.
Generations of tensions between Shiites and Sunnis
turned into bloodshed after a
Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite
shrine in Samarra. Extremists
among both communities have
been embroiled in tit-for-tat attacks since then, fueling fears
that Iraq was on the verge of
civil war.
A bombing near another
Shiite shrine in Kufa, the twin
city of Najaf, on July 18 killed
53 people. Today’s explosions
is the first time that an attack
has taken place near the Imam
Ali shrine.
The Shiite Endowment
urged people not to be incited
by “this terrorist and criminal
attack.” The attack shows
“blind hatred and insistence on
blasphemy,” the endowment
said in a statement, and called
on people “to remain united”
to thwart sectarianism.
Sectarian clashes have
largely occurred in the Baghdad area, where about 1,500 violent deaths were reported last
month, a dramatic rise from
about 1,000 deaths in January.
Most of the deaths were believed to be the result of sectarian feuding.
The bloodshed has dashed
U.S. hopes for an early drawdown in the 127,000-member
U.S. military force here. Instead, the U.S. military is rushing about 12,000 American and
Iraqi soldiers to Baghdad.
Israel delays new
offensive in Lebanon
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel
will hold back a new ground
offensive in Lebanon until the
weekend to give cease-fire efforts another chance, senior
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France wants Israel to pull
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In fighting today, Hezbollah
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road linking Lebanon to Syria.
In Israel, Hezbollah rockets
killed two Israeli Arabs, including an infant, medics said.
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the tense six-hour meeting,
ministers received constant
updates on the rising Israeli
military casualties in Lebanon.
A senior government official said today that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has decided
to hold off on the offensive until the weekend. The campaign
could begin earlier if Hezbollah launches a major attack on
Israel, the official said on condition of anonymity because
he is not authorized to discuss
the issue with reporters.
Cabinet minister Rafi Eitan
confirmed the government’s
decision to wait.
“There are diplomatic considerations,” he told Israel Radio, when asked about a
planned delay. “There is still a
chance that an international
force will arrive in the area. We
have no interest in being in
south Lebanon. We have an interest in peace on our borders.”
The government’s running
of the war was coming under
growing criticism at home.
The army has failed to make
a dent in Hezbollah’s ability to
fire rockets at Israel — the
guerrillas fired 170 on Wednesday, for a war total of more
than 3,500 — and critics said
pushing deeper into Lebanon
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Mofaz criticized the planned
new offensive, Peretz reportedly shot back: “Where were you
when Hezbollah built up this
array (of weapons)?”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called during the
meeting, officials said, and
Olmert told ministers after his
half-hour conversation with
Rice that the offensive would
be accompanied by a new
diplomatic push.
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Oil field shutdown raises questions about other U.S. pipelines
Supply disruption
BP’s shutdown of the Prudhoe
Bay oil field will cut output by
400,000 barrels per day, nearly
8 percent of daily U.S. production.
TransAlaska
Pipeline
U.S. oil supply
Total domestic: 5.1 million bpd
400,000 bpd
taken offline
Total Alaska:
Total imports:
864,000 bpd
10.1 million bpd
CAN.
ALASKA
Anchorage
Valdez
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office.
Belvin said the company is
asking for deliveries in September, which will be a challenge. JFE Steel is a unit of JFE
Holdings Inc., one of the top
steel pipe manufacturers.
Although pipeline work in
Alaska is generally done in
winter, when the frozen
ground makes surface transportation easier, sections of
pipe measuring at least 40
feet could be flown in and
welded together sooner, he
Slope. Most work for several
weeks and take several more
off.
Despite such efforts, however, energy officials have
said the pipeline repairs are
likely to take months, curtailing Alaskan production into
next year.
The Prudhoe Bay shutdown also is raising questions
about whether there are more
widespread problems in other pipelines used to transport
oil throughout the United
States.
For decades, some critics
charge, lax government regulation combined with corporate unwillingness to make
costly repairs has allowed
corrosion and other wearand-tear issues to fester.
“I think all the pipelines
are in trouble regardless of
who operates or who owns
them,” said Dan Lawn, who
previously worked for the
Alaska Department of Environment Conservation and is
now with the Alaska Forum
Beaufort Sea
Prudhoe
Bay oil field
Bering Sea
ANCHORAGE,
Alaska
(AP) — BP PLC said it is
working with a number of
suppliers in hopes of quickly
amassing materials needed to
replace 16 miles of aging oil
pipes on Alaska’s North
Slope.
BP is taking steps to replace
the pipelines after a small leak
and severe corrosion in one
part of the pipes prompted
the company to shut down
the nation’s largest oil field.
The Prudhoe Bay oil field
operated by BP accounts for 8
percent of domestic output.
“BP is going to spare no expense to put the situation
right and to ensure the safety
of
the
pipeline,”
BP
spokesman Scott Dean said
Wednesday.
BP has approached Japan’s
JFE Steel Corp. and other
steel producers about buying
18-inch pipe to replace the
corroded sections at Prudhoe
Bay, said David Belvin, senior
technology manager of sales
and service at JFE’s Houston
AP
said.
“Can they work there
now? Yes, they can,” Belvin
said.
VECO Corp., which provides services to the oil industry, started putting welders
on overnight shifts to meet
demand for steel sleeves BP
ordered to reinforce the
pipeline, said Mark Pettit, a
supervisor.
Two of his 18 workers have
also volunteered to extend
their stints on the North
for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group.
The concerns extend beyond corrosion in the pipes,
said Stan Stephens, president
of the Prince William Sound
Regional Citizens Advisory
Council, which was formed
by federal mandate after the
Exxon Valdez spill to advise
the industry about potential
environmental problems.
Stephens also worries
about general maintenance of
the aging pipeline system, as
well as environmental and
safety issues with shipping
and storage. He charges that
the government has not done
enough to force companies to
maintain the system.
“They have a system that
just fails to really do a good
job of oversight,” Stephens
said. “There’s nobody like the
state and federal government
that’s forcing them to do the
right thing.”
Oil and gas industry officials defend their monitoring
practices, although they con-
cede that the leak discovery
raises troubling questions.
“We were shocked and disappointed when we saw the
results of our inspection,”
Dean said. “Even though we
believe we had a very comprehensive and rigorous inspection program, it was
clearly not enough.”
Alyeska Pipeline Service
Co., which operates and
maintains the trans-Alaska
pipeline, began a high-tech
inspection of its pipeline following a March spill, when
corrosion in another BP transit line in Prudhoe Bay caused
a spill of up to 267,000 gallons.
The inspection, which
originally had been slated for
2007, is about 25 percent complete, said Mike Heatwole,
spokesman for Alyeska. But
Heatwole said it’s too early to
say whether there is evidence
of corrosion concerns.
Oil from the Prudhoe Bay
site feeds into the 800-mile
trans-Alaska system.
Incumbent losses a repudiation certain to echo through elections
Joe Lieberman
“I don’t see it as an antiincumbent move,” said Vice
President Dick Cheney,
adding that the night’s two
other
lawmaker-losers,
Reps. Joe Schwarz, R-Mich.,
and Cynthia McKinney, DGa., don’t involve “national
ramifications.”
Schwarz and Lieberman
shared
a
connection,
though, and it crossed party
lines.
Both are moderates in
their parties who sought to
survive in an era of intense
political division. Both were
targeted for defeat by activist groups from outside
their states, and both fell to
rivals offering a harder
edge.
For her part, McKinney
suffered her second primary
defeat in four years in a
roller-coaster career marked
by incendiary public comments and confrontations.
In June, she apologized to
the House after scuffling
with a Capitol police officer.
Both she and her rival,
Hank Johnson, are black, as
are a majority of the voters
in their district.
Overall, the polls suggest
incumbents have more reason to be concerned than
they have in recent campaigns.
A Washington Post-ABC
News survey this month
showed an anti-incumbent
mood akin to 1994, when a
landslide swept Democrats
from power and ushered in
an era of Republican control
in Congress. In the survey,
53 percent described their
mood as anti-incumbent,
only 29 percent said they
were pro-incumbent. In
June 1994, the result was 5429 percent.
Paradoxically, 55 percent
of those polled said they approved of the way their own
representative was doing
his job, with 37 percent disapproving. That marks a decline from the levels regularly recorded in the late
1990s, although it still
Iraq, and only 22 percent
approved. Sixty percent of
the opponents voted for Lamont.
Nearly 60 percent said
Lieberman was too close to
Bush.
Outside groups played a
role in the Connecticut race,
as well, although in a less
visible way. Lamont’s candidacy drew energy from
bloggers who lampooned
Lieberman, and members of
MoveOn.org raised more
than $250,000 for him.
Just as Schwarz had the
backing of his party establishment, Lieberman’s supporters included the Democratic hierarchy. Bill Clinton
campaigned for him, as did
several incumbent senators.
McKinney’s loss seemed
to have little, if any, connection to a national trend.
“I’m getting tired of being embarrassed. She’s an
embarrassment to the whole
state,” said James Vining,
72, who said he voted for
her rival, Hank Johnson.
to
leaves individual lawmakers with better grades than
the 51-38 percent rating of
1994.
Democrats and Republicans both focused on Ned
Lamont’s
victory
over
Lieberman in claiming a
clamor for change would
benefit their own campaigns
this fall.
“The perception was that
(Lieberman) was too close
to George Bush and this
was, in many respects, a
referendum on the president more than anything
else,” said Sens. Harry Reid
of Nevada and Chuck
Schumer of New York, the
party’s leader and the head
of its Senate campaign committee.
Republicans said Democrats had it exactly backward.
“The Harry Truman, JFK
Democratic icon was defeated yesterday by someone who ran essentially a
single-issue race. I think it
is not only a bad thing for
the county, it is a bad thing
for the Democratic Party,”
said Republican chairman
Ken Mehlman, referring to
Lieberman. He said Republicans “welcome independent-minded, Democrats like
Joe Lieberman.”
In
defeat,
though,
Lieberman and Schwarz
read the results the same.
“I look at this election as
probably a victory for
right-to-life, anti-abortion,
anti-embryonic stem cell
groups but it’s a net loss for
the Republican Party because it just pushes the party farther to the right,” said
Schwarz, serving his first
term.
In some respects, his
2004 victory was less expected than his defeat two
years later. Then he was the
only moderate in a six-way
primary, winning with less
than 28 percent of the vote
and coasting to victory in
his Republican district in
the fall.
This time, he had only
one challenger, conservative
Tim Walberg, who had support from the conservative
Club for Growth, the Michigan Right to Life and
groups opposed to President Bush’s plan to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
Schwarz was endorsed
by Bush, Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz., and the National
Rifle Association.
Outside groups spent an
estimated $3 million combined on the race.
If Schwarz was trounced
by conservatives, Lieberman fell to liberal primary
voters who saw the veteran
Democrat as too accommodating to the president and
too supportive of the war in
Iraq.
He said he intends to run
as an independent, adding
he didn’t want to see the
likes of Lamont’s supporters “take over my party or
the country.”
A CBS News-New York
Times survey of Connecticut
voters leaving their polling
places found that 78 percent
of them disapproved of the
decision to go to war with
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Funds are available for skateboard
parks...we just need a plan
Gov. Phil Bredesen this
week announced more than
$11.3 million in parks and
recreation grants to recipients
across Tennessee. The announcement includes approximately $8.7 million in Local
Parks and Recreation Fund
grants, more than $2 million
Recreation Trails Program
grants, and $480,000 in Land
and
Water
Conservation
Funds.
The list of grants, which
was four pages long, include
monies to construct soccer
fields, community parks, walking trails, canoe and kayak
launches, tennis courts, athletic
field lighting, football fields,
off-highway vehicle trails, amphitheaters, and even new
skateboard parks. The projects
were as varied as the cities and
counties, which received the
grants — Dyer, Greeneville,
Paris, Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Alcoa, Maryville, Cleveland,
Tazewell, Newport, Tullahoma, Kingsport, Gallatin,
Sparta,
Lakeland,
and
Hawkins County.
Carter County and Elizabethton sure could use a skateboard park, and with money
available for such a project,
why can’t we get funds for
such an endeavor? Tipton
County received $67,500 to develop a skateboard park; the
city of Fayetteville received
$42,000 to construct a multiuse skateboard park in an already-developed recreational
complex, and the city of Newport received $36,000 for devel-
OPINION
opment of a skate park. Also,
the city of Manchester received
$100,000 to develop a new
skate park.
The grants ranged from as
little as $10,000 to $50,000.
Guess what? Elizabethton
and Carter County received
not one penny of the grant
money. Apparently, because
they did not apply for any
money. Money was granted for
87 designated community
projects. Some cities and counties received funds for more
than one project. The maximum share for each project is
80 percent, so all Recreation
Trail Program grant recipients
must provide a 20 percent
match. That’s a real bargain!
For years, the need has been
expressed for a skateboard
park to serve kids, who enjoy
the sport of skateboarding.
There are few places for kids
to skateboard, unless they do it
in the city streets, on sidewalks
or in the local parks. Also, the
new County Parks and Recreation Committee is looking for
funds to develop ballfields in
the county as well as the ongoing development of the Roan
Mountain Community Park.
And, the War Memorial Committee says it needs extra
monies to complete the Walk
of Honor. It seems these state
grants might be a good plan
to seek. Carter County and
Elizabethton could easily
qualify for these funds, which
would be a big boost to parks
development. Also, instead of
using local taxpayer funds for
these projects, the state grants
would be an alternative funding source.
Grant recipients are selected through a scoring process
with careful consideration
given to the projects that
meet the selection criteria and
express the greatest local
recreation need. Elizabethton
and Carter County easily fit
the criteria. We hope that
park and recreation leaders in
both the city and county can
put their heads together this
year and come up with a plan
for a skateboard park to serve
local youngsters and take
them off the street. Let’s go after some state funds, and provide our kids a safe place to
skateboard!
DEBRA SAUNDERS
Something for nothing
The Center-Left Democratic Leadership Council rightly
has figured out that the
American middle class feels it
is too low on
the Bush totem
pole, and so
the DLC has
devised
an
American
Dream Initiative that promises to relieve
Debra
the
middle
Saunders class in ways
that
would
never occur to
the Bushies — while helping
to elect more Democrats.
On the politics, the American Dream Initiative is brilliant. The Bushies clearly
don’t understand how it
looks to the heartland when
the administration tries to get
rid of half of the IRS auditors
who investigate inheritance
tax returns. Bush’s signing of
the bankruptcy bill last year
was a bail-out for rapacious
banks that enable dicey credit-card
spending.
Even
though the Bush tax cuts
helped the middle class as
well as the rich, they occurred
as the federal debt ballooned
to $8 trillion — a sorry legacy
for all of America’s children.
On the policy, the DLC
Dream is not that impressive.
Iowa Governor and DLC
Chairman Tom Vilsack was in
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San Francisco last week touting the DLC Dream, and he
showed a solid understanding of where Washington is
going wrong. He complained
that everyone talks about the
“death tax,” while he wants
to do something about the
“birth tax,” that is, the
$156,000 that is each American’s share of the federal debt
burden.
Hosanna.
But the DLC goes too far in
pushing an initiative that,
sort of, promises a Europeanstyle welfare state — but,
since we’re Americans, we
don’t have to pay steep European taxes. That is, thank you
very much, more something
for nothing.
The Dem Dream promises
to make health care and education cheaper, with this kind
of language: “Every American should have the opportunity and responsibility to go
to college and earn a degree,
or to get the lifelong training
they need.”
Responsibility to go to college? What does that even
mean?
Is everybody supposed to
go to college? I ask.
Vilsack responds that one
of the saddest things he has
to deal with as a governor is
meeting young adults who
tell him, “I really want to go
to College X, but we can’t af-
ford it, so I’m either not going
to college or I’m going to the
community college down the
road.” Vilsack is also upset
that his son had to borrow six
figures to finish law school
and thinks the government
should step in so that students can go to the university
or law school of their choice
and still not shoulder a huge
loan that prevents them from
buying a home until their 30s.
The government can,
should and does offer loans
and grants for students, but I
don’t think waitresses and
janitors should pick up the
whole tab for someone else’s
law school of choice.
As it turns out, neither
does the DLC. The American
Dream Initiative promises a
10-year, $150 billion block
grant for states that work to
make college more affordable. The blueprint also calls
for a $3,000 tuition-tax credit
for college and graduate students — which would be
welcome relief for families,
even if it is not a free education at a pricey Ivy League institution. The plan also calls
for help for nontraditional
students.
Still, when it comes to
promises of more government without raising your
taxes, well, that must by why
the DLC called it a “dream”
initiative.
ROBERT NOVAK
Dealing with Israel
WASHINGTON — Reports of Israeli air attacks on
Qana in Lebanon, killing at
least 28 people including 19
children July
30, threatened
Israel with a
American public
relations
calamity. But
this soon was
eclipsed on cable television
front
Robert and
pages of many
Novak newspapers by
actor Mel Gibson’s drunken anti-Semitic
rant.
The attention by much of
the news media turned from
Lebanon to Gibson attempting an apology sufficiently
abject to satisfy the AntiDefamation League. Only a
conspiracy theorist might
claim this was an intentional
escape route for American
politicians to avoid a possible
Israeli atrocity, but it certainly
served that purpose. Washington remains largely a bipartisan, criticism-free zone
for Israel.
While Republican Chuck
Hagel is a lone senior senator
who does not echo the Israeli
position, he has been ignored.
The Israeli government can
disregard with impunity President Bush’s call for restraint.
Nevertheless, Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert has failed to destroy Hezbollah militarily but
has had the effect of strengthening it politically. Meanwhile, U.S. prestige is in a free
fall throughout Islam.
The Israeli government’s
effort to clean Hezbollah out
of southern Lebanon was
carefully planned by the IDF
(Israeli Defense Force). U.S.
officials informed me 24 days
ago they would give the IDF
a week to liquidate the terrorists before Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice could pursue a cease-fire. But the long-
planned Israeli operation in
southern Lebanon found no
quick success as Hezbollah
proved itself a formidable
fighting machine.
The U.S. government has
scant ability to influence
what Israel does or even says,
as shown by a startling exchange July 28 that received
surprisingly little attention.
When a Rome summit did
not call for a cease-fire, Israeli
Justice Minister Haim Ramon
exulted that amounted to a
“green light” to crush
Hezbollah. The official U.S.
reaction came from a relatively low-level State Department
official. Adam Ereli, Rice’s
spokesman, said: “Any such
statement is outrageous.” But
Israel understandably has
treated Rome as a green light.
On the day of the green
light exchange, Hagel delivered a thoughtful address to
the Brookings Institution in
Washington. While avowing
support for Israel to retaliate
against
Hezbollah
and
Hamas (in the Gaza strip),
Hagel declared “military action alone will not destroy
Hezbollah or Hamas.”
Hagel was blunt in predicting consequences: “Extended military action will
tear apart Lebanon, destroy
its economy and infrastructure, create a humanitarian
disaster, further weaken
Lebanon’s fragile democratic
government, strengthen popular Muslim and Arab support for Hezbollah, and deepen hatred of Israel across the
Middle East. . . . The war
against
Hezbollah
and
Hamas will not be won on the
battle field.”
Such a departure by the
second ranking Republican
on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would seem
newsworthy. But it attracted
little attention outside Hagel’s
home state of Nebraska. He
went to the Senate floor July
31 to deliver an abbreviated
version of his Brookings
speech. It generated neither
approval nor dissent from
Senate colleagues — only silence.
His bold intervention will
not abet 2008 presidential ambitions. There is no political
upside in criticizing Israel.
Other members of Congress
who have said anything at all
critical of Israel are few in
number. Republican Sen. John
Sununu of New Hampshire,
whose family has roots in
Lebanon, deplored Israel’s attack on Lebanese power
plants and other government
infrastructure.
Democratic
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, in a
July 30 letter to the secretary
of state, declared that “a continuation of the bombing
campaign, as it is being carried out, is against the interests of Israel and the United
States.”
Such critics of Israel inevitably are taken to task,
sooner or later — usually
sooner. When 28 left-wing
Democratic House members
signed a resolution calling for
a cease-fire in Lebanon, Rep.
Bob Filner of California was
the only Jewish co-signer. The
ink was hardly dry before he
was contacted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the lobbying
organization that keeps an
eye on every member of Congress.
In his speech, Hagel pointed to the 2002 Saudi-sponsored Beirut declaration recognizing the state of Israel as
a starting point for Middle
East negotiations. In his letter
to Rice, Van Hollen said resolution of the Israel-Palestine
dispute is essential for Middle
Eastern peace. It is hard to
send that message to Israel
when Congress cheers on a
military situation and the
Bush administration acquiesces.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Inmate gets ‘hands up’ from sheriff in rehabilitation effort
Editor:
I would like to share with
the citizens of Carter County
my story of success during my
incarceration in the Carter
County Jail.
I have completed the G.E.D.
program offered here to inmates, received my diploma,
and have even been admitted
into college. The G.E.D. program offered to inmates here is
a very good program and it
has helped me a great deal to
rehabilitate myself. With the
opportunity to advance in education, the chances of coming
back to jail are slim once one
sees a better road to travel. It
needs a chance to develop
more. It worked for me, and it
can work for others, too, if it is
seen through.
While also being on a work
detail program, I see the sheriff
from time to time. I just asked
him one day if I could be taken
by one of his deputies to the
college and see about getting
enrolled. His exact words
were: “As long as you are trying to better yourself, I’ll help
you in any way I possibly can,
son.” If it wasn’t for his approval, encouragement and
permission, I couldn’t have
done all this.
I would like to thank Sheriff
John Henson for his help in
getting me into college. Thank
you, sheriff.
Sincerely,
William J. McPheters
Elizabethton
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Betty H. Cable
Mrs. Betty H. Cable, 63,
409 Cloudland Drive, Roan
Mountain, went home to be
with her Lord, unexpectedly,
Tuesday, August 8, 2006, at
her residence.
Mrs. Cable was born in
Avery County, N.C., but
lived most of her life in
Carter County. She was preceded in death by her father,
William Hill.
Mrs. Cable was a member
of Burbank Free Will Baptist
Church where she worked
with the Senior Adults. She
was retired from the Avery
County Department of Aging.
Survivors include her
mother, Mrs. Pauline Hughes Hill of Roan Mountain;
three daughters, Tina and
her husband Jimmy Stamey
of Newland, N.C., Jimessa
Trammel and her fiancée,
Perry Daniels of Elk Park,
N.C., and Lynn and her husband Timmy Turbyfill of
Roan Mountain; four granddaughters, Lakean Stamey
and Katie Stamey of Newland, N.C., Sarah Beth Trammel of Elk Park, N.C., and
Ryan Turbyfill of Roan
Mountain; her former husband, James Cable of Elk
Park, N.C.; a sister and
brother-in-law Darlene and
Barry Stocton, and three
brothers and sisters-in-law,
Carroll and Pat Hill, Johnny
and Vicki Hill and Don and
Vickie Hill, all of Roan
Mountain; several nieces
and nephews; and special
friends, Helen Guinn, Tena
Davis, Betty Cable and
Louise Shell, all of Elk Park,
N.C., Carolyn Boggs and
Louise Baldwin of Roan
Mountain.
The funeral service for
Mrs. Cable will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday, August 10, at Burbank Free
Will Baptist Church in Roan
Mountain with Rev. Richard
Blevins and Rev. Reed
Callahan officiating. Music
will be under the direction
of Martha Hicks, Aaron
Stocton and Denise Hill.
Graveside services and interment will be at 10 a.m.
Friday, August 11, at Hughes Cemetery in the Burbank
community. Friends may
call on the family from 6 to
8 p.m. Thursday at the Burbank Free Will Baptist
Church and at other times
at the home of her mother,
Pauline Hill, 132 Cove
Creek Road, Roan Mountain. Active pallbearers will
be Todd Hill, Kevin Hill,
Anthony Roberts, James Cable, Dwight Hughes and
Aaron Stocton. Honorary
pallbearers will be Ted Barnett, Jimmy Hughes, J.L.
Troutman, Don Troutman,
Tom Cable, Wayne Stocton
and R.D. Daniels. Everyone
will meet at the church at
9:15 a.m. Friday to go in
procession to the cemetery.
Online condolences may be
Iva J. Mathes
Iva Jean Buckles Mathes,
77, 150 Danny Mathes Road,
Elizabethton, went to be
with the Lord Tuesday, August 8, 2006, at Johnson City
Medical Center following a
brief illness.
A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the
late Roy and Susie Elliott
Buckles. In addition to her
parents, she was preceded
in death by two sons, Danny and Ricck Mathes, and
two brothers, Ronnie and
Jack Buckles.
Mrs. Mathes was a member of Pleasant Beach Baptist Church. She loved
spending time with her
family and also enjoyed
cooking for them. She was a
very wonderful and loving
wife, mother and grandmother, who will be greatly
missed by her family.
Survivors include her
husband of 58 years, Bill L.
Mathes, of the home; a
daughter and son-in-law,
Susie and Roger Garland,
Elizabethton; two grandsons, Travis Mathes and
Justin Lowe, both of Elizabethton; two brothers and
sisters-in-law, Billy and Joy
Buckles and Larry and Hazel
Buckles, all of Elizabethton;
and a sister and brother-inlaw, Cora and Kelsie Smith,
Elizabethton. Several nieces
and nephews also survive.
A funeral service for Mrs.
Mathes will be held at 8 p.m.
Friday, August 11, in the
Chapel of Peace of Tetrick
Funeral Home with Pastor
Bobby Stout officiating. Music will be under the direction of Eddie Palmer, soloist.
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the residence at other times.
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and friends are asked to
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10:15 a.m. Saturday to travel
together in procession to the
cemetery. Active pallbearers
will be Travis Mathes, Justin
Lowe, Joe Buckles, Steve
Franklin, Chris Mathes, Darrell Foster, Jackie Mathes,
Adam Buckles and Freddie
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the arrangements. Obituary
Line: (423) 543-4917. Office:
(423) 542-2232.
David A. Sheets
David Adam Sheets, 24,
116 Kuhn Road, Elizabethton, died Monday, August 7,
2006, at Johnson City Medical Center.
Mr. Sheets was a native of
Carter County. He was a factory worker and a member
of the Holiness faith.
Survivors
include
a
daughter, Elizabeth Dawn
Hicks, Elizabethton; his parents, David and Gladys Barnett Sheets, of the home; a
sister, Hope Marie Wright,
Elizabethton; his paternal
grandmother, Lilly Sheets,
Elizabethton; and one niece.
Funeral services for Mr.
Sheets were conducted at 8
p.m. Wednesday, August 9,
at Memorial Funeral Chapel
with the Rev. Jerry Davis officiating. Graveside services
and interment will be at 1
p.m. Thursday, August 10, in
the Emmert Cemetery. Pallbearers will be selected from
family and friends. The family received friends from 7 to
8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Online condolences to the Sheets family
may
be
e-mailed
to
[email protected].
Memorial Funeral Chapel
is in charge of the arrangements.
Laura L. Grindstaff
Laura Lee Grindstaff, 98,
465 Cripple Creek Loop,
Watauga, died Wednesday,
August 9, 2006, at Pine Ridge
Care Center.
A native of Carter County,
she was a daughter of the late
Daniel and Dessie Glover
Grindstaff. In addition to her
parents, she was preceded in
death by three brothers and
two sisters.
Miss Grindstaff was a retired employee of North
American Rayon Corporation after 42 years of service.
She was a member of Valley
Forge Christian Church.
Miss Grindstaff loved to
work in her flowers. She was
a seamstress and enjoyed
quilting.
Survivors include a niece
and her husband, Mary Lynn
and Richard Phillips, Watauga; her nephew, J.B. Shepherd,
Elizabethton;
two
great-nieces, Wendy Eggers
and her husband, Jason, and
Shannon Phillips and her fiancé, Jeff Johnson; a greatgreat-niece, Kayla Eggleston;
a great-great-nephew, Ryan
Eggers; and a special friend,
Eloise Phillips.
A graveside service for
Miss Grindstaff will be conducted at 3 p.m. Friday, August 11, at Happy Valley
Memorial Park with Mr. Clay
Bailey, minister, officiating.
Music will be provided by
Beth Ann Henley. Interment
will follow the service. Active
pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral
home at 2:30 p.m. Friday, will
be Lynn Scott, Jason Eggers,
Jeff Johnson, Pat Hicks, Garry Smith, Nick Jimenez, Steve
Shepherd and Brad Shepherd. Honorary pallbearers
will be the staff of Pine Ridge
Care Center, Dr. Jerry
Gastineau, Dr. Stephen May,
Dr. R.S. Martin and Dr. Kyle
Colvett. Jon Shell, piper, will
also provide music. Friends
may call at the funeral home
Thursday afternoon or Friday morning or at the residence of her niece, Mary
Lynn Phillips, 465 Cripple
Creek Loop, Watauga. Fami-
ly and friends will assemble
at the funeral home at 2:30
p.m. Friday to go to the
cemetery. Online condolences to the Grindstaff family may be e-mailed to
[email protected].
Memorial Funeral Chapel
is in charge of the arrangements.
Alice L. Arnett
Alice Leone Hyder Arnett,
85, 2 Staunton Circle, Johnson City, formerly of 400
Allen Avenue, Elizabethton,
died Wednesday, August 9,
2006, at Johnson City Medical
Center following a brief illness.
Mrs. Arnett was preceded
in death by her parents, Ina
E. and Clarence Hyder, of the
Oak Grove community, her
husband, Orville Arnett, and
a brother, Arnold Hyder.
She was associated with
Roy
Hathaway
Funeral
Home in the late 1940s and
1950s. She later retired as codirector of the Elizabethton
Girls Club.
Leone was a member of
First Baptist Church in Elizabethton.
Survivors
include
a
daughter, Felecia Arnett
Kosco, of the home; two
grandchildren, Madra Campbell Stout and her husband
Duane, Johnson City, and
Keir Arnett Kosco and his
wife Jessica, Chandler, Ariz.;
two
great-grandchildren,
Devin Stout, Johnson City,
and Micah Kosco, Chandler,
Ariz.; a nephew and his wife,
Steve and Judy Hyder, Elizabethton; two dear sisters-inlaw, Mrs. Nadine Lambert,
Johnson City, and Mrs.
Catherine Arnett, Ft. Collins,
Colo.; and a special friend,
Stan Bishop, Johnson City.
A Memorial Service for
Mrs. Arnett will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. Friday, August 11, in the Sunset Chapel
of Hathaway-Percy Funeral
Home with Rev. Scott Hayes
officiating. Music will be under the direction of Mrs.
Brenda Pelham, soloist, and
Mrs. Trilla Little, organist.
Private disposition will be
held at a later date. The family will receive friends at the
funeral home from 6 to 7:30
p.m. Friday or at the residence of her daughter, 2
Staunton Circle (Martindale
Estates), Johnson City, at
anytime. The family would
like to express a special
thank you to the 2800 Wing
of the Johnson City Medical
Center including Lisa Torbett, Allison Elly, Jill Smith,
Allison Orr, Gena Spencer,
Paula Clark, Marlene Jaynes,
Misty Brashears, Tim White,
Chris Pullon and Jessica
Livesay. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Charles Cole,
Dr. Vivian Clark, Dr. Kyle
Colvett, Dr. Dan McCoy, Dr.
Stephen Hopkins, Chaplain
Mike Kidd and June and
Sarah of the Radiation Department and the Emergency
Room Nurse, Tina, of the
Johnson City Medical Center.
In lieu of flowers to those
who desire memorials may
be made to the Carter County
Humane Society, 159 Hickory
Hollow Road, Elizabethton,
TN 37643. Online condolences may be sent to the
family through our Web site
at www.hathwaypercy.com.
Arrangements for the Arnett family have been entrusted to Hathaway-Percy
Funeral Home.
Bail delayed for minister’s wife accused of murder
SELMER (AP) — A minister’s wife accused of killing her husband failed to get
out of jail Wednesday when a judge said
he needed more time to review paperwork for her $750,000 bond.
Mary Winkler’s lawyers, her father
and a representative of a bonding company arrived at the McNairy County Jail in
the late afternoon planning to free her to
await trial Oct. 30 on a first-degree murder charge.
The efforts hit a snag when Judge Weber McCraw notified the sheriff’s department that he wants court administrators
to take a look at the bond arrangement,
covered by cash and pledges of property
collateral.
“He wants to make sure the paperwork is in order. I understand,” defense
attorney Leslie Ballin said. Ballin and fellow defense lawyer Steve Farese said
Winkler’s family had worked out the
arrangement with Alpha Bail Bonds
Agency of Somerville.
Winkler has been in custody since
March 23, the day after her 31-year-old
husband, Matthew Winkler, was found
dead in the church parsonage in Selmer,
about 80 miles east of Memphis.
At a hearing earlier Wednesday, her attorneys asked McCraw to throw out their
client’s statements to police, one of which
authorities describe as a confession.
The attorneys contend she was illegally arrested in Orange Beach and any evidence against her resulting from that arrest cannot be presented in court.
Ballin said written arguments would
be filed next week to support dismissing
the statements. McCraw gave no indication when he would rule.
At the hearing, an agent with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation said Winkler admitted shooting her husband but
resisted talking about him or their marriage.
Stabler said Winkler told him she had
not been physically abused.
But when asked by Farese if she talked
about a “life-threatening experience”
with her husband several years earlier,
Stabler said she did.
Stabler did not give details. He said
Winkler told him her marriage improved
after that incident, but it had begun to deteriorate over the past year.
Outside the courtroom, Farese refused
to discuss the incident, but the defense
has implied since Winkler’s arrest that she
had a troubled marriage. Prosecutors also
refused to talk about the investigation.
In a statement to the Tennessee Bureau
of Investigation, Winkler said she shot
her husband with a 12-gauge shotgun after a night of arguing over finances and
other family problems.
Arrests
• Larry Dean Dishman, 58, 137 Dan Bowers Drive, was arrested Tuesday night by Carter County Sheriff’s Department
Deputy Kemp Haley and charged with DUI.
• Jarrod Eldridge Banner, 28, 197 Seminole St., Newland,
N.C., was arrested Tuesday afternoon by CCSD Sgt. Tim
Lowe and charged with public intoxication.
• Daniel Ellison, 24, 340 Lovers Lane, was arrested Tuesday night by Elizabethton Police Department Cpl. Michael
Sproviero and charged with DUI.
Atlanta airport steps
up security after plot
ATLANTA (AP) — The federal government raised its threat
warning to the highest level for commercial flights from Britain
to the United States today in response to a terror plot uncovered
in London.
And that affected travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Passengers were being told to pour out liquids before they
boarded planes. That included bottled water, toothpaste, shampoo, cologne, contact lens solution, lotion and hair gel. Baby formula and medicine had to be presented for inspection, the
Transportation Security Administration said.
The restrictions caught some travelers unaware early today.
Delta Air Lines spokesman Anthony Black said operations
would continue normally and there would be no flight cancellations. But Delta was expecting delays on flights coming from
the United Kingdom because of heightened security there,
Black said.
Black said Delta was cooperating with domestic and international security authorities but declined to give details on security procedures.
British authorities said today they had thwarted a terrorist
plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft to the U.S. using
explosives smuggled in hand luggage, averting what police described as “mass murder on an unimaginable scale.”
Officials raised security to its highest level in Britain — suggesting a terrorist attack might be imminent — and banned
hand-carried luggage on all trans-Atlantic flights.
In the United States the threat level was raised to Red — the
highest level on the alert scale — for all commercial flights coming from the United Kingdom. It was raised to Orange — the
second highest level — for all other flights.
15-month-old boy dies
when left in hot truck
RIPLEY (AP) — A 15-month-old boy died Wednesday afternoon after being left in a hot pickup truck, authorities said.
Investigators said Kimberly Hicks, 24, of Lauderdale County, told them she left the toddler in the vehicle for 10 to 15 minutes outside the residence of a friend.
Clay Newman, an investigator with the Lauderdale County
Sheriff’s Department, quoted her as saying she left the truck
running but discovered later that the air conditioner blew hot
air instead of cold.
She was jailed on a charge of reckless homicide with a bond
hearing set for Friday.
Temperatures were believed to be in the 90s at the time of
the 2 p.m. incident. The boy was seated in an infant seat in the
right rear seat of the truck, Newman said.
Hicks told investigators she tried to resuscitate her son after
returning to the vehicle. An autopsy is to be done in Nashville.
The death comes after some close calls with children left in
hot cars in western Tennessee.
A Memphis woman was charged Tuesday with reckless endangerment after police said she left her three young children
in a hot car while she visited a friend in the hospital.
A passer-by spotted the children and they were rescued unharmed.
Last week another Memphis mother was charged with
reckless endangerment after police said she left her twin infants in a hot car and they were treated for severe dehydration.
Student arrested for bringing
guns, other weapons to school
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP)
— A high school senior was
arrested on the first day of
school after guns and other
weapons were found in his
car.
The weapons were found
in Robin Kittrell’s car Monday at Whitewater High
School, officials said.
Police found at least six
weapons, including a carbine
rifle, a switchblade and a
sword, Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard
said.
Kittrell, 17, told authorities
he was trying to defend himself in case a “Columbine
kind of thing” took place at
school, Ballard said.
“I can’t say for certain
what he might have done,”
he said. “But he couldn’t
have had good intentions.”
The arrest came after
school officials received a tip
that a student would be
bringing weapons to campus,
Principal Gregory Stillions
said in a letter to parents.
Ballard said someone who
knew of Kittrell’s plan to
bring weapons told a school
resource officer. Police did
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not find any written plans, he
said.
“They were ready for him
when he got to school Monday,” he said. “I am awfully
glad they got the tip. I am
concerned about this student.”
Kittrell faces six weapons
charges and a seventh charge
of
carrying
concealed
weapons.
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GENERAL SESSIONS
Wednesday, June 28
Charles Robert Bowman;
contempt: 10 days; contempt:
10 days; criminal impersonation: $10 fine and costs, 5
months and 29 days suspended, 5 months and 29
days Crossroads; public intoxication: $50 fine and
costs, 30 days suspended.
Jeffrey Frank Burlison; assault under domestic violence: $25 fine and costs, 11
months and 29 days suspended except 7 days, 11
months and 29 days Crossroads, attend domestic violence counseling.
Jason William Ayotte;
contempt: 10 days.
Amber Lee Malone; public intoxication: $50 fine and
Carolyn Morrer; violation
of probation: 30 days, probation extended 11 months
and 29 days.
Kevin Bret Nunley; public intoxication: $50 fine and
costs, 30 days suspended;
possession of Schedule VI
drugs: $250 fine and costs,
11 months and 29 days suspended, 11 months and 29
days Crossroads, attend alcohol and drug counseling.
Clarence Mack Oaks;
public intoxication: $50 fine
and costs, 30 days suspended.
Stephen B. Pritchard; contempt: 10 days.
William Dean Shell; public intoxication: $50 fine and
Wendy Taylor (Riddle);
Matthew Clemons; contempt: 10 days.
Friday, June 30
Brandon Rhea Arrowood;
possession of drug paraphernalia: $150 fine and costs, 11
days Crossroads; driving on
a revoked license: $50 fine
and costs, 11 months and 29
days suspended except for 2
days.
Freddie S. Bare; contempt:
10 days.
Charles W. Barnes; domestic violence assault: $25
fine and costs, 11 months and
29 days suspended, 11
months and 29 days Crossroads, attend domestic violence counseling, no contact
with victim.
Wade Bynum Cordell; violation of probation: 30 days,
probation
extended
11
months and 29 days.
Judy Davis; public intoxication; $50 fine and costs, 30
days.
Valerie Nicole Gray; contempt: 10 days; violation of
probation: 30 days suspended, probation extended 11
months and 29 days.
Larry M. Lyons; violation
of probation: 109 days.
Jeffrey Whitehead; contempt: 10 days; violation of
probation: 109 days.
Robert Joe Williams; domestic assault: $25 fine and
costs, 11 months and 29 days
suspended, 11 months and
29 days Crossroads, attend
domestic violence counseling.
Charles Scott Wilson; contempt: 10 days.
Monday, July 3
Martha Deana Blevins;
false report: $10 fine and
29 days Crossroads.
Angel Louise Higgins; underage consumption of alcohol: $50 fine and costs, 11
Matthew Lee Clemons; violation of probation: 109
days; contempt: 10 days.
John Grindstaff; worthless
check: $10 fine and costs, 11
days unsupervised probation, pay restitution.
April Michelle Hall; aggravated assault under domestic violence: $25 fine and
29 days Crossroads, attend
domestic violence counseling.
Joseph Isaac Earl Morrell;
domestic assault: dismissed.
Jesse James Richardson;
violation of probation, show
cause order: capias; felony
evading arrest, felony reckless endangerment, fourth
offense driving on a revoked
license, vandalism: bound
over to grand jury.
Jeffery James Snyder; public intoxication: $50 fine and
costs, 30 days suspended;
simple possession of Schedule IV drugs: $10 fine and
Charles R. Taylor; aggravated assault under domestic
violence: bound over to
grand jury.
Morris Herman Wyatt;
driving on a suspended license: capias.
Kirk Oizo Berry; con-
tempt: 10 days.
Sarah Dawn Davis; contempt: 10 days.
Charles E. Denton Jr.;
criminal impersonation: $10
29 days suspended, 5 months
and 29 days Crossroads.
Linda Raney Mays; DUI:
$350 fine and costs, 11
months and 29 days suspended except for 2 days, 11
months and 29 days Crossroads, attend DUI school,
driver’s license suspended
for 1 year; violation of implied consent: dismissed;
open container: $25 fine and
Crystal Mayse (Lingerfelt); contempt: 10 days.
Ronnie Dale Stines; contempt: 10 days.
Friday, July 7
Robert
Blevins;
two
counts of worthless check: on
each count: $10 fine and
29 days unsupervised probation, pay restitution.
John Earnest Collins Jr.;
inhaling/possession of glue:
$10 fine and costs, 11 months
and 29 days suspended, 11
months and 29 days Crossroads.
Gene Foshia; second offense violation of probation:
109 days; contempt: 10 days.
Charles Gardner; aggravated burglary: dismissed;
reckless endangerment: $10
months and 29 days Crossroad, pay restitution.
Shannon Gardner; vandalism under $500: $10 fine and
29 days Crossroads, pay
restitution; reckless endangerment: dismissed.
Michael Calvin Greenwell; first offense violation of
probation: 30 days, probation
extended 11 months and 29
days.
Casandra Greer; violation
of probation: 30 days, probation extended 11 months and
29 days.
Justin Adam Guess; trespassing: dismissed.
Frankie L. Hamby; assault
under domestic violence: $25
months and 29 days Crossroads, attend domestic violence counseling.
Ronald William Hendrix
Jr.; driving on a suspended
license: capias.
Tonya Lee Hicks; simple
possession of Schedule VI
drugs: $250 fine and costs, 11
Donna L. Hopson; failure
to report an accident: $25 fine
Todd Patrick McCrae; contempt: 10 days.
Melvin L. Miller; violation
of driver’s license: bound
over to grand jury.
Chuckie Lynn Price; public intoxication: $50 fine and
Jackie Proffitt; public intoxication: $50 fine and costs,
30 days suspended.
Roger D. Roberts; public
intoxication: $50 fine and
Violet J. Sexton; two
counts of worthless check: on
each count: $10 fine and
29 days unsupervised probation, pay restitution.
Natalie Amanda Siegfried;
DUI, felony reckless endangerment, reckless endangerment: bound over to grand
jury.
Michael Todd Silcox; violation of probation, show
cause order: capias.
Sammie Carl Taylor; harassment,
possession
of
Schedule IV drugs without
prescription: capias.
Charles B. Wilson; criminal impersonation: $10 fine
and costs, 5 months and 29
days suspended, 5 months
and 29 days Crossroads.
Kenneth J. Wilson; driving
on a suspended license:
capias.
Rufus S. Wood; violation
of probation: 30 days.
Bridget L. Wagner; driving on a suspended license:
capias.
Connie H. Ayers; driving
on a suspended license;
capias.
Gene Foshia; resisting arrest: $25 fine and costs, 5
days Crossroads.
David Ray Garland; public intoxication: $50 fine and
Hubert Ray Coleman;
Frederick Olds; contempt:
10 days; violation of probation: 30 days, probation extended 11 months and 29
days; contempt: 10 days.
Vets who had data lost by VA
will receive credit protection
Parents marvel at
seeing twin daughters
after separation surgery
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Millions of veterans and active-duty troops whose sensitive personal information
was lost by the Veterans Affairs Department will receive
some form of credit protection against identity theft, the
government said Wednesday.
Separately, the Transportation Department inspector
general’s office said that one
of its laptop computers containing names, birth dates
and Social Security numbers
for 132,955 Florida residents
was stolen July 27 from a government vehicle in suburban
Miami.
Transportation
officials
were helping police investigate the theft of the laptop,
which was stolen in Doral,
Fla. It is believed to contain
data for about 80,667 people
issued commercial driver’s licenses in the Miami-Dade
County area; 42,792 Florida
residents holding airman certificates; and 9,496 individuals who obtained personal or
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A day after the 26-hour surgery that
separated their 4-year-old conjoined daughters, Jake and Erin
Herrin said they were overwhelmed by their reunion with
Kendra and Maliyah.
“It was like seeing them born again. They were in brand new
bodies,” Jake Herrin said. “It was really an amazing experience.”
But they were also a bit confused. Since birth Kendra has been
the twin on the left when the girls were facing their parents,
Maliyah on the right.
But now, cradled in sand-filled hospital beds at Primary Children’s Medical Center that reduce pressure on their skin, the girls
were reversed.
“That was a little shocking,” Erin Herrin said during a news
conference at the hospital Wednesday.
The twins are in critical condition, as expected after major surgery, but their vital signs have remained stable and they show no
early signs of dangerous post-surgery infections, doctors said.
“They are doing extremely well,” said Dr. Rebecka Meyers, coordinator of the separation, which began Monday morning and
concluded Tuesday.
The twins’ parents said nurses have told them the girls’ vital
signs continue to mirror each other, as if they are still conjoined.
Kendra and Maliyah were joined at mid-torso, with some
shared organs and just two legs. Doctors divided the twins’
shared liver, bladder and a portion of their large intestines, and
split and reconstructed their single pelvis.
Each girl kept one leg, and Kendra got their shared kidney.
Maliyah was to begin kidney dialysis in preparation for receiving
a kidney from her mother in three to six months.
Doctors will now determine when to wean them off pain medications and breathing machines. The girls were expected to remain in intensive care for at least a week, followed by a month in
the hospital before doctors consider sending them home.
Nurses twisted the girls’ sandy-blond hair into french braids,
fastening them with ribbons in the twins’ favorite colors — purple for Kendra and yellow for Maliyah.
“They looked so pretty this morning,” Meyers said.
The girls are thought to be the first twins with a shared kidney
to be successfully separated.
In most instances, conjoined twins undergo separation between ages 6 and 12 months, but the Herrins’ shared kidney
forced a delay.
Doctors expect the girls will need reconstructive surgeries to
help fit them for prosthetic legs.
“These girls will never be girls who did not undergo a major
separation and have special battles and special needs,” Meyers
said. “But they will be able to live very good, fulfilling lives.”
commercial driver’s licenses
in Largo near Tampa.
The laptop was protected
by a password, and there was
no evidence the data has been
used illegally, the department
said.
VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said his department had
arranged for a data analysis
company to detect potential
patterns of credit misuse for
up to 26.5 million veterans
whose names, birth dates and
Social Security numbers were
on a laptop and hard drive
taken last May from a VA data analyst’s Maryland home.
VA subcontractor Unisys
Corp. also agreed to provide
one year of free credit monitoring for as many as 38,000
veterans after the company
last week lost a desktop computer containing their data at
its offices in Reston, Va.
“Protecting veterans from
fraud and abuse remains an
important priority for VA,”
Nicholson said in a written
statement. “Data breach
analysis will provide VA with
additional assurances that
veterans’ personal information remains unharmed.”
The VA said ID Analytics,
of San Diego, will provide the
extra level of protection for
those whose records were
taken in the May 3 burglary.
In that case, the FBI recovered the laptop and hard
drive and determined with a
“high degree of confidence”
that the data wasn’t accessed
or copied. Two teens were arrested last Saturday in what
now appears to have been a
routine burglary.
The VA had offered free
credit monitoring for millions
of veterans after the theft but
withdrew the offer when it
was determined the data had
not been compromised. Instead, the agency said it
would provide some form of
credit analysis.
ID Analytics will provide
an initial analysis of several
industries to determine if
there has been any suspicious
activity involving the veterans’ information. It will then
provide follow-up reports
every three months for an unspecified period at no cost to
veterans or the government,
the VA said.
The VA is struggling to repair its image following the
high-profile theft last May,
which prompted more than a
dozen congressional hearings
and a blistering VA inspector
general’s report faulting both
the VA employee and his superiors for poor judgment
and lax security policies.
Nicholson pledged to make
the VA a model for information security. But the VA’s announcement on Monday that
Unisys had lost data for veterans who received care in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
prompted fresh criticism.
“VA remains unwavering
in its resolve to become the
leader in protecting personal
information, training and educating our employees in best
practices,” Nicholson said.
Statue of Liberty’s crown to stay closed to visitors
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Tourists won’t be climbing
back up to the Statue of Liberty’s crown.
The crown has been closed
since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Wednesday, the National Park Service said letting the people climb the
cramped spiral staircase
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again is simply too hazardous, due to risks from fire
and terrorism.
“For the better part of
three years now, they’ve been
dancing around this issue,”
said Rep. Anthony Weiner, DN.Y. “This is the first time
they’ve said they’re not moving forward, they’re essentially done looking at it.”
He called the decision “the
final victory of the terrorists
on Sept. 11.”
In a letter to Weiner dated
Aug. 4, outgoing Park Service
Director Fran Mainella said
“the current access patterns
reflect a responsible management strategy in the best interests of all our visitors.”
Another
congressman,
who oversees the House subcommittee on national parks,
said he may hold hearings to
re-examine the issue and the
agency’s decision.
“While I respect the Park
Service’s justified concern for
public safety, I am disappointed with their apparent
decision to stop trying,” said
Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M.
“Americans have a right to
hear something better from
their National Park Service
than the implied message of
this letter, which is ‘never.”’
The statue, which sits on
12-acre Liberty Island in New
York Harbor, was shut down
after Sept. 11, 2001. After
spending $20 million on security and safety improvements,
the government reopened the
statue in 2004 but only up to
the top of the pedestal, or Lady Liberty’s toes.
The new security measures
included a bomb detection
device that blows air into
clothing and then checks for
particles
of
explosives
residue. Bomb-sniffing dogs
also have been seen at the
site.
Sen. Charles Schumer,
who led a Senate vote earlier
in the year to try to force the
reopening of the crown, said
the agency still has not explained why the Statue of
Liberty’s crown remains
closed while the Washington
Monument stairs are open.
“In this case, freedom has
given way to fear,” said
Schumer, D-N.Y. “One of my
favorite memories as a child
was going up to the top of the
Statue of Liberty and looking
out of her crown to what I
thought were the ends of the
earth. Now, generations of
kids and adults will be denied that opportunity.”
2 held on terror charge
MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) —
Two men were charged
Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism
after authorities said they
found airplane passenger lists
and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.
Deputies stopped Osama
Sabhi Abulhassan, 20, and Ali
Houssaiky, 20, both of Dearborn, Mich., on a traffic violation Tuesday and found the
flight documents along with
$11,000 cash and 12 phones in
their car, Washington County
Sheriff Larry Mincks said.
It wasn’t clear what significance the airline information
might have. Assistant County
Prosecutor Susan Vessels declined to comment on
whether the manifests were
for upcoming flights or those
already flown. She also would
not give the origin or destination of the flight or flights.
FBI
spokesman
Mike
Brooks in Cincinnati said his
office was notified about the
arrests and had an agent investigating.
Abulhassan and Houssaiky
admitted buying about 600
phones in recent months at
stores in southeast Ohio, said
sheriff’s Maj. John Winstanley.
They sold the phones to someone in Dearborn, a Detroit
suburb, Winstanley said.
Vessels declined to say
how the phones, cash or flight
information involved terrorism.
Eddie Miles concert Aug. 18 at Paramount
DEAR ABBY
Abuser’s desire to
apologize is another
form of manipulation
DEAR
ABBY:
“Distraught in New Jersey”
(7/12), who stated that he
was in an
abusive relationship for
about a year,”
made himself
sound more
like the victim than the
perpetrator of
domestic violence.
His
comment that
he “enrolled in an anger
management class” after
being arrested for domestic
violence also reflects a lack
of personal responsibility
for his crime. Perpetrators
rarely, if ever, voluntarily
“enroll” in such programs.
They are mandated by the
courts.
I also take exception to
his use of the term “anger
management.”
Spousal
abuse has little to do with
stress or anger, and everything to do with significant
character flaws and psychopathology. I should note
that such men rarely beat
anyone but their wives and
girlfriends. If their aggression was rooted only in
“anger,” the violence would
be directed at everyone.
The abuser’s statement
that he wants to personally
contact and apologize to his
victim, who had a restraining order issued against
him, also reflects his denial
and manipulative qualities.
Battered women seek restraining orders against
their assailants because
they want protection, not
apologies. Restraining orders are also a means by
which a victim tells her batterer that the relationship is
over.
Domestic violence perpetrators are cunning and often use treatment as a
means of manipulating
their victims back into a relationship.
“Distraught in New Jersey” needs to understand
that the completion of a
program, even when the restraining order has expired,
does not give him the right
to contact the woman he
previously victimized. If he
does, he could once again
find himself in the slammer.
— MICHAEL GROETSCH,
PROBATION
OFFICER,
NEW ORLEANS MUNICIPAL COURT
DEAR MICHAEL: Your
letter is important, and
thank you for writing it as
a wake-up call not only to
perpetrators of domestic
violence, but to victims as
well. As you so aptly stated, domestic violence is
not about the inability to
control one’s temper; it is
about control over the victim. In the case of “Distraught in New Jersey,” if
he succeeds in contacting
his victim “to apologize,”
he will be in violation of
the terms of his restraining
order, and if he does so after it expires, he could be
arrested for trespassing or
stalking. Read on:
DEAR ABBY: Speaking
as a criminal defense attorney who handles domestic
violence cases on a regular
basis, I must warn “Distraught in New Jersey” not
to contact his victim!
The police and the courts
take these orders very seriously. If “Distraught” — or
any other reader, for that
matter — is the defendant
in a restraining order, he
should have not contact in
any way, shape or form,
with the plaintiff, or he
stands a very real chance of
being charged criminally.
I
have
had
clients
charged for doing something so simple as sending
a birthday card, or merely
being present at the same
high school graduation, as
the person who holds the
order. Is this unfair? Perhaps, but it is the law and
must be obeyed.
So, “Distraught” should
complete his counseling,
obey the order, and realize
the best apology is letting
his former girlfriend get on
with her life. — CHRISTOPHER S. TODD, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
BRISTOL — On Friday,
Aug. 18, the 29th anniversary
of Elvis Presley’s death, entertainer Eddie Miles will
present an intimate solo performance of the music of
America's most beloved entertainer, Elvis Presley, at the
Paramount Center.
This uncanny tribute will
also include an opening
show saluting the legends of
country music, featuring the
songs of Marty Robbins,
Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty and
others.
Eddie Miles has headlined
in Collingwood, Canada at
the World's Largest Elvis Festival and at the Orpheum
Theatre in Memphis in a tribute show commemorating
the 25th anniversary of
Elvis's death. A veteran entertainer
with
bookings
throughout the country, Eddie headlined in his own theaters in Pigeon Forge and
Myrtle Beach.
Rock and Roll Hall of
Famer and Elvis' guitar player says “Eddie Miles is a fine
entertainer,
respectfully
‘Jazz at Rocky Mount’
scheduled August 22
JOHNSON CITY — East Tennessee State University’s
Friends of Music will host “Jazz at Rocky Mount,” featuring
The Jazz Doctors, on Tuesday, Aug. 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the
historic site off Highway 11-E in Piney Flats.
Music patrons are invited to bring a picnic, along with a
blanket or lawn chairs, and sit back on the grounds of Rocky
Mount and “enjoy some cool jazz on a summer evening.”
The Jazz Doctors boast the talents of local musicians
Jerome Heitmann on bass, Mark Thie on piano, Dick Davis on
saxophone, Dr. Rande Sanderbeck on percussion and Dr.
David Champouillon on trumpet.
Funds raised from this concert will benefit music scholarship endowments at ETSU.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children and students
with valid ID. Advance tickets and reservations are available
from the ETSU Department of Music from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Monday-Friday; call (423) 439-4270. Tickets may also be obtained at the Acoustic Coffeehouse, 415 W. Walnut St., and
will be sold the night of the show at the entrance to Rocky
Mount.
Bil Lepp, this week’s
featured storyteller
JONESBOROUGH — Bil Lepp is this week’s teller-in-residence at the International Storytelling Center. Lepp started
writing and telling tales in 1990 when he took part in the West
Virginia Liars Contest. Since then he has won five “Biggest
Liar” titles. He tells original, Appalachian tall-tales, most of
which have been collected in his three books and several audio recordings. Lepp also tells fictional tales about growing
up, re-worked biblical themes, and stories about his Grosspapa, a Mennonite, veteran of the Russian Revolution, and immigrant to the United States. Lepp has been a featured teller
at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and at major storytelling
events across the country, including multiple times at the National Storytelling Festival and Teller-in-Residence programs.
Says Bil, “Everywhere I slept, I've lied.”
He will be telling stories daily through Saturday, Aug. 12,
at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and students.
The Center is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
NARC Annual Former
Employees Picnic
Former employees of the Knitting, Dyeing and Finishing
Departments of North American Rayon will have their annual picnic on Thursday, Aug. 18, at 6 p.m. at the picnic pavilion
behind the Twins Ball Park in Elizabethton (Blackbottom).
All former NAR employees are invited to attend.
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STAIND is coming to Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City for a concert on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m.
Appearing with STAIND will be three of today’s coolest
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Tickets are on sale now; don’t wait! Tickets, which are
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Elvis.”
To purchase tickets or for
more information please call
the Paramount Box Office,
(423) 274-8920.
Back to class with a new beat.
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I couldn’t agree more.
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E-Twins continue slide
By Wes Holtsclaw
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
The Elizabethton Twins continued their
downward slide Wednesday night, and manager Ray Smith hopes the squad can work
through their problems.
After losing three straight, for the first time
this season, on the road to Kingsport, Elizabethton returned home to a 7-2 defeat from
the Bristol White Sox at Joe O’Brien Field.
“They looked like the first place team and
we looked like the team in the cellar,” said
Twins manager Ray Smith. “The season’s not
a sprint, we’ve got to play consistent ball. I
have no beef with our effort, we’ve got to try
to learn from this and get back to the way
we’ve been playing the last two months.”
Elizabethton’s West Division lead was decreased to three-and-a-half games over
Kingsport with 20 games remaining in the
season.
Bristol took advantage of a passed ball and
an error in the second inning with two quick
runs. The Sox added a two-run homer, a tworun double and an RBI triple in the fifth inning to blow the game open.
The Twins responded with one run apiece
in the sixth and seventh innings, but fell victim to three double plays with potential runs
on base throughout the game.
With seven runs on the board, Elizabethton placed Patrick Bryant into the game.
Bryant held Bristol hitless for four-and-one-
third innings, punching 13-of-14 straight
outs.
“I was happy to see Bryant (have a good
outing),” Smith said. “He threw four good innings and held them to seven runs out there.
He was able to maintain his release point
tonight.”
“My defense played well behind me,” said
Bryant. “(Wesley) Connor and (Yancarlos)
Ortiz made some big plays out there. I only
had two strikeouts, so I’ve got to give credit
to those guys.”
Due to an array of injuries in the higher
levels, Twins infielder Matt Betsill was promoted to Beloit last week and catcher Jeff
Christy was elevated to back-up status in
Fort Myers two days ago.
Daniel Berg, who had played a lot of first
base for the squad, saw action behind the
plate Monday night and will share the role
with Greg Yersich.
Two more Elizabethton players may be elevated within the next week or so, leaving
the team with lessened numbers going down
the major stretch of the season.
“We’re here to develop players for the Major League club,” Smith said. “You don’t have
a bitter pill to swallow when players leave.
I’m all about the process. It gives these other
guys a chance to come in and make plays.”
Smith likened the situation to a year ago,
when four E-Twins, including Matt Garza
n See TWINS, 10
Titans ready for 2004
defensive line crop
to start blossoming
Elizabethton quarterback Preston Smith goes out for a pass as two Happy Valley defenders
try to burst into the backfield.
Cyclones, Warriors
tango in preseason action
By Ben Davis
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
The Happy Valley and Elizabethton football
teams squared off in a scrimmage Wednesday
evening on “The Hill” at Happy Valley High
School.
This was the second time in five days the
two schools have got together in pre-season action as both teams are preparing for the start of
the regular season on August 18th.
Last Friday, Happy Valley and Elizabethton
traveled to Church Hill to take part in a three
team practice/scrimmage with the Volunteer
High Falcons.
“We’ve felt like we have had two good
scrimmages,” said Cyclones head coach Eddie
Pless. “We have been able to get a lot of reps
with a lot of different people so that has been
good for us,” he continued.
During Wednesday’s scrimmage Elizabethtons’ Josh Hutchins scored one touchdown on
a fifty-eight yard run and then another one on
an eighty yard interception return. Running
back Derek Carr also scored a touchdown for
the Cyclones on a three yard touchdown run.
Quarterbacks Preston Smith and Wes Anderson both found some success in the air and
on the ground during the scrimmage. The Cyclones defense came up with two interceptions
as well.
Happy Valley head coach Stan Ogg has also
been pleased with his teams progression
through the last couple of scrimmages.
“I feel like we have improved from five
days ago. We saw some of our weaknesses at
Volunteer and I think our kids have corrected
some of that and got better ,” said Coach Ogg
after his teams performance on Wednesday
evening. “We have definitely had a lot of improvement. We still have a long way to go but
Twins starter Sean Land tosses a strike from the mound as third baseman Garrett Olson
looks on.
were getting there. We are going in the right direction,” he continued.
Some of the improvements Happy Valley
has made showed on Wednesday. A barrage of
different backs including quarterback Tyler
Blevins were able to move the ball well on the
ground. The Happy Valley defense also forced
two turnovers.
In addition to the progress Elizabethton has
made during the pre-season scrimmages
Coach Pless is very happy about one more
thing.
“We have stayed healthy. We are very glad
that we got through these scrimmages
healthy,” he said.
Coach Ogg acknowledged that scrimmag-
n See CYCLONES, 10
A Happy Valley defender breaks up a pass to a
Cyclone receiver.
CLARKSVILLE,
Tenn.
(AP) — The Tennessee Titans
invested heavily in defensive
linemen in the 2004 draft.
They’re still waiting for the
payoff.
“We need everybody to
step up,” coach Jeff Fisher
said. “We’ve got a number of
guys going into their third
year such as Jared Clauss.
Jared’s having his best camp
to date right now. He’s doing
really well. That’s what we
want to see out of everybody.”
The Titans turned to the
draft to fill out their defensive line because the team
pinched by the salary cap let
Kenny Holmes, Jason Fisk,
Josh Evans, John Thornton
and Jevon Kearse leave between 2001 and 2004.
So in 2004, the Titans used
five of their 13 draft picks on
defensive linemen. They
chose end Travis LaBoy with
the 42nd pick overall and
Antwan Odom 15 picks later.
Vols working
to advance
through heat
Tennessee head coach Phillip
Fulmer said Wednesday his Vols
need to advance past what they
have accomplished thus far in a
half-dozen 2006 practices. He
made his statements following
UT’s 2 1/2-hour practice on a
warm and muggy afternoon at
Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
“We’re off to a good start,” Fulmer said. “There were some really
positive things from our Tuesday
scrimmage. There are some areas
where if we can just take the next
step, we’ll be a lot closer to where
we need to be.”
The Vols returned to a lighter
practice uniform of helmets,
shoulder pads and shorts one day
after donning the pads for the first
time Tuesday night. Two of UT’s
first four games kick off under the
lights, but it has been a hot August
sun baking the team for the most
part since camp opened last
Thursday.
“We did some good things in
the scrimmage but we followed
that with not nearly as good of a
day,” Fulmer said. “We kind of
lost our energy, lost our enthusiasm. The heat popped out on us a
little bit and maybe we were feeling sorry for ourselves.
“We’ll see what we are made
of with how we bounce back from
that.”
Then they got tackles Randy
Starks and Clauss and end
Bo Schobel.
But the group has had a
hard time staying on the field
and being productive. The
five linemen have combined
for 53 starts and 132 games
played out of 160 potential
games over the past two seasons. They have 23 career
sacks, led by 10 from LaBoy.
Starks, the youngest of the
returning Titans this season
at age 22, has been the steadiest with 24 starts and 32
games played. He leads this
group with 131 tackles and
has 7 1/2 career sacks. Odom
has played in the most
games with 32, and he had
nine starts in 2005.
“Antwan is just quietly
doing his job and doing very
well,” Fisher said. “He came
into camp in good shape and
focused. We’re seeing here
what we want to see carry
over in the preseason
games.”
Injuries have kept LaBoy
and Schobel from meeting
expectations so far.
LaBoy has played in 28
games after being limited by
a concussion to start his pro
career. Currently, he is listed
as the starter at right end, but
he is wearing a walking boot
on his sore left foot. Schobel
broke the fifth metatarsal in
his right foot and played in
only five games as a rookie.
He was deactivated for eight
games in 2005.
The Titans have Pro Bowl
defensive end Kyle Vanden
n See TITANS, 10
Former Ohio State star
Clarett booked, again
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
When police ran into Maurice
Clarett this time, officers said
he was driving erratically and
carrying an arsenal that included three semi-automatic
handguns and an AK-47-type
assault rifle in the front seat —
all loaded.
A highway chase ensued,
then ended in the early hours
Wednesday when police
spiked the former Ohio State
star running back’s tires. Even
then, officers said they could
not easily subdue him because
the bullet-proof vest he was
wearing thwarted their stun
guns.
It took several police and
pepper spray to get the 6-foot,
245-pounder into handcuffs.
The struggle continued as he
kicked at the doors of the
transport vehicle that took
him away.
But Clarett’s latest bizarre
run-in with the law took perhaps its most troubling turn
hours later, when prosecutors
asked a judge to keep him in
jail and revoke his bond on an
earlier robbery charge.
One reason: He was driving a few blocks from the
home of a woman who was
set to testify against him next
week, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said.
The judge raised the bond
to $1.1 million. Clarett’s attorney, Nick Mango, said it was
“probably unlikely” that
Clarett would be able to post
it, meaning he would stay in
jail for the duration of his trial,
which starts Monday.
Clarett was charged with
carrying a concealed weapon,
a felony, and given a traffic citation, and police said more
charges are possible. An arraignment was scheduled for
Thursday morning.
Sgt. Michael Woods said
Clarett wove in and out of
lanes, did a U-turn on a freeway and refused to leave the
SUV after a spike stick flattened its tires. The 22-year-old
Clarett had a semiautomatic
handgun under his legs on the
driver’s seat, police said, and
an assault rifle on the passenger seat. Two other semiautomatic handguns were in the
vehicle, including one in a holster in a backpack.
“We don’t have any idea
why he had them or what, if
anything, he was going to do
with them,” Woods said. “But
n See CLARETT, 10
Baseball
Appy League Glance
East Division
W
L
PCT
Danville
27
21
.563
Pulaski
26
22
.542
Burlington
25
23
.521
Princeton
22
24
.478
Bluefield
22
26
.458
West Division
W
L
PCT
Elizabethton
30
18
.625
Kingsport
26
21
.553
Greeneville
21
26
.447
Johnson City
20
27
.426
Bristol
17
28
.378
———
Wednesday’s Games
Bristol 7, Elizabethton 2
Danville at Bluefield, 7 p.m.
Greeneville 14, Burlington 1
Johnson City at Pulaski, 7 p.m.
Kingsport 8, Princeton 7
Today’s Games
Bristol at Elizabethton, 7 p.m.
Bluefield 9, Danville 7
Greeneville at Burlington, 7 p.m.
Pulaski 15, Johnson City 3
Kingsport at Princeton, 7 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Bristol at Elizabethton, 7 p.m.
Danville at Bluefield, 7 p.m.
Greeneville at Burlington, 7 p.m.
Johnson City at Pulaski, 7 p.m.
Kingsport at Princeton, 7 p.m.
GB
—
1.0
2.0
4.0
5.0
GB
—
3.5
8.5
9.5
11.5
MLB Glance
American League
East Division
W
L
Pct
GB
New York
67
43
.609
—
Boston
65
47
.580
3.0
Toronto
60
54
.526
9.0
Baltimore
51
64
.443 18.5
Tampa Bay
47
68
.409 22.5
Central Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Detroit
76
38
.667
—
Minnesota
67
46
.593
8.5
Chicago
66
46
.589
9.0
Cleveland
48
64
.429 27.0
Kansas City
40
73
.354 35.5
West Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Oakland
62
52
.544
—
Los Angeles
59
55
.518
3.0
Texas
57
58
.496
5.5
Seattle
56
57
.496
5.5
———
Tuesday’s Games
Minnesota 4, Detroit 2
L.A. Angels 5, Cleveland 4
Baltimore 8, Toronto 4
Chicago White Sox 6, N.Y. Yankees 5, 11
innings
Kansas City 6, Boston 4
Oakland 7, Texas 6
Seattle 5, Tampa Bay 1, 10 innings
Wednesday’s Games
Toronto 4, Baltimore 3
Texas 14, Oakland 0
Seattle 2, Tampa Bay 0
Minnesota 4, Detroit 3
Cleveland 4, L.A. Angels 0
N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 6
Kansas City 5, Boston 4
Today’s Games
L.A. Angels (E.Santana 12-5) at Cleveland (Lee 9-8), 7:05 p.m.
Seattle (Pineiro 7-9) at Texas (Eaton 1-2),
8:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Mussina 13-4) at Chicago
White Sox (Vazquez 10-6), 8:05 p.m.
Toronto (Lilly 9-10) at Minnesota (Silva 89), 8:10 p.m.
Boston (Schilling 14-4) at Kansas City
(Hernandez 2-7), 8:10 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Baltimore at Boston, 7:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.
Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.
Toronto at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.
Seattle at Texas, 8:35 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 8:35 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct
GB
New York
68
44
.607
—
Philadelphia
55
58
.487 13.5
Atlanta
52
61
.460 16.5
Florida
52
61
.460 16.5
Washington
50
63
.442 18.5
Central Division
W
L
Pct
GB
St. Louis
61
52
.540
—
Cincinnati
59
55
.518
2.5
Houston
55
58
.487
6.0
Milwaukee
53
60
.469
8.0
Chicago
48
65
.425 13.0
Pittsburgh
42
72
.368 19.5
West Division
W
L
Pct
GB
San Diego
58
55
.513
—
Arizona
58
56
.509
0.5
Los Angeles
58
56
.509
0.5
Colorado
55
58
.487
3.0
San Francisco 54
60
.474
4.5
———
Tuesday’s Games
Florida 4, Washington 2
N.Y. Mets 3, San Diego 2
Cincinnati 10, St. Louis 3
Atlanta 3, Philadelphia 1
Chicago Cubs 6, Milwaukee 3
Houston 3, Pittsburgh 1
Arizona 5, San Francisco 1
L.A. Dodgers 4, Colorado 2
Wednesday’s Games
Philadelphia 9, Atlanta 3
Washington 5, Florida 2
N.Y. Mets 4, San Diego 3
Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 7
Milwaukee 6, Chicago Cubs 3
Houston 14, Pittsburgh 1
Arizona 5, San Francisco 3
Colorado 3, L.A. Dodgers 1
Today’s Games
San Diego (Young 9-5) at N.Y. Mets
(O.Hernandez 7-8), 12:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Reyes 3-5) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 9-7), 12:35 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Prior 1-5) at Milwaukee
(Davis 7-6), 2:05 p.m.
Florida (Sanchez 4-2) at Washington
(Astacio 2-2), 7:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Gorzelanny 2-2) at Houston
(Clemens 3-4), 8:05 p.m.
Colorado (Jennings 7-9) at L.A. Dodgers
(Billingsley 3-3), 10:10 p.m.
Friday’s Games
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Washington, 7:05 p.m.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.
Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.
San Diego at Houston, 8:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Colorado, 9:05 p.m.
Florida at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:40 p.m.
MLB Game Caps
American League
Royals ...................................................5
Red Sox ................................................4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mike Sweeney hit
an RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning, capping a two-run rally against rookie closer Jonathan Papelbon that carried
the Royals to the win.
Manny Ramirez homered to extend his
career-best hitting streak to 24 games,
and Javy Lopez added a two-run double
for Boston on a 102-degree night. But Papelbon (3-2) failed to hold a 4-3 lead in
the ninth, costing Josh Beckett his 14th
win and leaving the Red Sox with a fourgame losing streak.
All four losses have come against Tampa
Bay and Kansas City, the two worst teams
in the American League. Boston also fell
three games behind the first-place New
York Yankees in the AL East.
It was Papelbon’s fifth blown save in 35
opportunities.
Scott Dohmann (1-1) pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings for the win.
Yankees ................................................7
White Sox .............................................6
CHICAGO — Randy Johnson pitched six
innings of no-hit ball and New York hit
three homers off Jon Garland to end his
eight-game winning streak.
Mariano Rivera bounced back from a
blown save Tuesday, getting four outs for
his 29th save in 32 chances. He got Jim
Thome to bounce into a fielder’s choice
with runners on the corners to end it.
With the Yankees leading 7-0, Tadahito
Iguchi broke up the 42-year-old Johnson’s
bid for a third career no-hitter when he hit
an 0-2 pitch in the hole to left for a single
leading off the bottom of the seventh.
Johnson (12-9) gave up three hits and
two runs in his six innings plus, walking
two and striking out five.
Melky Cabrera, Bobby Abreu and Robinson Cano homered off Garland (12-4),
who hadn’t lost since June 8 over a
stretch of 10 appearances, including nine
starts. He lasted six innings plus, giving
up 10 hits and six runs.
Tadahito Iguchi hit a solo homer and Joe
Crede added a three-run drive for Chicago.
Twins ....................................................4
Tigers ....................................................3
DETROIT — Justin Morneau hit a goahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning
and Johan Santana won his fourth
straight decision for the Twins.
Morneau became the first Minnesota
player with 30 homers since Gary Gaetti
in 1987. Luis Castillo matched a career
high with four hits and had a season-high
three stolen bases for the Twins, who won
twice in the three-game series and have
lost only one of their last seven games.
Santana (13-5) allowed three runs, four
hits and two walks in seven innings. He
struck out 10 to raise his major leaguehigh total to 178. Joe Nathan finished with
a perfect ninth for his 25th save in 26
chances.
Brandon Inge hit a two-run homer for the
Tigers and Joel Zumaya (6-2) got the loss.
Indians ..................................................4
Angels ..................................................0
CLEVELAND — Jake Westbrook pitched
his second shutout this season to lead the
Indians to the win.
Westbrook (9-7) limited the Angels to
nine hits — all singles — and has won
consecutive starts for the first time since
April 4-9. The right-hander was coming off
a 15-hit win over Boston in which he became the first pitcher since Montreal’s
John Dobson in 1988 to give up at least
that many hits and win.
It was Westbrook’s third career shutout
— he blanked Kansas City on May 17 —
and his 10th career complete game.
Victor Martinez had three hits off John
Lackey (10-8), and Shin-Soo Choo had
three hits and an RBI as the Indians
snapped a four-game losing streak.
Mariners ................................................2
Devil Rays .............................................0
SEATTLE — Jarrod Washburn didn’t allow a hit until Ben Zobrist’s bunt single
leading off the sixth inning, and Adrian
Beltre homered to lead the Seattle
Mariners over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
2-0 Wednesday for a three-game sweep.
After walking Carl Crawford with one out
in the first, Washburn (6-11) retired 14
straight batters — including nine on flyouts.
Washburn allowed three hits in 6 2-3 innings and J.J. Putz, Seattle’s third pitcher,
finished the four-hitter for his 25th save.
James Shields (4-6) pitched a five-hitter
for his first complete game in 15 major
league starts.
Rangers ..............................................14
Athletics ...............................................0
OAKLAND, Calif.— Mark DeRosa hit
three-run homers in consecutive innings,
Carlos Lee scored four runs and went 4for-5 with his first homer for Texas, while
Rod Barajas and Gary Matthews Jr. also
hit solo homers to stop the A’s six-game
winning streak.
With 17 hits and seven dominant innings
from Vicente Padilla (12-7), the Rangers
avoided a three-game sweep that would
have left them 7 1/2 games behind the
first-place A’s in the AL West.
Barry Zito (12-8) gave up four homers
and 11 hits.
Blue Jays...............................................4
Orioles ..................................................3
TORONTO — Roy Halladay (14-3) allowed three runs and eight hits in 7 1-3 innings, tying Boston’s Curt Schilling and
Detroit’s Justin Verlander for the major
league lead in victories.
B.J. Ryan got five straight outs for his
26th save and Bengie Molina had two
RBIs for the Blue Jays, who have won just
three of 11.
Erik Bedard (12-8) lost his second
straight start after winning his previous
seven decisions. He gave up four runs
and seven hits in seven innings.
National League
Diamondbacks .....................................5
Giants ...................................................3
PHOENIX — Luis Gonzalez homered
and the Diamondbacks set a club record
by turning five double plays.
Chad Tracy had three hits for the Diamondbacks, who lead the National
League with 130 double plays. Miguel
Batista (10-5) earned the victory despite
giving up 12 hits in six innings. He allowed
two runs, walked one and struck out one.
Former Diamondback Shea Hillenbrand
and Ray Durham each had three hits for
the Giants, who are 3-13 since July 23.
Moises Alou ended threats in the first and
fifth innings by grounding into 5-4-3 double plays. Pedro Feliz and Eliezer Alfonzo
also bounced into double plays against
Batista. Arizona also turned two on a Hillenbrand grounder against Brandon Lyon
in the eighth.
Jorge Julio pitched the ninth for his 15th
save in 18 chances.
Matt Morris (8-10) yielded three runs and
seven hits in five innings for the Giants.
Rockies .................................................3
Dodgers 1
LOS ANGELES — Brad Hawpe homered
early and hit a tiebreaking single in the
ninth inning to help the Rockies stop the
Dodgers’ 11-game winning streak.
Hawpe’s two-out single off closer
Takashi Saito scored Garrett Atkins from
second and moved Matt Holliday from first
to third. Holliday then provided an insurance run when he came home on a delayed double steal.
He had been caught off third on the play,
but the Dodgers muffed the rundown
when catcher Russell Martin couldn’t hold
onto a throw from third baseman Wilson
Betemit.
Jeremy Affeldt (2-0) got the win and Brian
Fuentes worked a perfect ninth for his
23rd save in 27 chances.
Dodgers starter Derek Lowe (9-8) gave
up three runs and six hits in 8 2-3 innings.
Brewers ................................................6
Cubs .....................................................3
MILWAUKEE — Dave Bush took a no-hit
bid into the sixth inning to help the Brewers snap a three-game losing streak.
Bush (8-8) allowed three hits in eight innings, giving up his first when Juan Pierre
beat out an infield single to shortstop with
one out in the sixth. Michael Barrett was
hit by a pitch with two outs, and Aramis
Ramirez homered off the left-field foul
pole, his 26th of the season for Chicago.
Bush struck out six, walked one and
threw 103 pitches. Francisco Cordero
pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save
in four chances since Milwaukee acquired
him from Texas on July 28.
Carlos Zambrano (12-5) lost his second
consecutive start after going 9-0 with two
no-decisions in June and July. He gave up
six runs — four earned — five hits and
four walks in 4 2-3 innings.
Astros .................................................14
Pirates ..................................................1
HOUSTON — Roy Oswalt hit one of
Houston’s six homers, and Aubrey Huff
connected twice and drove in a careerhigh six runs.
Jason Lane added a pinch-hit two-run
homer, and Craig Biggio and Luke Scott
hit solo shots for the Astros, who have
won six of eight.
The six home runs were a season high
for the Astros. The Pirates allowed six
homers in a game for the first time since
Aug. 4, 2002, against San Francisco.
Oswalt (9-7) won for the third time in four
starts, allowing four hits and striking out
six in six innings. Freddy Sanchez ruined
the shutout bid with an RBI double in the
sixth.
Shawn Chacon (1-1), acquired from the
New York Yankees for Craig Wilson on July 31, lasted only 1 2-3 innings, leaving
with the Astros up 6-0.
Mets ......................................................4
Padres ..................................................3
NEW YORK — Pedro Martinez allowed
two solo homers to Mike Piazza in 7 1-3
strong innings to help the Mets win their
fourth straight game.
Jose Reyes had two hits, drove in a run
and scored for New York. Martinez (9-4)
allowed three hits, walked four and struck
out two.
A day after Piazza was showered with
ovations in his return to Shea Stadium,
Martinez joined the 49,979 fans in paying
homage to the former Mets star. Martinez
stepped off the mound and tipped his hat
when Piazza first came to bat. Piazza responded with a similar gesture of respect.
Piazza’s two drives gave him six career
homers off Martinez, the most by anyone
off the ace.
Josh Barfield hit a solo home run in the
ninth against Billy Wagner, who held on
for his 26th save in 31 chances.
Clay Hensley (7-9) got the loss, allowing
four runs and nine hits in six innings.
Nationals ..............................................5
Marlins.................................................. 2
WASHINGTON — Ryan Zimmerman had
two hits and scored three runs and Alex
Escobar hit two sacrifice flies for the Nationals.
Dontrelle Willis (7-9) gave up four runs
and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings for the Marlins. He walked five, hit a batter and threw
two wild pitches, both in the first inning:
One allowed Alfonso Soriano to trot home
from third base. Willis also committed a
throwing error that allowed another run to
score.
Ramon Ortiz (9-9) yielded two runs and
eight hits in 6 2-3 innings for the Nationals. Chad Cordero finished up in the ninth
for his 20th save — and 17th in his last 18
chances.
Reds...................................................... 8
Cardinals ..............................................7
CINCINNATI — David Ross hit a two-run
homer in the ninth inning off Jason Isringhausen to lift the Reds to the win.
Down to its last two outs, Cincinnati
pulled it out for a 2-1 lead in the series,
which concludes Thursday. The secondplace Reds moved to 2 1/2 games behind
the NL Central leaders.
Jim Edmonds hit a grand slam for St.
Louis but Isringhausen (3-5), who entered
with one out in the eighth, couldn’t close it
out.
He walked Rich Aurilia with one out in the
ninth. Ross then hit the second pitch onto
the roof of the batter’s eye in center field,
a 442-foot shot that raised a din from the
capacity crowd.
Ryan Franklin (2-5), acquired in a trade
on Monday, pitched a perfect ninth for the
win.
Adam Dunn, Scott Hatteberg and Edwin
Encarnacion also homered for Cincinnati.
Scott Spiezio hit a two-run homer for the
Cardinals.
Phillies...................................................9
Braves ...................................................3
ATLANTA — Chase Utley hit a go-ahead,
three-run double in an eight-run seventh
inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat
the Atlanta Braves 9-3 Wednesday for
their sixth win on a nine-game trip.
Trailing 3-1, the Phillies sent 14 batters to
the plate in the seventh, getting six hits
and four walks. An error by third baseman
Willy Aybar led to three unearned runs.
Rick White (2-0) pitched two-third of an
inning of one-hit relief for Philadelphia,
15-11 since the All-Star break. Tyler Yates
(1-3) gave up four runs, one hit and three
walks.
MLB Leaders
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING—Mauer, Minnesota, .369;
Jeter, New York, .346; ISuzuki, Seattle,
.330; DeRosa, Texas, .327; Tejada, Baltimore, .327; VWells, Toronto, .325; Dye,
Chicago, .324.
RUNS—Sizemore,
Cleveland,
89;
Thome, Chicago, 86; DOrtiz, Boston,
85; Hafner, Cleveland, 81; Glaus, Toronto, 81; ISuzuki, Seattle, 79; Damon, New
York, 79.
RBI—DOrtiz, Boston, 110; Morneau,
Minnesota, 101; Hafner, Cleveland, 94;
MRamirez, Boston, 91; Ibanez, Seattle,
89; VGuerrero, Los Angeles, 88; Giambi,
New York, 88.
HITS—ISuzuki, Seattle, 159; Tejada,
Baltimore, 151; MYoung, Texas, 148;
Jeter, New York, 146; Sizemore, Cleveland, 138; Mauer, Minnesota, 138;
VWells, Toronto, 138; Matthews, Texas,
138; Loretta, Boston, 138.
DOUBLES—MYoung, Texas, 39; Sizemore, Cleveland, 37; Lowell, Boston, 37;
Matthews, Texas, 36; Teixeira, Texas,
34; CGuillen, Detroit, 31; DeRosa,
Texas, 31.
TRIPLES—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 12;
Sizemore, Cleveland, 8; JoLopez, Seattle, 7; Teahen, Kansas City, 6; ISuzuki,
Seattle, 6; Podsednik, Chicago, 6.
HOME RUNS—DOrtiz, Boston, 41;
Thome, Chicago, 34; Hafner, Cleveland,
33; Giambi, New York, 32; MRamirez,
Boston, 32; Glaus, Toronto, 31;
Morneau, Minnesota, 30; Dye, Chicago,
30.
STOLEN BASES—Figgins, Los Angeles, 41; CPatterson, Baltimore, 37;
Crawford, Tampa Bay, 34; ISuzuki, Seattle, 34; Podsednik, Chicago, 32;
BRoberts, Baltimore, 29; Jeter, New
York, 25.
PITCHING (13 Decisions)—Halladay,
Toronto, 14-3, .824, 3.23; Liriano, Minnesota, 12-3, .800, 2.19; Verlander, Detroit, 14-4, .778, 2.79; Schilling, Boston,
14-4, .778, 3.78; Wang, New York, 13-4,
.765, 3.69; Mussina, New York, 13-4,
.765, 3.46; Garland, Chicago, 12-4,
.750, 5.16.
STRIKEOUTS—JoSantana, Minnesota,
178; Bonderman, Detroit, 151; Liriano,
Minnesota, 142; Schilling, Boston, 142;
Kazmir, Tampa Bay, 139; Mussina, New
York, 136; Lackey, Los Angeles, 135.
SAVES—TJones, Detroit, 31; Papelbon,
Boston, 30; Jenks, Chicago, 30;
MRivera, New York, 29; FrRodriguez,
Los Angeles, 28; Ray, Baltimore, 27;
Street, Oakland, 26; BRyan, Toronto, 26.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
BATTING—FSanchez, Pittsburgh, .342;
MiCabrera, Florida, .334; CJones, Atlanta, .333; Utley, Philadelphia, .328;
Hatteberg, Cincinnati, .326; Pujols, St.
Louis, .323; Berkman, Houston, .322.
RUNS—Utley, Philadelphia, 95; Reyes,
New York, 92; Rollins, Philadelphia, 87;
Beltran, New York, 85; Pujols, St. Louis,
84;
ASoriano,
Washington,
84;
HaRamirez, Florida, 83.
RBI—Howard,
Philadelphia,
102;
AJones, Atlanta, 98; Berkman, Houston,
97; Beltran, New York, 97; Pujols, St.
Louis, 91; Wright, New York, 85; CaLee,
Milwaukee, 81.
HITS—Utley, Philadelphia, 150; Holliday,
Colorado, 138; MiCabrera, Florida, 135;
Reyes, New York, 135; FSanchez, Pittsburgh, 134; Furcal, Los Angeles, 134.
DOUBLES—LGonzalez, Arizona, 40;
FSanchez, Pittsburgh, 38; MiCabrera,
Florida, 36; Zimmerman, Washington,
35; Atkins, Colorado, 35; NJohnson,
Washington, 35; Rolen, St. Louis, 35.
TRIPLES—Reyes, New York, 13; Pierre,
Chicago, 9; DRoberts, San Diego, 9;
Lofton, Los Angeles, 9; SFinley, San
Francisco, 9; Sullivan, Colorado, 8;
Vizquel, San Francisco, 8.
HOME RUNS—Howard, Philadelphia,
39; ASoriano, Washington, 35; Dunn,
Cincinnati, 34; Pujols, St. Louis, 34; Beltran, New York, 33; Berkman, Houston,
30; CaLee, Milwaukee, 28; AJones, Atlanta, 28.
STOLEN BASES—Reyes, New York, 48;
Pierre, Chicago, 40; HaRamirez, Florida,
34; DRoberts, San Diego, 34; FLopez,
Washington, 30; ASoriano, Washington,
28; Rollins, Philadelphia, 26; Furcal, Los
Angeles, 26.
PITCHING (13 Decisions)—Webb, Arizona, 12-4, .750, 2.74; TGlavine, New
York, 12-4, .750, 3.96; CZambrano,
Chicago, 12-5, .706, 3.54; Penny, Los
Angeles, 12-5, .706, 3.43; PMartinez,
New York, 9-4, .692, 3.42; Trachsel,
New York, 11-5, .687, 5.03; MBatista,
Arizona, 10-5, .667, 4.79.
STRIKEOUTS—CZambrano, Chicago,
162; Harang, Cincinnati, 153; Peavy,
San Diego, 145; Smoltz, Atlanta, 145;
Capuano, Milwaukee, 132; Schmidt, San
Francisco, 131; Arroyo, Cincinnati, 127.
SAVES—Hoffman, San Diego, 30; Isringhausen, St. Louis, 29; Gordon,
Philadelphia, 27; BWagner, New York,
26; Lidge, Houston, 25; Turnbow, Milwaukee, 24; Fuentes, Colorado, 23;
Borowski, Florida, 23.
New Orleans at Tennessee, 8 p.m.
Kansas City at Houston, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Green Bay at San Diego, 10 p.m.
Basketball
WNBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Pct
x-Connecticut 26
6
.813
x-Detroit
21
10
.677
x-Indiana
20
12
.625
x-Washington 17
15
.531
Charlotte
10
22
.313
New York
9
23
.281
Chicago
4
27
.129
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Pct
y-Los Angeles 24
9
.727
x-Sacramento 20
12
.625
x-Seattle
18
14
.563
Houston
17
15
.531
Phoenix
15
16
.484
San Antonio
12
20
.375
Minnesota
10
22
.313
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched conference
———
Tuesday’s Games
Charlotte 68, Houston 57
Washington 91, San Antonio 79
Connecticut 85, Chicago 59
Indiana 77, New York 44
Seattle 81, Detroit 79
Phoenix 99, Minnesota 68
Wednesday’s Games
Los Angeles 69, Sacramento 58
Connecticut 71, Indiana 63
Today’s Games
Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Seattle at San Antonio, 8 p.m.
Phoenix at Houston, 8:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m.
Indiana at Connecticut, 7 p.m.
Charlotte at New York, 7:30 p.m.
GB
—
4.5
6.0
9.0
16.0
17.0
21.5
GB
—
3.5
5.5
6.5
8.0
11.5
13.5
WNBA Capsules
Sparks .................................................69
Monarchs ............................................58
LOS ANGELES — Lisa Leslie had 18
points, 10 rebounds and three assists and
the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Sacramento Monarchs 69-58 Wednesday to
end a three-game losing streak.
Mwadi Mabika added 16 points for the
Sparks (24-9), who had already clinched
the Western Conference regular-season
title. Chamique Holdsclaw, who missed
the last two games with a foot injury,
scored nine points.
Kara Lawson scored a season-high 18
points for the Monarchs (20-12), whose
four-game winning streak ended. DeMya
Walker added 12 points.
Sun ......................................................71
Fever ...................................................63
INDIANAPOLIS — Asjha Jones scored
21 points to lead Connecticut to the victory.
Indianapolis native Katie Douglas scored
16 points and Taj McWilliams-Franklin
had 14 points and 14 rebounds for Connecticut (26-6), which will be the No. 1
seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Indiana (20-12) fell 1 1/2 games behind
Detroit (21-10) with two games to play in
the race for the second seed.
Tamika Whitmore scored 16 points for Indiana, and Tamika Catchings had 14
points and 12 rebounds, going 3-for-11
from the field.
Football
NFL Preseason Glance
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T
Pct PF
Buffalo
0 0 0 .000
0
Miami
0 0 0 .000
0
New England 0 0 0 .000
0
N.Y. Jets
0 0 0 .000
0
South
W L T
Pct PF
Houston
0 0 0 .000
0
Indianapolis 0 0 0 .000
0
Jacksonville 0 0 0 .000
0
Tennessee 0 0 0 .000
0
North
W L T
Pct PF
Baltimore
0 0 0 .000
0
Cincinnati
0 0 0 .000
0
Cleveland
0 0 0 .000
0
Pittsburgh
0 0 0 .000
0
West
W L T
Pct PF
Oakland
1 0 0 1.000 16
Denver
0 0 0 .000
0
Kansas City 0 0 0 .000
0
San Diego 0 0 0 .000
0
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T
Pct PF
Dallas
0 0 0 .000
0
N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000
0
Washington 0 0 0 .000
0
Philadelphia 0 1 0 .000 10
South
W L T
Pct PF
Atlanta
0 0 0 .000
0
Carolina
0 0 0 .000
0
New Orleans 0 0 0 .000
0
Tampa Bay 0 0 0 .000
0
North
W L T
Pct PF
Chicago
0 0 0 .000
0
Detroit
0 0 0 .000
0
Green Bay 0 0 0 .000
0
Minnesota 0 0 0 .000
0
West
W L T
Pct PF
Arizona
0 0 0 .000
0
San Fran.
0 0 0 .000
0
Seattle
0 0 0 .000
0
St. Louis
0 0 0 .000
0
———
Sunday’s Game
Oakland 16, Philadelphia 10
Today’s Games
Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.
Indianapolis at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Denver at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
New England at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Baltimore, 8 p.m.
Chicago at San Francisco, 10 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Pittsburgh at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.
Jacksonville at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Buffalo at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.
PA
0
0
0
0
PA
0
0
0
0
PA
0
0
0
0
PA
10
0
0
0
PA
0
0
0
16
PA
0
0
0
0
PA
0
0
0
0
PA
0
0
0
0
Calendar
Cyclone Football Tickets
Elizabethton High School football season
tickets will be on sale at the school. The
daily schedule for sales will be 9:00 a.m.
until noon and 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
The cost is $35.00 per ticket with the first
home game scheduled for Friday, August
25 against Science Hill High School. Anyone with questions should contact Gil
Payne, Director of Athletics, at 547-8090.
Flag/Tackle Football Registration
The Boys & Girls Club of Johnson
City/Washington County is registering
youth for flag football (ages 5-7; 8-9) and
tackle football (ages 10-12). Age as of
Aug. 1. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-6
p.m., at the Johnson City Club, 2210,
West Market Street.
451-4560, ext. 15. [email protected].
Coaches also needed, as well as sponsors.
Fall Baseball Registration
The Elizabethton National Little League
will hold registration for its fall season
baseball league Saturday August 12 and
19 at the league office at Lions Field located across from the Elizabethton Golf
Course.
Players who will be 9 years old by May 1,
2007 and players who are not 13 before
May 1, 2007 are eligible to play.
Registration hours are 10:00 a.m. until
2:00 p.m. Registration fee is $20.00 and
players need to bring a birth certificate.
For more information call Dale Bowling at
(423) 791-2324
Fall Softball Registration
The Elizabethton National Little League
will hold registration for its fall season
softball league Saturday August 12 and
19 at the league office at Lions Field located across from the Elizabethton Golf
Course.
Players who will be 9 years old by May 1,
2007 thru age 12 and ages 13-16 are eligible to play.
Registration hours are 10:00 a.m. until
2:00 p.m. Registration fee is $20.00 and
players need to bring a birth certificate.
For more information call Dale Bowling at
(423) 791-2324
Transactions
Wednesday’s Deals
BASEBALL
American League
CLEVELAND INDIANS—Recalled OF
Franklin Gutierrez from Buffalo of the IL.
MINNESOTA TWINS—Recalled RHP
Boof Bonser from Rochester of the IL.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Activated RHP
Jay Witasick from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Shane Komine and LHP Brad
Halsey to Sacramento of the PCL. Extended their player development contract
with Kane County of the Midwest League
for two years through 2008.
National League
CINCINNATI REDS—Acquired OF Todd
Hollandsworth from Cleveland for a player
to be named. Transferred LHP Brandon
Claussen from the 15-day to the 60-day
DL.
FLORIDA MARLINS—Placed RHP Logan
Kensing on the 15-day DL. Activated RHP
Sergio Mitre from the 60-day DL. Designated RHP Jeff Fulchino for assignment.
MILWAUKEE
BREWERS—Activated
RHP Jose Capellan from the 15-day DL.
Optioned OF Tony Gwynn to Nashville of
the PCL.
NEW YORK METS—Placed OF Cliff
Floyd on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF
Michael Tucker from Norfolk of the IL.
Agreed to terms with RHP Kevin Mulvey.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Activated
1B Nomar Garciaparra from the 15-day
DL.
PHILADELPHIA
PHILLIES—Acquired
RHP Zac Stott from Cincinnati to complete an earlier trade.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Recalled RHP
Brad Thompson from Memphis of the
PCL. Optioned OF John Rodriguez to
Memphis.
WASHINGTON
NATIONALS—Named
Lenny Harris minor league roving infield
instructor.
National Basketball Association
NEW ORLEANS HORNETS—Signed G
Jannero Pargo to a two-year contract.
National Football League
DALLAS COWBOYS—Signed TE Erik
Jensen.
MIAMI DOLPHINS—Claimed CB Chris
Thompson off waivers from Cleveland.
NEW YORK JETS—Signed WR Mario Hill
and Curtis Williams. Waived WR C.J. Fayton.
SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Signed CB
Quentin Jammer to a five-year contract
extension through the 2012 season.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Signed TE
Leonard Stephens. Released WR Terrence Stubbs.
Sportscast
Television
Golf
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Classic
4 p.m. — (USA) The International
7 p.m. — (TGC) U.S. Women’s Amateur
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Football
8 p.m. — (Fox) Indianapolis at St. Louis
Major League Baseball
12:30 p.m. — (ESPN, FSOTN) St. Louis
at Cincinnati
8 p.m. — (ESPN) N.Y. Yankees at
Chicago White Sox
Tennis
1 p.m. — (ESPN2) U.S. Open Series:
Rogers Cup, Round of 16
7:30 p.m. — (ESPN2) U.S. Open Series:
Rogers Cup, Round of 16
Radio
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Elizabethton
Bruschi to miss preseason after surgery to broken wrist
Patriots linebacker Tedy
Bruschi underwent surgery
Wednesday for a broken
wrist, and will miss the entire
exhibition season.
Missing Bruschi during
camp is something the Patriots are used to after last summer, when he sat out because
of a stroke.
“His presence, his leadership, his vocal (presence), his
mental understanding of the
game is huge for us,” safety
Rodney Harrison said. “Right
now, Tedy has an issue and,
fortunately for us, we have
time right now. We have other guys. We get a chance to
look at other young guys.”
Bruschi, entering his 11th
season with the Patriots, was
hurt on July 31, the fourth
day of camp, and hasn’t practiced since.
True to form, coach Bill Belichick was initially cryptic
about his star linebacker’s
status.
“His wrist is probably
sore. I’m sure he has a lot of
sore body parts. He’s day-today.”
On Tuesday night, after
Bruschi missed his 10th
straight workout, Belichick
confirmed that Bruschi had a
broken wrist and would not
play in any exhibition games.
He said he didn’t know if Bruschi would need surgery,
then added, “I said everything I’m going to say about
that.”
A few hours later, team
spokesman Stacey James said
Bruschi had surgery Wednesday.
Belichick hasn’t said which
wrist Bruschi broke or
whether the player would be
ready for the regular season
opener on Sept. 10 at home
against Buffalo.
Bruschi had a stroke on
Feb. 16, 2005, and returned
for the seventh game.
Without Bruschi, their
leading tackler over the last
five seasons, the only remain-
ing starting linebacker from
the 2004 season, when the Patriots won their most recent
Super Bowl and third in four
seasons, is linebacker Mike
Vrabel.
Redskins
Washington
Redskins
rookie offensive lineman Kili
Lefotu was found unconscious in his room Wednesday evening and was undergoing tests at a hospital.
Coaches became concerned when Lefotu failed to
show up for the team’s 7 p.m.
practice.
Representatives
were sent to the players’
housing, where they found
Lefotu unresponsive. Coach
Joe Gibbs said Lefotu appeared to be doing better, but
doctors had yet to diagnose
what happened.
“He’s responsive, he’s
talking, which wasn’t the case
when they first found him at
the dorm,” Gibbs said. “The
first set of tests, they were
looking for something bleeding, and they didn’t find anything.”
Gibbs said the Redskins
training staff was not aware
of any similar problems in
Lefotu’s medical history.
Gibbs also said Lefotu had
attended the afternoon meetings and showed no signs of
illness. The team took longer
than usual to become aware
of Lefotu’s illness because his
roommate, Manaia Brown,
had been released earlier in
the day.
Titans
Titans running back Chris
Brown isn’t listening to the
trade rumors.
“I still have a job here to
do,” Brown said. “That’s
what they keep me here for,
and that’s what I’ve got to do.
That’s why I go out here
every day working hard,
preparing to be the starter
and take care of my business.”
General manager Floyd
Reese isn’t biting, either.
“I have no idea what
they’re talking about,” Reese
said Wednesday when asked
about reports that the New
York Jets and Miami Dolphins are among teams interested in trading for the threeyear veteran.
The Titans have no reason
right now to trade away their
starting running back because
they need him, too. Travis
Henry has looked better in
training camp, and rookie
LenDale White has missed
some practices in recent days
with a flu bug and a sore toe.
Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers
spent a day at the movies
Wednesday.
Bill Cowher gave his players a training camp reward
for winning the Super Bowl
by canceling a morning practice and sending them to the
cinema.
About 10 minutes after the
players reported to the practice field for the first of two
scheduled sessions, Cowher
told them to get cleaned up
and to pile onto buses for a
trip to a nearby mall. The
players had their choice of
shows and most took in “Talladega Nights,” a NASCARthemed movie.
Movie day once was an annual occurrence at Steelers
training camp, and veteran
players always told the rookies they could count on getting out of one practice every
summer.
But Cowher canceled the
movies after the Steelers went
6-10 in 2003, saying they
needed all the practice time
possible. There also was no
movie day last year, even after the Steelers went 15-1 in
2004.
“The guys have been
working hard and they’ve
been needing it, so it was a
perfect time to give them off,”
linebacker Joey Porter said.
“Some guys were hurting a
little bit, now that we’re into
the second week of practice.”
Colts
Dwight Freeney will be
one of six Indianapolis defensive starters sitting out Thursday night’s preseason opener
at St. Louis.
Freeney missed his second
straight morning practice
Wednesday, and afterward
coach Tony Dungy announced the Colts’ three-time
Pro Bowl defensive end
would be kept out for precautionary reasons.
Dungy said Freeney’s
shoulder, which forced him to
sit out Tuesday morning and
skip the final team scrimmage
Tuesday afternoon, was too
sore.
Seahawks
Left guard Floyd Womack
strained his right hamstring
during practice and will miss
at least a week.
Womack, scheduled to replace departed All-Pro Steve
Hutchinson on the defending
NFC champions’ often-dominant offensive line this season, was pulling behind a
play that was flowing away
from him during a full-contact running drill. He pulled
up holding the back of his
right leg and immediately
hobbled to the sidelines.
Backup
center
Chris
Spencer, drafted No. 1 in
2005, will likely start in Wom-
ack’s place in Saturday
night’s exhibition opener
against Dallas.
Cowboys
Terrell Owens ran hard,
made cuts and came to some
quick stops while catching
passes, but did so during a
post-practice session with a
fourth-string quarterback —
not with the rest of the Dallas
starters.
Owens capped his workout by hauling in a long pass
at the back of the end zone,
slowing immediately to make
sure he stayed in bounds,
then walked to the locker
room. He didn’t stop to talk
to reporters, only saying his
sore left hamstring felt “better.”
He missed two practices
Wednesday, the ninth and
10th since he first felt the
twinge Aug. 2. An MRI taken
Saturday showed no damage,
but he’s concerned enough to
have flown in his own doctors, trainers and an oxygen
chamber that speeds recovery. He’s also said the injury
likely will keep him out of the
preseason opener Saturday
night in Seattle. Jets
Running back Curtis Martin wants to play this season,
but is unsure when he’ll be
able to return.
The NFL’s No. 4 all-time
leading rusher said he’s
working out every day so he
can come back from a right
knee injury as quickly as possible, and is hopeful he can
play in the season opener
Sept. 10 at Tennessee.
“I’m working out as hard
as I can,” he said. “I’m here
every single day and probably up here longer than most
of the other players because
I’m doing extra work.”
Martin was placed on the
physically-unable-to-perform
list July 27, the day before
training camp opened. He
initially got hurt in Week 2
last season and underwent
surgery in December to clean
out his knee.
Giants
Linebacker Lavar Arrington will miss New York’s preseason opener against Baltimore on Friday with soreness
in his right knee.
The three-time Pro Bowler,
signed in the offseason for
$49 million, participated in
team drills for the first week
but has worked only briefly
in one practice since last Friday. He watched from the
sidelines again Wednesday at
the University at Albany.
The soreness is affecting
the same knee Arrington underwent two surgeries on in
2004 and 2005 when he was
with the Washington Redskins.
Titans
n Continued from 8
Bosch and defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth
to improve a defense that gave up 118.4 yards
rushing per game and had only 41 sacks in 2005.
But they need help after losing tackle Rien
Long early in training camp to a torn Achilles
tendon. That has opened up more playing time
for Clauss and rookie draft pick Jesse Mahelona.
Defensive line coach Jim Washburn is focusing on getting some consistency out of his
young unit.
“We aren’t going anywhere unless we do it
every day,” he said Wednesday. “They’ve got to
push through when they don’t feel good. That’s
life. You’ve got to be mentally tougher and have
got to just be pushing.”
Odom, who spent his offseason working on
both his run-stopping and pass rush skills, said
he thinks the group will be very successful.
“We’ve got a lot of good defensive players
that haven’t had that breakout year yet. We had
a couple. We’ve got to get everybody on that
level,” he said.
“I’m counting on this year to be a good year,
one of many years to come with our class to do
good, to be successful.”
The Titans are hoping Odom’s right.
Twins
n Continued from 8
and Kevin Slowey, were elevated.
“Last year, we lost four
pitchers,” he said. “It enabled
our other guys to get in the
rotation and win a lot of
games. This will give some of
the other guys a chance to assert themselves.”
Following a scoreless first
inning, Andrew Mead put
Bristol on the board with a
two-run double following a
passed ball and an error.
In the fifth inning, following a Mead single, Matthew
Enuco delivered a two-run
homer. He crossed the plate
on an RBI triple from Josh
Morgan. It set up catcher
Daniel Jordan with a two-run
double to make it a 7-0 game.
Danny Valencia opened
the sixth inning with a solo
The
jack for the Twins. Elizabethton added an additional run
in the seventh inning when
Wesley Connor reached on an
error and crossed the plate on
a passed ball.
All-in-all Elizabethton had
eight hits to that of seven
from the Bri-Sox.
Lysaught and Garrett Olson led the Twins with two
hits apiece. Mead, Enuco and
Jordan also tallied two each
for Bristol, who returns to
O’Brien Field tonight at 7
p.m.
All fans get in free tonight,
along with a free hot dog and
beverage of their choice from
Carter County Bank.
One of the Cyclone players intercepts the football and returns it to paydirt.
Cyclones
n Continued from 8
ing against quality schools such as Elizabethton
and Volunteer has helped his team understand
what it takes to win football games.
“Elizabethton is a very good football team
and our kids realize that and they know they
have a lot of work to do,” he said.
Coach Pless echoed Coach Ogg’s statement
about how it is important to scrimmage with
solid teams because that will help his team get
better.
“Both of the teams we have scrimmaged are
good so we got a lot of work. They are coached
well and we know they have good technique
and that it is important and it helps us,” Coach
Pless explained.
Happy Valley will see their last pre-season
action on Thursday when they scrimmage with
Unaka. They open up the regular season next
Friday at Sullivan South.
Elizabethton will participate in the Mountain Lakes Conference football jamboree today
at Sullivan South. Their season opener also
comes next Friday when they travel to DobynsBennett.
Elizabethton Star’s
Clarett
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if you’ve got four guns in your
car you’re up to no good.”
Officers said they also
found a partially full bottle of
vodka following the arrest, but
no breath test was given because there was no indication
he was intoxicated, Woods
said. On the console, a police
photo shows, was a compact
disc of children’s songs recorded by prison inmates.
Clarett’s promising football
career was derailed when he
was suspended for the 2003
season after being charged
with falsifying a police report.
He dropped out of school,
then sued and lost in an attempt to be included in the
2004 NFL draft, a challenge
that went to the Supreme
Court. He was a surprise thirdround pick by the Denver
Broncos in the 2005 draft but
was cut during the preseason.
Earlier this year, he was
charged with robbery and carrying a concealed weapon after authorities say he was
identified as the person who
flashed a gun and robbed two
people of a cell phone behind a
Columbus lounge early on
New Year’s morning.
Assistant Franklin County
Prosecutor Tim Mitchell asked
a judge Wednesday to keep
Clarett in jail and revoke his
bond on the robbery charges,
given that Clarett was arrested close to the home of Tywona Douglas, one of the
people who identified him in
that alley.
Police said they don’t
know where the guns came
from or where Clarett was
headed or coming from in the
SUV, which was registered to
a relative of Clarett’s in
Youngstown. Mango, whom
Clarett had not hired to represent him in the new criminal
case, said he is concerned
about Clarett’s mental health.
“He’s been under a lot of
pressure because of this case,”
he said, referring to the robbery charge.
Clarett, a high school
friend of NBA star LeBron
James, became a father when
his girlfriend gave birth to a
premature daughter last
month. When a judge scolded Clarett last week for being
late for a hearing on the robbery charges, his attorney said
Clarett was taking care of the
baby.
Clarett did not speak to police who tried to interview
him at the station Wednesday,
and his arraignment in that
case was scheduled for Thursday.
Clarett had planned to play
for the Youngstown-based
Mahoning Valley Hitmen, one
of five teams in the Eastern Indoor Football League, starting
in January. Hitmen coach and
owner Jim Terry said he spoke
with Clarett by cell phone early Wednesday about upcoming tryouts and there was no
hint anything was wrong.
The arrest will not affect
Clarett’s status with the team,
Terry said.
“We gave him a chance and
now we’ll wait to see what
happens,” he said. “I’ve seen
far worse situations than this.”
As a freshman, Clarett
scored the winning touchdown in the second overtime
of the Fiesta Bowl against Miami to lead Ohio State to the
2002 national championship,
the school’s first since 1968. It
was the last game he played
for the Buckeyes.
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On The Lighter Side
Crossword Fun
By: Eugene Sheffer
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) If
you are too insistent on having
your own way, you stand a
good chance of failing to cooperate in ways that, in reality,
would otherwise be highly
advantageous to your welfare.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Don’t allow your ego to govern what types of jobs or
responsibilities you take on.
Because if they are beyond
your talents or skills, you’ll
lose respect from your peers
when they see you fail.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
People are willing to be your
friends, but if you want to
make a good impression and
gain their respect, you must be
on your very best behavior.
Don’t engage in unattractive
conduct.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) Competitive involvements
must be evaluated wisely and
realistically, or you could easily underestimate your competition and come out poorly, not
finishing among the top players.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) Someone who has an
engaging and dominate personality, but might not have
much logic or clear thinking to
go along with it, could induce
you to alter your behavior.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) Take care not to get
involved in a joint arrangement where you are required to
put up more money than your
counterpart. Even if it is temporary, it could be a bum deal.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) Your independence will be
important to you. You are not
likely to appreciate being
linked with someone who
always tells others what to do
and when to do it.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) If you hope to have a successful day, remember: In
order to perform effectively,
you must first be strongly
motivated. Lukewarm interests
aren’t likely to receive your
most earnest efforts.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) Be careful: Don’t get
involved with an old acquaintance who seldom has anything nice to say about others.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) There’s a chance you could
be unduly influenced by the
wrong people, but what would
make it particularly bad is, it
could affect matters pertaining
to your reputation and career.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) It’s best not to get into any
discussions where you truly
don’t know too much about a
subject and are merely hoping
to bluff your way through. You
may look completely uneducated.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) Business or commercial
transactions could be pretty
tricky, so be on guard in all of
your involvements. You may
think you have the upper hand,
but it’s more likely the opposite is true.
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no charge if over 60, with a $2
charge for those under 60. This
class is suitable for any age and fitness level. For more information,
call the Center at 543-4362.
• The Roan Mountain 12 Step
Group of Alcoholics Anonymous
will meet at 6 p.m. at the McGill
Presbyterian Church, 194 Highway 143, Roan Mountain.
FRIDAY, AUG. 11
• Country and Bluegrass
Dance Hall, located at the Outdoorsmen Building, 4535 Highway 11W, Kingsport, will host
Jack Willis and Eddie Trent with
the Countrymen Band from 710:30 p.m. The Stoney Creek
THURSDAY, AUG. 10
• Any upcoming sixth, seventh
or eighth grade student who is
new to Elizabethton and will be attending county or city schools for
the first time this fall is invited to a
“Meet and Greet” pool party at the
Franklin Pool in Elizabethton from
6-8:30 p.m. The event, which will
provide an opportunity to make
new friends before the school year
starts, is sponsored by First Baptist
Church Junior High Youth Group.
To sign up, call 547-9531.
• Tai Chi Class with Barbara
Webb will be held at the Elizabethton Senior Citizens Center, 428
East G St., from 1 to 2 p.m. There is
Cloggers will also perform. Free
cake and ice cream will also be
served. Tickets are adults $5, children $1. For more information,
call 968-9637.
• A dance will be held at the
Elizabethton Senior Citizens Center, 428 East G. St., from 7-10 p.m.
Music will be provided by the Jerry Pierce Band. Cost is $5 per person. Please bring refreshments to
share. For more information, call
the Center at 543-4362.
• The Senior Citizens Dance
Club will hold a dance at the Elizabethton Elks Club from 7-10
p.m. Music will be provided by
Earl Humphreys’ band, Music
Memories. Those attending are
urged to bring refreshments to
share. Door charge is $6.
• The Women’s Easier Softer
Way Recovery Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet
from 6-7 p.m. in the Conference
Room at Crossroads, 413 East Elk
Ave., Elizabethton.
• The Green Pastures Group
of Alcoholics Anonymous will
meet at 8 p.m. in the Conference
Room at Crossroads, 413 East Elk
Ave., Elizabethton.
• The Annual Cable Family
Reunion will be held at 5 p.m. today and on Saturday at 9 a.m. at
Cranberry High School, Elk Park,
N.C. At 9 a.m. today, everyone
will meet at Arby’s on 19E in
Elizabethton to go to family
cemeteries. A covered dish lunch
will be served at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call
Juanita at 542-4430 or Marie at
477-3265.
SATURDAY, AUG. 12
• Country and Bluegrass
Dance Hall, located at the Outdoorsmen Building, 4535 Highway 11W, Kingsport, will host
Howard Burchett and J.W. Edison with the Tennessee Ramblers
from 7-10:30 p.m. Tickets are
adults $5, children $1. For more
information, call 968-9637.
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548493
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4 PERSONALS
NEW ARRIVALS
ABORTION? WHY?
CONSIDER
ADOPTION
Warm, secure loving
home available for
newborn baby. Please
call 1-800-606-4411.
A- 998.
I will not be responsible for any debts
other than my own,
Matthew Hilton
5 SPECIAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
2
graves
spaces,
Southview section at
HVMP. Headstone allowed. $2500. for
both.
423-946-7387
leave message.
PELHAM descendants,
incorporated themselves and are becoming wealthy, you
can too. Act quickly.
423-542-4344
PLAYSTATION Learning
Center is now accepting new enrollments
for ages 1-5. 547-0466
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19.78
43.75
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WalMart
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Div Yld PE Last Chg %Chg
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Nasd.40 2.3
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Amex.32 1.0
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Amex2.27 1.8
Amex.64 1.1
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NY 1.62 4.8
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...
16
14
...
17
19
8
19
...
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14
16
15
42
16
20
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23
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8
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29
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...
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20
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28
27
14
16
56
18
32
67.70
17.40
75.39
2.20
63.32
48.21
50.52
13.09
3.70
6.45
27.39
2.11
34.36
25.75
41.46
24.44
22.84
36.53
1.97
16.03
14.95
5.30
62.84
26.15
59.54
13.54
33.53
16.54
13.84
19.95
31.05
3.88
41.21
16.90
16.90
126.98
58.60
29.55
4.47
43.96
30.49
4.37
15.84
29.68
33.83
43.90
58.45
48.69
27.22
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+.48
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Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC.
n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt =
Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or
receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables
at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.
Aug. 9, 2006
11,750
11,500
11,250
11,000
10,750
-97.41
10,500
JUL
AUG
Record high: 11,722.98
11,250.84 11,068.57
Jan. 14, 2000
11,076.18
MAY
High
Pct. change
from previous: -0.87
JUN
Low
STOCK MARKET INDEXES
52-Week
High
Low
11,670.19 10,156.46
5,013.67 3,550.55
440.38
378.95
8,651.74 7,211.14
2,046.65 1,555.08
2,375.54 2,012.78
1,326.70 1,168.20
818.87
665.23
784.62
614.76
13,472.98 11,630.20
Name
Dow Industrials
Dow Transportation
Dow Utilities
NYSE Composite
Amex Market Value
Nasdaq Composite
S&P 500
S&P MidCap
Russell 2000
Wilshire 5000
Last
Net
Chg
%Chg
YTD
%Chg
12-mo
%Chg
11,076.18
4,162.26
433.88
8,192.63
2,001.72
2,060.28
1,265.95
726.77
681.05
12,642.95
-97.41
-125.56
+.44
-17.56
+10.39
-.57
-5.53
-5.39
-6.42
-67.31
-.87
-2.93
+.10
-.21
+.52
-.03
-.43
-.74
-.93
-.53
+3.35
-.80
+7.10
+5.66
+13.79
-6.58
+1.41
-1.53
+1.16
+1.00
+4.55
+11.19
+10.26
+8.82
+22.02
-4.52
+3.00
+2.62
+3.16
+3.09
MUTUAL FUNDS
Name
American Funds A: GwthA p
American Funds A: IncoA p
American Funds A: ICAA p
American Funds A: WshA p
Fidelity Invest: Contra
Fidelity Invest: Magelln
Oppenheimer A: Disc p
Putnam Funds A: GrInA p
Putnam Funds A: VoyA p
Vanguard Fds: Wndsr
Total Assets
Obj ($Mlns)
XG 78,183
BL 52,048
LV 69,153
LV 62,576
XG 64,903
LC 46,615
SG
582
LV 11,525
LG
5,812
XV 13,227
NAV
31.12
19.35
32.99
32.25
64.68
83.47
41.25
19.84
15.92
17.28
Total Return/Rank
4-wk 12-mo
5-year
-0.6 +7.0/A
+31.0/A
+2.1 +10.3/A
+53.1/A
+0.7 +9.1/B
+31.9/B
+0.8 +6.5/D
+27.0/C
-0.7 +9.7/A
+57.1/A
-2.6 +0.5/E
+3.3/D
-6.1 -3.9/D
+6.9/D
-0.6 +3.3/E
+17.5/E
-1.8 -6.2/E
-12.2/D
-0.9 +3.1/E
+31.1/D
Pct Min Init
Load
Invt
5.75
250
5.75
250
5.75
250
5.75
250
NL
2,500
NL
2,500
5.75
1,000
5.25
500
5.25
500
NL
3,000
BL -Balanced, GL -Global Stock, IL -International Stock, LC -Large-Cap Core, LG -Large-Cap Growth, LV -Large-Cap
Val., XC -Multi-Cap Core, XG -Multi-Cap Growth, XV -Multi-Cap Val.Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum
$ needed to invest in fund. NA = Not avail. NE = Data in question. NS = Fund not in existence. Source: Lipper, Inc.
LINE AD DEADLINES
word rates:
15 WORDS OR LESS
1 DAY - $4.75 2 DAYS - $7.00
6 DAYS - $10.00
PUBLIC NOTICES
453
510
96
1,059
24
25
332,315,565
Chg
+.53
+.46
+.46
+.64
+1.06
+2.49
+.34
+2.96
+.25
+1.03
AT&T Inc
AMD
Altria
Amgen
Anheusr
AppleC
ApldMatl
ATMOS
BP PLC
BkofAm
BellSouth
Boeing
BrMySq
Broadcm s
BrcdeCm
CSX
Cendant s
Chevron
CienaCp
Cisco
CocaCl
Comc sp
Conexant
Corning
DaimlrC
DellInc
Disney
DowChm
eBay
EMC Cp
EastChm
EKodak
EmrsnEl
ExxonMbl
Finisar
FstHorizon
FleetEn
FordM
GenElec
GnMotr
GlaxoSKln
HCA Inc
Hallibtn s
Heinz
HewlettP
HomeDp
HonwllIntl
Hospira
iShJapan
Ex
YTD
Div Yld PE Last Chg %Chg
542-1530
Classifieds
928-4151
MONDAY------------FRIDAY 2:00 P.M.
TUESDAY-------------MONDAY 2:00 P.M.
WEDNESDAY--------TUESDAY 2:00 P.M.
THURSDAY------WEDNESDAY 2:00 P.M.
FRIDAY------------THURSDAY 2:00 P.M.
SUNDAY---------------FRIDAY 2:00 P.M.
5 SPECIAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
10 HELP WANTED
GENERAL
10 HELP WANTED
GENERAL
10 HELP WANTED
GENERAL
11 PROFESSIONAL
HELP WANTED
15 SERVICES
OFFERED
15 SERVICES
OFFERED
TENNESSEANS ownership program. Bottling
plant,
restaurant
chain, opening Elizabethton, start $41.66.
Secure your future.
423-542-4344
ASE Certified Mechanic Wanted apply
in person at Hampton
Repair Shop, 102 Williams Street, Hampton.
CONSTRUCTION helpers needed immediately. Local work.
423-677-8529.
MOWING HELPER must
have drivers license,
transportation,
personal
phone,
(423)542-6911.
LOCAL HVAC company now hiring experienced installers and
helpers. We offer
competitive wages,
health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, paid vacations,
holidays, and 401K retirement plan. Call
(423)928-6168. Valid
drivers license and
drug testing required.
CAREGIVER, CPR certified, sit with elderly or
disabled,
call
(423)335-0273. Ask for
Leigh
L&T ROOFING METAL &
SHINGLE ROOFS. All
home improvements.
Lawn
mowing.
(423)542-2011.
ELIZABETHTON:Construction, Trackhoe,
backhoe,
frontloader, landcleared,
site work septic systems, dirt, shale for
sale. (423)547-0408,
895-0499.
MCs your the star people, pets, houses.
Come in for love care.
Call 423-926-3588.
TWO burial plots for
sale. Happy Valley
Memorial Park, Devotion Section. Call:
543-1981
6 GOODS TO EAT
& SELL
EARLY APPLES and
RASPBERRIES JOHNSON’S SMALL FRUITS,
984 Buck Mountain
Road, Elk Park, NC
(828)733-4766
FREESTONE
South
Carolina Peaches, local blueberries available:
Davis
Girls
Peach Shed, Hwy. 19E
Roan Mountain.
SWEET CORN, Goodwin Brothers Farm,
Lynn Valley $3.00
dozen. (423)542-8786,
(423)542-4284.
9 ANTIQUES
/COLLECTIBLES
LATE
50’s
CHINA
HUTCH, 3 glass doors,
3 drawers, 3 bottom
doors.
$350.
(423)543-2559
NOW OPEN, OLD
FINDS ANTIQUES COLLECTIBLES, 365 West Elk
Avenue, Hours: Friday
and
Saturday,
9:30AM-4:00PM.
10 HELP WANTED
GENERAL
AMERICOURT HOTEL
of Elizabethton is now
accepting applications for position of
housekeeper. Please
apply in person at
1515, Hwy. 19E. ByPass.
NO
PHONE
CALLS PLEASE!
APPLEBEE’S
1010 Overmountain
Drive, Now taking applications
Monday
thru
Thursday
2:00PM-4:00PM
No
calls please.
ASPLUNDH Tree Expert
has immediate openings for various positions. We offer an attractive benefit plan
including life and
health
insurance,
401K, vacation and
holidays. Call Rodney
at 423-446-0052 or
Sammy 276-708-6998.
AVON can pay for
your summer vacation- and gas! Only
$10.00 to join. Lisa
(423)542-0057.
CAPTAIN D’s now hiring for counter positions. Must be able to
work nights and weekends. Starting pay
$6.50 per hour. Apply
in person. No phone
calls please.
EXPERIENCED
LINE
COOKS!! APPLY IN
PERSON. CARTER AT
MAIN RESTAURANT 829
E.
ELK
AVE.
TUESDAY-THURSDAY
2P-4P
EXPERIENCED masons
foremen’s, masons, laborers for Tri-Cities
area. 423- 247-4487,
423- 202-0854, 423552-8544.
FAST Paced Internet
Company looking for
3 Warehouse Workers
who are Dependable
and Self motivated to
sort /pack books and
scan inventory. MUST
HAVE warehouse experience.
Starting
Rate $8.00 per hour.
Hours
M-F
8:30AM-5:00PM. Qualified applicants must
apply at TN Workforce
Development Center.
FULL-TIME
position
available at Farm Supply Company downtown. Indoor, outdoor
work. Heavy lifting required. Apply in person only at 515 East E
St. No Phone Calls.
MOBILE home service
person needed to
perform service and
repair work on new
and used homes. Carpentry experience required. Must have a
valid TN driver’s license & a good driving record. Good pay,
holidays, 401K, and
vacation available.
Apply at Art’s Finer
Homes, 1581 19E ByPass, Elizabethton, TN.
MOUNTAIN ELECTRIC
COOPERATIVE
now
accepting applications Mountain Electric
Cooperative is seeking
dependable individual to fill Meter Reading Technician position in the Newland
office for the next two
years. The primary
duty of the position is
meter reading and
performing
meter
change outs. The
wage rate is $11.51
per hour. IMPORTANT
NOTE: Due to the
probable implementation of an automatic meter reading
system, the position
will be eliminated and
employment will end
in the mid to late 2008
time frame. Competitive benefits including
company paid medical, life insurance, 401
(k) savings, paid holidays, vacation and
others. As a minimum,
applicants must have
a high school diploma
or equivalent and
valid vehicle driver’s license. Applicants for
positions
are
accepted at the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, located at 175
Linville Street in Newland or mail to P.O.
Box 939, Newland,
N.C.
or
call
(828)737-7230. Applications will be accepted
through
August 15, 2006.
PLUMBING
SERVICE
TECH.
International
Plumbing Company
has immediate openings for plumbing repair technicians. Call
for a confidential interview. (423)538-9917
Monday-Friday
10:00AM-3:00PM.
Pro Careers Inc., an in
home care agency is
seeking personal &
respite care aids to
care for elderly and
disabled. In need of
caregivers for Johnson
County area. Please
call 423-926-2959 or
1-800-538-2840
RACE week. Part-time
energetic and outgoing managers & Associates
needed.
August
11th-13th,
21st-26th.
Call
423-213-4199.
SERVICE Technician
setting up hospital or
medical equipment.
Driving involved, rotation
on
call
(423)547-0060
11 PROFESSIONAL
HELP WANTED
EXPERIENCED flooring
helper needed. Must
have own transportation.
Call
(423)543-2471.
RELIEF
COOK/AIDE
Must have knowledge of food preparation,
sanitation,
and hygienic methods. We offer competitive wages. Must
be able to work flexible hours. For consideration, apply in person at 301 Watauga
Avenue,
Elizabethton, TN 37643 or
fax
resume
to:
(423)542-9311, Attn:
Human Resources,
EOE
PART-TIME
experienced
Floral Designer, flexible hours,
(423)538-9201
between 9:00AM-9:00PM
and leave message.
12 WORK WANTED
GEN./PROF.
MR. Oddjob. minor repairs, carpentry, yard
work, haul away,
cleaning, screens repaired, exterior painting. 474-2360
SOUTHERN COMFORTS:
Cleaning, hauling off,
organizing.
yards,
homes, offices, debris,
more. References. Licensed. 423-542-5309,
423-213-7937.
15 SERVICES
OFFERED
A Cut Above Mowing
Service. For all your
yard work needs. Free
estimates. 213-6663,
418-4738.
ASPHALT
PAVING:
Commercial & residential, patch work.
Free
estimates.
(423)348-6939,
(423)742-0403
BRIAN’S
BUILDINGS!
Display lot
on Hwy. 91.
STORAGE
For sale.
in Hunter
647-1084.
Bridgeman Excavating. Paving, driveways, grading, septic
systems, dirt, rock
hauling,
basement
ceiling, land clearing.
423-725-3487.
BUSINESS and Residential Cleaning Services: Trustworthy, dependable, reasonable
rates. Call for free estimate. 512-1226.
FREE ESTIMATES! Heating, A/C, remodeling,
vinyl siding, roofing,
ceramic, hardwood
flooring, plumbing,
electrical. 543-7975,
335-0841.
Handy Andy Home
Improvements for all
your interior & exterior
repairs, pressure washing, painting. Home:
543-1979
Cell:
423-242-8187.
HAUL gravel for driveways, dirt for sale,
also backhoe work of
any
kind.
Call
423-542-2909.
HOMES & MOBILE
HOME IMPROVEMENTS.
Additions, sunrooms,
textured
ceilings,
porches, carports, garages. Work guaranteed. (423)542-9483.
Immaculate Mowing,
Weekly yards only. Dependable
service,
reasonable rates, references,
(423)
542-6911.
JLJ HOME IMPROVEMENT, remodeling,
room additions & vinyl siding. Licensed &
Insured. 423-543-2101.
KY CONSTRUCTION
Specializing in finished
grade
work
and
demolition. All types
of front end loader
work. Dirt for sale.
Quality, honest work
at the best price. Will
beat any other estimates, guaranteed.
Keith
Younce,
(423)543-2816.
423-341-7782
PIANO tuning and repair over 30 years experience, also used pianos. (423)474-4375
Rainbow Home Improvements. Vinyl siding, soffit, windows,
patios. Licensed and
Insured. Free Estimates. 423-543-5773
423-895-0908
Teel’s Lawn Care, Tree
work & Stump removal. Free Estimates!
213-7529, 213-9010
19 BUILDINGS
SALE/RENT
5560 Highway 19E
Hampton, TN
Back Lot Overlooks
Doe River
Multi-purpose commercial building. High
traffic area. Possibilities limitless, warehouse, manufacturing
retail or wholesale.
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
(423)282-5182
Gayle Eggers
(423)342-8801
WILL MOW AND LANDSCAPE YARDS in the
Tri-Cities area, call for
free
estimates,
(423)474-3668
16 BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
For Sale By Owner
1429, 1431, 1433
WEST G ST.
Great Business
Opportunity !
103 EMILY DRIVE
HUNTER
Tri-plex
apartment
building located in
Hunter Community.
Unit #1 features 3BR, &
rents for $450. 2 Units
are 2BR, 1BA units and
rent for $360 each. This
investment property
has been well maintained, has a good
rental history and is
situated on a level lot
with paved parking in
the popular Hunter
Community of Elizabethton. $124,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
Large lot in back.
Priced to sell! $49,500.
FIRM.
(423)543-6120
Star
LINE AD DEADLINES
word rates:
15 WORDS OR LESS
1 DAY - $4.75 2 DAYS - $7.00
6 DAYS - $10.00
19 BUILDINGS
SALE/RENT
FOR SALE BY OWNER
275 feet highway
frontage on 19E.
29x27 store with new
roof and well zoned
commercial a steal
at $20,000.
Call for details
(423)725-4145
20 ARTICLES
FOR SALE
1 King size double pillow top mattress set
–New, still in factory
plastic, only $295. Full
mattress and Box
$149. Original packaging. 343-4412
100% Leather Sofa
and Loveseat. Ashley
Millenium. Brand New,
never used. Still has
original
warranty.
Worth $2500. Sacrifice
$899 for both. Call
217-4202
3 ROOMS– All NEW.
Microfiber
Sofa/
Loveseat, 5pc Solid
wood bdrm. suite,
5pc. Solid Wood Dining Set, Retail $3,500.
Sell $1,595! Will break
up. 929-3626
6PC Bedroom SetBrand
New,
solid
wood, high quality. Still
in boxes. Beautiful! Retail $2300, Sacrifice
$795. Call 343-4601
7PC BDRM Set. Cherry
Sleigh Bed set, Solid
Wood, Brand new,
never opened. MUST
SEE! Worth $3200, Must
sell
$1295.
Call
423-218-0755
A
Couch
and
loveseat, neutral color
Microfiber, very comfortable! New in plastic. Sacrifice $595 for
both 434-0603
A Queen size double
pillow top mattress
and box spring set.
Brand new, in original
plastic w/ warranty.
Only
$195.
Call
343-4408
A Truck Load of Furniture. Brand new furniture and mattresses,
Mint condition, Brand
names, 60%-70% below retail. First come,
first serve. Must sell
everything!!!
Call
423-217-4245
JENNINGS Carbon extreme left - handed
bow. Excellent condition. Extras, arrows,
case included. $275.
(423)542-3255
or
(423)895-2683. Call after 4:00PM.
LUMBER FOR SALE: For
sale to the public,
hemlock and white
pine building lumber.
3X and 1X. Also
feather-edge siding,
mulch wood chips
and sawdust. Contact Warren Pritchard
at Classic Sales, 1551
Elk Park Hwy, Newland,
NC
28657,
828-733-3332 or stop
by
MEMORY foam mattress and foundation.
Brand name. New,
never
used.
Very
Comfortable!
MUST
SEE!!! Retail $1499, Sell
$595
OBO.
423-200-4664
MOTEL Size Refrigerator with ice maker,
$80, electric tread mill
$60, compound bow
$60, (423)547-9123
NEW 12x22x9 metal
storage building, garage. 10x8 roll up garage
door.
Must
move.
$2300.
(423)542-6911.
VALUE Villa Thrift Store.
Household Merchandise. Thursday, Friday,
Saturday 10a.m.-6p.m.
Sunday 1p.m.-5p.m.
(423) 542-2322.
WHITE PINE LUMBER
FOR SALE, 2x4’s, 2x6’s
and 1” lumber $350
per
1000
ft.
(423)768-2604
XI Compound Hunting
Bow and case $125,
7.63 SKS Rifle and case
$125. 423-213-2613.
ZENITH 27” floor model
$75. in perfect condition. (423)543-2905
23 YARD
SALES
102 West H, St. Sat. 8-2
Baby items & little bit
of everything.
112 CREOLA WAY behind Milligan College
in Stanmoore Estates,
Saturday,
9:00AM-2:00PM furniture, china, household, misc.
4 Families. 1807 Southside Rd, Fri, Sat, 7-?
Baby & young girls
clothes, toys, furniture,
pressure
washer,
washer, dryer, refrigerator, more.
542-1530
Classifieds
23 YARD
SALES
31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
BIG Yard Sale, Saturday Only! Little Tykes
desk, tricycle, bicycle,
toys galore, Christmas
tree, and lots more.
Kids
clothes.
7:00AM-Noon.
182
Constitution Avenue. If
rainy, reschedule to
Saturday, August 19th.
1BR, West End, appliances, water furnished.
No
Pets.
$295.mth.,
plus
$200.dep.
423543-5515.
CORNER of Roan and
G Street, Friday and
Saturday
7:00AM
-11:00AM. Furniture,
boys clothes 8-10,
women clothes 18-22.
Lemonade stand.
FIRST Time This Year,
610 Bravo St. near Elk
Lodge, 3 Families, Erwin Pottery, fans,
glassware.
Cheap.
Rain or Shine.
FRI & Sat. 7-? Eddie
Bauer, Double stroller,
2 highchairs, 2 swings,
tons of namebrand
girls & boys clothes &
shoes size newborn to
3T. Tons of toys, adult
& maternity clothing,
household
items,
Home Interior, comforter, curtain set.
Much more. Take 19E
4-lane toward Bluff
City, go past 2 firework
stands, we are the
next concrete driveway up the hill. Brick
mailbox at bottom of
driveway. For more
info call 895-1293
FRI, & Sat 8-? Lots of
assorted items. 603
Binghan St. Everybody
Come.
Fri. 8-3, Sat. 8-?. Lots of
items: Tools, furniture,
dishes, lots more. 705
Scott Street.
FRIDAY,
Saturday.
8a.m.-? Huge 3-family.
Hampton, Hwy 321. 1
mile pass Brown’s Market. Lots of everything.
Kids, adult clothing,
household items.
GIGANTIC
Moving
Sale 621 West E. Friday, Saturday. Computer desk. Futon,
household,
school
clothes. EVERYTHING!!!
MOVING SALE! Friday,
Saturday. 113 Lynnview Circle, off Echo
Dr. Futon, bunkbeds,
blinds, curtains, stationary bike, mens,
womens,
childrens
clothes.
Everything
Must Go!
THURS, Fri, Sat 8-1
CASH ONLY! 1583
Broad St. Crib, Baby
Equipt. clothes infantadult.
25 PETS
& SUPPLIES
1BR, stove, refrigerator, water, garbage
pickup
furnished,
mini-blinds.
Call
(423)542-9200.
210-214 Price Road,
large 2BR, water furnished, $350month.
135 Pleasant Beach
Road, 2BR, $350month
(423)282-6486
2BR, upstairs, $250. deposit, $250. month. No
pets. Stove, refrigerator,
heat,
air.
(423)772-3472.
434-9272, weekends.
3BR, 1BA, Hunter. W/D
hookup. No pets.
Non-smoking.
$475.month, deposit.
Ask about FREE gasoline. 895-1146.
Alexander Apts Large
Upstairs 2br 2ba,
Formal dining, new
carpets. Great View
Employed
& ref's
$425mo $220 dep
542-8493
956-0068
before 5 pm
BILTMORE: Nice 2BR,
2BA with lot, 2 covered decks, 2 storage
buildings,
CH&A.
$29,900. (423)542-8218
BROOKVIEW APARTMENT AND STORAGE.
2BR, appliances, W/D
hook-up. NO PETS.
$350mth.,
deposit.
(423)543-2632, (423)
543-4671.
Brownlow Apts 425
West G St Ground
floor 2br 1ba. Quiet
$375.mo $175.dep
542-8493
956-0068
before 5 pm
Happy Valley, 2BR,
appliances, private
drive, private entrance.
257-2106,
543-2651
LYNN VALLEY: at Lynn
Valley Driving Range,
2BR, Section 8 approved, W/D hookup,
carpet. 423-360-1621
32 HOUSES
FOR RENT
29 TOWNHOUSES
CONDOS FOR
SALE/RENT
508 Bryant St. 3BR,
CH&A,
appliances,
W/D hookup, great
neighborhood.
No
pets. Lease,
reference & deposit required. Available 9/1
$575.mo. 423-543-7485
LARGE room with private bath and entrance. Fully furnished
plus utilities. Monthly.
(423)542-4475,
423-612-0132.
31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
**2BR, stove, refrigerator, garbage pick-up
furnished. References.
No pets. $350.mth,
$200.dep. Airport Apts.
(423)474-3704,
213-8207.
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Fair Housing Act which
makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on
race, color, religion,
sex, handicap, familial
status, or national origin, or an intention, to
make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. ”Familial
status includes children under the age of
18 living with parents
or legal custodians;
pregnant women and
people securing custody of children under
18. This newspaper will
not knowingly accept
any advertising for
real estate which is in
violation of the law.
Our
readers
are
hereby informed that
all dwellings advertised in this newspaper
are available on an
equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD
Toll-free
at
1-800-669-9777. The
Toll-free
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Impaired
is:
1-800-927-9275
131 CAPTAIN AVENUE,
2BR, 1BR,
Elizabethton. Available immediately. Deposit required. Quiet neighborhood.
(423)
926-2738.
1BR efficiency. Blue
Springs area. Appliances, CH&A, lights
and water furnished.
$350. month, deposit.
(423)474-2700.
1.6 acres, open and
wooded land with
small stream at front
of property. Beautiful
setting! Septic, well,
utility water on property. $26,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
TRISH GRAYBEAL
543-4663
ASSORTMENT of rentals: Farm, brick, frame,
pets, rent to own, furnished and unfurnished. 282-6486.
Southside 3BR, 1BA,
basement, storage,
appliances.
References.
257-2106,
543-2651
WATAUGA ROAD: 2BR,
1BA, H&A, washer/
dryer hookup, deck,
$425month $425deposit,
no
pets
(941)457-0959,
(423)647-6384.
33 MOBILE HOME
FOR RENT
ATWOOD ROAD
Butler, TN
Breathtaking
Seasonal Water Views
12.4 acres, unspoiled,
undeveloped, near
“The Harbour’s’’ at
Watauga Lake.
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
(423)282-5182
Gayle Eggers
(423)342-8801
MILLIGAN COLLEGE
16x80 3BR, 2BA,; 2BR
2BA, 14X70 REFERENCES
REQUIRED
257-2106,
(423)543-2651.
RENT TO OWN: 2BR,
1BA, downtown Elizabethton, rental lot, no
pets, $700down with
owner
financing,
$300month
(423)895-0456
ROAN Mountain on
Ripshin. 2BR, newly remodeled,
washer,
dryer. No inside pets.
References.
(423)
725-3880.
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
Treadway Dr.
Lot 7
108
Cedar Grove Road
1200 19E Bypass
Level building lot with
quiet country setting.
Approx. 3.4 acres,
mostly cleared and
ready to build!
Only $139,000
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
$59,000
543-4663
WEST ELK AVE LOTS
Great
commercial
property, wonderful
potential,
located
near large home improvement
warehouse, nation’s largest retailers, and several restaurants.
Blue Ridge Properties
(423)282-5182
BANJO RIDGE
NESTLE YOUR HOME
ON 1.42 ACRES. IN
BEAUTIFUL
MOUNTAINS OF BUTLER. MINUTES FROM WATAUGA
LAKE
WITH
BOAT
DOCK ACCESS. UNDERGROUND UTILITIES.
$45,000.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
SHERREE HOLT
543-4663
40 LOTS
FOR RENT
LARGE LOT’s 70’, 80’
OR
DOUBLEWIDE,
GAP CREEK AREA. No
outside
pets.
$125.-$150.month
(423)725-2770,
(423)612-2847.
116 HILTON HILL
1202 Arney Street,
For Sale
By Owner
423-543-5855
or
423-213-8406
2BR, 1BA, Refinished
HW floors, double garage with apartment.
109 Sunrise Hunter.
Owner,
Agent.
$74,900.423-213-0030
9.25acres, 3BR, 1BA,
farmhouse,
CH&A,
gas/ log fireplace,
fenced
pasture,
spring, barn, $140,000.
(423) 474-3933.
HWY. 19E
ELIZABETHTON, TN
9 Miles To Bristol
Motor Speedway
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
(423)282-5182
Gayle Eggers
(423)342-8801
38 LOTS
FOR SALE
TRAILER LOTS FOR
RENT, off Ruby Avenue. $145 month.
1-804-647-4113 (owner
in town)
Adorable 2BD, 1BA
home in the city.
Huge walk in closet.
Large Laundry room.
New heat pump, new
windows, fresh paint.
Appliances include
washer, dryer, stove
and refrigerator. A
dollhouse for $64,900
4.4 +/-acres in Hunter
Community.
Level
land and easy access.
MLS#233748.
$150,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Wonderful
family
home in nice area just
outside the city limits.
4BD, 2BA. 2 woodburning
Fireplaces.
Split Foyer design with
3BR, Living Room with
fireplace, Bathroom
and Large eat in
Kitchen on upper
level. Lower level features 1BR, 1BA, den
with fireplace and 1
car drive under garage. Oversized deck
overlooks semi private
back yard. Roof is less
than a year old.
$118,000
C21 Whitehead
Lisa Potter
$114,000
543-4663
C21 Whitehead
Teresa Musick
$119,900
543-4663
MOTIVATED SELLER!
New home, 3BR,
2BA, stone fireplace,
gas logs, cathedral
ceilings, hardwood
floors, double car
garage. Beautifully
landscaped.
$177,500
Nice family home in
country setting. 3BD,
1BA, master bedroom
has sink with vanity
and walk-in closet.
Full basement with 1
Car drive under garage. CH&A. Built in
1990. 1,232 SF. Open
floor plan with large
covered front porch.
$85,000
Huge home, offering
4BRS, 3.5BAS, formal
livingroom, sunroom,
den, in conveniently
located
Colonial
Acres. MLS#232675
$209,900.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
178 MELODY LANE
Splendid Chalet
2.78acres, private setting,
Breathtaking
views, stone fireplace,
wood beamed ceilings, Large wood
deck, Many updates
$169,900.00
3BR 2BA home on .75
acres in Hunter area.
Home offers newer
roof, carpet and windows! Very clean.
118 Wedgewood
Immaculate home in
desirable West Links
Estates. 5BR, 4.5BA
home convenient to
JC and Eliz. Formal
entry, hdwd floors,
cathedral
ceilings,
master on main.
Much more!
Custom built brick
ranch,
hardwood
floors, ceramic tile,
kitchen adjoined by
dining room with gas
log fireplace, 2 Car
garage. $149,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
DEBORAH
SUTHERLAND
543-4663
C21 WHITEHEAD
DEBORAH
SUTHERLAND
543-4663
179 ARLINGTON
DRIVE RD.
Priced To Have
Money Left
Over To Decorate!
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
House on large lot
with beautiful backyard, garden spot,
storage shed, beauty
shop and full basement.
MUST
SEE!
$99,900.00
Sheryl Garland
(423)895-1690
2524 Beechwood,
Quail Hollow
3BR 2BA home on lg
landscaped lot in
choice
neighborhood.
Amenities:
pool, clubhouse, and
tennis courts.
C21 Whitehead
Sarah Presnell
$209,000
543-4663
SOLD!
190 ECHO DRIVE
LYNN VALLEY
FOR SALE BY OWNER
Custom Built
Cape Cod
3BR, 2BA, living room,
tray ceiling, fireplace,
gas logs,
double-garage.
Shown by
appointment,
100% financing to
qualified applicant.
Call after 5 o’clock
or leave message.
$165,500.
(423)543-8995
C21 WHITEHEAD
TERESA MUSICK
543-4663
2549 SIAM RD
NICE 2005 HOME ON
LEVEL LOT, 3BR, 2BA,
HWF,
ALL
APPLIANCES, VIEWS, DECK.
A
MUST
SEE!!
$138,500.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
PENNY WOODSON
543-4663
259 SAMPS HOLLOW
Beautiful Views!!
197 Buck Mountain
1517 Siam Road
City Schools. Brick
ranch 3 BR, 1 BA.
Hardwood floors in
den and hallway. 2
Outbuildings.
$84,900
Jason Blevins
RANDALL BIRCHFIELD
REAL ESTATE
543-5959
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Frank Lloyd Wright
design! You will have
a blast decorating this
home. 3BRs, 3BAs,
greenhouse off the
kitchen. Huge yard to
entertain.
Extras Too Numerous
To List Here
4BR, 2.5BA ranch sitting on 2 acres with a
great view.
Motivated sellers. MLS#
225022 $189,900
Remodeled
4BR,
2.5BA bath home located in the Central
Community. Could
be 5 or 6 bedroom
home. MLS#233004
$120,900.
$119,500
A Must See!
1499 HWY 133
118 Sharp
C21 WHITEHEAD
JEFF SMITH
543-4663
2504 Elizabethton
Highway
134 Carver Crabtree
1170 RITTERTOWN
ROAD
—HAMPTON—
209 OLD SIAM
Remodeled cottage
with
views
large
kitchen with island,
4-car carport with
workshop
garage,
Hot tub, large wrap
around covered and
screened
deck.
$127,500.00
212
CONSTITUTION AVE
(423)282-5182
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
543-4663
Immaculate
3BR
home with Mountain
views & creek. 2 outbuildings and carport.
Must see!
Owner Wants
Offer !
Hurry, Call Today
This One Will Not Last
1036 Gap Creek
Well maintained brick
ranch, just outside
city. Spacious floor
plan, 3BR, FP and
outbuilding
with
electricity.
166 WOODLAND
HEIGHTS
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
$129,900
543-4663
39 LOTS W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
Southside &
Sneed Hill
1.02 Acres, level lot
located in the city
limits. Property could
be subdivided.
$31,000
Jason Blevins
RANDALL BIRCHFIELD
REAL ESTATE
543-5959
C21 WHITEHEAD
BRENDA THOMPSON
543-4663
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
126
OLD CHARITY HILL
ROAD
1007 OAK STREET
TESTER ROAD
C21 WHITEHEAD
JOSHUA IRICK
543-4663
Extremely nice home!
Gazebo with Jacuzzi,
3 tier decking, Beautiful décor, Tilt windows, Great yard, 2
car garage, Outbuilding. $146,900.00
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
ERA Golden Key
952-4950
Call Lora
677-6606
Russ Swanay
Realty
543-5741
Russ Swanay
Realty
543-5741
Beautiful 7.68 acres,
very secluded, great
for developers, Couple of different locations to build the perfect dream home.
$69,500.00
For appointment
423-342-8484
127 LaFayette
Circle
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
68.53 acres, beautiful
level farm land and
lush mountains and
tall timbers. 1000’
road frontage. Water
at road.
110 Old Lacy Hollow
Road
Spacious living 3 BR, 3
BA. Second kitchen
in the lower level.
$109,900
Jason Blevins
RANDALL BIRCHFIELD
REAL ESTATE
543-5959
5BR., 3.5BA., garage
attached. On Doe
River. Great for kids &
Trout fishing. 5 minutes
from
WalMart,
Church, schools.
42 HOUSES
FOR SALE
3BR, 1BA, LR, Kitchen
with lots of cabinets.
In
ground
pool.
$90,000.
HIGHWAY 11-E
Perfect for a new
business, 2.5 acres
with 546.91 feet of
road frontage.
$255,000
Jason Blevins
RANDALL BIRCHFIELD
REAL ESTATE
543-5959
Sheryl Garland
(423)895-1690
C21 WHITEHEAD
JONATHAN FULMER
543-4663.
104 Lane Hill
134 RUFUS
TAYLOR ROAD
This all brick home is
what you have been
waiting for! Room for
everyone! 3BRs, 2BAs,
huge eat in kitchen,
huge laundry room
that is large enough
for an office or craft
room. 2 car carport,
one car drive under.
A Great den in the
basement with a gas
fireplace.
Call Today!
ONE private trailer
space for mobile
home or RV, Charity
Hill Road. $150 month.
(423)725-2634.
2BR mobile home.
Appliances,
W/D
hookup. Private lot.
$325.mo.,
deposit.
(423)791-4610.
2BR,
appliances,
walk to schools, bank,
supermarkets, Hampton. Garbage, Lawn
maintenance.
No
pets. (423) 725-4792.
39 LOTS W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
This Home Is Waiting
For You!
Talladega Apts 1br.
furnished Upstairs
Utils. paid $360.mo
$175.dep
542-8493
956-0068 before 5 pm
1BR duplex, Siam
area. Private. Appliances, $250. month,
$125. deposit. (423)
543-5638.
30 ROOMS
FOR RENT
205 DRY BRANCH
3BR,
upstairs,
$450.mo. $200.dep.
2BR,
downstairs
$350.mo. $200.dep.
Willow Springs Rd.
(423)773-6122.
FREE TO GOOD HOME,
SEAL-POINT
HIMALYIAN CAT, will help
with
spay.
(423)943-7673,
(423)547-3031.
2BR, 1.5BA Townhouse.
W/D hookup, appliances, carpet, D/W,
deck, paved driveway. $460.mo. plus
deposit. 423-538-0458.
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
928-4151
SUNDAY---------------FRIDAY 2:00 P.M.
4BR home on 5.44
acres. Newer carpet,
apartment and outbuilding with mobile
home on property
that conveys!
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
543-4663
3BR, 2BA, cabin style
home, 5acres, open
floor plan, HWF, Full
basement,
fully
fenced with barn.
$249,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
DEBORAH
SUTHERLAND
543-4663
2732 SIAM ROAD
206 MARION
BRANCH ROAD
152 SHALOM DRIVE
Custom built 2 story
home, 3 or 4br, 2ba, 2
car garage, outbuilding, very secluded,
option to buy 7.68
acres $179,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
JOSHUA IRICK
543-4663
$189,900
WOW! You must see
the views from the
deck! This home has
room for the whole
family. You will not
believe how much
square footage you
get for the price.
3BRs, 2FBAs, 2 half
BAs. Formal living and
dining, den, office.
It Is A Must See!
Call Today!
@;@;@;@;@;@;@;
Sheryl Garland
895-1690
3BRs, 2BAs, large
kitchen with lots of
cabinets, den, dining
area. Outbuildings,
garage, grape vine,
garden space, lots of
flowers. New heat
pump, on approximately 2 1/4 acres.
(423)725-2627
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43 HOUSES
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45 MOBILE HOMES
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58 MOTORCYCLES
W/PHOTO
928-4151
64 4X4 W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
1999 Toyota
4Runner SR5
V6 3.4 liter
2808 HWY 67W
Looking for doll house
all on one level? 3br,
backyard has privacy
galore with porch,
patio and gazebo.
$94,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
SHERREE HOLT
543-4663
501 Burbank,
Roan Mtn.
623 Johnson
Avenue
Well built 3BR, 2BA
one level home with
basement, hardwood
flooring,
spacious
rooms, spring water,
sitting at almost 4000’
elevation.
MLS#
222371 $114,000.
Enjoy this 4BR, 2BA,
100 year old, two
story, traditional farm
house inside city, on
double lot with 1900
sq. ft. of living space.
MLS#
230896.
$109,900.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
517 WASHINGTON
AVE.
3BR, 2BA home walking distance to TA
Dugger and the High
School. Located on a
quiet,
tree
lined
street. $89,900.
SHELL & ASSOCIATES
REAL ESTATE
(423)543-2393
DEMPSEY SHELL, JR
(423)547-9377
1420 Charity Hill
NO GAS NEEDED!!
3BR, 2BA doublewide
on permanent foundation with view of
mountains. Includes
outbuilding and is on
0.36 acre.
2006 Honda
Scooter/ Motorcycle
C21 Whitehead
Kathryn Turner
$75,000
543-4663
Battery
operated.
60MPH.
Helmet,
glasses, gloves included. All new.
**WOW!!**
Special Price.
Will sacrifice for.
$580.00
423-773-3006
423-773-1996
Great condition,
1 Owner, Automatic
4WD, Clean Interior,
127,000 miles.
Air conditioning & Tilt
Wheel, power steering & power sunroof,
AM/FM Stereo & Cassette ABS (4 wheels) &
Dual front air bags,
Cruise control & Privacy glass, wide tires,
power windows &
door locks, running
boards.
For Sale $9,995.
Call: 423-895-1711
59 AUTOS
FOR SALE
304 West G
Street
Charming 3BR, 2BA
home in convenient
location on level lot. 2
car detached garage. MLS# 230731
$120,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
502 Dennis Cove
Road
CLAYTON 32x76
659 MACK BRANCH
Cute 2BR, 1BA house
with lots of kitchen
cabinets, hardwood
floors, fenced yard,
workshop with generator and fenced
yard. MLS# 229317
$77,900.
Perfect
getaway!
Great views, Unfinished 4br cabin on 23
acres
close
to
Watauga Lake and
the Appalachian Trail.
$76,900.00
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
C21 WHITEHEAD
JEFF SMITH
543-4663
LITTLE DRY RUN
RD.
BUTLER
3BR, 2 1/2BA, CH&A,
ceramic, 4,000 sq.ft.
10.4 acres. Open floor
plan, walk-in closets,
barn. Double garage.
$285,000.
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
(423)282-5182
Priced to Sell Today!
3 large bedrooms,
2BAs, huge kitchen
opens to den with fireplace and dining
room.
www.artsfinerhomes.com
ART’S FINER
HOMES
Elizabethton, TN
(423)543-1531
Gayle Eggers
423-342-8801
1988
Chevrolet
pick-up,
cold
air,
good
tires.
Looks
good. $2,000 O.B.O.
(423)647-3566.
1991 CHEVY CAPRICE
CLASSIC, 4DR, 88K,
clean in and out, runs
great.
$3250.
(276)492-8711
1993 Oldmobile Cutlass Supreme, One
owner. Good condition. $1750. Can be
seen
locally
(919)376-8700.
60 AUTOS
W/PHOTO
Enjoy country living in
this 3BR, 2.5BA, 2448
sq.ft. Tri-level home.
Great room with 16’
cathedral ceiling and
a rock fireplace.
MLS#
230367
$149,900.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
519 JOHNSON
MOTIVATED SELLER!
NICE 2BR, Level lot. IN
CITY.
CLOSE
TO
TOWN. SELLER WILL
PAY CLOSING COST
AND DOWN PAYMENT
WITH
ACCEPTABLE
OFFER!! $59,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
SHERREE HOLT
543-4663
721 Fairway Drive
Walk
from
your
backyard to Tee #3 Elizabethton
Golf
Course. 4 BR, 3 FBA.
$229,000
Jason Blevins
RANDALL BIRCHFIELD
REAL ESTATE
543-5959
Erwin
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
(423)282-5182
814 Deerfield Lane
522 Golf Course Drive
Over 1 Acre - City
Schools. 3 BR, 2 BA.
Hardwood
floors.
Brick fireplace.
$179,900
Jason Blevins
RANDALL BIRCHFIELD
REAL ESTATE
543-5959
Gayle Eggers
(423)342-8801
Country Cottage with
3.95 acres, in beautiful Mountain City. 2br,
1ba, some updating.
Basement, fruit tree.
Private but Convenient. $82,000.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
SHERREE HOLT
213-9611
Beautiful 5BR, 2.5BA
home with over 3000
sq.ft.
Close
to
Watauga Lake. RV
carport & Apt doesn’t
convey. MLS#222048
$250,000.
28X64
OWNER FINANCING
At 8% INTEREST
3.5 fenced level acres
with creek frontage.
One
level,
1850
sq.ft. finished, plus 750
sq.ft. Finished (not
heated) with 2BR's
Possible 3. New Heat
Pump, windows, and
newer roof. 4 Car Detached,
Carport,
2-two story storage
buildings,
20X40
Greenhouse.
Well
and Public water.
$1500 DOWN.
Beautiful 3BR, brick
ranch,
completely
updated. 7 acres,
large utility building
and
barn.
MLS#227843A
Remax Checkmate,
Inc. Realtors
423-282-0432
ask for Barbara
423-341-8760
Super nice farmhouse, 17 beautiful
landscaped
acres
with stocked pond!
Totally
updated,
workshop, tool house,
spring house all with
electricity $289,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
JEFF SMITH
543-4663
TWO Homes on 13.81
acres, 3br, 2ba 2003
Doublewide and 1BR,
1BA, Farm house.
Separate well, spring
$224,500.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
PENNY WOODSON
543-4663
590 LAURELS
RD.
$186,900
This is the one! Spacious open living
room, 3BRs, 2BAs the
best lot around. A
wonderful
flowing
creek in the back. An
awesome barn. Quality built home. Call today before it is too
late, be the first to live
in this home.
HAMPTON
Three level brick with
three
plus
level
acres, 11 BRS, 3
Baths, oak floors and
trim, creek frontage;
explore the uses!
$220,000
DEAN BLEVINS
(423)542-2092
(423)213-6738
SHELL & ASSOCIATES
(423)543-2393
Sheryl Garland
(423)895-1690
KING RICHARD BLVD.
Sherwood Forest
Motivated
Seller!
618 WEST C STREET
Brand new one level
home with unique
layout, on a 75 x 130
level lot and a view of
west end and the surrounding mountains.
2BD,
2BA.
Open
kitchen, dining, great
room. Living room has
a deck and overlooks
level back yard. Neutral colors. CH&A.
Country front porch.
Walk to shopping and
restaurants. $89,900
Russ Swanay
Realty
543-5741
5,000+/- sq. ft, 4/5
BRs, 4FBAs. Priced at
approx. $73.00 sq.ft.
High ceilings and
skylights, lush landscaping.
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
(423)282-5182
Gayle Eggers
(423)342-8801
ART’S FINER
HOMES
2000 Ford
Mustang
White, V-6, 5-speed,
GT wheels. $7,995.
STOCK # 0440
PRE-OWNED
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
2001 Suzuki Vitara
423-543-7592
SOLD
28x72, 3BR, 3BA. Incredible master suite,
dining room with built
in hutch & column.
Kitchen with work island, large utility
room.
2002 CHEVY
MONTE CARLO
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
per
TCA 30-2-306
PROBATE NO. P060121
Elizabethton, TN
(423)282-8505
STOCK #1821
Pre-Owned
2002 Repo singlewide.
3BR,
2BA.
Easy
financing.
Small
downpayment. Call
(423)282-2700.
All wheel drive, one
owner,
sun
roof,
loaded, 25K. $33,900.
ART’S FINER
HOMES
Elizabethton, TN
(423)543-1531
Mobile home in almost new condition.
Permanent foundation. Lot is very nice
and well landscaped
with beautiful flowers.
2 Storage buildings
plus a garden spot.
Located in an area
convenient to Johnson City and Elizabethton. 3BD, 2BA
$69,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
RUTLEDGE 28x64
3BR, 2BA, 5/12 roof
pitch, finished drywall, high end appliances, ceramic edging
& backsplash, big
screen TV with DVD,
living and dining furniture included!
ART’S FINER
HOMES
Elizabethton, TN
(423)543-1531
46 WANTED
TO RENT
3 Singlewides
Must Be Sold
(2)16x80’s
(1)14x70
WOULD like to rent 1 or
2BR apartment or
house for individual.
Good
references.
(423)543-0521
47 WANTED
TO BUY
Best Price Guaranteed!
ART’S FINER
HOMES
Elizabethton, TN
(423)282-8505
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
423-543-7592
61 CAMPERS &
RV’S
1993 Terry, 35’. 2BR,
A/C, awning, self-contained. Good condition.
(423)772-4777,
957-9636.
63 4X4 VEHICLES
FOR SALE
1995 Ford F150, Ext.,
300, 6 cylinder, needs
radiator,
some
front-end damage.
$2,500 O.B.O. 213-6772
123 RIVERVIEW
AVENUE
- WATAUGA -
WANTING TO BUY: Saw
logs, contact Warren
Pritchard at Classic
Sales, 1551 Elk Park
Hwy, Newland, NC
28657, 828-733-3332 or
stop by the sawmill.
PUBLIC NOTICES
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
(423)543-7592
2005 Lexus
RX 330
45 MOBILE HOMES
W/PHOTO
REFINANCE take over
payments 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 4.3,
5speed, 2wheel drive,
56K,
(423)542-5684,
(423)791-3779.
Maroon, one owner,
extra
nice,
49K.
$8,995.
ART’S FINER
HOMES
Sport’s entertainment
room, complete with
big screen TV, surround sound and
small kitchenette!
ELIZABETHTON AUTO
SALES
(423)543-7592
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT, PROBATE
DIVISION OF CARTER
COUNTY, AT
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE
Norris 32x72
V-6, 4x4, 67K. $6,995.
65 TRUCKS &
SEMI’S
Elizabethton, TN
(423)543-1531
44 MOBILE HOMES
FOR SALE
$364,000
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
(423)282-5182
Gayle Eggers
423-342-8801
A Must See!
$1,000 Bonus To
Selling Agency
Includes delivery and
set-up, block foundation, guttering, heat
pump,
washer
&
dryer!
CLAYTON
RUTLEDGE
3BR, 2BA ranch, carpet, ceramic, hardwood. 2 car detached carport, deck,
mud room, workshop.
$139,500.
934 FAIRVIEW RD.
SALE PRICE
$116,713.00
($65.13 sq. ft.)
STOCK #1591
Pre-Owned
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
(423)282-5182
3BR, 3BA, 2 car garage. Remodeled
with new addition.
pantry in kitchen,
huge walk-in closet,
laundry room. New
heating
&
air,
plumbing, electric.
Big deck. 1/3 acre
flat lot. MUST SEE!
Owner
anxious.
$105,500.
FIRM
423-725-2183
4x4, lift kit, V-8, automatic, sun roof, 48K.
$10,900.
STOCK #1708
Pre-Owned
Call Lora
For More Details
423-677-6606
2005, 3BR, 2BA on 7/10
of an acre. Financing
available.
(423)
282-4112.
351 Lyons Rd.
2001 Grand
Cherokee Jeep
Loredo
CLAYTON
MODULAR
VALLEY FORGE
557 Lowell Stalcup
Butler
3500 NORTH
HIGHWAY
STOCK #3133
Pre-Owned
423-543-7592
326 Crosswhite Lane
3BR, 2BA, Cape Cod,
hardwood, ceramic,
carpet. Bonus room
over garage. One
level. Large front
porch.
STOCK
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
305 Hampton
View Drive
1994 GMC 4x4 extended cab, automatic, (423)543-1459,
cell (423)542-8121
SUNDAY---------------FRIDAY 2:00 P.M.
ESTATE OF
Arthene Holtsclaw
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given
that on the
7th
day of August, 2006
Letters of Testamentary, in respect to the
Estate of
Arthene Holtsclaw
deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court Clerk and
Master, Probate Division, of Carter County,
Tennessee.
All persons, resident
and
non-resident,
having claims, matured or unmatured,
against the Estate of
Arthene Holtsclaw
are required to file the
same with the Clerk
and Master of the
above Court within
four (4) months from
the date of the first
publication of this Notice; otherwise, their
claims will be forever
barred.
All persons indebted
to the above Estate
must come forward
and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.
This the 7th day of
August , 2006.
Murriel Holtsclaw and
Tracy Holtsclaw
Co-Executors
Deceased:
Arthene Holtsclaw
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PUBLIC NOTICES
37643
John Banks
Attorney
CHARLOTTE MCKEEHAN
Clerk and Master
8/10, 8/17
NOTICE OF
TRUSTEE'S SALE
WHEREAS, default has
occurred in the performance
of
the
covenants, terms, and
conditions of a Deed
of Trust Note dated
August 21, 2001, and
the Deed of Trust of
even date securing
the same, recorded
August 24, 2001, at
Book T593, Page 824 in
Office of the Register
of Deeds for Carter
County, Tennessee,
executed by Danny
Simmons and Lori S.
Simmons, conveying
certain
property
therein described to
Atlantic
Assurance
Company as Trustee
for Centex Home Equity Corporation; and
the
undersigned,
Aaron L. Squyres of
Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., having been
appointed Successor
Trustee.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given
that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable; and that an
agent of Aaron L.
Squyres of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., as
Successor Trustee, by
virtue of the power,
duty, and authority
vested in and imposed upon said Successor Trustee will, on
September 1, 2006 on
or about 2:15 P.M., at
the Carter County
Courthouse,
Elizabethton, Tennessee,
offer for sale certain
property hereinafter
described to the highest bidder FOR CASH,
free from the statutory
right of redemption,
homestead, dower,
and all other exemptions which are expressly waived in the
Deed of Trust, said
property being real estate situated in Carter
County, Tennessee,
and being more particularly described as
follows:
This sale is subject to
all matters shown on
any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines
that may be applicable; any statutory
rights of redemption of
any
governmental
agency, state or federal; any prior liens or
encumbrances as well
as any priority created
by a fixture filing; and
to any matter that an
accurate survey of the
premises might disclose. In addition, the
following parties may
claim an interest in the
above-referenced
property: Danny Simmons; Lori S. Simmons
The sale held pursuant
to this Notice may be
rescinded at the Successor Trustee’s option
at any time. The right
is reserved to adjourn
the day of the sale to
another day, time,
and place certain
without further publication, upon announcement at the
time and place for the
sale set forth above.
W&A No. 931-92969
DATED August 7, 2006.
DATES: WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C.,
Successor Trustee
By:
Aaron L. Squyres
DSaleNoticeTNAaron_jeoff_060804_1529
FOR SALE INFORMATION,
VISIT WWW.MYFIR.COM
and
WWW.REALTYTRAC.COM
8/10, 8/17, 8/24
PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE
REGULAR SESSION OF
THE CARTER COUNTY
COMMISSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN to all members
of the Carter County
Commission, to all residents of the County of
Carter,
Tennessee,
and to all persons interested, that the
Regular Session of the
Carter County Commission will be held
Monday, August 28,
2006, 10:00 a.m. in the
main courtroom, Carter County Courthouse, 801 E. Elk Avenue, Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Situated in the Fifteenth (15th) Civil District of Carter County,
TN. Tract I: All that
piece, parcel or lot of
land situate, lying and
being
in
Carter
County, TN and known
and designated as Lot
No. 48 in the Allen
Heights Addition to the
City of Elizabethton,
recorded in Plat Book
1, page 11 (now Plat
Cabinet A, Slide 6), of
the Carter County
Register of Deeds Office, reference to
which is hereby made
for a more particular
description. Tract II:
All that piece, parcel
or lot of land situate,
lying and being in
Carter County, TN and
known and designated as Lot No. 47,
Block D, of Allen
Heights Addition to the
Town of Elizabethton,
recorded in Plat Book
1, page 11, of the Carter County Register of
Deeds Office, reference to which is
hereby made for a
more particular description. Being the
same property conveyed from David G.
Andes to Danny Simmons and Lori S. Gobble by deed dated
05/17/95 and recorded 05/18/95 in
book 414, page 511 of
the public records of
Carter County, TN. Being the same property
conveyed from Danny
Simmons and wife, Lori
S. Gobble n/k/a Lori S.
Simmons to Danny
Simmons and wife, Lori
S. Simmons by deed
dated 12/13/99 and
recorded 12/16/99 in
book 451, page 20 of
the public records of
Carter County, TN. Tax
Map
Reference:
41-I-H-1.00 (Lot No.
48) and 41-I-E-2.00
(Lot No. 47).
Dale Fair,
County Chairman
Carter County
Commission
LEGAL NOTICE
Pursuant to Tennessee
Code
Annotated
40-12-105 the following notice is given:
“It is the duty of your
grand jurors to investigate any public offense which they
know or have reason
to believe has been
committed and which
is triable or indictable
in this county. Any person having knowledge
or proof that such an
offense has been
committed may apply
to testify before the
grand jury subject to
the provisions of the
Tennessee Code Annotated
40-12-104.
The foreman in this
county is presently:
Douglas Buckles
1404 Blue Springs
Road
Elizabethton, TN 37643
“The grand jury will
next meet on the 5th
day of September,
2006 at 9:00 a.m. You
may be prosecuted
for perjury or any oral
or written statement
which you make under oath to the grand
jury, when you know
the statement to be
false, and when the
statement touches on
a matter material to
the point in question.”
Given under my hand,
this the 8th day of
August, 2006.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 900
West I Street, Elizabethton,
Tennessee
John Paul Mathes
Circuit Court Clerk
8/10
All matters that may
be normally considered by the Commission may be taken up
and acted on at such
meetings.
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NEXTEL CUP SERIES
■ Race: AMD at the Glen
■ Where: Watkins Glen (N.Y.)
Inter-
national (2.45 miles), 90
laps/220.5 miles.
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■ When: Sunday, Aug. 13
■ Last year’s winner: Tony Stewart
■ Qualifying record: Jeff Gordon,
Truck Series
Chevrolet, 124.580 mph, Aug. 8,
2003.
■ Race record: Mark Martin, Ford,
103.300 mph, Aug. 13, 1995.
■ Last week: It must have been
tempting at dusk for Jimmie Johnson to whistle, or snap his fingers,
or sing some song along the lines
of “Everything’s Going My Way.” For
Johnson, the man who has
achieved everything but a Cup
championship, an Allstate 400 victory could hardly be read as anything but a good omen. But races
aren’t tea leaves, even though the
winner of the (now) Allstate 400
Toyota tundra 200,
5 p.m., Saturday
Jimmie Johnson has impeccable timing. He overcame more
than his share of adversity at
Indy. His crew replaced a dead
battery just before the start, he
suffered tire failure on the 39th
lap and weathered a pit-road
fire. Somehow, he managed to
win. It’s the stuff of champions.
Attendance at this year’s Allstate 400 was only about
225,000 at Indianapolis Motor
Speedway, which seats approximately 257,000. Sellouts were
commonplace until the past few
years.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. managed to
slip back into the Nextel Cup
standings’ top 10, thanks to a
late decision not to pit in order
to gain track position. He finished sixth but still seemed a
bit disappointed afterward. “I’d
like to have a better car so we
don’t have to make those kinds
of calls,” he said. “We’ve got a
lot of talent on our team. We
put it to good use on pit stops.
We need to do better and get
better cars.”
For now, at least, the sport’s
biggest names are all in the top
10, with Jeff Gordon eighth, Tony
Stewart ninth and Earnhardt Jr.
10th. The situation is perilous,
though, entering the final five
races of the regular season.
Four other drivers — Kasey
Kahne, Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch
and Carl Edwards — still have a
shot at making the top 10 and
the Chase.
Jimmie Johnson has won 22
races in only 168 tries. That’s
the same number of victories as
his occasional teammate, Terry
Labonte, who is retiring at season’s end. Labonte has competed in 843 races.
Thirty-five drivers finished on
the lead lap at Indy. That’s the
most in NASCAR history for a
400- or 500-mile race.
It seems unbelievable that
Ryan Newman ranks 18th in the
points standings. He’s 408
points out of 10th place.
Jeremy Mayfield, who made
the Chase in both 2004 and
2005, is now 34th in the points
standings. He’s nearly 1,500
points behind Johnson.
NEXTEL CUP
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Jimmie Johnson
Matt Kenseth
Jeff Burton
Kevin Harvick
Kyle Busch
Mark Martin
Denny Hamlin
Jeff Gordon
Tony Stewart
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
3,124
- 107
- 375
- 391
- 391
- 412
- 476
- 497
- 505
- 512
BUSCH SERIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Kevin Harvick
Carl Edwards
Denny Hamlin
Clint Bowyer
J.J. Yeley
Paul Menard
Greg Biffle
Kyle Busch
Johnny Sauter
Kenny Wallace
3,627
- 374
- 473
- 534
- 636
- 926
- 957
- 971
- 1,106
- 1,122
CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Todd Bodine
Johnny Benson
Rick Crawford
David Reutimann
Ron Hornaday
Ted Musgrave
David Starr
Terry Cook
Dennis Setzer
Mike Bliss
2,307
- 182
- 187
- 197
- 237
- 252
- 270
- 293
- 302
- 321
CASEY MEARS
■ Race: Zippo 200
■ Where: Watkins Glen
(N.Y.) International (2.45
miles), 82 laps/200.9
miles.
■ When: Saturday, Aug.
12
■ Last year’s winner:
Ryan Newman
■ Qualifying record: Tony
Stewart, Chevrolet,
121.069 mph, Aug. 13,
2005.
■ Race record: Terry
Labonte, Chevrolet,
91.468 mph, June 30,
1996.
■ Last week: Points
leader Kevin Harvick won
for the fifth time this
season in the Kroger
200 at O’Reilly Raceway
Park in Clermont, Ind.
NEXTEL CUP SERIES
WATKINS GLEN DATA
AMD at the Glen
Aug. 13
■ Race:
Toyota Tundra
200
■ Where: Nashville Superspeedway, Gladeville,
Tenn. (1.333 miles),
150 laps/200 miles.
■ When: Saturday, Aug.
12
■ Last year’s winner:
David Reutimann
■ Qualifying record:
Mike Skinner, Toyota,
161.440 mph, Aug. 13,
2005.
■ Race record: Scott
Riggs, Dodge, 132.466
mph, Aug. 10, 2001.
■ Last week: Rick Crawford, in a Ford, won the
Power Stroke 200 at
O’Reilly Raceway Park in
Clermont, Ind.
8
6
7
3
2
10
PIT ROAD
FINISH START
0º
11
Distance:.....2.45 mile road course
Turns:. ........................................11
Miles/Laps:....220.5 mi. = 90 laps
Banking varies
in turns 1-11
Banking in
straights
V
NO. 42 TEXACO/HAVOLINE DODGE
Family Tradition
When Mears comes to Indy, he visits ghosts from the past
By Monte Dutton
NASCAR This Week
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Many drivers
have sentimental ties to Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, but no one has family ties that approach those of 28-yearold Casey Mears.
Mears’ father, Roger, competed in
the Indianapolis 500, and his uncle,
Rick, is one of three four-time winners in the history of the 500. Rick
Mears is one of the legends of American motorsports.
For obvious reasons, Casey Mears
said: “Out of every place that we run,
this is the place I probably look forward to the most. You know, one, the
track is a lot of fun. Obviously, it’s got
a lot of history. Then, you know, having the family history in the background here, as well, just makes it
much more exciting to me.”
Mears, from Bakersfield, Calif.,
could manage only a 23rd-place finish
in the Allstate 400, and he started the
race 39th. The result was bitterly disappointing, especially when compared
with his sixth-place finish in 2005. He
holds the track record, having turned
a lap at 186.293 mph in winning the
pole in 2004. This time, Mears faded
after running ninth with 40 laps remaining.
He recalled his track-record qualifying run, on Aug. 7, 2004, as “one of
the most special days I ever had in
motorsports. … What was crazy about
that was we were one of the cars that
went out early, and the track continued to cool off the whole time, but it
was such a great lap that it would
have been really hard for anybody to
beat. … To actually come home with
that pole, you know, was just huge.”
Before he moved to NASCAR,
Mears tried unsuccessfully twice to
make the field for the Indy 500.
“Just didn’t have the team to do it
with,” he said, matter-of-factly, “and
missed the show.”
Next year Mears will move from
Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix
Sabates to Hendrick Motorsports,
where he will succeed Brian Vickers
in the team’s No. 25 Chevrolet. He
said he will continue as driver of
Ganassi’s No. 42 Dodge through the
end of the season.
When Mears was growing up, he
didn’t actually attend the races in
which his father and uncle competed.
The speedway didn’t allow pit-andgarage access to persons under 18
years of age. He watched the 500 at
family gatherings back in Bakersfield.
5
4
1
Zippo 200,
2 p.m., Saturday
has gone on to win the (now) Nextel
Cup championship five times. Johnson virtually disappeared early,
thanks to a blown tire on the 39th
lap, and appeared as if by magic to
seize the lead for the third and final
time on the 151st of 160 laps. “It’s
way too early to say we’ve broken
the pattern,” said Johnson, “but it’s
a great start.” Johnson had never
finished better than ninth at Indy,
and his finishes the previous two
seasons had been 36th and 38th.
Johnson has also never won the
championship, so the obvious question in this race’s aftermath was
whether the victory would be a harbinger of the glory experienced by
Jeff Gordon in 1998 and 2001,
Dale Jarrett in 1999, Bobby
Labonte in 2000 and Tony Stewart
in 2005. All won championships in
the year they also won at Indy.
9
AMD at the Glen,
1 p.m., Sunday
Said
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S
U
S
Sorenson
Boris Said vs.
Reed Sorenson
It was only the 20th lap of the Allstate 400 when Sorenson’s Dodge
tapped Said’s Ford in turn three. “On
the restart, I guess the ‘41’ car
(Sorenson) just got into me a little
bit,” Said remarked. “It’s just one of
those racing deals where he was doing his deal, and I was doing my deal
and our deals ended up colliding, so
it’s a bad day for me. I feel really bad
because I really wanted to run this
race.”
NASCAR This Week’s Monte
Dutton gives his take: “Said, making his third start as a car owner,
had none of the luck he had in the
Pepsi 400, where he used a strategic move (not pitting) to gain track
position and end up finishing fourth.
Easy come, easy go.”
New book examines origins
of East Coast racing
“Paved Track, Dirt Track” (Coastal
181), by Lew Boyd, is the complete
history of two famed race tracks, Old
Bridge Stadium in New Jersey and
Nazareth Raceway in Pennsylvania.
The author chose the two tracks to
“exemplify the heart of East Coast
modified racing.” Boyd conducted
more than 100 interviews with Mario
Andretti, Wally Dallenbach, Frankie
Schneider, Gil Hearne, Buzzie Reutimann and others. The book covers
the evolution of racing at the two
tracks from just after World War II to
the 1990s. The book is available for
$23.95 plus $6 for shipping and
handling. To order, call toll-free 1877-907-8181 or order online at
www.coastal181.com.
I remember Pearl Harbor
oyota may be an employer of
25,000 U.S. workers, but where
are the profits going? To Japan,
of course. Were our government wise
enough to keep foreign cars out, this
money could be going into our own
economy.
This will spoil the racing picture for
me. Oh, I'll still watch it until the foreign entries outnumber our own. I still
remember Pearl Harbor.
Bob Rice
Canton, Pa.
T
Charity ride for Waltrip
John Clark/NASCAR This Week
Next year, Casey Mears will move from Chip Ganassi Racing to Hendrick Motorsports,
where he will succeed Brian Vickers in the team’s No. 25 Chevrolet.
Of his father and uncle, he said:
“They were both very influential on
my racing career and my life. It
would be hard to name somebody
above and beyond those guys.”
Contact Monte Dutton at
[email protected]
f there is a single NASCAR fan out
there who doubts that Toyota will
buy a Nextel Cup championship, that
fan needs only to check the Craftsman Truck Series points standings.
… On the bright side, maybe Toyota
can make winners out of perpetual
also-rans like Mikey Waltrip, Dale Jarrett, Brian Vickers and others.
I
Rex Rice
Middletown, Ind.
Thanks for letting us know how you
feel. As we’ve seen this season, there
are plenty of fans upset that Toyota is
coming to Nextel Cup.
Knaus signs contract extension with Hendrick Motorsports
Who’s hot
— Jimmie
Johnson has
finished in
the top 15 in
19 of the
season’s 21
races. ... Jeff
Burton has
BURTON
finished in
the top 15 in
15 straight races.
Who’s not — A crash on the
last lap cost Kasey Kahne four
positions in the points standings and dropped him out of
the top 10 for the first time
since the Daytona 500.
By Monte Dutton
NASCAR This Week
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Successful, and controversial, crew
chief Chad Knaus will remain
with Hendrick Motorsports
and almost certainly with driver Jimmie Johnson through the
2010 season, according to a
contract extension announced
on Saturday.
Owner Rick Hendrick called
Knaus “one of the great young
minds in NASCAR.”
Knaus and Johnson were
paired in December 2001. In
their first race, Johnson won
the Daytona 500 pole. He has
since won 21 of 167 races, with
60 top-five finishes and 102
top-10s. Johnson has never won
a championship, though he currently leads the standings.
Knaus’s frequent brushes
with NASCAR law have added
controversy. He was suspended before the Daytona 500
when officials found irregularities in the rear-window configuration of Johnson’s No. 48
Chevrolet. With Knaus back in
North Carolina, Johnson won
two of the season’s first three
races and finished second in
the other.
■
■
From macro to micro — John
Fernandez is moving from director of Dodge Motorsports to
managing director of Chip
Ganassi’s NASCAR operation.
According to Ganassi, Fernandez will manage all aspects
of the team. Fernandez had
worked for what is now known
as DaimlerChrysler for 35
years. He had been heading up
the Dodge motorsports effort
since 2002.
Fernandez’s move is not
without precedent. GM’s Doug
Duchardt joined Hendrick Motorsports late last year.
The high road — Since May
23, when he was fired, Eddie
D’Hondt has been a convenient
scapegoat for all of Robert
Yates Racing’s problems.
Mostly, with verbal slings
and arrows being fired at him,
the team’s former general
manager has held his tongue.
“That was my means of keeping my integrity,” said D’Hondt
on Friday. “I plan on being in
this sport a long time. There’s a
lot I could say, but I’d like to let
my future accomplishments
say everything about that.”
D’Hondt and Bill Riley an-
nounced the formation of Riley-D’Hondt Motorsports, a
team that plans eventually to
field four entries in the Nextel
Cup Series.
Bill and Bob Riley are moving Riley Technologies from
Indianapolis to Mooresville,
N.C. The firm is currently
prominent in Grand American
road racing. Riley designs have
won the Rolex 24 three times
and the 12 Hours of Sebring
once. D’Hondt will be general
manager, while Bill Riley will
be “performance director.”
Next year D’Hondt said the
team will field two Busch Series teams.
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66°
85°
67°
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Partly sunny
79°
85°
62°
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62°
64°
87°
Billings
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4 p.m. .............................................. 4
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High yesterday ........................ 87°
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24 hrs. ending 6 p.m. yest. ... 0.00”
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Friday ........................................... 94°
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Sunday ......................................... 90°
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Nashville
93/74
Camden
94/72
Knoxville
87/71
San Francisco
70/56
Los Angeles
90/67
Denver
96/62
The State
Sunrise today ....................... 6:42 a.m.
Sunset tonight ...................... 8:25 p.m.
Moonrise today ................... 9:29 p.m.
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Bristol
Chattanooga
Clarksville
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Crossville
Erwin
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Greeneville
Johnson City
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84 68 t
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Memphis
101 78 s
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Newport
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101/78
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85/66
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Union City
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TennCare: Progress on prescription
soft limits, home-based care
NASHVILLE (AP) — Members of the TennCare Oversight
Committee said Wednesday
they’re pleased with changes
so far to the state’s expanded
Medicaid program, especially
those that they hope will improve home and communitybased services.
TennCare officials updated
board members on the
progress of certain initiatives,
such as proposed expansions
to the HCBS program and implementation of pharmacy
“soft limits” on drug prescriptions.
“Home and communitybased care is something I think
all of us are really excited
about,” said Rep. David Shepard, a Memphis Democrat and
chairman of the committee.
“The state needs to help people
stay home and avoid going to
expensive nursing homes.”
The TennCare Bureau in
June announced it was consolidating the HCBS program under the state’s Commission on
Aging and Disability.
The state has also applied
for a federal waiver to increase
the level of participants and
services for long-term care for
the elderly and disabled. Officials asked the federal Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid
Services to allow it to increase
its HCBS program by 829 slots
to 3,700 participants.
The requested service expansion would double the
number of home and community-based services offered to
TennCare enrollees. They
would include in-home respite
care, personal care assistants,
adult day-care, assisted living,
pest control and assisting technologies.
It also would allow 550 patients in Shelby, Hamilton,
Knox and Davidson counties
to be shifted to the consolidated program.
TennCare covers about 1.2
million state residents. Gov.
Phil Bredesen last year cut
about 170,000 adults and re-
duced benefits to thousands
more in an effort to rein in
costs.
As a result of the savings
and relief from legal battles, the
state agreed to implement a
“soft limit” system that would
benefit enrollees in exceptional
cases that are not covered under the current pharmacy benefit.
Under the so-called hard
limit first put in place to control
drug costs, enrollees were limited to five prescriptions — two
brand name and three generics.
Under the new system, doctors would be able to get additional drugs for patients who
suffer “serious health consequences” without them, said
Dr. Wendy Long, TennCare’s
chief medical officer.
The state is still awaiting
federal approval to implement
the system, but Long believes
“approval should be forthcoming soon.”
TennCare officials also touted the addition of two new
managed care organizations
that will each provide care for
about 170,000 TennCare enrollees in Middle Tennessee.
Amerigroup Corp. and
UnitedHealth Plan of River
Valley Inc. will assume full risk
and will be paid set monthly
rates for the plans. New enrollment is slated to begin April 1.
TennCare originally required its managed care
groups to take full risk, partially protecting the state from dramatic spikes in health care
costs. But after mismanaged
MCOs started falling apart,
then-Gov. Don Sundquist in
2002 removed financial risk
from TennCare insurers.
The new deals mark a return to full risk for MCOs.
Winnie Toler, TennCare’s
chief network officer, said she’s
confident the two MCOs will
do a good job.
“We have done our part to
make sure these plans are
ready to do business,” Toler
said.
Ford says U.S. should consider splitting Iraq
NASHVILLE (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Harold Ford Jr. said
Wednesday that the U.S.
should consider splitting Iraq
into three separate states to
ease sectarian conflict and begin a gradual pullout of
troops.
The Memphis congressman scheduled a conference
call with reporters on
Wednesday to discuss his Republican opponent, former
Chattanooga Mayor Bob
Corker, and the issues Ford
says are important to voters.
Ford, who voted to give
President Bush authority to
use force in Iraq, has said he
supports withdrawal from
Iraq if the government there
fails to develop a democratic
system.
“Democracy and civility is
only going to flow from Iraq
when the people there want
it,” he said.
He believes the U.S.
should consider dividing Iraq
into three separate states by
its sectarian divisions: the
Kurdish population to the
north, and splitting Shiite
and Sunni Muslims to the
south.
Corker campaign manager
Ben Mitchell said Corker supports any efforts that expe-
dites the troops’ withdrawal
from Iraq.
“Bob Corker believes it
would be immoral for us to
leave Iraq until the Iraqis are
able to secure the country
themselves,” he said. “He
strongly supports any effort
that would expedite that
process so that our troops
could come home as soon as
possible.”
When asked about Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman’s
defeat in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary, Ford said
it appeared the Iraq war was
a big reason why Lieberman
was challenged by Ned Lamont, who won the party’s
nomination.
“I think voters are fed up
with the policy on the ground
in Iraq rather than fed up
with Joe Lieberman,” he said.
The National Republican
Senatorial Committee on
Wednesday criticized Ford
for refusing to say on
MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning show last month whether
he’d support Lieberman as
an independent candidate.
Ford again refused on
Wednesday, saying only that
he was a Democrat who supports Democrats and chiding
reporters for asking about political races other than the
Tennessee Senate race.
“I don’t know how much
clearer I can be on this. I’m
running for the United States
Senate. I really haven’t focused on (other races). I have
my hands full,” he said.
National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman
Dan Ronayne said Lieberman
is a candidate Tennesseans
are familiar with and they
should know he is the type of
person Ford supports.
“I think its very telling to
Tennesseans that Harold
Ford is unwilling to support
a Democrat like Joe Lieberman, who is willing to work
across party lines and advocate for a strong national defense,” Ronayne said.
Ford also said during the
conference call that voters
could trust him on energy
policy more than Corker because Corker has accepted
campaign donations from
gas companies. Corker met
with the Independent Petroleum Association of American while in Washington in
July for a fundraiser.
“The Corker campaign
has raised questions about
my campaign contributions
and whether I will be beholden to the people,” he
said. “I’m using the Corker’s
campaign logic on the campaign contributions.”
Ford said the country
should push for more use of
alternative fuels, including
ethanol. This week, Ford
launched an ad campaign
touting Tennessee soybeans
as a potential source of alternative fuel.
“Congressman Ford talks
a lot about energy policy, but
his record shows when the
votes on energy policy are
cast, he’s not present,”
Mitchell said. “For 10 years
he’s been in Washington
talking about issues while
Bob Corker has been getting
results on those same issues.”
Ford has challenged Corker to a series of seven television debates and said he has
yet to receive a response
from Corker. “If anybody
sees Mr. Corker, let him
know I’m looking for him,”
he said.
Mitchell said the Corker
campaign has received over
10 debate requests from media outlets across the state
and wants to give all outlets
a chance to propose debates
before working out a formal
debate schedule. He said
Corker looks forward to debating with Ford.
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against any remaining threat
from this plot, we will also
raise the threat level to high,
or orange, for all commercial
aviation operating in or destined for the United States,”
Chertoff said.
A statement issued by
Chertoff said “currently,
there is no indication ... of
plotting within the United
States.”
A U.S. law enforcement
official said there have been
no arrests in the United
States connected to the plot.
A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said authorities believe dozens of people
were involved or connected
to the overseas plot that was
unraveled
Wednesday
evening. The plan “had a
footprint to al-Qaida back to
it,” said the official, speaking
on condition of anonymity
because of the sensitivity of
the situation.
It was not believed to be
connected to the Egyptian
students who disappeared in
the United States more than a
week ago before reaching a
college they were supposed
to attend in Montana. Three
of the 11 have since been
found and the FBI has said
neither they nor the stillmissing eight are believed to
be a threat.
The plan involved airline
passengers hiding masked
explosives in carry-on luggage, the official said. “They
were not yet sitting on an airplane,” but were very close
to traveling, the official said,
calling the plot “the real
deal.”
U.S. intelligence has been
working closely with the
British on the investigation,
which has been ongoing for
months, the second official
said.
Authorities have not yet
arrested or detained all suspects who are believed to be
involved in the plot, the official
said,
prompting
Chertoff’s alarm.
“Consistent with these
higher threat levels, the
Transportation Security Administration is coordinating
with federal partners, airport
authorities and commercial
airlines on expanding the intensity of existing security requirements,” Chertoff said.
“Due to the nature of the
threat revealed by this investigation, we are prohibiting
any liquids, including beverages, hair gels and lotions
from being carried on the airplane.”
He said the changes take
effect at 4 a.m. local time
across the United States and
will be undated as warranted.
The metal detector and Xray machines at airport security checkpoints cannot detect explosives. At many, but
not all airport checkpoints,
the TSA has deployed walkthrough “sniffer” or “puffer”
machines that can detect explosives residue.
As part of the foiled Bojinka Plot to blow up 12 Western airliners simultaneously
over the Pacific Ocean in the
mid-1990s, terrorist mastermind Ramzi Youssef planned
to put together an improvised bomb using liquid in a
contact lens solution container.
Chertoff said travelers in
the United States “should also anticipate additional security measures within the airport and at screening checkpoints.”
“These measures will continue to assure that our aviation system remains safe and
secure,” Chertoff added.
“Travelers should go about
their plans confidently, while
maintaining vigilance in
their surroundings and exercising patience with screening and security officials.”
At U.S. Northern Command, the military headquarters established in response to the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks to improve coordination of the defense of U.S. territory, spokesman Sean Kelly
declined to comment on any
precautionary steps taken in
response to the heightened
threat levels.
“It is inappropriate to
speculate or comment on any
current operational activities
or discuss future force protection measures,” he said.
Prime
Minister
Tony
Blair’s office said in London
that the prime minister, vacationing in the Caribbean, had
briefed Bush on the situation
overnight.
The Homeland Security
Department devised the alert
system after the Sept. 11 attacks. The last time the U.S.
government raised the terrorist risk here to orange, or
high, was in July 2005 after
the subway bombings in
London. It was lowered to
yellow a month later, the elevated risk status that has
been the norm since the system was created.
In London, Britain’s Home
Secretary John Reid said the
alleged plot was “significant” and that terrorists
aimed to “bring down a
number of aircraft through
mid-flight explosions, causing a considerable loss of
life.”
Police arrested a number
of people overnight in London after a major covert
counterterrorism operation
that had lasted several
months, but did not immediately
say
how
many.
Heathrow airport in London
was closed for most European flights.
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nie McCloud reported that Fred Gause, owner of Smokey
Mountain Books, offered to hold a fundraiser to help the
Imagination Library.
Librarian Joyce White of the Elizabethton/Carter County
Public Library reported that the total book order for August
was 1,430 and the enrollment as of Wednesday was 45 percent
of the estimated 3,158 children eligible for the program. Children who are signed up may receive one free book per month
from birth to their fifth birthday. A donation of $27 will sponsor two children for one year.
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exactly the kind of thought
that has Washington so deep
in a financial pit they can’t get
out,” he said.
Tennessee had to raise the
state sales tax in 2002 to balance the budget and end a
state government shutdown.
“When the sales tax was
increased, nobody asked Tennessee families whether they
could afford it,” said Bryson’s
spokesman Lance Frizzell.
“So it’s hypocritical to say the
government can’t afford (lowering the sales tax on food)
now, because it’s Tennessee
families’ money to begin
with.”
Bredesen has not ruled out
considering a reduction in the
sales tax on food, but so far
has not put forward any plan
to do so.
Goetz said that the state
tax burden on Tennesseans
ranks among the lowest in the
country and changes to stable
revenue streams could throw
the system out of whack.
“We’re good stewards of
that money, and if you were
to remove something that is
one of the most stable pieces
of the base, you’re going to
cause trouble for your ability
to deal with the downturn
when it comes,” he said. “Because it’s not if, it’s when.”
Rising fuel prices might be
an indication that good economic times could be coming
to an end, Goetz said.
“The big money moves
with consumer confidence,”
he said. “To the extent that
consumers say: ‘This is
enough, and I am retrenching
my spending habits and expenses,’ that’s when the economy goes down.”

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