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WASHINGTON COUNTY

Press sets
county
candidate
session
Newspaper’s March 31
forum will host sheriff,
mayor, clerk hopefuls
By Robert Houk
PRESS SENIOR REPORTER
rhouk@johnsoncitypress.com

The Johnson City Press will

host a question-and-answer ses-
sion later this month with seven
candidates vying for top
Washington County offices on
the May 3 Republican Primary
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The forum will be held in the

History ...
Peerless
Hospitality auditorium of the Historic
Concepts plans Jonesborough Visitors Center,
to open a new See CANDIDATES, Page A2
restaurant and
gathering place,
BURG’r & BARREL,

times two
at the former
Tupelo Honey WAR IN UKRAINE

Refugee
location at 330
Cherry St. The
associated
gathering place
will be called

Iconic
By David Floyd
PRESS STAFF WRITER
dfloyd@johnsoncitypress.com
GATHER at JC
Depot. These
images show
renderings of the
column hit;
depot, Three and a half years after Tupelo
Honey departed the historic train depot
in downtown Johnson City, a new
completed
project.
aid convoy
family
blocked
eatery is moving in to take its place.
Peerless Hospitality Concepts has
announced plans to open BURG’r &
link up BARREL, a restaurant and gathering
space, at the former Carolina, Ukraine’s president says
Clinchfield & Ohio Railway depot,
in new located at 330 Cherry St.
Gary Kalogeros, owner of Peerless
port under attack 24 hours
Hospitality Concepts, said the company a day; ‘They kill children’
eatery expects renovations will take about 12
weeks. The restaurant will open this By Mstyslav Chernov
spring. and Yuras Karmanau
“It’s a historical building that means ASSOCIATED PRESS
so much to Johnson City,” said ‘It just
Kalogeros, whose family opened The MARIUPOL, Ukraine —
Peerless Restaurant in Johnson City in
felt like it Russian forces pounded the
the late 1930s. “Johnson City has been would be a Ukrainian port city of Mariupol
around for 150 years, and my family on Saturday, shelling its down-
has been in business for over half that great fit.’ town as resi-
GARY dents hid in an
amount of time. It just felt like it would THERE’S iconic mosque
be a great fit.” KALOGEROS
The location has its own parking, owner of Peerless MORE and elsewhere
Hospitality to avoid the
See HISTORY, Page A2 Concepts explosions.
Fighting also
raged in the
outskirts of the
capital, Kyiv, as

ETSU earns 12th-straight Military Friendly designation

School recognized for support of its veteran students
Contributed to the Press
East Tennessee State
University student Brandon
Paul spent nine years serving
his country as a member of the
Coast Guard. Stationed at loca-
tions throughout the United
States, Paul is now a junior who
plans to apply to the university’s
dental hygiene program this
semester.
The support he has received at
ETSU helped propel him for-
ward.
“The Veterans Affairs office
U.S. soldiers Russia kept up
continued to its bombard-
deploy Friday to ment of other
Europe to sup- cities
on campus has been a complete
blessing to have, and the staff,
Military Friendly School desig-
nation for the 12th consecutive
port NATO allies
amid Russia’s
throughout the
country.
especially David Haselroth, con- year. A prestigious honor, insti- invasion of Seven
sistently goes above and beyond tutions that earn these designa- Ukraine. A6 Ukrainian civil-
for the military-affiliated stu- tions are evaluated using both ians, including
dents on campus,” he said. “I public data sources and a child, died when Russia shelled
honestly couldn’t imagine responses from surveys. a humanitarian convoy of refu-
attending without this office.” gees and forced them to turn
“ETSU has been recognized as
It’s experiences like this that
helped ETSU again earn the See ETSU, Page A2 See UKRAINE, Page A2

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UKRAINE
From Page A1
back, Ukraine’s Ministry
of Defense said.
The seven were among
hundreds of people who
tried to flee the village of
Peremoha, 12 miles north-
east of Kyiv. An unknown
number of people were
wounded in the shelling,
the report added.
The convoy was forced to
turn back.
Mariupol has endured
some of Ukraine’s worst
punishment since Russia
invaded. Unceasing bar-
rages have thwarted
repeated attempts to bring
food, water and medicine
into the city of 430,000 and
to evacuate its trapped
civilians. More than 1,500
people have died in
Mariupol during the siege,
according to the mayor’s
office, and the shelling has
even interrupted efforts to
bury the dead in mass
graves.
Talks aimed at reaching
a cease-fire again failed
Saturday, and while the
U.S. announced plans to
provide another $200 mil-
lion to Ukraine for
weapons, a senior Russian
diplomat warned that
Moscow could attack for-
eign shipments of military
equipment.
Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
accused Russia of
employing “a new stage of
terror” with the alleged
detention of a mayor from
a city west of Mariupol.
Russian soldiers pillaged
a humanitarian convoy
that was trying to reach
Mariupol and blocked
another, a Ukrainian offi-
cial said. Ukraine’s mili-
tary said Russian forces
captured Mariupol’s
eastern outskirts, tight-
ening their siege of the
strategic port. Taking
Mariupol and other ports
on the Azov Sea could
allow Russia to establish a
land corridor to Crimea,
which it seized from
Ukraine in 2014.
“They are bombing it
(Mariupol) 24 hours a day,
launching missiles. It is
hatred. They kill children,”
Zelenskyy said during a
video address. Satellite
images released Saturday
by the company Maxar
showed fires in parts of the
city and extensive damage
to apartments, homes and
other infrastructure.
An Associated Press
journalist in Mariupol wit-
nessed tanks firing on a
nine-story apartment
building and was with a
group of hospital workers
who came under sniper
fire on Friday. A worker
shot in the hip survived,
but conditions in the hos-
pital were deteriorating:
Electricity was reserved
for operating tables, and
people with nowhere else
to go lined the hallways.
Among them was
Anastasiya Erashova, who
wept and trembled as she
held a sleeping child.
Shelling had just killed her
other child as well as her
brother’s child, Erashova
said, her scalp crusted
with blood.
“No one was able to save
them,” she said.
In Irpin, a suburb about
12 miles northwest of cen-
tral Kyiv, bodies lay out in
the open Saturday on
streets and in a park.
“When I woke up in the
morning, everything was
covered in smoke, every-
thing was dark. We don’t
know who is shooting and
ETSU
From Page A1
a military-friendly campus
for well over a decade,”
said Dan Bishop, director
of Veterans Affairs at
ETSU. “We should be
proud that our efforts are
consistently recognized for
our support of the veteran
student population, and
more broadly, the sons and
daughters of our veterans
that are here at ETSU.”
ETSU has hundreds of
veterans and military-affil-
iated students, which
includes military spouses.
They receive priority regis-
tration for classes each
EVGENIY MALOLETKA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Russian army tanks move down a street on the outskirts of
Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday.
where,” resident Serhy
Protsenko said as he
walked through his neigh-
borhood. Explosions
sounded in the distance.
“We don’t have any radio
or information.”
Zelenskyy encouraged
his people to keep up their
resistance.
“We do not have the right
to let up our defense, no
matter how difficult it may
be,” he said. Later
Saturday, Zelenskyy
reported that 1,300
Ukrainian soldiers had
died since the Russian
invasion began Feb. 24.
Zelenskyy again
deplored NATO’s refusal to
declare a no-fly zone over
Ukraine and said Ukraine
has sought ways to procure
air defense assets, though
he didn’t elaborate. U.S.
President Joe Biden
announced another $200
million in aid to Ukraine,
with an additional $13 bil-
lion included in a bill that
has passed the House and
should pass the Senate
within days. NATO has
said that imposing a no-fly
zone could lead to a wider
war with Russia.
The Ukrainian president
also accused Russia of
detaining the mayor of
Melitopol, a city 119 miles
west of Mariupol. The
Ukrainian leader called on
Russian forces to heed
calls from demonstrators
in the occupied city for the
mayor’s release.
In multiple areas around
Kyiv, artillery barrages
sent residents scurrying
for shelter as air raid
sirens wailed. Britain’s
Defense Ministry said
Russian forces that had
been massed north of the
capital had edged to within
15 miles of the city center
and spread out, likely to
support an attempted
encirclement.
Moscow has said it
would establish humani-
tarian corridors out of
conflict zones, but
Ukrainian officials have
accused Russia of dis-
rupting those paths and
firing on civilians.
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime
Minister Iryna Vereshchuk
said just nine of 14 agreed-
upon corridors were open
on Saturday, and that
about 13,000 people had
used them to evacuate
around the country.
Ukraine’s military and
volunteer forces have been
preparing for an all-out
assault on the capital. Kyiv
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said
Thursday that about 2 mil-
lion people, half the metro-
politan area’s inhabitants,
had left and that “every
street, every house … is
being fortified.”
Zelenskyy said Saturday
that Russia would need to
carpet-bomb Kyiv and kill
its residents to take the
city.
“They will come here
only if they kill us all,” he
said. “If that is their goal,
let them come.”
semester, exclusive access
to social and study space at
ETSU’s Military-Affiliated
Student Resource Center,
membership in the ETSU
chapter of the Student
Veterans of America and
personalized support from
Veterans Affairs.
Scholarships and out-of-
state tuition waivers are
also available, in addition
to work-study positions for
students using GI Bill ben-
efits.
This honor should make
ETSU proud, Bishop said,
but it shouldn’t generate
complacency.
“We have something spe-
cial here. ETSU has consis-
tently produced generation
after generation of servant
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French and German
leaders spoke Saturday
with Russian President
Vladimir Putin in a failed
attempt to reach a cease-
fire. According to the
Kremlin, Putin laid out
terms for ending the war.
For ending hostilities,
Moscow has demanded
that Ukraine drop its bid to
join NATO and adopt a
neutral status; acknowl-
edge the Russian sover-
eignty over Crimea, which
it annexed from Ukraine in
2014; recognize the inde-
pendence of separatist
regions in the country’s
east; and agree to demilita-
rize.
Zelenskyy told Israeli
Prime Minister Naftali
Bennett on Saturday that
he would be open to
meeting Putin in
Jerusalem to discuss an
end to the war, but that
there would first have to be
a cease-fire. Bennett
recently met in Moscow
with Putin, who has
ignored previous offers of
talks from Zelenskyy.
In Mariupol, the
Ukrainian government
said Saturday that the
Sultan Suleiman Mosque
was hit, but an unverified
Instagram post by a man
claiming to be the mosque
association’s president said
the building was spared
when a bomb fell about 750
yards away.
With the port’s elec-
tricity, gas and water sup-
plies knocked out, aid
workers and Ukrainian
authorities described an
unfolding humanitarian
catastrophe. Aid group
Doctors Without Borders
said Mariupol residents
are dying from a lack of
medication and are
draining heating pipes for
drinking water.
Russian forces have hit
at least two dozen hospitals
and medical facilities,
according to the World
Health Organization.
The Russian invaders
appear to have struggled
far more than expected
against determined
Ukrainian fighters. Still,
Russia’s stronger military
threatens to grind down
Ukrainian forces.
Thousands of soldiers on
both sides are believed to
have been killed along with
many civilians, including
at least 79 Ukrainian chil-
dren, its government says.
At least 2.5 million people
have fled the country,
according to the United
Nations refugee agency.
One is Elena Yurchuk, a
nurse from the northern
city of Chernihiv. She was
in a Romanian train sta-
tion Saturday with her
teenage son, Nikita,
unsure whether their
home was still standing.
“We have nowhere to go
back to,” said Yurchuk, 44,
a widow who hopes to find
work in Germany.
“Nothing left.”
leaders who have sought a
life focused on meeting the
needs of the Appalachian
region and the nation,” he
said. “We should cherish
that tradition and
encourage the next genera-
tion to pick up the torch of
service, whether it be in
uniform, medical scrubs,
in the classroom, or count-
less other professions
focused on taking care of
others. How can we as a
university support that call
to service?”
To learn more about
scholarships and other
benefits available to mili-
tary-affiliated students at
ETSU, visit etsu.edu/vet-
erans or contact va@etsu.
edu or (423) 439-6819.
Missiles strike near US consulate in north Iraq; no injuries
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD — As many as
12 missiles struck Iraq’s
northern city of Irbil on
Sunday near the U.S. con-
sulate, Iraqi security offi-
cials said. A U.S. defense
official said missiles had
been launched at the city
from neighboring Iran.
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Candidates for county clerk,
county mayor and sheriff
will participate in the event.
The three-hour forum,
which will be live-streamed
at www.Johnsoncitypress.
com, will be broken down
into three segments, begin-
ning at 6 p.m. with the two
Republicans (Danny Edens
and Cheryl Storey) running
for county clerk.
At 7 p.m., the candidates
for county mayor (Joe
Grandy and Robbie Tester)
will take the stage before
the three candidates for
sheriff (Leighta Laitinen,
Keith Sexton and Michael
Templeton) begin
answering questions at
8 p.m.
“This is an important
election year, and we
believe it’s our duty as this
community’s newspaper to
HISTORY
From Page A1
Kalogeros said, and the
depot sits in the critical
path of the ongoing redevel-
opment of West Walnut
Street, which will include
building a pedestrian
walkway on a section of
Earnest Street.
“We’re positioned to be in
the middle of it all,” he said.
According to Washington
County property records,
the Kalogeros family pur-
chased the property for
about $1.6 million, and in
February, Peerless
Properties Development
received a building permit
from the city for light inte-
rior demolition.
In a press release,
Peerless Hospitality
Concepts said its team has
been “working since last
June in-house on their
plans for both the interior
and the exceptional exterior
outdoor space.”
“In the planning of the
eatery, they have pooled all
the resources of years of
experience and combined
the latest trends for a
unique, one-of-a-kind expe-
rience for Johnson City,”
the company said. “The
original formula of butch-
ered meats that are hand-
blended to create their new
line of signature burgers
will ensure the quality will
reign supreme.”
The restaurant will offer
an “array of signature
dishes,” including several
smoked meats, speciality
side dishes, Grecian salads
and more. The outdoor
green space will be called
“GATHER at JC Depot,”
which will offer light hand-
crafted appetizers and small
plates.
A beer garden will feature
local and regional craft
beers, specialty cocktails
and an assortment of wines.
“Fire pits, fun outdoor
activities and other hidden
amenities will create a true
local hospitality experience
where many have gathered
for over a century in
Johnson City,” the company
said.
BURG’r & BARREL
already has a neighbor in
the depot. Last May,
Johnson City bought the
two-story portion of the
building for $750,000, dis-
placing Fleet Feet to estab-
lish a new visitors center on
the first floor. The Johnson
City Convention & Visitors
Bureau has offices upstairs,
and workers are in the pro-
cess of renovating the
downstairs area.
Gary and his wife Nia
Kalogeros have donated a
miniature train display left
behind after Tupelo
Honey’s departure to the
George L. Carter Railroad
Museum, which depicts
downtown Johnson City
during the period when the
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No injuries were
reported. Officials in Iraq
and the U.S. gave different
accounts of the strike and
the damage it caused. A
second U.S. official said
there was no damage at any
U.S. government facility
and that there was no indi-
cation the target was the
consulate building, which is
help voters learn more
about the people seeking
office and their positions on
the issues,” said Stephanie
McClellan, the editor of the
Johnson City Press.
Candidates will each be
given three minutes to
make an opening statement
and five minutes for closing
remarks. They will also
have three minutes to
respond to questions from
the moderator, Nathan
Baker, Press news editor.
An official timekeeper
will warn candidates when
their time is running out.
The candidates will be
asked to address their
answers and remarks solely
to the moderator. No
exchanges will be allowed
between candidates.
The questions will be
selected by the editors of
the Johnson City Press.
Each candidate will have an
opportunity to answer the
same questions within the
time allowed.
The Press will provide a
CC&O train station was in
operation. Berkshire
Hathaway commissioned
the piece when the building
was being restored in 2012.
“(Peerless Hospitality
Concepts) is excited to con-
tribute to the next level of
the revitalization downtown
and help leave a tasteful
mark soon on the down-
town footprint,” the com-
pany said.
Developer Greg Cox, who
purchased the depot
building in 2012 with
partner Joe Baker, said
Friday that selling the prop-
erty was a hard decision.
“We really didn’t intend
to for a long time,” Cox said.
“When Johnson City
showed some interest in it
we felt like that would be a
really great fit for the
building. ... For the success
of downtown we felt like
that would be the perfect
spot for them.”
Cox said there’s been “a
ton of interest” in the
restaurant side of the
building, and when the
Kalogeros family got
involved last year, the
owners of the depot felt
they would be an asset to
the downtown area.
“We’re super excited
about them being in there,”
Cox said.
The Kalogeros family is
also working on a major
redevelopment to The
Peerless Restaurant on
North Roan Street, which
will result in a new bakery,
tavern and retail businesses
at the site. The company
expects to have an update
on those projects in April.
“The opening delays are
largely attributed to the
long-term effects of the pan-
demic and the supply chain
issues needed to operate the
complex hospitality
project,” the company said.
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new and unoccupied.
An Iraqi official in
Baghdad at first said sev-
eral missiles had hit the
U.S. consulate and that it
was the target of the attack.
Later, Lawk Ghafari, the
head of Kurdistan’s foreign
media office, said none of
the missiles hit the U.S.
facility.
box with index cards at the
beginning of forum for
members of the audience to
write down questions that
can be asked of all candi-
dates. No questions will be
posed to candidates as indi-
viduals.
The winners of the
Republican Primary for
county clerk and sheriff
have no opponents on the
Aug. 4 general election
ballot. However, the winner
of the May 3 Republican
race for county mayor will
face a challenge from inde-
pendent candidate James
W. Reeves in August.
The early voting period
for the May 3 primary is
April 13 to April 28.
Tennesseans have until
April 4 to register to vote in
the election.
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KEEP CARTER COUNTY BEAUTIFUL MARCH 13: TODAY IN JOHNSON CITY HISTORY
By Rebecca Henderson
and Johnson City Press
March 13, 1947: Seventy-
five years ago today, the
Johnson City Press-Chronicle
reported to readers news
about an upcoming cattle
show and sale. “Plans have
been completed for the third
annual Hereford show and sale
to be held Friday, March 21, at
Big Burley Warehouse No. 1., J.
H. Thompson, secretary of
East Tennessee Hereford
Breeders Inc., said last night.
The show will be held at
10 a.m., and the sale will follow
at 1 o’clock.”
“The show sponsored by
the Johnson City Chamber of
commerce, will carry $500 in
CONTRIBUTED
cash prizes donated by the
Ed Jordan, right, and a few of his hard-working volunteers doing
chamber.”
what they are known for: keeping Carter County beautiful.
“As a pre-show feature, a
banquet will be held at
of $458 a head.”
“Among the consignors are W.
W. Bacon of Jonesboro, Earl Pate
of Elizabethton, Smithdale Farms,
owned by John C. and W. H. Smith
of Limestone, S. S. Smith of
Hampton, Earl Robertson of Roan
Mountain, Homestead Farms,
owned by J. M. Leonard and W. E.
Reedy of Johnson City, Shadyland
Farms, owned by Wayland Crouch
of Boones Creek, T. Glenn Doane
and Son of Blountville, D. B. Parker
of Blountville, W. S. Osborne of
line from Miami, Florida, readers
of the Johnson City Press-
Chronicle learned that “Pretty
Toni Kay Nanney, acquitted of
helping her former lover kill her
husband, left for her home in
Elizabethtown (sic), Tenn.,
Tuesday.”
“Mrs. Nanney, who may collect
on her late husband’s $46,000
life insurance policy, stopped at
the Dade County jail for only a few
minutes after she was acquitted
by an all-male jury early Tuesday
morning.”
“She picked up her three dol-
lars from the jail’s commissary
fund and her clothes, stopped by
her attorney’s office, and with her
father, Guy Thompson, and a
sister, Charlene, left for home.”
“The curvy 25-year-old mother
of three screamed and hugged
defense attorney Harry Prebish
late Monday night when the all-
male jury brought back its verdict
determined.”
“Lopez, co-defendant with the
blonde wife of the victim, switches
his plea to guilty just before the
jury was seated last Tuesday to
begin hearing the case.”
“Lopez is former head of a
school for retarded children at
Fort Myers.”
“Elizabethton, Tenn., lawyers
Lewis Merryman and Robert E.
Banks went to Florida to repre-
sent the three Nanney children.
Nanney’s father at Elizabethton
has custody of the children by a
court order.”
Forty-six thousand dollars in
1968 is now worth about
$368,500. Three dollars in 1968
now has the purchasing power of
about $24. These numbers come
from www.in2013dollars.com.
March 13, 1972: Fifty years ago
today, the Johnson City Press-
Chronicle opined, “Hold onto your
1972 calendars, folks. According
to the World Almanac’s perpetual

Jordan founding force 7:30 p.m. Thursday night,

of beautification group
Says board members,
citizens key reason
for success of KCCB
By John Thompson
ELIZABETHTON BUREAU CHIEF
jthompson@johnsoncitypress.com
had moved the area that
Jordan started seeing more
and more litter and trash.
It made him frustrated and
he began to complain to his
wife about it when they
out. It finally got to be a bit
much for her.
“Kathy said ‘Instead of
March 20, in John Sevier Hotel
ballroom. Jack Turner of
Kansas City, secretary of the
American Hereford
Association, will be the
speaker.”
“Commissioner of
Agriculture O. E. Van Cleave of
Nashville will be among the
visitors at the show and sale,
which will draw several hun-
dred spectators and cattle
breeders from over Tennessee
and other states.”
“Fifty-one animals will be
Piney Flats, Dr. R. P. Moss of
Kingsport, Hoffman Homestead
Farms at Surgoinsville, Love B.
Rouse of Bristol, and Echo Farms,
owned by D. E. Hall of Jonesboro.”
Five hundred dollars in 1947 is
now worth about $6,250. Four
hundred, fifty-eight dollars in 1947
currently has the purchasing
power of about $5,726. Both of
these amounts are from www.
in2013dollars.com.
Jonesboro was spelled that way
in 1947.
March 13, 1968: With a date-
to end the eight-day trial.”
“She was accused of helping
Felix Lopez, 32, in covering up the
death of her husband, Joseph
Nanney, who was fatally beaten
with a tire tool. The body of her
husband was found in a partially
burned auto that had crashed into
a utility pole July 23.”
“Nanney had taken out a
$46,000 double indemnity life
insurance policy shortly before his
death, and an insurance company
spokesman said it would be paid
as soon as a beneficiary could be
calendar, the identical arrange-
ment of days and dates will repeat
itself in the year 2000.”
“(A 1944 or 1916 calendar will
do just as well, if you still have one
of those. Which means, by the
way, that this is the first time this
century that this particular cal-
endar has begun without a World
War in full swing.)”
“For those looking forward to
ringing in a new century, it’s good
to realize that New Year’s Day,
2000, will fall on a Saturday, as it
did this year.

ELIZABETHTON —
During Thursday night’s
meeting of the Eliza-
bethton City Council, Ed
Jordan introduced Don
Hlavaty to members of the
council.
Jordan told them that
Hlavaty was succeeding
him as chairman of Keep
Carter County Beautiful
and that he expected KCCB
to be even more successful
because Hlavaty can type
with more than two fin-
gers.
The council and the
public knew Jordan was
just being modest. The
accomplishments of the
organization in the few
years since he founded it
as Carter County Proud
have been amazing, and it
has created a group of
hard-working volunteers
who have not only worked
to clean up Carter County,
but also neighboring coun-
ties, such as Washington
County, where an old tire
dump was cleaned up.
Although the organiza-
tion has only existed for a
few years, the list of
awards presented to
Jordan and the group is
impressive. It includes the
Keep Tennessee Beautiful’s
Love Where You Live
Award for 2021; the Martin
L. Kennedy Award for the
outstanding affiliate coor-
dinator in 2019 presented
by Keep Tennessee
Beautiful and the
Tennessee Department of
Transportation; an Office
of the Governor Certificate
of Appreciation from Gov.
Bill Lee; and a Tennessee
Senate Joint Resolution.
Jordan had long shown
strong leadership skills
and a capacity for hard
work throughout his life.
After growing up in North
Carolina, Jordan had a
26-year career in the Army,
rising to the rank of first
sergeant.
After retirement, he
moved to Colorado and
hired a contractor to build
a home. He quickly became
dissatisfied with the work
and decided he could do a
better job than the con-
tractor. The result was he
started his own contractor
business.
Ater 18 years, he and his
wife, Kathy, thought they
had found a perfect place
to retire.
“It was so clean,” Jordan
said of his first sighting of
his West Carter County
neighborhood.
It wasn’t until after they
just griping about it, why
don’t you do something?”
Jordan took his wife’s
placed in the show and sale by
18 consignors. They will be dis-
played in six classifications –
Annual State of Franklin Dinner
advice. two more than was listed the Hosted by Washington County Democratic Party
Jordan wrote a letter to previous two years. Col. Earl
the local newspaper and Gartin of Greensboro, Ind., will Saturday, April 9, 2022 at the Carnegie Hotel
gave his contact informa- be the auctioneer.”
tion for other people who “Catalogues, listing the con- VIP Hour ($60) – 5PM • Dinner ($125) – 6PM
wanted to do something. signors, the classifications,
The group held its first prize money, and information All of the 2022 Democratic gubernatorial
meeting at a barbecue on the animals, were placed in candidates will also be speaking!
restaurant and soon the mails this week.” We will have live music, a
formed Carter County “Thompson said the ani- silent auction, and a cash bar.
Proud. mals were far better than any So don’t forget your dancing
By 2017, the organization displayed at the previous show shoes. Get your tickets today for
was established enough to and sales, and there is a prob- this fun and exciting evening
Keynote Speaker VIP Hour Speaker
consider membership in ability that the average sale Sen. Heidi Campbell Matthew Hawn with local Democrats!
Keep America Beautiful. price will exceed last year’s Purchase tickets: wctndp.org/2022SOFDinner
Missy Marshall of Keep when they brought an average Paid for by the Washington County Democratic Party, Treasurer Cindy Humphrey.
Tennessee Beautiful came
to one of their meetings
and discussed member-
ship. Jordan said the pro-
cess usually takes a year,
but because Carter County
Proud was already doing
many of the steps required
of new members, it only
took three months until
the organization was
restyled as Keep Carter
County Beautiful.
While Jordan is proud of
the accomplishments of
the organization, he
quickly said they could not
have been done it without
the work of “excellent
board members” and “pas-
sionate citizens.” He spoke
of several people within
the organization and out-
side it who have had a big
role in its success. These
include City Councilman
Mike Simerly, Elizabethton
Parks and Recreation
Director Mike Mains, and
graphic designer Mike
McDonnell.
Also noted were two
members of County
Commission: Ross Gar-
land, vice president of
Keep Carter County
Beautiful, and County
Commission Chair Ginger
Holdren, as well as master
gardener Ed Basconi.
Jordan also thanked
Benny Lyons, manager of
the Carter County Landfill,
who provided equipment to
haul off all the trash the
organization picked up and
also provided a place to put
it without ever charging
the organization.
On Thursday night,
Jordan told the council
members that he will
remain on the Keep Carter
County Beautiful Board of
Directors, and will give
Hlavaty any help he may
need, but with a man who
uses eight fingers on his
keyboard instead of just
two, Jordan expects even
more successes for the
organization.

USDA funds flood prevention study

The Associated Press
NASHVILLE — Federal
officials say they are
funding a project that will
look into what infrastruc-
ture could help prevent
further flooding in a com-
munity where rushing
waters killed 20 people.
A U.S. Department of
Agriculture news release
says it will study whether
improvements through the
Watershed and Flood
Prevention Operations
Program could help curb
flooding in Trace Creek in
Humphreys County, and
specifically in Waverly.
In August 2021, deadly
flooding devastated the city
of Waverly.
USDA officials say the
project is among those
funded through President
Joe Biden’s infrastructure
law.
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A display of force
The Associated Press
SAVANNAH, Ga. —
U.S. soldiers continued
to deploy Friday to
Europe, joining thou-
sands already sent over-
seas to support NATO
allies amid Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine.
OMAR SANADIKI About 130 soldiers
A woman passes a billboard showing Russian President Vladimir from the 87th Division
Putin in Damascus, Syria, earlier this year. The Arabic in the poster Sustainment Support
reads, “The victory for Russia.” Battalion, 3rd Division
Sustainment Brigade,
More US troops
deploy overseas in
wake of invasion
diers are in addition to the
estimated 3,800 soldiers
from the Army’s 3rd
Infantry Division who have
deployed in recent weeks
from nearby Fort Stewart,
said Lt. Col. Lindsey Elder,
the division’s spokes-
person.
Spec. Danton Belucio,
who has served in the
Army for three years, said
he looked forward to going
on his first deployment.
“I’ve always wanted to

Russian footholds in lined up with rucksacks

inside a terminal at
Hunter Airfield in
Savannah before
actually go on one to do
something different,” he
said. “It makes me feel like
I’m helping somebody.”
STEPHEN B. MORTON
A group of soldiers with the U.S. Army’s 87th Division Sustainment

Mideast, Africa create

Support Battalion, 3rd Division Sustainment Brigade, board a
marching outside and Maj. Gen. Charles chartered plane during their deployment to Europe, Friday, at Hunter
boarding their char- Costanza, the 3rd Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. The unit is attached to the Army’s 3rd
tered flight. It departed Infantry’s commander, Infantry Division out of Fort Stewart, Ga., and will join the 3,800

security threat in West amid grey skies and

rain.
Republican U.S. Rep.
Earl “Buddy” Carter, of
said recently that soldiers
are being told to prepare
for six months overseas,
though deployments could
troops already deployed in support of NATO in Eastern Europe.

Europe, with a couple of

By Ellen Knickmeyer
and Zeina Karam
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s
invasion of Ukraine domi-
nates world attention. But
with less global scrutiny,
Putin is also busy
advancing Russia’s pres-
ence in the Middle East
and Africa — an expansion
that military and civilian
leaders view as another, if
less immediate, threat to
security in the West.
Putin’s strategy in the
Mideast and Africa has
been simple, and suc-
cessful: He seeks out secu-
rity alliances with auto-
crats, coup leaders, and
others who have been
spurned or neglected by
the U.S. and Europe, either
because of their bloody
abuses or because of com-
peting Western strategic
interests.
• In Syria, Russia’s
defense minister last
month showed off nucle-
ar-capable bombers and
hypersonic missiles over
the Mediterranean, part of
a security partnership that
now has the Kremlin
threatening to send Syrian
fighters to Ukraine.
• In Sudan, a leader of a
junta that’s seized power in
that East African country
has a new economic alli-
ance with the Kremlin,
reviving Russia’s dreams
of a naval base on the Red
Sea.
• In Mali, the govern-
ment is the latest of more
than a dozen resource-rich
African nations to forge
security alliances with
Kremlin-allied merce-
naries, according to U.S.
officials.
Especially in the last five
or six years, “what you’ve
seen is a Russia that is
much more expeditionary
and casting its military
power further and wider
afield,” retired U.S. Gen.
Philip M. Breedlove told
The Associated Press.
“Russia is trying to show
itself as a great power, as
at the seat in world affairs,
as driving international
situations,” said Breedlove,
the second-highest mili-
tary commander in NATO
from 2013 through 2016,
and now a distinguished
chair at the Middle East
Institute think tank in
Washington.
But with Putin’s hands
already full battling the
fierce resistance from a
much weaker Ukrainian
military, experts view his
expansionist goals in the
Middle East and Africa as
a potential long-term
threat, not a present
danger to Europe or the
NATO alliance.
“It’s threatening NATO
from below,” Kristina
Kausch, a European secu-
rity expert at the German
Marshall Fund think-tank,
said of the leverage Russia
is gaining. “The Russians
have felt encircled by
NATO — and now they
want to encircle NATO,”
she said.
To achieve its strategic
aims, Russia provides con-
ventional military or
Kremlin-allied merce-
naries to protect the
regimes of often outcast
leaders. In return, these
leaders pay back Russia in
several ways: cash or nat-
ural resources, influence
in their affairs, and staging
grounds for Russian
fighters.
These alliances help
advance Putin’s ambitions
of returning Russia’s influ-
ence to its old Cold War
boundaries.
Russia’s new security
partnerships also aid it
diplomatically. When the
U.N. General Assembly
condemned Putin’s
Ukraine invasion this
month, Syria joined Russia
in voting against, and
many of the African gov-
ernments that have signed
security deals with
Russian mercenaries
abstained.
Regardless of how immi-
nent the threat is, U.S. and
European leaders are
paying increasing atten-
tion to Putin’s moves in the
Middle East and Africa —
and Russia’s growing alli-
ance with China — as it
formulates plans to protect
the West from future
aggression.
Pooler, Georgia, was
among those in atten-
dance. He was seen “fist-
bumping” many of the
soldiers as they boarded
the plane.
The battalion’s sol-
Sanctions: How Congress pushes Biden on Ukraine
Legislative branch
out front on
foreign policy
By Lisa Mascaro
AP CONGRESSIONAL
CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON — At
first, the White House
resisted calls from Con-
gress to ban Russian oil
imports to the U.S. And
then, it did just that.
The administration
hit the brakes on legisla-
tion that would have
revoked Russia’s normal
trade status, until
President Joe Biden
announced the move
Friday. The administra-
tion persuaded senators
to hold off on imposing
Russian sanctions, then
slapped stiff sanctions
itself. It rejected efforts
in Congress to stop the
Nord Stream 2 energy
pipeline, then led allies
in halting it.
“What do all those
things have in
common?” Sen. Rob
Portman, R-Ohio, asked
after reciting a similar
list.
“In each of those
cases, the administra-
tion said no,” until law-
makers from both polit-
ical parties put pressure
on the White House to
change course. “And in
each case, the adminis-
tration did a 180.”
It’s an emerging pat-
tern that has not gone
unnoticed during the
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be lenghtened or shortened
per developments in
Ukraine.
The Pentagon has
ordered roughly 12,000
total service members
from various U.S. bases to
escalating war in Ukraine:
A remarkably unified
Congress is out front on
foreign policy, pressuring
Biden to go further and
faster with a U.S. response
to a devastating conflict
that has no clear endgame
in sight.
Rather than running for
political cover as the
Ukraine war worsens, law-
makers of both parties are
pushing the president to
act more swiftly and force-
fully to stop Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s
invasion. The result has
been a rare, mostly unified
resolve from the legislative
branch, which is leaving
an imprint on executive
branch decision-making.
“We’ve seen that with
this president time and
time and time again, where
he says, ‘We can’t do this,’”
said Sen. Joni Ernst,
R-Iowa, a combat veteran.
“Then he reverses course.”
Now, Ernst and other
members of Congress are
pushing the Biden admin-
istration to reconsider
sending Polish warplanes
that Ukrainian pilots could
fly in their fight against
the Russian attacks.
More than 40 Republican
senators signed onto a
letter imploring Biden to
reverse course after the
Pentagon rejected an offer
from Poland to transfer the
Soviet-era MiGs to
Ukraine. Ukrainian
President Volodymyr
Zelenksyy pleaded with
Congress last weekend that
if the U.S. was unwilling to
impose a no-fly zone, it
thousand more already sta-
tioned abroad shifting to
other European countries.
The soldiers’ mission is
to train alongside military
units of NATO allies in a
display of force aimed at
deterring further aggres-
should at least send the
planes and other air sup-
port.
“Send these MiGs,” said
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.
The administration ini-
tially had indicated it sup-
ported NATO ally Poland
sending its planes to
Ukraine, but then slammed
the door on Poland’s sur-
prise offer to instead send
the planes to a U.S. base in
Germany for transfer to
Ukraine. Military leaders
deemed it too risky. They
worried such a move
would provoke Putin, and
argued other weaponry
may be more effective.
“There is bipartisan sup-
port to provide these
planes,” said Sen. Jeanne
Shaheen, D-N.H, during a
Foreign Relations
Committee hearing
Thursday with administra-
tion officials. “It is disap-
pointing to see the reluc-
tance on the part of the
administration, and it’s
coming across as indeci-
sion and bickering.”
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weeks can be viewed as
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ipating in the mission.
also an approving nod sig-
naling to the Biden admin-
istration how far law-
makers are willing to go to
support Ukraine.
Instead of a war-weary
Congress, as might have
been expected after the
disastrous withdrawal
from Afghanistan, law-
makers appear determined
to do as much as possible
for Ukraine — short of
involving U.S. troops on the
ground or in the skies
overhead.
Biden has made it clear
there will be no direct U.S.
confrontation with Russia.
But the president acknowl-
edged Friday that he has
asked the Congress to hold
off at times, particularly
on the new trade status for
Russia, “until I could line
up all of our key allies to
keep us in complete
unison.”
Still, lawmakers from
both parties are signaling
they have the president’s
back as the war in Ukraine
intensifies.
Congress easily approved
a $13.6 billion aid package
for Ukraine this week that
includes military and
humanitarian support.

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Experts: How to impose
internet sanctions on Russia
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Ukraine’s
attempt to get Russia
kicked off the internet
failed, but a diverse group
of experts proposes a more
narrow approach to sanc-
tioning the Kremlin for
invading its neighbor:
Consider creating a mecha-
nism that could technically
blacklist individual
Russian military and pro-
paganda websites.
In an open letter released
Thursday, the activists say
it’s time the internet com-
munity developed a way to
confront humanitarian
crises. The idea they
floated would mean gath-
ering and publishing a list
of sanctioned IP addresses
and domain names in the
form of data feeds that
telecommunications pro-
viders and other network
operators could subscribe
to with the goal of ren-
dering the targets unreach-
able.
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7 p.m. on CYB-CW, TBS

Nicole Byer and Taye Diggs host the 27th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards on The CW.
27th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards
From the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer
host this annual awards show honoring the best in primetime television during 2021.
Among the field of nominees, HBO leads with 20 nominations, closely trailed by
Netflix with 18. As for individual series, two HBO dramas, “Succession” and “Mare
of Easttown,” scored 8 and 5 nods, respectively; “Evil,” a Paramount Plus streaming
series, also earned five nominations.
8 p.m. on WJHL
The Equalizer
In the new episode “Somewhere Over the Hudson,” Robyn (Queen Latifah) helps
a desperate mob accountant recover a lost ledger. It’s a vital piece of evidence he
has to turn over to the FBI in exchange for safe entry into the Witness Protection
Program. Meanwhile, Mel (Liza Lapira) tries to figure out a way to tell her best friend
— who selflessly provided emotional support to Mel in the wake of Harry’s (Adam
Goldberg) “death” — that his demise was a fabrication all along.
8 p.m. on LIFE
Movie: Cheating for Your Life
Kaley, a stellar high school student who works hard to maintain her high academic
standing, becomes suspicious after she notices that a group of underachieving slack-
ers all have improbably high scores on their SAT exams. When she looks more closely
into the situation, however, she inadvertently exposes a cheating ring, endangering
her own life in the process. Heather McComb and Francesca Xuereb star in this 2022
melodrama.
8 p.m. on HALL
When Calls the Heart
Hope Valley elects a new mayor, while Lucas and Elizabeth (Chris McNally, Erin Kra-
kow) try to find special “little moments” to cherish in their relationship in the new
episode “Out Like a Lamb.” Elizabeth also offers to help Nathan (Kevin McGarry) with

his traumatized horse, Newton, after the hit-and-run incident, but it’s Mei (Amanda
Wong) who is able to connect with the animal. Pascale Hutton, Kavan Smith and
Andrea Brooks also star.
9 p.m. on WJHL
NCIS: Los Angeles
In the new episode “All the Little Things,” after a newborn child is found abandoned
on a Navy ship, Kensi and Deeks (Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen) launch a desper-
ate search to find her mother somewhere on board the vessel before the infant dies
of medical complications. Elsewhere, operational psychologist Nate Getz (recurring
guest star Peter Cambor) meets with Admiral Kilbride (Gerald McRaney) and learns
about the CIA project from the 1970s and ’80s involving children. Bar Paly, Jeff Kober
and Olesya Rulin also guest star.
9 p.m. on CNN
Movie: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
This new feature-length documentary from Oscar winner Morgan Neville (“Twenty
Feet From Stardom”) offers an affectionate remembrance of cultural explorer, writer
and chef Anthony Bourdain, who died in 2018. Bourdain burst onto the scene with
his wildly successful 2000 memoir “Kitchen Confidential,” which vividly captured his
experiences in the restaurant trade. From there, he swiftly transformed from gifted
line chef to globe-trotting explorer and beloved TV host. Bourdain’s insatiable hunger
to understand the world in all its diversity was infectious, radically changing food and
travel television.
9 p.m. on SHOW
Billions
In the aftermath of the Commission’s decision, Prince (Corey Stoll) encourages his
team to find new investments, while Wendy (Maggie Siff) prepares for whatever the
future may hold, in the new episode “The Big Ugly.” Meanwhile, feeling pressured by
Philip (Toney Goins), Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon) decides to go all-in on a questionable
play. Elsewhere, Rian (Eva Victor) is feeling stressed out from work, so she comes to Liza Lapira stars in “The Equalizer” on CBS.
an unlikely arrangement with Wags (David Costabile). Paul Giamatti also stars.
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Winter storm blasts South, Northeast with snow, wind

Dollywood season
opening among the
events falling victim
to harsh weather
The Associated Press

A late winter storm

blasted the northeastern
United States on Saturday
with high winds and snow
that could pile up to a foot JIM GERBERICH
high, sending tempera- A man walks through Lancaster City, Pa., with his shopping bag
tures plummeting and during a snowstorm Saturday.
making travel hazardous
after first taking aim at the Louisiana and Mississippi, inches of snow.
Deep South. on Friday and Saturday. Several inches of snow
The National Weather Parts of northern fell in eastern Tennessee,
Service said 7 to 12 inches Mississippi and portions of delaying by at least a day
could be expected in the Mississippi Delta also the season opening of
northern areas of saw between 2 and 3.5 Dollywood in Pigeon Forge.
Pennsylvania and New MATT HAMILTON

York with winds gusting as Ian Mattson, 9, throws a snowball at his sister Elise, 5, as they play in Renaissance Park on Saturday In
high as 45 mph. Chattanooga.
Gale warnings were in
of the eastern United inches of snow or more Saturday afternoon that a
effect in coastal New
States, but the storm was had been reported in parts crash involving 73 vehicles
Jersey and Delaware areas,
moving quickly to the of New York and northern on a central Pennsylvania
with gusts of 40 to 50 mph
possible and forecasters northeast. Pennsylvania and as much highway had resulted in
warning of tree damage Parts of the Tennessee as 6 inches in eastern multiple injuries, but no
and resulting power out- Valley and central Pennsylvania. life-threatening injuries
ages as well as rough Appalachia had already Intensifying low pres- were immediately
boating conditions. A wind seen as much as 8 to 12 sure accompanying the reported. Trooper Megan
advisory was in effect for inches of snow, and areas storm had been generating Ammerman said the crash
other areas. of Pennsylvania, New York high winds, and plunging was reported shortly after
Meteorologist Andrew and northern New temperatures would freeze 2 p.m. Saturday on PA 581
Orrison of the weather ser- England were expected to any moisture on roadways, in Cumberland County.
vice office in College Park, receive similar amounts making for hazardous The system also brought
Maryland, said moderate before the storm pulled travel in icy conditions, he snow and rain to several
to heavy snow had fallen away early Sunday, he said. said. Southern states, including
over “a rather large area” By Saturday afternoon, 10 State police said Alabama, Georgia,

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It isn’t entertainment.
It’s war.
This is
more than
By Kristina Fialko
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Tribune News Service
Like you, for the past week I’ve been
watching a war.
a heroic For me, this consists of refreshing
Telegram and Twitter every few seconds for
updates from friends, family, journalists and
tale; it’s observers on the ground in Ukraine, and
trying to sift through what is real and what is
disinformation while desperately searching
death, fear for any reassurance that my loved ones were
not harmed.
I was born in Kyiv and moved to the United
and loss States with my parents when I was a child.
But growing up, I spent every other summer
holiday with my grandparents in Ukraine.
For my parents and me, life has come to a halt
as we call and message our friends and family
in Ukraine who are hiding in bomb shelters,
subway stations and in their basements and
pantries as air raid sirens ring out every
night.
For those with a connection to the country,
the images coming out are deeply personal
and unbelievably devastating.
A view from a friend’s cottage window that
once looked out on the peaceful countryside
on the outskirts of Kyiv now shows the night
sky illuminated with explosions. The streets
that my grandfather and I would walk to visit
our favorite playground in the Kyiv neighbor-
“
hood of Obolon are now made infamous from
videos of a tank crossing lanes of traffic and
driving over a civilian car.
The These images are incredibly diffi-
‘characters’ in cult to reconcile with the memory of
this narrative the city I knew, and this is likely true
are not
for countless others who have called
Ukraine home. For many other
fictional and observers, however, this may be the
first time they are paying attention
the outcome to Ukraine and its people.
of this war is One common refrain that has cap-
tivated public attention in these early
undetermined. days of the war is the pride and defi-
ance of Ukrainians against the
”
Russian invaders. Viral videos depict a
Ukrainian woman confronting enemy sol-
diers, telling them to put seeds in their
pockets so flowers may grow when they die
on our soil, a Ukrainian man carrying a land
mine with his bare hands, Ukrainian citizens
gathering weapons and collecting together
outside their apartment buildings to prepare
Molotov cocktails to defend their cities.
The president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
See WAR, Page D5
Fleeing Kyiv with my family,
People wait to board an evacuation train at Kyiv central train station on March 5.
our whole life in two suitcases
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian police officer helps a child
run for cover as artillery echoes nearby
in Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv,
Ukraine, on Monday.
Can Europe handle this refugee crisis?
EU needs to focus on
registration, integration
and employment, too
By Hanne Beirens
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Tribune News Service
BRUSSELS — Since
Russia’s invasion, more than
2 million people have fled
Ukraine. An additional 4 mil-
lion might not be far behind
in what’s shaping up as
Europe’s largest refugee
crisis since World War II.
DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
By Katerina Sergatskova
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Those who
Tribune News Service
are staying
LVIV, Ukraine — Every day for behind are
Ukrainians has become a nightmare.
Troops in Russian helicopters land in risking
neighborhoods, break into civilian
houses, destroy buildings with tanks their lives.
and fire their weapons at hospitals and
orphanages. The stores are running
out of bread and milk and the pharma-
cies are emptying of medicine. Putin
calls it a special “denazification” and
demilitarization operation and is not
shy about saying he wants to take over
all of Ukraine.
I work as a journalist in Kyiv. But on
the fifth day of the war, I decided to
leave the capital with my two young
children for Lviv, a safer city in
western Ukraine. We took a few things:
a couple changes of clothes, a video
camera, a bulletproof vest, a supply of
diapers, a Lego Harry Potter set
See FLEEING, Page D5
But is Europe ready to
handle it?
The European Union and
member states have shown a
massive outpouring of sup-
port. Countries bordering
Ukraine, including Poland,
Hungary, Slovakia and
Romania have rapidly erected
reception centers, where
tired and bedraggled arrivals
are being warmly greeted
with offers of food, clothing
and shelter. Poland is also THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
offering free use of mobile Ukrainian refugee Elena, left, hugs her
networks and public 5-year-old granddaughter Christina, as
they await the train to Warsaw, Poland,
See EUROPE, Page D5 at the Przemysl train station on Friday.
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The Johnson City Press, founded in 1934,
publishes news of interest to our readers,
promotes free exchange of ideas and
effects change through free expression.
GUEST OPINION
Let’s work
together for
better access
to records
By Deborah Fisher
GUEST OPINION
A journalist friend of mine in
Georgia recently made a public
records request for a state agency file.
The file contained a CD with some of
the public documents.
Instead of making a copy of the con-
tents of the CD in response to the
public records request, the agency put
the shiny disc on a Xerox machine and
sent a picture of the CD to the jour-
nalist instead.
It did not send the files that were
actually on the CD.
This real story goes to show how
easily open government is thwarted.
My journalist friend will need to be
persistent in convincing the govern-
ment officials to follow both the letter
and spirit of the law and give her a
copy of the CD’s contents, not just a
photocopy of the shiny disc.
By far, most gov-
ernment employees
whom I’ve encoun-
tered respect and
value the public
records law. They are
citizens, too, of
course. And they
understand how
access to public
Fisher records helps ensure
accountability and
information flow. A flashlight on gov-
ernment also can help reduce corrup-
tion and cronyism.
But a real problem exists with state
public records laws, and it’s not just
one outlandish example out of
Georgia.
It is simply too easy to delay, deny,
subvert or undermine access to public
records here and everywhere.
Many people know that a citizen can
file a public records lawsuit against an
entity who they think is violating the
public records law. Usually, this is at
no small cost to the citizen so it’s no
small decision.
But I suggest that responsibility of
enforcement of the public rights to
know also lies on the shoulders of the
people in power — the people who are
your representatives on a city council
or county commission and others in
charge within government who can
influence how things are done, such as
a director of schools, a police chief, a
sheriff, a county executive or a state
commissioner in charge of a large
state agency.
Audits are occasionally done by the
State Comptroller’s Office on the prac-
tices of local government. But who is
checking to make sure that govern-
ment is consistently following the law
in providing access to public records?
Who within your local government is
making sure that citizens are treated
fairly? Who reviews if practices are
creating barriers for citizens in
accessing government information?
One of the biggest barriers in getting
copies of public records in Tennessee
is the cost. That’s because government
entities are allowed by state law to
charge labor fees for copies if they
spend more than one hour locating,
retrieving and redacting records.
Just this week, I reviewed govern-
ment charges of $50 an hour and $77
an hour. It is not uncommon to see fees
exceed $70 an hour and sometimes
they can be as high as $150 to $200 an
hour if the government entity asks its
attorney or a top-paid staff member,
like a school superintendent, to review
the records before release.
That’s just too expensive for most
citizens in Tennessee and the people
inside government should know this.
Sunshine Week was established in
2005 by the American Society of News
Editors to promote open government.
Each March, it’s a chance to remind
each other and our government that
open government is good government.
So this week, ask your government
representatives to examine the prac-
tices around public records and to
think about how to reduce obstacles —
such as costs — to better fulfill the
ideal of a free flow of information.
Citizens deserve to know what their
government is doing. And we need
heroes within government to help
make it happen.
Deborah Fisher is executive director of
Tennessee Coalition for Open Government. Find
out more on its website, www.tcog.info.
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OPINION
What the people don’t know will hurt them
The great inflation scam: Don’t
let corporations off the hook
By Wenonah Hauter
PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES
Tribune News Service
It’s not just you: All across the country,
it costs more to heat our homes, fill up our
gas tanks and feed our families. This has
prompted waves of tedious finger-pointing
among pundits, economists and political
opportunists. Some say President Joe
Biden is to blame for this wave of infla-
tion, while others warn that Democrats
should be careful not to exaggerate how
much power big corporations have to set
prices.
All of this hot air doesn’t change any-
thing for working people who are getting
squeezed, and it lets these powerful com-
panies off the hook by suggesting that
their brazen profiteering is just as natural
as the change of seasons. The truth is that
when it comes to some key parts of our
economy — food and fuel, for example — a
handful of megacorporations are calling
the shots, and that’s costing all of us
dearly.
Dominant players in the food industry
were well-known long before this pan-
demic profiteering. In a report last fall,
Food & Water Watch examined the market
share of the dominant companies across
55 grocery categories, everything from
vegetable side dishes to milk and yogurt.
Writers weigh in on Buffalo Mountain, Ballad
Buffalo Mountain is well-kept
We have been avid hikers to our region’s
paths and trails for many years.
Today was our first time visiting Buffalo
Mountain Park, and it was glorious! The
amazing views and the sheer silence avail-
able is unmatched locally. You can tell
immediately that maximum effort has
been used to keep these trails as natural
as possible.
Careful precision paid to the trimming
of the local flora ensures minimal impact
on the delicate ecosystem while allowing
safe, single file passage. It was refreshing
to see that these trails were foot-traffic
only and dog-friendly
While everyone should have a place to
play, the infrastructure that would have to
be implemented for bike usage would
harm the hard-earned preservation
efforts. Not to mention the numerous
safety issues created by the steep drops
and tight passes mixed with speed.
During our visit we crossed paths with
locals Connie and Allen, who were very
hard at work trimming and maintaining
the trails. Connie, a naturalist, was kind
enough to share some history of the area
and educated us on the delicate balance
needed to be able to enjoy such beautiful
areas as Buffalo Mountain.
Here’s to hoping the amazing effort and
people are recognized for keeping it as
untouched and natural as possible and we
never “wish we had.”
Rick Thomason
Publisher
PEN POINTS
We found that just four companies
account for three-quarters of all yogurt
sales, three companies control most of the
baby formula market, and PepsiCo cap-
tures nearly 90% of all dip sales.
That’s the power to effectively name
your price. And over the past two years,
amid a deadly pandemic, corporate
powers did just that. The cost to feed a
family of four increased by one-third over
this period, while beef, pork and poultry
prices rose between 20% and 30%.
Energy costs grew 20%, and the price of
gasoline was up 30%. It’s no coincidence
that corporate profits in those sectors are
soaring. While we dealt with the lingering
effects of a debilitating pandemic, these
companies were soaking consumers and
shoveling money to executives and share-
holders, while stiffing many of their
workers in the process.
Oil and gas giant ExxonMobil posted a
profit of almost $9 billion in the fourth
quarter of last year alone, and $23 billion
for all of 2021. Profits for the top grocery
chains and food companies were similar.
Tyson Foods — one of the four companies
that control the U.S. beef market — posted
astonishing returns that are prompting
some long overdue government scrutiny.
In December, the White House released
an analysis showing that the meat pro-
cessing giants have seen the pandemic as
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So here’s a big thank you and tip of the
hat to Buffalo Mountain and her care-
takers.
We loved it.
BRAD ANDERSON
Kingsport
Ballad needs more regulation
The other day I was released from the
Johnson City Medical Center after having
surgery, requiring four days of recovery
in the hospital before returning home.
During my discharge, I was given
mobility equipment to help me while
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a chance to plunder: Gross profits
increased more than 120% since before
COVID-19, with net income surging 500%.
Many of these companies will tell you
that costs are increasing because workers
are expensive and supply chain disrup-
tions make it hard to get materials. But
they tell a different story to their inves-
tors. Tyson, for instance, explained on one
earnings call that its price hikes go beyond
the additional costs it is incurring. And
wages across many parts of these indus-
tries remained stagnant.
That is all music to the ears of Wall
Street investors — and it should enrage
the rest of us. So what can be done about
it? The White House has, in fits and starts,
begun to lay out a domestic plan to curb
the powers of monopolists, especially in
the food business.
But what U.S. consumers need is real
action. We need food policies that reward
farmers who have been shortchanged by
monopolistic meat giants for decades, and
we need to build resilient local economies
based on shared prosperity for all.
Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of the
national advocacy group Food & Water Watch. This
column was produced for Progressive Perspectives,
which is run by The Progressive magazine, and dis-
tributed by Tribune News Service. Copyright 2022
Tribune Content Agency.
recovering at home. They came from
Ballad Health. Prescription drugs were
ordered from the Ballad Health Pharmacy,
although we had indicated a wish to use
our own pharmacy. One prescription was
exorbitantly high and we deleted it.
In the evening, I was given breathing
equipment. It came from a Ballad Health
subsidiary. Today, I was visited by a phys-
ical therapist who analyzed the situation
and told me an occupational therapist
would also be provided. Both would come
from a Ballad Health subsidiary.
Later in the day I received a call from a
home health care that is part of the Ballad
Health system.
I believe in our capitalist system.
However, I believe in a competitive system.
Since the merger that created Ballad
Health, this medical system has domi-
nated the region. To what extent it can do
what it wishes, make pricing non-competi-
tive, etc., I do not know. I do know that I
wish to have the freedom of choice.
Furthermore, the dominance of this
health system indicates that health is
predicated on the profitability of those
who provide it rather than the first pri-
ority to be healthcare of people.
I don’t have a solution to Ballad Health
domination. However, since the state of
Tennessee created the monopoly, it seems
to me it could create restrictions to
monopolistic practices.
EDWARD WOLFF
Jonesborough

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Will the Postal Reform Act work?
PRO: Repair of the Postal Service is within reach
By Max B. Sawicky
INSIDESOURCES.COM
Tribune News Service
Fixing a sabotaged institution is
not always easy. In the case of the
Postal Service, relief is imminent.
The Postal Service Reform Act
passed in the House and Senate
with bipartisan support.
President Joe Biden is expected to
sign the bill into law in the next
few days. All the major stake-
holders — labor, retirees and
management — were on board.
To set the scene, the Postal
Service was originally the Post
Office Department, a regular
department of the federal govern-
ment, funded by regular budget
appropriations. The focus was on
service to all residents of the
United States on an equal, afford-
able and timely basis. Erosion of
this commitment began in 1970.
The hackneyed cry of “running
government like a business” pro-
voked the separation of the POD
into a separate, public corpora-
tion, the U.S. Postal Service. The
intent was to create a free-
standing, business-like entity that
would finance its own operations.
CON: ‘Reform’ bill doesn’t deliver for America
By Paul Steidler
INSIDESOURCES.COM
Tribune News Service
On March 8, the Senate passed
the Postal Service Reform Act,
joining the House of
Representatives, which cleared
the bill in February. And while
there is a lot of talk about bipar-
tisan cooperation in getting the
measure passed and hype about
what it means to the U.S. Postal
Service, the bill has skirted the
toughest and most important
issues in postal reform.
The chief feature of the act is
to wipe away $57 billion in
defaulted debt that the Postal
Service has failed to pay for its
Retiree Health Benefits Fund
since 2011. Unlike a state or local
government, business or indi-
vidual, the service faced no con-
sequences for the default.
In hindsight the assessments,
OPINION & COMMENTARY
The self-financing delusion
runs against the grain of the
USPS as a public service with his-
torical benefits to the nation. In
economic terms, the POD pro-
vided benefits beyond its cus-
tomer base that could not be cap-
tured in fees for service. Hence
self-financing would doom the
service to stunted growth.
This change was not the down-
fall of the Postal Service. It suf-
fered additional body blows, both
from changes in the economy, and
from misguided, bipartisan
reforms in Congress.
The chief economic changes
were the rise of the internet and
the explosive growth of Amazon.
The growth of email reduced the
need for correspondence via
“snail mail.” The Amazon model,
emulated by Walmart and others,
displaced package delivery that
might otherwise have been pro-
vided by the service.
Even so, the growth of e-com-
merce and the pandemic
expanded total package delivery.
Although some share of it was
taken up by private operators, the
Postal Service found package
delivery to be a major source of
once widely agreed upon as part
of the 2006 Postal Accountability
and Enhancement Act, were far
too high. But they were based on
a basic principle: The Postal
Service should set aside and
invest some funds to meet large,
looming retirement health care
obligations. The service is now
free of that requirement. Future
postal retirees, however, will
have to sign up for Medicare cov-
erage to ensure retiree health
benefits, and will incur higher
costs.
By the way, despite the
defaults, the USPS is not in
danger of running out of cash
any time soon. It had $24.2 billion
in cash as of Feb. 28, a staggering
amount for an organization with
$72 billion in annual revenues.
The service’s balance sheet
and its quarterly financial per-
formance will be marginally
improved by the Postal Service
increased revenue for itself as
well.
In the pursuit of self-financing,
Congress set out to restrict postal
revenue and increase its costs. In
other words, it dedicated itself to
a formula for bankrupting the
service.
On the revenue side, the service
was prevented from expanding its
scope of business to new areas of
growth that the internet would
open up. Functions such as
search and social media, ceded to
tech giants, could be provided to
USPS.
Moreover, such services could
be provided with respect for indi-
vidual privacy and vigilance
against spam and abuse. Scope
could also be expanded in areas
that the Post Office Department
traditionally occupied, especially
postal banking.
On a more elementary level, the
Postal Service has been
restrained in the fees it can
charge for its traditional, core
services — delivery of letters and
packages.
On the cost side, the greatest
added burden resulted from a
mandate that the service set aside
Reform Act and the health care
retirement benefits provisions.
And the act does have other ben-
eficial features, including setting
up a real-time dashboard so
Americans can quickly identify
mail delivery problems. It will
also improve the budgetary pro-
cess and slightly strengthen the
service’s two key regulators —
its Office of Inspector General
and the Postal Regulatory
Commission.
But these are not the reforms
the American people need.
On Oct. 1, 2021, the service
implemented slower delivery
standards for 40 percent of first-
class mail. This follows another
major service slowdown in 2014.
As a result, it now takes longer
for Americans to get the mail
than it did in the 1970s. This bill
does nothing to solve that. In
fact, it takes the pressure off the
service to improve as some of its
a significant part of its revenue to
pre-fund its employees’ retire-
ment benefits, a requirement not
pressed upon any other federal
government department.
This bundle of reforms could be
summarized as the product of
what is called “neoliberal” eco-
nomic doctrine — founded on a
blind fetish for unregulated mar-
kets, privatization and a
shrunken public sector. This
approach became a special annoy-
ance when the deterioration of
the service ran straight into the
need for efficient support of
mail-in balloting in the national
elections of 2020.
It is ironic that members of
Congress, with little business
experience, took it upon them-
selves to dictate to the Postal
Service how to run a business,
something they are usually loath
to do when it comes to for-profit
enterprises. Their intervention
made impossible the self-fi-
nancing ordinarily required of
business firms. How can some-
thing run like a business and be
constantly hectored by amateur
advisers?
The bipartisan fever for self-fi-
nancing now appears to have
broken, in the form of the Postal
Service Reform Act of 2022. It
debt is wiped out — or more
accurately transferred to tax-
payers — at no cost to the Postal
Service.
The reform act also does
nothing to spur the service to
better understand its costs so it
can cut them where appropriate
and charge customers more
accurately for the actual cost of
the product or service being
used. The service’s antiquated
accounting and financial man-
agement systems and practices
will stay in place.
Furthermore, this situation
could get worse. Section 202 of
the reform act requires the ser-
vice to have an integrated
delivery network. This is a solu-
tion in search of a problem as the
Postal Service has had an inte-
grated delivery network for
decades and no one wants that to
change. The aim of large retail
special interests that have been
pushing this provision is to evis-
cerate attempts to price mail
products based on mail costs and
package products based on
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alleviates USPS costs by facili-
tating Medicare enrollment for
retirees, something available to
other federal employees, and it
eliminates the requirement that
USPS pre-fund retirement bene-
fits. These changes will block the
push of Trump appointee Louis
DeJoy, the postmaster general,
from cutting back services,
including closing post offices in
rural areas and eliminating
Saturday delivery. It is poignant
to note that decades ago, the post
office was able to make deliveries
twice a day.
In one respect, the DeJoy
changes were logical. If your rev-
enue is cut back, you have less
money to finance services. When
ample funding is secured, the fate
of DeJoy, who shows no interest
in resigning, will be an open ques-
tion. The Biden administration
has begun to fill out its appoint-
ments to the Postal Service Board
of Governors. They will be called
upon to dismiss the ethically com-
promised DeJoy.
Max B. Sawicky is an economist and
senior research fellow at the Center for
Economic and Policy Research in
Washington. He wrote this for
InsideSources.com. Copyright 2022
Tribune Content Agency.
package costs.
The reform act also punts on
other basic issues. It does not
define the mission or universal
service obligation of the Postal
Service. It fails to strengthen sig-
nificantly the service’s regula-
tors and it does not address other
defaults the service has made on
its pensions.
Furthermore, the process sur-
rounding this bill in the Senate is
disturbing. There were no com-
mittee hearings on the reform
act, and the full Senate took up
the measure along with a bevy of
amendments at the height of the
Ukraine crisis.
While the reform act is likely
to be enacted, it is not true
reform and there is still much
harder work Congress needs to
do to strengthen and overhaul
the Postal Service.
Paul Steidler is a senior fellow with the
Lexington Institute, a public policy think
tank in Arlington, Virginia. He wrote this for
InsideSources.com. Copyright 2022
Tribune Content Agency.
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Bob Williams
JOHNSON CITY -
US pays $2M a month to protect Pompeo
Bob Williams, 94,
Johnson City, went to be The Associated Press Secretary Pompeo while because the special protec- Current U.S. officials say
with the Lord Friday, employed by the depart- tion budget will run out in the threats have been dis-
March 4, 2022, at the WASHINGTON — The ment,” the report said. June and require a new cussed in the nuclear talks
Johnson City Medical State Department says it’s Hook, who along with infusion of money if exten- in Vienna, where Iran is
paying more than $2 mil- Pompeo was often the sions are deemed neces- demanding the removal of
Center.
lion per month to provide public face of the Trump sary. all Trump-era sanctions.
Bob was a native of
24-hour security to former administration’s imposi-
Bee Log, Yancy County,
Secretary of State Mike tion of crippling sanctions
North Carolina, and lived
Pompeo and a former top against Iran, was granted
in Erwin before moving
aide, both of whom face the special protection by
to Johnson City in 1963. “serious and credible”
He was the son of Blinken for the same
threats from Iran. reason as Pompeo immedi-
Monroe Samuel and The
Delilah Wilson Williams. ately after he left govern-
department ment service. That has also Excludes XL & Specialty Pizzas
Bob was always a told Crust availability varies by size.
hardworking man. He and his wife worked at been repeatedly renewed
Congress in in 60-day increments.
Southern Pottery in Erwin until it’s closing. Bob then a report that
went to work at J.E. Green helping build Science Hill The latest 60-day exten-
the cost of sions will expire soon and
High School. He survived a twenty-foot fall and protecting
could no longer work construction. Bob then took a the State Department, in
Pompeo and conjunction with the
job as Custodian at First United Methodist Church, Pompeo former Iran
where he worked thirty-seven years until his Director of National
envoy Brian Intelligence, must deter-
retirement in 2000. Hook between August 2021
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death mine by March 16 if the
and February 2022 protection should extended
by his wife of fifty-six years, Vada Ruth Couch amounted to $13.1 million. Handmade Pan Pizzas will be extra.
Williams in 2004, two sisters, Winnie Wilson and again, the report said. No substitutions permitted
The report, dated Feb. 14 The report was prepared
Etta Williams, three brothers, John Williams, Darius and marked “sensitive but
“Doc” Williams and Cornelius “Neil” Williams, and unclassified,” was obtained
mother-in-law, Lucy Couch. by The Associated Press on
Surviving is Bob’s son, Larry Williams and wife
Betty; two granddaughters, Tonya Kinley and
husband Shannon, Tina Stelley and husband Wes;
Saturday.
Pompeo and Hook led the
Trump administration’s
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one brother, Ed Williams and wife Cathy; two sisters, report says U.S. intelli-
Cendie Phillips and Genieve Williams; several nieces gence assesses that the
and nephews. threats to them have
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It was Bob’s request to be cremated. There will be a they left government and
graveside service at a later date.
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Givia Marie Anthony Patrick Jeffrey Wayne King

“Moma” Taylor
Russell
1st John 2:25
And this is the promise
that he hath promised us,
even eternal life.
ELIZABETHTON -
Givia Marie “Moma”
Taylor Russell, 69,
Elizabethton went home
to be with her Lord
Thursday, March 10,
2022 at the Holston
Valley Medical Center,
Kingsport. She was born June 8, 1952 in Lebanon,
Virginia to the late Fred William Taylor and Bar-
bara Ellen Leedy Taylor. She had lived most of
her life in Carter County. She loved to cook and send
cards. She was a member of Open Bible Free Will
Baptist Church, Bluff City. In addition to her parents,
she was preceded in death by a sister: Peggy Grizzle.
Survivors include her husband of 53 years Charles
“Charlie” Russell. Three Children: Chuck Russell,
Elizabethton, Kevin (Kim) Russell, Watauga and
Hope (David) Street, Roan Mountain. Four
Grandchildren: Cody Russell, Katie Russell, Braiden
Smith and Kaycee Russell. Two Sisters: Lois
Scyphers and Joyce Garrett, several nieces and
nephews.
Graveside Service will be conducted at 11 a.m.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 in the Davenport Cemetery
(Siam Community) with Steve Dingus and Vernon
Perry officiating. Pallbearers will be: Chuck Russell,
Kevin Russell, David Street, Braiden Smith, Harold
Jackson, Cody Miller and Nathan Stevens. Honorary
Pallbearers will be: Walter Bowman, Michael
Stanley, Bill Hutton and the Crystal Rivers Boys.
The family would like to express a special “Thank
You” for all the cards sent and prayers during her
illness. Family and friends will assemble at the
funeral home at 10:20 a.m. Tuesday to go in
procession to the cemetery. Condolences may be
sent to the family at our web-site
www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Russell
family.
Combs
JOHNSON CITY -
Anthony Patrick Combs,
age 40 of Johnson City,
Tennessee, passed away
on Tuesday, March 8,
2022 in the Johnson City
Medical Center, after
complications of
diabetes. He was a son of
Mark and Carol Conrey
Combs, born to them on
February 8, 1982 in
Johnson City.
Anthony was best
known for his silly personality and his love for his
family. He greatly enjoyed spending time outdoors
fishing and grilling. Anthony loved helping others, in
any way he could, and chose the gift of organ
donation, after his passing.
He is preceded in death by his father, Mark
Anthony Combs; an infant daughter, Autumn Rayne
Combs; and his grandparents, Margaret and JW
Conrey and Sam and Billie Combs.
Anthony is survived by his loving mother, Carol
Combs; his children; Mariah Combs, Ireland Combs,
and Anthony Patrick Combs II; his siblings; Allison
Pollard, Laura Combs (Keyshun) and Brandon
Combs (Terra); his aunt, Lana Smith; his uncle,
Sammy Combs (Kay); as well as several nieces,
nephews and cousins left behind to cherish his
memory.
A graveside service for Anthony Patrick Combs will
be conducted on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at
12:00 noon in the Monte Vista Memorial Park with
family members and friends serving as pallbearers.
Those wishing to attend are asked to meet at the
cemetery no later than 11:50 A.M.
The Combs family will receive friends on Tuesday
in the chapel of Tetrick Funeral Services after
10:00 A.M. until the hour of the graveside service
at 12:00 noon.
Memories and condolences may be shared at
www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. Tetrick Funeral
Services 3001 Peoples Street Johnson City, TN 37604
(423-610-7171) is honored to serve the Combs
Family.
ERWIN - Jeffrey
Wayne King, age 56, of
Erwin, passed away on
Wednesday, March 9,
2022, at Unicoi County
Hospital. A native of
Erwin, Jeffrey is a son of
James William King and
the late Joan (Byrd)
King. He was a member
of Canah Chapel Free
Will Baptist Church.
Jeffrey was an HVAC
Technician. He was
employed by
Thomasville for more
than 15 years and by Jim’s Appliances for five years.
He enjoyed woodworking, mechanics, fishing,
hunting and football. In addition to his mother,
Jeffrey is preceded in death by two aunts: Doris Byrd
and Robbie Byrd.
In addition to his father, Jeffrey Wayne King has left
behind to cherish his memory: wife, Victoria
Elizabeth (Foster) King; daughter, Joy Elizabeth
King; sons: EJ White and Riley White; and aunts:
Angie Edwards, Bertha Byrd and Robing King.
The family respectfully requests the honor of your
presence as we offer tribute and remember the life of
Jeffrey Wayne King in a Celebration of Life Service
to be held at 7:00 pm on Monday, March 14, 2022 at
Ninth Street Baptist Church. Pastor Carl Connelly
and Pastor Charles David Byrd will officiate. A
visitation period to share memories and offer support
to the family will begin at 5:00 pm and will continue
until Service time on Monday at Ninth Street Baptist
Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made
in Jeffrey’s name to Valley Funeral Home, 1085 N
Main Avenue, Erwin, TN 37650 to help cover final
expenses.
Condolences and memories may be shared with the
family and viewed at: www.valleyfuneralhome.net or
on Facebook at https://www.facebook.
com/ValleyFuneralHomeErwin . These arrangements
are made especially for the family and friends of
Jeffrey Wayne King through Valley Funeral Home,
1085 N. Main Ave., Erwin, 423-743-9187.

Scott Richard Paul William Joyce L. Ball

Templeton
PINEY FLATS - Scott
Richard Templeton,
Piney Flats, TN, a loving
husband and devoted
father, passed away on
February 8, 2022 at the
Johnson City Medical
Center.
A native of Kingsport,
TN, son of Dr. William
P Templeton and Betty
Jean Alves Templeton,
Scott lived his life in his
beloved mountains of
East Tennessee where he found pleasure hiking,
watching wildlife, finding a forgotten waterfall, or
gazing into the stars, as Scott was a man of wonder.
He enjoyed boating, raft-ups, dock parties and late
nights on Boone Lake with treasured friends and
family. He took his passion for boating further into
the intercoastal waterway and Caribbean Islands. He
was an avid and enthusiastic Tennessee football fan
and enjoyed participating in the Vol Navy as well.
Scott had many passions in life, reading a new
book, thought provoking conversations, snorkeling
and diving, but it was history that stole his heart at a
very young age. He was an avid historian for the War
between the States, founder and charter member of
the re-enactment group in this area, the 19th TN
Infantry Regiment, CSA. He had a great love for his
beloved South and was a true southern gentleman.
With this love he belonged to many historical
societies and organizations. Scott also had great
interest in World War II. He was always, first and
foremost, a devoted and steadfast family man. It was
the simple things in life he so truly enjoyed with his
family, watching old movies, Sunday games or road
trips, traveling, trying new foods and restaurants, but
mostly just being in the presence of his loving wife
and devoted daughters. He loved a good thunderstorm
and watching the sunset and the blue herons take
flight at his home on Boone lake.
Scott wore a number of hats in his many years in
the tourism industry. As an active board member for
both regional and multi-state tourism organizations,
his efforts were recognized in the industry winning
several sales and marketing awards over the years. He
created awards to recognize excellence by industry
professionals. He also created the Southeast Tourism
Society Marketing Collage Scholarship Program, the
Wiley Oakley Tennessee Tourism Award and the
Tennessee Tourism Blizzard annual educational
conferences. Scott was a recipient of the Gladiator
Award for Tourism for the State of Tennessee.
Scott is survived by his wife, Melinda Templeton,
daughter Lauren Kozik and husband Ray Kozik,
Charleston, SC, daughter Candice Templeton, Piney
Flats, TN, and several nieces and nephews. He was
preceded in death by his parents and sisters Barbara
Dunbar, Cindy Nollman, and Robin Ghosh.
There are some who bring a light so great to the
world that even after they have gone the light
remains. Scott’s vivaciousness for life and bringing
laughter with his quick wit to so many will live
through all those who knew him and will be sorely
missed.
A celebration of life will be held April 9th, 2022
from 5-7pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Johnson City,
TN in the ballroom.
Arrangements for the Templeton Family are in the
special care of Gate City Funeral Home, 136 Beech
St, P.O. Box 427, Gate City, VA 24251 (276)
386-7033 or 1 (877) 469-7513. Condolences and
memories may be sent to www.gatecityfunerals.com
Abbott JONESBOROUGH -
Joyce L. Ball of
JOHNSON CITY - Jonesborough passed
Paul William Abbott, age away Thursday, March
70, of Johnson City, 10, 2022, at her residence
Tennessee passed away with her loving family at
on Monday, March 7, her side. She was a
2022 at his home after a native of Lexington,
lengthy illness. He was Kentucky and was a
considered by many, a daughter of the late
man with nine lives. Stanley and Zella
Paul was born February Eldridge Berryman.
19, 1952 in Johnson City, Joyce loved the Lord and
TN to the late Dr. John before she became ill,
Abbott and Katie Allison she read her Bible daily.
Abbott. He graduated She loved the beach,
from Science Hill High School in 1970. dream catchers, anything purple, dogs, crossword
He was an entrepreneur and small business owner puzzles, soap operas and an ice-cold coke and her
most of his life. He was a person who knew no coffee in the mornings. But most of all she loved her
strangers and loved to hear their story. Paul was family. Joyce did not judge anyone. Everyone was
known for his dry sense of humor and his great laugh. welcome in her home. Joyce retired from Kroger’s
He had the ability to fix anything. He loved his where she worked for many years. In addition to her
family, loved his life and had no fear of the end. Paul parents she was preceded in death by her husband,
was a member of Liberty Fellowship Church, where Kenneth H. Ball in 2021; a sister, Deborah Peters;
he attended Sunday School and Church service when brothers, Gary Berryman and Dennis Berryman;
he was able, and he loved his church family and granddaughter, Skyler Drexler: grandson, Alex
friends. Dugger ; her son-in-law, Bobby Ferguson.
Paul was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Survivors include her children, Theresa France and
Tyler F. Abbott; sisters-in-law, Kim Simmons and husband, Randy, Crystal Dugger, Amy Correll and
Amber Bowman; mother-in-law, Joan S. Milhorn; husband, Billy and Debra Ferguson. Two
and niece, Jessi Johnson. granddaughters, Ashley France Drexler and Whitney
Those left to cherish his memory most include the Dishner; five grandsons, Sam Ford, Dakota Miller,
true love of his life and best friend, Toni Abbott, who Elijah Ferguson, Jonathon Miller and Joseph Miller;
he met fifty-one years ago at McDonald’s and have one great-granddaughter and four great-grandsons;
been married forty-nine years. sisters, Gerri Peters and husband, Marion and Valarie
Survivors also include, sisters-in-law, Shayne S. Green’ brother, Larry Berryman and wife, Leslie;
Johnson and Scarlett W. Johnson and husband Mark; also, numerous nieces and nephews.
nieces, Regan Dube and Jordan Vanderley; nephews, Funeral services for Joyce will be conducted at
Dillon Whittington and Landon Abbott; great-niece, 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 15, 2022, in the East Chapel
Lacey Dube. of Appalachian Funeral Home, 800 E. Watauga
Paul will be laid to rest on Wednesday, March 16, Avenue, Johnson City with Pastor Greg Canter
2022 at 2:00pm in the Garden of Gospel at Monte officiating. The family will receive friends at the
Vista Memorial Park, officiated by Pastor Dan Foster. funeral home from 12:30 PM until the service hour.
Those attending are asked to gather at the graveside Graveside service will follow in the Washington
at 1:45pm. County Memory Gardens. Family and friends will
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the serve as pallbearers.
Johnson City Animal Shelter, 3411 N. Roan Street, Condolences may be made online at www.wadugger
Johnson City, TN 37601. .com. Arrangements by Woodall-Anderson and
Condolences and memories may be shared with the Dugger Funeral Home, 108 W. Watauga Avenue,
Abbott family by visiting www.montevistafunerals. Johnson City. 37604
com. Arrangements especially for Mr. Paul William
Abbott and his family have been made through Monte
Vista Funeral Home & Memorial Park, 1900 E. SEE DEATHS, PAGE B6
Oakland Avenue, Johnson City, TN; 423-282-2631.
US ends asylum restrictions for children
The Associated Press effect that would have allowed the failed to explain why children trav-
Biden administration to expel unac- eling alone were exempted from Title
ATLANTA — Unaccompanied companied children seeking asylum 42, and gave the administration a
child migrants trying to enter the under Title 42 authority, which was week to appeal. Instead, the CDC
United States will no longer be introduced in March 2020 to prevent lifted the order — but only for unac-
denied a chance to seek asylum spread of COVID-19. The order companied children.
under new guidance announced by remains in place for adults and fami- The Associated Press left a phone
U.S. health authorities. lies traveling with children. message with the office of Texas
The Centers for Disease Control Testing and other preventive mea- Attorney General Ken Paxton and
and Prevention, in announcing the sures allow children traveling alone also sent an email.
change late Friday night, said “that to be released to sponsors in the Migrants have been expelled more
expulsion of unaccompanied noncit- United States, the CDC said. than 1.6 million times under Title 42,
izen children is not warranted to pro- Sponsors are typically family or named for a 1944 public health law.
tect the public health.” other close relatives. Biden has kept the order in place but
The change was announced shortly A federal judge ruled in a lawsuit exempted unaccompanied children
before a court order was to take by the state of Texas that the CDC during his first days in office.

Singer Traci Braxton of ‘Braxton Family Values’ reality show dies at 50

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer
Traci Braxton, who was featured
with her family in the reality
television series “Braxton
Family Values,” died at age 50 on
Saturday.
Her sister, Toni, and family
said that Braxton died “this
morning as the snow was
falling.” According to reports,
Traci Braxton had been fighting
esophageal cancer.
“Needless to say, she was a
bright light, a wonderful
daughter, an amazing sister, a
loving mother, wife, grand-
mother and a respected per-
former,” the family said. “We will
miss her dearly.”
“Braxton Family Values” aired
for seven seasons starting in 2011
on WeTV. It focused on the lives
of sisters Toni, Traci, Tamar,
Trina and Towanda and their
extended families.
Traci was an actress and
singer who released albums in
2014 and 2018, with the singles
“Last Call” and “Broken Things”
her best-known songs.
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Johnson City Weather

TODAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY ALMANAC   PAST 24 HOURS UV INDEX
Temperature 8 a.m. 2
High yesterday 29° Noon 5
Low yesterday 24° 4 p.m. 3
Normal high 58°
0-2: Minimal
Normal low 33° 3-4: Low The higher the UV
index, the higher the
Sunny Mostly sunny Mostly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Record high 81° in 2016 5-6: Moderate
need for eye and skin
Record low 14° in 1969 7-9: High protection.
46 | 28 62 | 36 63 | 42 65 | 43 70 | 46 Precipitation
10+: Very High

Past 24 hours 0.40" SUN AND MOON

LOCAL FORECAST Month to date 1.85"
Sunrise 7:43 a.m.
Year to date 12.71"
Today we will see sunny skies with a high temperature of 46°, humidity of 40%. Southwest wind 3 to 13 mph. The record high Sunset 7:35 p.m.
temperature for today is 78° set in 1967. Expect clear skies tonight with an overnight low of 28°. South wind 2 to 8 mph. The record low Normal year to date 8.14"
Moonrise 2:57 p.m.
for tonight is 6° set in 1960. Monday, skies will be mostly sunny with a high temperature of 62°, humidity of 41%. South wind 2 to 7 mph.
Moonset 5:17 a.m.
Monday night, skies will be partly cloudy with an overnight low of 36°. Southeast wind 2 to 5 mph.
AREA RIVER/LAKE LEVELS Sunrise tomorrow 7:41 a.m.
IN FEET, PAST 24 HOURS Sunset tomorrow 7:36 p.m.
Moonrise tomorrow 3:58 p.m.
REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST Name Full Pool Current Change
Holston 1,729.0 1,719.2 +0.2 Moonset tomorrow 5:58 a.m.
Norton Wytheville Watauga 1,975.0 1,955.7 0.0
Columbia Williamsburg 39 / 29 45 / 27 Boone 1,385.0 1,368.4 +0.5
50 / 32 48 / 29 Kingsport MOON PHASES
Henry 1,263.0 1,259.9 -0.5
Sneedville 47 / 26 Bristol
45 / 28 Cherokee 1,075.0 1,056.8 -0.2
Jamestown 44 / 24
Douglas 1,002.0 976.4 +0.3
47 / 30
Caryville Johnson City Fontana 1,710.0 1,665.9 +0.3 Full Last New First
46 / 28 46 / 28 Boone
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Donnie Hampton
Donnie Hampton, age
Collins
53, passed away
unexpectedly on March
8, 2022. Donnie was
born on December 26,
praises
1968 in West Chester,
PA to Helen Gentry
Harless and Diesel
Jackson
The Associated Press
Hampton. He was
preceded in death by his WASHINGTON —
twin brother, Ronnie Republican Sen. Susan
Hampton. Collins had words of praise
Donnie had never met a for Supreme Court nom-
stranger and loved being inee Ketanji Brown
the center of attention. Jackson after meeting with
He was renowned for his her for more than an hour
driving skills and never had a load he couldn’t and a half at the Capitol on
deliver. He was passionate about the trucking Tuesday, raising
business as it allowed him to travel the country. At Democrats’ hopes that she
the time of his death, he was working as the truck could be a GOP vote in
foreman at Maymead Inc. He loved his family and favor of her confirmation.
will be dearly missed. He was a member of Nelson Collins, a moderate from
Chapel Baptist Church. Maine, said afterward that
Those left to cherish his memories include his wife her discussion with the
of 23 years, Kim Head-Hampton; son, Logan judge was productive and
Hampton; mother, Helen Harless; father, Diesel that her credentials are
Hampton and wife Kathy; brother, Steve Hampton impressive. She said that
and wife Lori Beth; uncle, Dean Gentry; special aunt, Jackson, an appeals court
Arlene Atwood; several cousins, nieces, and one judge who would be the
nephew. first Black woman on the
The family will receive friends from 1:00-3:00 p.m. high court, “explained in
on Sunday, March 13, 2022 at Mountain City Funeral great depth” the process
Home. The funeral service will follow at 3:00 p.m. she uses when making

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with Pastor Mike McNutt officiating. The graveside decisions.
service and burial will follow at Sunset Memorial “She takes a very thor-
Park. Pallbearers will be Brian Rainbolt, Tommy ough, careful approach in
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Maymead Inc. and “The Knuckleheads.” I want to see in a judge,”
At other times, family and friends may visit the Collins said. She said she
home, 254 Wilson Ave., Mountain City, TN 37683. would wait to make a final
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SPORTS
Kansas beats
Texas Tech
to win title. C4
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

Science Hill not shying away from ‘storm that is coming’

By Douglas Fritz
SPORTS WRITER
dfritz@johnsoncitypress.com
Defending a state championship
is never easy, but it helps when a
team has some of its horses coming
back for the battle.
“We talk every day about the
storm that is coming our way,”
head coach Ryan Edwards said. “I
believe this will be one of the more
challenging seasons we have faced
because of the good attention we
have received from last year’s
accomplishments.”
Edwards didn’t shy away from
the situation, choosing a different
path.
“Rather than pretending the
pressure does not exist, we are
using it to help us focus on being
more prepared than ever, and more
humble than ever because we
know anyone can win our district,
region and state,” he said. “We
want to stay focused on goals we
can control, such as love and
respect for each other, the game of
baseball, and displaying char-
acter.”
At the top of the returning player
list is Tennessee Baseball Coaches
Association player of the year Cole
Torbett. The terrific left-handed
senior, who has signed to play
Division I ball at Middle Tennessee
State University, authored a record
of 8-1 last season with an ERA of
1.79.
Torbett won’t be alone on the
mound as he has plenty of help
with the load. King University
signee Gavin Briggs was 6-2 last
year with an ERA of 3.69.
Carson-Newman signee Caleb
McBride is coming off a strong
season (2-2 with three saves and
2.41 ERA), and senior Spencer
Powell (3-0 with three saves, 0.86
ERA) is also part of the picture.
Junior Nate Conner is in the mix
as well.
At the dish, the Hilltoppers will
See HILLTOPPERS, Page C3
Indians expected to be top
challenger to Hilltoppers
By Jeff Birchfield
SPORTS WRITER
jbirchfield@johnsoncitypress.com
Dobyns-Bennett is
expected to be the biggest
challenger to defending
Class AAA state champion-
ship Science Hill in the Big
5 Conference.
The Indians were the last
team to beat the
Hilltoppers in 2021 before
Science Hill’s run to the
state title. There’s a solid
rotation of pitchers led by
senior right hander Jake
Timbes, who has a lot of
JEFF BIRCHFIELD big-game experience.
Science Hill pitcher Cole Torbett delivers a Aiden Byington and
pitch during last year’s state tournament. Turner Stout are juniors
expected to have big years.
It’s a strong lineup that
includes Peyton Grimm, an
athletic outfielder with
power. Sam Ritz, an out-
field and third baseman,
has a lot of pop in his bat
and can hit to all fields.
Timbes plays shortstop
when not on the mound.
Other top players include
catcher Tanner Kilgore
coming off a great sopho-
more year and Isaac Hale,
who has plenty experience
and has worked hard to get
stronger.
“This group has good
talent and is looking to gel
See BIG 5, Page C6

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

One win away

No. 9 Tennessee holds off No. 5 Kentucky,
will meet Texas A&M for SEC championship
By Mark Long
Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. — No. 9

Tennessee just might be
the Southeastern
Conference’s top team. The
Volunteers certainly can
make a strong case after
their latest victory.
Kennedy Chandler
scored 19 points, Zakai
Zeigler added 11 and
Tennessee held off fifth-
ranked Kentucky 69-62 in
the final minutes Saturday
to reach the SEC
Tournament final for the
third time in the last five
years.
The Vols (25-7) have won
11 of 12 and six in a row,
including victories against
fourth-ranked Auburn,
15th-ranked Arkansas and
now the Wildcats in the
last two weeks.
They’re one win away
from a championship and
potentially a No. 1 seed in
the upcoming NCAA
Tournament.
Tennessee will face
eighth-seeded Texas A&M
in the league’s title game
Sunday.
“People say, ‘Well, you
might be better off to leave,
go home and regroup,’ ”
Vols coach Rick Barnes
said. “I don’t know of any
coaches that I’ve ever been
around that thought like
CHRIS O’MEARA that.
Tennessee guard Josiah-Jordan James shoots over Kentucky guard Sahvir Wheeler during the first half “This time of year, every
of a semifinal game at the Southeastern Conference tournament on Saturday in Tampa, Florida. game is a playoff game. ...
Tennessee players celebrate after defeating Kentucky on Saturday in
Tampa, Florida.
And you want to be playing
your best basketball
because we also know that
it can go the other way real
quick. You want to keep
building that momentum,”
he said.
The Vols look ready for
anything following their
performance against
Kentucky. They held the
Wildcats (26-7) to 34.4%
shooting, which included
missing 18 of 20 shots from
3-point range. SEC player
of the year Oscar Tshiebwe
also was a non-factor for
much of the afternoon.
“We were 2-for-20, folks,”
Kentucky coach John
Calipari quipped. “We
could have won this game.
I think we had a couple of
air balls from good
CHRIS O’MEARA
shooters, like the best
shooter in the conference.”
Kellen Grady missed all
five shots from behind the
arc. TyTy Washington was
1 for 7 from distance.
Still, the Cats kept
coming and forced two
turnovers in the waning
seconds to close within
65-62. But they missed four
3s in the final minute, with
Keion Brooks, Grady,
Washington and Sahvir
Wheeler all misfiring. It
was a fitting end to a frus-
trating day for the
Wildcats.
Brooks led the way for
Kentucky, ending up with
19 points. Washington had
17, and Wheeler 10.
See VOLS, Page C3

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

Upper Lakes Conference promises to be ultra-competitive

By Jeff Birchfield
SPORTS WRITER
jbirchfield@johnsoncitypress.com
The Upper Lakes Conference
could be one of the most com-
petitive high school baseball
leagues in the entire state of
Tennessee. It’s truly a case
where any team could beat the
other one on a given night. We
take a team-by-team look at the
league as well as other teams in
the Class 2A and Class A ranks.
ELIZABETHTON
Pitcher Gage Treadway went
8-0 with a 2.3 earned-run
average in 2021. With his devel-
opment in the off-season, the
Cyclones are counting on him to
have another excellent year.
Peyton Johnson will be his first
year as a varsity starter. He’s
also developing nicely working
with pitching coach Reid Casey.
When not on the mound,
Johnson is at shortstop and
Treadway is the catcher. Other
leaders include outfielder Zak
Workman, a Milligan commit in
the middle of the lineup. Ethan
Meier is able to play multiple
positions and is looked upon as
a solid reliever.
Wesley Shankles and Brilee
Hurley are solid infielders,
while outfielders include Jack
Farris, Kaleb Hambrick and
Cade Russell.
“We are young, young, but
sometimes these are the teams
that can sneak up on people and
as a coach are fun to work with
because they develop daily,”
Elizabethton coach Ryan
Presnell said. “We are going to
put a team on the field with
incredible work ethic and are
going to bring energy to the
park every day.”
SULLIVAN EAST
Junior Tyson Mitchell leads
the Patriots on the mound after
posting a 1.68 earned-run
average a year ago. Others in
the starting rotation include
junior Corbin Dickenson and
senior Dylan Bartley.
Bartley, known for his
exploits on the basketball court,
is effective on the diamond.
Playing at third base and first
base when not pitching, he
sported a .442 batting average.
JEFF BIRCHFIELD
Dickenson, a shortstop, had a
Elizabethton catcher Gage Treadway looks for the double play as Unicoi County’s
See UPPER LAKES, Page C3 Brayden Hendrickson slides in during the 2021 District 1-AA baseball tournament.
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Tennessee 69, Kentucky 62 Nashville at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Yealimi Noh 71-69-70—210 -6

HIGH SCHOOL KENTUCKY (26-7) Vegas at Columbus, 7 p.m. Madelene Sagstrom 68-69-73—210 -6

Boys basketball
Brooks 7-11 4-4 19, Tshiebwe 5-10 3-7 13,
Grady 1-8 0-0 2, Washington 6-16 4-5 17, Wheeler
3-11 4-4 10, Mintz 0-6 1-2 1, Ware 0-0 0-0 0,
SPORTSWAVES Winnipeg at St. Louis, 7 p.m.
Anaheim at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Jennifer Song
Angel Yin
In Gee Chun
69-71-70—210
71-68-71—210
68-69-74—211
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TSSAA STATE TOURNAMENT
DIVISION I BOYS
Toppin 0-2 0-0 0, Allen 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-64
16-22 62. Television Florida at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Jaye Marie Green
Marina Alex
74-70-67—211
71-67-74—212
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At Murphy Center, Murfreesboro TENNESSEE (25-7) Monday’s Games Chella Choi 71-71-70—212 -4
All start times EDT Huntley-Hatfield 4-7 0-2 8, Plavsic 3-4 0-0 6, AHL HOCKEY Arizona at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Caroline Masson 68-74-70—212 -4
CLASS 4A Chandler 8-16 2-3 19, James 3-8 2-2 10, Vescovi 4 p.m. on NHLN — Grand Rapids at Chicago Tuesday’s Games Mina Harigae 68-76-69—213 -3
Quarterfinals 2-8 3-4 9, Fulkerson 0-2 3-4 3, Zeigler 2-5 6-8 11, Anaheim at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Rina Tatematsu 69-70-74—213 -3
Wednesday, March 16 Aidoo 0-1 1-2 1, Bailey 1-1 0-0 2, Mashack 0-0 0-0 AUTO RACING Arizona at Montreal, 7 p.m. Ashleigh Buhai 77-70-69—216 E
Coffee County (24-9) vs. Dobyns-Bennett 0. Totals 23-52 17-25 69. Dallas at Toronto, 7 p.m. Albane Valenzuela 71-75-70—216 E
(30-6), 2 p.m. Halftime—Tennessee 33-22. 3-Point Goals—
3:30 p.m. on FOX — NASCAR Cup Series: Ruoff Mortgage 500 N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 7 p.m. Wichanee Meechai 75-74-68—217 +1
Bartlett (33-6) vs. Beech (34-1), 3:30 p.m. Kentucky 2-20 (Brooks 1-3, Washington 1-7, 7 p.m. on FS1 — NHRA: Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals Pittsburgh at Nashville, 8 p.m. Prima Thammaraks 71-75-71—217 +1
Bearden (29-6) vs. Cane Ridge (25-6), 5:30 p.m. Wheeler 0-2, Mintz 0-3, Grady 0-5), Tennessee Vegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Na Yeon Choi 73-69-77—219 +3
Lebanon (28-6) vs. Clarksville (26-2), 7 p.m. 6-15 (James 2-4, Vescovi 2-7, Zeigler 1-1, Chan- BOWLING Boston at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Jenny Coleman 73-73-73—219 +3
Semifinals Detroit at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Friday, March 18
dler 1-3). Fouled Out—Tshiebwe. Rebounds— 1 p.m. on FOX — PBA: WSOB World Championship
Kentucky 39 (Tshiebwe 11), Tennessee 33 New Jersey at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Coffee/D-B winner vs. Bartlett-Beech winner, (Plavsic 8). Assists—Kentucky 8 (Washington 4), COLLEGE BASEBALL Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. TENNIS
2 p.m. Tennessee 11 (James, Vescovi 3). Total Fouls— Florida at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Bearden-Cane winner vs. Lebanon-Clarksville Noon on Bally Sports Southeast — Florida State at Wake Forest
Kentucky 18, Tennessee 21. BNP Paribas Open
winner, 3:30 p.m. NCAA AUTOMATIC BIDS 6 p.m. on PAC-12N — Southern at UCLA
Championship Murray St., Ohio Valley Conference GOLF Saturday
At Indian Wells Tennis Garden
Saturday, March 19 Longwood, Big South Conference COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) Indian Wells, Calif.
Semifinal winners, 5 p.m. Loyola Chicago, Missouri Valley Conference
Chattanooga, Southern Conference
Noon on ESPN2 — Ivy League championship: Princeton vs. Yale PGA Tour Purse: $8,584,055
CLASS 3A
Georgia St., Sun Belt Conference 1 p.m. on CBS — Atlantic 10 championship: Davidson vs. Richmond THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
Quarterfinals
Jacksonville St., Atlantic Sun Conference Saturday INDIAN WELLS, CALIF. — Results Saturday
Tuesday, March 15
Delaware, Colonial Athletic Conference
1 p.m. on ESPN — SEC championship: Texas A&M vs. Tennessee At TPC Sawgrass from BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells Tennis
Greeneville (28-6) vs. Jackson North Side
(20-7), 5:30 p.m. Wright St., Horizon League Conference 3:15 p.m. on ESPN — AAC championship: Memphis vs. Houston Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Garden (seedings in parentheses):
Bryant, Northeast Conference Purse: $20 Million Men’s Singles
Stone Memorial (20-10) vs. Bolton (8-17), 7 p.m. 3:30 p.m. on CBS — Big Ten championship: Iowa vs. Purdue Yardage: 7,256; Par: 72 Round of 64
Wednesday, March 16 South Dakota St., Summit League Conference
Jackson South Side (23-3) vs. Clinton (28-4), Gonzaga, West Coast Conference 6 p.m. on CBS — NCAA Tournament selection show Partial Second Round Daniel Evans (27), Britain, def. Federico Coria,
Play suspended due to darkness Argentina, 6-2, 6-0.
11 a.m. Colgate, Patriot League Conference 9 p.m. on ESPNU — NIT selection special Bubba Watson 73-68 —141 -3 Daniil Medvedev (1), Russia, def. Tomas
Fulton (29-5) vs. Fayette-Ware (26-6), 12:30 p.m. Vermont, American East Conference
Justin Thomas 72-69 —141 -3 Machac, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2.
Semifinals Norfolk St., Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) Russell Henley 69-73 —142 -2 Carlos Alcaraz (19), Spain, def. Mackenzie
Friday, March 18 St. Peter’s, Metro Atlantic Conference
Greeneville-JNS winner vs. Stone-Bolton Kansas, Big 12 Conference Noon on CBSSN — Patriot League championship: Bucknell at American Kevin Kisner 68-74 —142 -2 McDonald, United States, 6-3, 6-3.
Daniel Berger 67-75 —142 -2 Reilly Opelka (17), United States, def. Lorenzo
winner, 11 a.m. Boise St., Mountain West Conference Noon on ESPNU — Northeast championship Dustin Johnson 69-73 —142 -2 Musetti, Italy, 6-1, 6-4.
JSS-Clinton winner vs. Fulton/F-W winner, Texas Southern, Southwestern Athletic
12:30 p.m. Conference 2 p.m. on CBSSN — Patriot League championship Sam Ryder 69-74 —143 -1 Roberto Bautista Agut (15), Spain, def. Jeffrey
Keegan Bradley 72-71 —143 -1 John Wolf, United States, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5).
Championship Villanova, Big East Conference 2 p.m. on ESPN2 — Big 12 championship: Baylor vs. Texas Branden Grace 71-72 —143 -1 Nikoloz Basilashvili (18), Georgia, def. Fabio
Saturday, March 19 Akron, Mid-American Conference
Semifinal winners, 2:30 p.m. Virginia Tech, Atlantic Coast Conference
2 p.m. on ESPNU — Missouri Valley championship: Illinois State vs. UNI Sepp Straka 69-74 —143 -1 Fognini, Italy, walkover.
——— 8 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament selection special Chesson Hadley 70-74 —144 E Rafael Nadal (4), Spain, def. Sebastian Korda,
CLASS 2A Jason Kokrak 72-72 —144 E United States, 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (3).
WOMEN
Quarterfinals
Tuesday, March 15
CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS COLLEGE GYMNASTICS (MEN’S) Lucas Herbert 70-74 —144 E Cameron Norrie (12), Britain, def. Pedro
Saturday’s Games Billy Horschel 74-70 —144 E Martinez, Spain, 6-3, 6-3.
Summertown (27-6) vs. East Nashville (30-3), 3:30 p.m. on BTN — Michigan at Illinois Max Homa 72-73 —145 +1 Casper Ruud (8), Norway, def. Christopher
Atlantic Sun Conference
11 a.m. Scottie Scheffler 70-76 —146 +2 Eubanks, United States, 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Power Center (19-4) vs. Brainerd (17-11),
Florida Gulf Coast 69, Jacksonville St. 54 COLLEGE LACROSSE (MEN’S) Rory McIlroy 73-73 —146 +2 Gael Monfils (26), France, def. Filip Krajinovic,
Big 12 Conference
12:30 p.m.
Semifinals 4 p.m. on ESPNU — Syracuse at Johns Hopkins Chris Kirk 71-76 —147 +3 Serbia, 6-3, 6-4.
Bolivar Central (21-9) vs. Tyner (23-10), 2 p.m. Jason Day 69-78 —147 +3 Benjamin Bonzi, France, def. Lorenzo Sonego
Baylor 91, Oklahoma 76
York Institute (26-7) vs. Milan (23-7), 3:30 p.m.
Texas 82, Iowa St. 73, OT COLLEGE LACROSSE (WOMEN’S) Cam Davis 71-76 —147 +3 (21), Italy, 6-3, 6-4.
Semifinals Carlos Ortiz 73-74 —147 +3 Denis Shapovalov (13), Canada, def. Alejandro
Thursday, March 17
Colonial Conference 2 p.m. on PAC-12N — Colorado at Arizona State Marc Leishman 69-78 —147 +3 Davidovich Fokina, Spain, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Semifinals
Summertown-EN winner vs. PC-Brainerd
Drexel 71, College of Charleston 65 4 p.m. on PAC-12N — Oregon at Southern Cal Matt Fitzpatrick 74-74 —148 +4 Jannik Sinner (10), Italy, def. Laslo Djere,
winner, 5:30 p.m. Andrew Putnam 69-79 —148 +4 Serbia, 6-3, 6-3.
Towson 55, Delaware 54
Bolivar-Tyner winner vs. York-Milan winner,
Conference USA
COLLEGE SOFTBALL Cameron Young 71-77 —148 +4 Women’s Singles
7 p.m. Mackenzie Hughes 72-76 —148 +4 Round of 64
Championship
Championship Noon on ACCN — Boston College at North Carolina
Charlotte 68, Louisiana Tech 63 Hudson Swafford 73-75 —148 +4 Marketa Vondrousova (30), Czech Republic,
Saturday, March 19
Ivy League
2 p.m. on ACCN — Notre Dame at Virginia Talor Gooch 70-78 —148 +4 def. Magdalena Frech, Poland, 6-1, 6-3.
Semifinal winners, Noon
Championship 2 p.m. on SECN — Georgia at South Carolina Collin Morikawa 73-75 —148 +4 Elise Mertens (20), Belgium, def. Marta
CLASS 1A Princeton 77, Columbia 59 Justin Rose 69-79 —148 +4 Kostyuk, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-1.
Quarterfinals 4 p.m. on ACCN — NC State at Duke Brian Stuard 73-76 —149 +5 Jasmine Paolini, Italy, def. Aryna Sabalenka
Metro Atlantic Conference
Thursday, March 17 Championship 4 p.m. on SECN — Mississippi State at Florida J.J. Spaun 73-78 —151 +7 (2), Belarus, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Hampton (26-8) vs. West Carroll (22-4), 11 Fairfield 73, Manhattan 68 Thomas Pieters 73-78 —151 +7 Petra Kvitova (27), Czech Republic, def. Aliak-
a.m. Mid-American Conference COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD Jordan Spieth 72-79 —151 +7 sandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4.
MAHS (23-5) vs. East Robertson (24-6), 12:30 Robert Streb 74-77 —151 +7 Elena Rybakina (17), Kazakhstan, def. Alison
p.m.
Championship 9:30 p.m. on ESPNU — NCAA Men Xander Schauffele 73-78 —151 +7 van Uytvanck, Belgium, 6-1, 7-5.
Buffalo 79, Ball St. 75
North Greene (31-5) vs. Clay County (23-6), Cameron Tringale 73-79 —152 +8 Maria Sakkari (6), Greece, def. Katerina
2 p.m.
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference GOLF Matt Wallace 76-76 —152 +8 Siniakova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 7-5.
Championship
McKenzie (21-8) vs. Peabody (23-9), 3:30 p.m. Howard 61, Norfolk St. 44 1 p.m. on NBC — PGA Tour: Players Championship, Final Round Brendon Todd 78-74 —152 +8 Anett Kontaveit (4), Estonia, def. Kristina
Semifinals Missouri Valley Conference Lee Westwood 73-80 —153 +9 Kucova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-1.
Friday, March 18 Semifinals
NBA BASKETBALL Harry Higgs 77-76 —153 +9 Viktorija Golubic (31), Switzerland, def. Yulia
Hamp-WC winner vs. MAHS-Robertson Illinois St. 50, S. Illinois 42 1 p.m. on ABC — New York at Brooklyn James Hahn 74-79 —153 +9 Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
winner, 5:30 p.m. UNI 63, Missouri St. 57 Brooks Koepka 72-81 —153 +9 Daria Saville, Australia, def. Ons Jabeur (9),
NG-Clay winner vs. McKenzie-Peabody Southland Conference
3:30 p.m. on ABC — Dallas at Boston J.T. Poston 78-75 —153 +9 Tunisia, 7-5, 6-7 (0), 6-4.
winner, 7 p.m. Semifinals 9 p.m. on ESPN — LA Lakers at Phoenix Zach Johnson 73-80 —153 +9 Shelby Rogers, United States, def. Jelena
Championship Incarnate Word 54, Houston Baptist 33 Brandon Hagy 78-76 —154 +10 Ostapenko (10), Latvia, 7-5, 7-6 (7).
Saturday, March 19 SE Louisiana 59, Texas A&M-CC Islanders 54 NBA G LEAGUE BASKETBALL Ryan Brehm 74-81 —155 +11 Paula Badosa (5), Spain, def. Tereza Martinco-
Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m. Chez Reavie 80-77 —157 +13 va, Czech Republic, 6-2, 7-6 (4).
Southwestern Athletic Conference 3 p.m. on NBATV — Iowa at Austin Did not finish round Sara Sorribes Tormo (32), Spain, def. Kaja
Championship
Tommy Fleetwood 66 —66 -6 Juvan, Slovenia, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Girls basketball Jackson St. 101, Alabama St. 80 NHL HOCKEY Tom Hoge 66 —66 -6 Victoria Azarenka (13), Belarus, def. Astra
Western Athletic Conference
TSSAA STATE TOURNAMENT
Quarterfinals 4 p.m. on TNT — Toronto at Buffalo Joaquin Niemann 67 —67 -5 Sharma, Australia, 6-3, 7-5.
DIVISION I GIRLS Keith Mitchell 67 —67 -5 Men’s Doubles
At Murphy Center, Murfreesboro
Championship 6 p.m. on Bally Sports South — Nashville at Minnesota Anirban Lahiri 67 —67 -5 Round of 32
Stephen F. Austin 74, Grand Canyon 57
All start times EST Doug Ghim 70 —70 -4 Marcel Granollers, Spain, and Horacio
CLASS 4A
NCAA AUTOMATIC BIDS PARALYMPICS Kramer Hickok 67 —67 -4 Zeballos (3), Argentina, def. Nicolas Mahut and
Belmont, Ohio Valley Conference
Wednesday’s quarterfinals
Mercer, Southern Conference
7:30 a.m. on USA — Paralympic Winter Games Closing Ceremony Brian Harman 68 —68 -4 Fabrice Martin, France, 6-4, 6-4.
Beech 62, Arlington 52 Harold Varner III 69 —69 -4 Michael Venus, New Zealand, and Tim Puetz
Bearden 56, Blackman 34
NC State, Atlantic Coast Conference Noon on NBC — Daytime: Multisport coverage
Kentucky, Southeastern Conference Will Zalatoris 69 —69 -4 (6), Germany, def. Lukasz Kubot and Hubert
Cookeville 67, Oakland 54
UMass, Atlantic 10 Conference
3 p.m. on USA — Sled Hockey: Gold-Medal Game Cameron Smith 69 —69 -4 Hurkacz, Poland, 6-2, 6-2.
Farragut 50, Rossview 38 Sam Burns 68 —68 -4 Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Marcelo
Iowa, Big Ten Conference RODEO
Friday’s semifinals Abraham Ancer 68 —68 -4 Arevalo-Gonzalez, El Salvador, def. Filip Polasek,
Stanford, Pac-12 Conference
Bearden 74, Beech 55
Longwood, Big South Conference 5 p.m. on CBSSN — PBR: U.S. Border Patrol Invitational, Championship Round Taylor Pendrith 68 —68 -4 Slovakia, and John Peers (5), Australia, 3-6,
Farragut 65, Cookeville 53 Seamus Power 71 —71 -3 6-2, 11-9.
Texas-Arlington, Sun Belt Conference
Saturday’s championship
UConn, Big East Conference RUGBY (MEN’S) Aaron Wise 71 —71 -3 Andres Molteni and Diego Schwartzman, Ar-
Bearden 52, Farragut 34 Louis Oosthuizen 69 —69 -3 gentina, def. Nikola Cacic, Serbia, and Tomislav
CLASS 3A
IUPUI, Horizon League Conference 7 p.m. on FS2 — MLR: Utah at Los Angeles Jon Rahm 69 —69 -3 Brkic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 6-3, 7-5.
South Dakota, Summit League Conference
Jhonattan Vegas 69 —69 -3 Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul, United States,
Tuesday’s quarterfinals Gonzaga, West Coast Conference SOCCER (MEN’S) Alex Noren 69 —69 -3 def. Pablo Carreno Busta and Carlos Alcaraz,
Page 52, Dyer County 38 UNLV, Mountain West Conference
Jackson South Side 62, Greeneville 54 UCF, American Athletic Conference 7 a.m. on CBSSN — UEFA Champions League Brice Garnett 67 —67 -2 Spain, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 10-7.
Doc Redman 71 —71 -2 Women’s Doubles
Wednesday’s quarterfinals Montana St., Big Sky Conference 9 a.m. on CBSSN — UEFA Champions League Francesco Molinari 70 —70 -2 Round of 16
Upperman 59, Elizabethton 42 Albany, American East Conference
Creek Wood 43, Fayette-Ware 40 Fairfield, Metro Atlantic Conference
10 a.m. on USA — Premier League: Aston Villa at West Ham United K.H. Lee 70 —70 -2 Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Giuliana Ol-
Friday’s semifinals Buffalo, Mid-American Conference 12:30 p.m. on USA — Premier League: Leicester City at Arsenal Sebastian Munoz 70 —70 -2 mos (5), Mexico, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium,
Jackson South Side 49, Page 46 Jackson State, Southwestern Athletic Jimmy Walker 70 —70 -2 and Sania Mirza, India, 6-4, 4-6, 10-3.
Upperman 45, Creek Wood 44 Conference
4:30 p.m. on FS1 — MLS: Charlotte FC at Atlanta United FC Paul Casey 70 —70 -2 Xu Yifan and Zhaoxuan Yang, China, def.
Saturday’s championship Howard, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 5 p.m. on ESPN2 — USL: Tampa Bay at Birmingham Joel Dahmen 70 —70 -2 Magda Linette, Poland, and Hao-Ching Chan,
Upperman 48, Jackson South Side 43 Stephen F. Austin, Western Athletic Conference Corey Conners 70 —70 -2 Taiwan, 6-1, 6-3.
9 p.m. on FS2 — Liga MX: Tijuana at Santos Laguna Tyrrell Hatton 70 —70 -2
CLASS 2A Princeton, Ivy League
Lanto Griffin 70 —70 -2
Tuesday’s quarterfinals
Gatlinburg-Pittman 68, Scotts Hill 32
Charlotte, Conference USA
Florida Gulf Coast, Atlantic Sun Conference
SOCCER (WOMEN’S) Pat Perez 70 —70 -2 SOCCER
York Institute 53, Gibson County 50 8:30 a.m. on CNBC — FASL: Manchester City at Tottenham Hotspur Peter Malnati 70 —70 -2
Alcoa 47, Westmoreland 38 NBA TENNIS
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Brendan Steele
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Westview 55, Riverside 29 EASTERN CONFERENCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE Beau Hossler 71 —71 -1
Thursday’s semifinals 1 p.m. on TENNIS and Bally Sports South — BNP Paribas Open, early rounds Maverick McNealy 70 —70 -1 W L T Pts GF GA
York Institute 66, Gatlinburg-Pittman 65 Atlantic W L Pct GB
Roger Sloan 73 —73 -1 Columbus 2 0 1 7 9 4
Westview 44, Alcoa 32 Philadelphia 40 25 .615 —
Saturday’s championship Boston
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Westview 47, York Institute 37 D.C. United 2 1 0 6 4 2
Brooklyn 34 33 .507 7 AUTO RACING Ryan Palmer 71 —71 -1
CLASS 1A Adam Long 71 —71 -1 Chicago 1 0 2 5 2 0
New York 28 39 .418 13
Thursday’s quarterfinals Southeast W L Pct GB 2:30 p.m. on WJCW (AM-910) — NASCAR Cup Series: Ruoff Mortgage 500 Viktor Hovland 71 —71 -1 New York City FC 1 1 1 4 4 2
Dresden 50, Van Buren County 33 Gary Woodland 71 —71 -1 Orlando City 1 1 1 4 3 2
Miami 45 24 .652 —
Wayne County 51, Cloudland 28 Atlanta 32 34 .485 11½ COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) Patton Kizzire 68 —68 E New England 1 1 1 4 5 5
Gleason 55, Clay County 39 Atlanta 1 1 0 3 3 4
McKenzie 58, North Greene 44
Charlotte 33 35 .485 11½ 1 p.m. on ESPN Tri-Cities (AM-1590/FM-97.7) — SEC championship: Texas Russell Knox 71 —71 E
Cincinnati 1 2 0 3 2 7
Washington 29 36 .446 14 Mito Pereira 72 —72 E
Friday’s semifinals Orlando 18 50 .265 26½
A&M vs. Tennessee Sungjae Im 72 —72 E Toronto FC 0 2 1 1 3 7
Wayne County 76, Dresden 55 6 p.m. on WXSM (AM-640) — NCAA tournament selection show Martin Laird 72 —72 E Inter Miami CF 0 2 1 1 1 7
Central W L Pct GB
McKenzie 58, Gleason 46 Richy Werenski 71 —71 E Charlotte FC 0 2 0 0 0 4
Milwaukee 42 25 .627 —
Saturday’s championship Cameron Champ 72 —72 E CF Montréal 0 3 0 0 2 8
Chicago 41 26 .612 1
McKenzie 46, Wayne County 42 Patrick Cantlay 72 —72 E WESTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland 38 29 .567 4
Brandt Snedeker 72 —72 E W L T Pts GF GA
Indiana 23 45 .338 19½ 18. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 130.700. vs. 16. John Smith, Dodge Charger, 9.754, 102.99;
Matthew Wolff 72 —72 E Los Angeles FC 2 0 1 7 6 1
BASKETBALL Detroit 18
WESTERN CONFERENCE
49 .269 24 19. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 130.501.
20. (19) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 130.425.
2. Tim Wilkerson, Ford Mustang, 3.891, 328.22
vs. 15. John Force, Camaro, 8.924, 75.58; 3. Cruz Hank Lebioda 72 —72 E Real Salt Lake 2 0 1 7 4 2
Hayden Buckley 72 —72 E Austin FC 2 0 0 6 10 1
Southwest W L Pct GB 21. (42) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 130.326. Pedregon, Charger, 3.891, 327.35 vs. 14. Jim LA Galaxy 2 1 0 6 4 3
College Memphis 46 22 .676 — 22. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 130.138. Campbell, Charger, 8.903, 68.36; 4. Matt Hagan, Adam Hadwin 72 —72 +1
Nashville 1 0 1 4 2 1
Dallas 41 26 .612 4½ 23. (99) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 130.110. Charger, 3.898, 320.13 vs. 13. Dave Richards, Charl Schwartzel 75 —75 +1
MEN Houston 1 1 1 4 2 2
New Orleans 27 40 .403 18½ 24. (21) Harrison Burton, Ford, 130.091. Mustang, 8.773, 85.61; 5. Alexis DeJoria, Toyota Michael Thompson 72 —72 +1
SEC TOURNAMENT Colorado 1 1 0 3 3 3
San Antonio 26 42 .382 20 25. (41) Cole Custer, Ford, 130.006. Supra, 3.907, 326.40 vs. 12. Terry Haddock, Mus- Lee Hodges 72 —72 +1
At Amalie Arena Seattle 1 2 0 3 3 4
Houston 17 50 .254 28½ 26. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford, 129.898. tang, 8.436, 87.67; 6. Blake Alexander, Mustang, Kevin Streelman 73 —73 +1
Tampa, Fla. Sporting Kansas City 1 1 0 3 2 3
Northwest W L Pct GB 27. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 129.786. 3.918, 319.98 vs. 11. J.R. Todd, Supra, 8.381, 86.92; Patrick Reed 73 —73 +1
First Round Portland 0 0 2 2 3 3
Utah 41 25 .621 — 28. (31) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 129.660. 7. Bob Tasca III, Mustang, 4.057, 249.63 vs. 10. Patrick Rodgers 73 —73 +1
Wednesday Minnesota United 0 0 2 2 2 2
Denver 40 27 .597 1½ 29. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 129.468. Ron Capps, Charger, 7.487, 90.36; 8. Chad Green, Kevin Tway 73 —73 +1
Missouri 72, Mississippi 60 FC Dallas 0 1 1 1 1 2
Minnesota 39 30 .565 3½ 30. (7) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, 128.361. Mustang, 4.075, 313.66 vs. 9. Paul Lee, Charger, Dylan Frittelli 73 —73 +1
Vanderbilt 86, Georgia 51 San Jose 0 2 1 1 4 8
Portland 25 40 .385 15½ 31. (77) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 127.276. 4.495, 200.44. Shane Lowry 73 —73 +1
Second Round Vancouver 0 2 1 1 1 6
Oklahoma City 20 46 .303 21 32. (51) Cody Ware, Ford, 127.262. Pro Stock Ian Poulter 73 —73 +1
Thursday NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
Pacific W L Pct GB 33. (38) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 127.213. 1. Aaron Stanfield, Chevy Camaro, 6.468, Henrik Norlander 73 —73 +1
Texas A&M 83, Florida 80, OT Saturday’s Games
x-Phoenix 53 14 .791 — 34. (78) BJ McLeod, Ford, 126.533. 211.66 vs. 16. Stefan Emryd, Dodge Dart, 6.989, C.T. Pan 69 —69 +2
LSU 76, Missouri 68 New York City FC 4, CF Montréal 1
Golden State 45 22 .672 8 35. (15) Garrett Smithley, Ford, 123.317. 188.86; 2. Kyle Koretsky, Camaro, 6.482, 212.06 Matt Kuchar 74 —74 +2
Mississippi State 73, South Carolina 51 Columbus 2, Toronto FC 1
L.A. Clippers 35 34 .507 19 36. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, .000. vs. 15. Fernando Cuadra, Ford Mustang, 6.577, Denny McCarthy 70 —70 +2
Vanderbilt 82, Alabama 76 Los Angeles FC 2, Miami 0
L.A. Lakers 29 37 .439 23½ 210.24; 3. Erica Enders, Camaro, 6.510, 211.89 Kyle Stanley 74 —74 +2
Quarterfinals Seattle 3, LA Galaxy 2
Sacramento 24 44 .353 29½ Wyndham Clark 73 —73 +2
Friday
x-clinched playoff spot Xfinity Series vs. 14. Bo Butner, Camaro, 6.571, 209.92; 4.
Rodger Brogdon, Camaro, 6.510, 210.31 vs. 13. Garrick Higgo 74 —74 +2 Houston 2, Vancouver 1
Texas A&M 67, Auburn 62 Chicago 2, D.C. United 0
Friday’s Games UNITED RENTALS 200 RESULTS Fernando Cuadra Jr., Mustang, 6.556, 210.11; Lucas Glover 74 —74 +2
Arkansas 79, LSU 67 Real Salt Lake 3, New England 2
Orlando 118, Minnesota 110 Saturday 5. Deric Kramer, Camaro, 6.511, 211.63 vs. 12. Troy Merritt 74 —74 +3
Tennessee 72, Mississippi State 59 Cincinnati 2, Orlando City 1
Atlanta 112, L.A. Clippers 106 At Phoenix Raceway Matt Hartford, Camaro, 6.549, 210.44; 6. Greg Scott Stallings 71 —71 +3
Kentucky 77, Vanderbilt 71 Philadelphia 2, San Jose 0
Boston 114, Detroit 103 Avondale, Ariz. Anderson, Camaro, 6.511, 211.10 vs. 11. Mason Stephan Jaeger 77 —77 +3
Semifinals Nashville at FC Dallas
Charlotte 142, New Orleans 120 Lap length: 1.00 miles McGaha, Camaro, 6.534, 210.31; 7. Camrie Charley Hoffman 74 —74 +3
Saturday Sporting Kansas City at Colorado
Dallas 113, Houston 100 (Start position in parentheses) Caruso, Camaro, 6.516, 210.70 vs. 10. Cristian Webb Simpson 75 —75 +3
Texas A&M 82, Arkansas 64 Austin FC at Portland
Miami 117, Cleveland 105 1. (2) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 200 laps, 59 Cuadra, Mustang, 6.528, 211.43; 8. Dallas Glenn, Nick Watney 75 —75 +3
Tennessee 69, Kentucky 62 Sunday’s Games
Memphis 118, New York 114 points. Camaro, 6.524, 209.43 vs. 9. Troy Coughlin Jr., Danny Lee 77 —77 +4
Championship Charlotte FC at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.
San Antonio 104, Utah 102 2. (5) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 200, 51. Camaro, 6.528, 211.93. Did Not Qualify: 17. Val Joseph Bramlett 75 —75 +4
Sunday Minnesota at New York, 7 p.m.
Toronto 117, Phoenix 112 3. (8) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 200, 42. Smeland, 7.241, 202.88; 18. Chris McGaha, 9.387, Brian Gay 76 —76 +4
Texas A&M (23-11) vs. Tennessee (25-7), 1 p.m. Saturday, March 19
L.A. Lakers 122, Washington 109 4. (1) Trevor Bayne, Toyota, 200, 50. 130.56; 19. Alan Prusiensky, 9.532, 99.36; 20. Stewart Cink 77 —77 +5
ACC TOURNAMENT 5. (11) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 200, 0. Adam Schenk 78 —78 +5 Miami at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.
Saturday’s Games Larry Morgan, 12.341, 116.11.
At Barclays Center 6. (3) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 200, 37. Tony Finau 76 —76 +5 Philadelphia at New York City FC, 1 p.m.
Indiana 119, San Antonio 108
Brooklyn, N.Y. 7. (17) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 200, 37. Si Woo Kim 76 —76 +7 D.C. United at Toronto FC, 3 p.m.
Chicago 101, Cleveland 91
First Round
Tuesday
Minnesota 113, Miami 104 8. (15) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 200, 32.
9. (22) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 200, 34.
HOCKEY Henrik Stenson
Taylor Moore
73 —73
74 —74
+7
+7
Orlando City at LA Galaxy, 3:30 p.m.
CF Montréal at Atlanta, 4 p.m.
Milwaukee at Golden State
Boston College 66, Pittsburgh 46 10. (24) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 200, 41. Adam Scott 78 —78 +7 Sporting Kansas City at Chicago, 6 p.m.
Sacramento at Utah
Clemson 70, NC State 64 Toronto at Denver 11. (4) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 199, 26. NHL Matt Jones 79 —79 +7 New England at Charlotte FC, 7 p.m.
Louisville 84, Georgia Tech 74 12. (16) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 199, 25. EASTERN CONFERENCE Sahith Theegala 74 —74 +9 San Jose at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Washington at Portland
Second Round 13. (26) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 199, 24. Atlantic GP W L OT Pts GF GA Matthew NeSmith 79 —79 +9 Portland at FC Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Wednesday 14. (9) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 199, 23. Florida 58 40 13 5 85 243 170 Emiliano Grillo 77 —77 +13 Colorado at Houston, 8:30 p.m.
New York at Brooklyn, 1 p.m.
Syracuse 96, Florida State 57 15. (18) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, 199, 22. Tampa Bay 57 37 14 6 80 197 166 Nashville at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Detroit, 3 p.m.
Boston College 82, Wake Forest 77, OT Sunday, March 20
Virginia Tech 76, Clemson 75, OT
Dallas at Boston, 3:30 p.m.
Phila. at Orlando, 6 p.m.
16. (35) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, 199, 21.
17. (12) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 199, 20.
Toronto
Boston
58 37 16
59 36 18
5 79 217 176
5 77 180 160
LPGA Tour Columbus at New York, 2 p.m.
Virginia 51, Louisville 50 18. (14) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 199, 19. Detroit 59 24 28 7 55 170 221 HONDA LPGA THAILAND Seattle at Austin FC, 4:30 p.m.
Houston at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
Quarterfinals 19. (23) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 199, 18. Ottawa 58 21 32 5 47 154 189 Saturday Vancouver at Los Angeles FC, 10 p.m.
Indiana at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
Thursday Memphis at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. 20. (13) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, 199, 17. Buffalo 59 19 32 8 46 157 210 At Pattaya Old Course
Duke 88, Syracuse 79 Chon Buri, Thailand
Miami 71, Boston College 69
L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Monday’s Games
21. (19) Stefan Parsons, Chevrolet, 198, 16.
22. (7) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 198, 17.
Montreal
Metropolitan GP W
57 15 35 7 37 140 217
L OT Pts GF GA Purse: $1.6 million TRANSACTIONS
Virginia Tech 87, Notre Dame 80 L.A. Clippers at Cleveland, 7 p.m. 23. (31) Mason Massey, Chevrolet, 198, 14. Carolina 58 41 12 5 87 196 135 Yardage: 6,576; Par: 72
North Carolina 63, Virginia 43 Denver at Phila., 7:30 p.m. 24. (25) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, 198, 13. Pittsburgh 59 35 15 9 79 193 158 Third Round Saturday’s deals
Semifinals Portland at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. 25. (32) JJ Yeley, Ford, 198, 12. N.Y. Rangers 58 36 17 5 77 173 150 Nanna Koerstz Madsen 65-64-66—195 -21
Celine Boutier 65-64-67—196 -20 BASEBALL
Friday Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. 26. (28) Nick Sanchez, Chevrolet, 198, 11. Washington 60 32 18 10 74 197 169
Xiyu Lin 64-66-66—196 -20 Major League Baseball
Duke 80, Miami 76 Minnesota at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. 27. (36) Joe Graf Jr, Ford, 197, 10. Columbus 59 29 27 3 61 193 218
Nasa Hataoka 63-65-70—198 -18 American League
Virginia Tech 72, North Carolina 59 Chicago at Sacramento, 10 p.m. 28. (33) Jade Buford, Chevrolet, 197, 9. N.Y. Islanders 55 23 24 8 54 148 154
Brooke Henderson 65-67-66—198 -18 MINNESOTA TWINS — Acquired INF Isiah
Championship Milwaukee at Utah, 10 p.m. 29. (38) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet, 197, 8. New Jersey 59 22 32 5 49 179 208
Gaby Lopez 68-66-64—198 -18 Kiner-Falefa and RHP Ronny Henriquez from
Saturday Washington at Golden State, 10 p.m. 30. (10) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, 197, 7. Philadelphia 58 18 30 10 46 145 202
Jennifer Kupcho 65-67-67—199 -17 Texas in exchange for C Mitch Garver.
Virginia Tech 82, Duke 67 Toronto at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. 31. (29) David Starr, Ford, 196, 6. WESTERN CONFERENCE
Alison Lee 65-68-66—199 -17 BASKETBALL
OTHER CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS MOST NBA COACHING WINS 32. (20) Kyle Sieg, Ford, 196, 5. Central GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Minjee Lee 69-64-67—200 -16 National Basketball Association
Saturday’s Games Most regular season wins 33. (27) Kaz Grala, Chevrolet, 196, 0. Colorado 59 41 13 5 87 230 170
Lucy Li 67-69-64—200 -16 PHOENIX SUNS — Signed G Iffe Lundberg.
America Athletic Conference x-active 34. (34) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Toyota, 196, 3. St. Louis 58 34 17 7 75 208 161
Hyo Joo Kim 69-65-67—201 -15 HOCKEY
Semifinals 1. x-Gregg Popovich .......................................1,336 35. (30) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, ignition, Minnesota 57 34 19 4 72 216 187
Su-Hyun Oh 63-65-73—201 -15 National Hockey League
Houston 86, Tulane 66 2. Don Nelson ..................................................1,335 178, 2. Nashville 58 33 21 4 70 184 164
Hinako Shibuno 67-68-66—201 -15 CAROLINA HURRICANES — Reassigned G Alex
Memphis 70, SMU 63 3. Lenny Wilkens.............................................1,132 36. (6) Parker Retzlaff, Ford, fuelpump, 158, 1. Dallas 56 32 21 3 67 166 162
Amy Yang 66-69-66—201 -15 Lyon to Charlotte (AHL).
American East Conference 4. Jerry Sloan ..................................................1,221 37. (37) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 147, 1. Winnipeg 59 26 23 10 62 178 184 DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled D Luke
Championship 5. Pat Riley ......................................................1,210 38. (21) Riley Herbst, Ford, accident, 20, 1. Chicago 60 22 30 8 52 161 208 Hannah Green 70-65-67—202 -14
Witkowski from Grand Rapids (AHL).
Vermont 82, UMBC 43 6. George Karl .................................................1,175 Top 16 in Points Arizona 58 18 36 4 40 148 210 Danielle Kang 66-69-67—202 -14
DALLAS STARS — Reassigned LW Riley Tufte
Atlantic 10 Conference 7. Phil Jackson ................................................1,155 1. N.Gragson, 144; 2. T.Gibbs, 127; 3. A.All- Pacific GP W L OT Pts GF GA Sarah Schmelzel 68-69-65—202 -14
to Texas (AHL). Recalled G Adam Scheel from
Semifinals 8. Larry Brown ................................................1,098 mendinger, 123; 4. J.Allgaier, 120; 5. J.Berry, 108; Calgary 58 36 15 7 79 204 140 So Yeon Ryu 69-66-68—203 -13
Texas.
Davidson 84, Saint Louis 69 9. Rick Adelman ..............................................1,042 6. D.Hemric, 103; 7. R.Herbst, 94; 8. A.Alfredo, 82; Los Angeles 59 32 19 8 72 175 166 Atthaya Thitikul 70-67-66—203 -13
LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled D Christian
Richmond 68, Dayton 64 10. x-Doc Rivers ..............................................1,032 9. S.Mayer, 80; 10. A.Hill, 74; 11. R.Sieg, 72; 12. Vegas 60 32 24 4 68 188 177 Lindsey Weaver-Wright 65-71-67—203 -13
Wolanin from Ontario (AHL). Placed F Andreas
Big 12 Conference B.Jones, 70; 13. B.Brown, 68; 14. S.Creed, 66; 15. Edmonton 58 31 23 4 66 189 186 Carlota Ciganda 66-67-71—204 -12
Athanasiou on injured reserve (retroactive to
Championship J.Burton, 59; 16. J.Yeley, 56. Vancouver 59 29 23 7 65 172 172 Perrine Delacour 67-73-64—204 -12
March 10).
Kansas 74, Texas Tech 65
Big East Conference
AUTO RACING Anaheim 61 27 24 10 64 177 193 Esther Henseleit
A Lim Kim
63-71-70—204
67-69-68—204
-12
-12
MINNESOTA WILD — Reassigned D Calen
San Jose 57 25 25 7 57 149 182
Championship NHRA Seattle 60 17 37 6 40 155 217 Jeongeun Lee6 66-68-70—204 -12
Addison to Iowa (AHL).
Villanova 54, Creighton 48 NASCAR Cup Series GATORNATIONALS PAIRINGS NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for Megan Khang 69-67-69—205 -11
SAN JOSE SHARKS — Reassigned G Alex
Stalock to San Jose (AHL).
Big Ten Conference RUOFF MORTGAGE 500 LINEUP Saturday overtime loss. Top three teams in each division Leona Maguire 70-66-69—205 -11 VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS — Reassigned D
Semifinals After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Gainesville Raceway and two wild cards per conference advance to Emma Talley 69-69-67—205 -11 Daniil Miromanov to Henderson (AHL).
Iowa 80, Indiana 77 At Phoenix Raceway Gainesville, Fla. playoffs. Patty Tavatanakit 71-66-68—205 -11 American Hockey League
Purdue 75, Michigan St. 70 Avondale, Ariz. Pairings based on results in qualifying, which Friday’s Games Jaravee Boonchant 70-65-71—206 -10 CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Acquired G Jonas
Ivy League Lap length: 1.00 miles ended Saturday. DNQs listed below pairings. Pittsburgh 5, Vegas 2 Matilda Castren 70-68-68—206 -10 Johansson.
Semifinals (Car number in parentheses) Top Fuel Columbus 3, Minnesota 2, SO Min Lee 67-68-71—206 -10 HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Reassigned F James
Princeton 77, Cornell 73 1. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 132.709 mph. 1. Tripp Tatum, 3.674 seconds, 331.53 mph N.Y. Islanders 5, Winnipeg 2 Emily Pedersen 70-67-69—206 -10 Sanchez to Jacksonville (ECHL).
Yale 67, Pennsylvania 61 2. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 132.353. vs. 16. Lex Joon, 4.060, 295.66; 2. Brittany Force, Washington 4, Vancouver 3, OT Brittany Altomare 68-71-68—207 -9 LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Loaned G Pat
Metro Atlantic Conference 3. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 132.275. 3.684, 337.75 vs. 15. Clay Millican, 4.056, 248.52; Saturday’s Games Wei-Ling Hsu 69-70-68—207 -9 Nagle to Reading (ECHL).
Championship 4. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 132.270. 3. Steve Torrence, 3.697, 329.50 vs. 14. Tony St. Louis 7, Nashville 4 Yuka Saso 68-70-69—207 -9 East Coast Hockey League
St. Peter’s 60, Monmouth 54 5. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 131.984. Schumacher, 3.983, 266.32; 4. Mike Salinas, Carolina 3, Philadelphia 1 Pajaree Anannarukarn 68-71-69—208 -8 ECHL — Suspended Kansas City’s Ryan Olsen
Mid-American Conference 6. (14) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 131.945. 3.709, 332.10 vs. 13. Krista Baldwin, 3.865, Boston 3, Arizona 2 Stacy Lewis 67-70-71—208 -8 one game and fined him an undisclosed amount
Championship 7. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 131.941. 297.55; 5. Doug Kalitta, 3.718, 330.47 vs. 12. Alex New Jersey 2, Anaheim 1, SO Yu Liu 66-70-72—208 -8 for his actions in a game on March 11 against
Akron 75, Kent St. 55 8. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 131.873. Laughlin, 3.858, 319.98; 6. Justin Ashley, 3.722, Chicago 6, Ottawa 3 Jasmine Suwannapura 73-69-66—208 -8 Utah.
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 9. (48) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 131.772. 330.96 vs. 11. Josh Hart, 3.783, 306.88; 7. Spencer Calgary 3, Detroit 0 Jeong Eun Lee 68-68-73—209 -7 ADIRONDACK THUNDER — Released F Canon
Championship 10. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 129.922. Massey, 3.735, 324.12 vs. 10. Doug Foley, 3.775, Seattle at Montreal Giulia Molinaro 71-72-66—209 -7 Pieper from his standard player contract (SPC).
Norfolk St. 72, Coppin St. 57 11. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 132.091. 313.44; 8. Austin Prock, 3.761, 326.71 vs. 9. Billy N.Y. Rangers at Dallas Kaitlyn Papp 68-70-71—209 -7 Activated D Ivan Chukarov from reserve. Placed
Mountain West Conference 12. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 131.757. Torrence, 3.763, 328.78. Did Not Qualify: 17. An- Los Angeles at San Jose Mel Reid 71-71-67—209 -7 D Ryan Cook on reserve.
Championship 13. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 131.579. tron Brown, 5.056, 168.20; 18. Leah Pruett, 5.125, Tampa Bay at Edmonton Lizette Salas 66-70-73—209 -7 ALLEN AMERICANS — Activated F Dawson
Boise St. 53, San Diego St. 52 14. (43) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 131.071. 227.34; 19. Ike Maier, 5.901, 202.67; 20. Arthur Sunday’s Games Chanettee Wannasaen 73-70-66—209 -7 Butt from reserve. Placed F Branden Troock on
Southwestern Athletic Conference 15. (45) Kurt Busch, Toyota, 130.885. Allen, broke; 21. Shawn Langdon, broke. Carolina at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Aditi Ashok 70-72-68—210 -6 reserve.
Championship 16. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 130.819. Funny Car Toronto vs. Buffalo at Tim Hortons Field, 4 p.m. Moriya Jutanugarn 70-68-72—210 -6 CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Signed D Zac Her-
Texas Southern 87, Alcorn St. 62 17. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 130.724. 1. Robert Hight, Chevy Camaro, 3.831, 333.41 Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Ariya Jutanugarn 74-66-70—210 -6 mann and added him to the active roster.

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BRIEFLY
HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD
Boone’s Penix places at indoor nationals
NEW YORK — Daniel Boone senior thrower Eli
Penix placed sixth overall in the championship divi-
sion of the Nike Indoor Nationals meet at the Ocean
Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island.
Penix’s best throw was 17.65 meters (57 feet, 11
inches) in both the prelims and finals. It’s only his
second loss in the shot put — indoors and outdoors —
in the last two calendar years.
Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan of Woonsocket (Rhode
Island) won the event with a best throw of 20.81 meters
(68-3.25).
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Vitale returns to court, recognized at SEC tourney
TAMPA, Fla. — College basketball icon Dick Vitale
made an appearance at the Southeastern Conference
Tournament on Saturday, getting recognized for his
contributions to the sport, the league and his fight
against cancer.
Vitale, who lives about an hour south of Tampa in
Sarasota, was presented a basketball signed by the
SEC’s 14 coaches before the first of two semifinal
games at Amalie Arena. Vitale walked into the venue
amid a standing ovation — and shouts of “Dickie V!”
— and accepted the autographed ball from league
Commissioner Greg Sankey at midcourt. He made a
brief stop at ESPN’s broadcast seats, the spot he held
for decades before stepping back for health reasons.
Vitale, 82, has been public about his treatment for
assorted medical issues, including at least two forms
of cancer.
He hadn’t made an in-person appearance at a college
basketball game since calling reigning national cham-
pion Baylor’s 57-36 victory against Villanova in
mid-December.
•CLEVELAND — Four Kent State players, including
starting guard Malique Jacobs, were disciplined by the
Mid-American Conference for a profane video posted
in advance of Saturday’s championship game against
rival Akron.
The league said forward DJ Johnson has been sus-
pended indefinitely, while Jacobs and reserves Cli’Ron
Hornbeak and Julius Rollins had to sit out the first
half of the title game — which Akron won 75-55.
Following Friday’s 67-61 semifinal win over Ohio,
the four players filmed a video in their locker room
and posted it on Snapchat. In the clip, one of the
players is using profane language directed at Akron.
The video was shared on Twitter.
NFL
Browns landing Cooper in trade with Cowboys
CLEVELAND — Cleveland general manager Andrew
Berry filled his club’s biggest need on Saturday by
agreeing to acquire Amari Cooper in a trade with the
Dallas Cowboys, a person familiar with the negotiations
told The Associated Press on Saturday.
The Browns would send a fifth- and sixth-round
draft pick in 2022 to Dallas for Cooper, according to the
person who spoke to the AP on condition of ano-
nymity because the teams cannot complete the deal
until the new league year begins Wednesday. ESPN
was first to report the proposed trade.
Cooper would give the Browns a deep threat, filling
the void left when Odell Beckham Jr. forced his release
last season. He’d be a prime target for quarterback
Baker Mayfield, assuming he returns as Cleveland’s
starter following an injury-altered season.
The Cowboys were intent on dealing Cooper, who
signed a five-year, $100 million contract extension in
2019 and hasn’t produced the way Dallas had hoped.
He was likely to be released if the Cowboys couldn’t
strike a deal, and the Browns jumped at the chance to
get the 27-year-old before he hit the market.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Rangers deal Kiner-Falefa to Twins for Garver
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, the starting shortstop for the
Texas Rangers who was supplanted by the blockbuster
addition of Corey Seager, was traded Saturday to the
Minnesota Twins for catcher Mitch Garver.
Texas also sent minor league right-hander Ronny
Henriquez to Minnesota a day before the mandatory
reporting date for players following the end of Major
League Baseball’s 99-day lockout.
Kiner-Falefa was a Gold Glove third baseman during
the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, after which the
Rangers said he would replace Elvis Andrus as their
starting shortstop. Andrus, the starter for 12 seasons
and only remaining player from their two World Series
teams, was traded to Oakland before spring training
last year.
Just before the MLB lockout began Dec. 2, the
Rangers signed All-Star shortstop Seager to a $325 mil-
lion, 10-year contract and Gold Glove second baseman
Marcus Semien to a $175 million, seven-year deal.
GOLF
Madsen takes 1-shot lead at LPGA Thailand
CHONBURI, Thailand — Nanna Koerstz Madsen
birdied her last two holes to take a one-shot lead after
three rounds of the LPGA Thailand on Saturday.
The 55th-ranked Dane’s error-free 6-under 66 gave
her a 54-hole total of 21-under 195 in humid conditions
after lightning and rain disrupted play for 90 minutes
in the afternoon at the Siam Country Club Pattaya Old
Course.
Lin Xiyu (66) of China and Celine Boutier (67) of
France trail by one stroke.
Madsen is searching for her first LPGA title after
two top five major finishes in 2021 — she tied for third
in the ANA Inspiration and had a share of fifth in the
Women’s British Open. Her best result on the LPGA
was second at the 2019 Indy Women in Tech
Championship.
SLED DOG RACING
Sass maintains first-place hold in Iditarod
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Musher Brent Sass is
maintaining his lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog
Race and was the first to arrive at the checkpoint in
Kaltag early Saturday.
Kaltag is 629 miles (1,012 kilometers) into the nearly
1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) trek across the Alaska wil-
derness. The winner is expected in Nome early to mid-
week.
Five-time champion Dallas Seavey remained in
second place, leaving the Nulato checkpoint Saturday
morning after completing one of his mandatory eight-
hour layovers. Seavey dropped two dogs on his team,
and left Nulato with 10 dogs in harness.
SPORTS
VOLS
From Page C1
The Wildcats had been
penciled into a top seed in
the NCAA field, but losing
to Tennessee twice in three
meetings could flip the
script. Chandler, Ziegler
and Josiah-Jordan James
helped author the changes.
Chandler made 8 of 16
shots and seemingly had
an answer every time
third-seeded Kentucky
looked like it would make a
run in front of a pro-Big
Blue crowd inside packed
Amalie Arena.
“Coach Barnes has great Tennessee guard Zakai Zeigler battles Kentucky guards Davion Mintz (10) and Sahvir Wheeler (2) for the
trust in me and knows I’m ball on Saturday in Tampa, Florida.
going to deliver the ball to
my teammates or find a OSCAR PERFORMANCE
great shot to get the ball,” Tshiebwe had 13 points
Chandler said. and 11 rebounds to notch
James finished with 10 his 15th consecutive dou-
points, including eight ble-double and 27th of the
early as Tennessee built a season, breaking the sin-
double-digit lead. Zeigler gle-season mark set by
came up big down the Kentucky great Dan Issel
stretch, making three free in 1969-70. Tshiebwe played
throws that closed it out. just 8 minutes in the first
UPPER LAKES
From Page C1
.333 average, while catcher Justice
Dillard hit .341 last season.
Veteran coach Mike Brueninger
looks forward to competing in the
new conference, which he feels is
certainly up for grabs.
TENNESSEE HIGH
After losing to Science Hill in the
District 1-AAA championship, the
Vikings will be a favorite in the new
league.
While there are key losses from the
previous season, Tennessee High has
a solid rotation spearheaded by Noah
Smith, who went 4-0 with 26 strike-
outs and a 2.06 ERA. Logan Quales
(30 Ks), Brayden Blevins (25) and
Payne Ladd (18) give the Vikings
depth.
Evan Mutter is a leader in the
infield and at the plate after a season
with a .430 batting average, 11 dou-
bles and 30 RBIs. Blevins posted a
.356 average and drove in 39 runs.
Gregory Harris and Garrett Cross,
who posted a .550 on-base percentage,
add to the lineup.
Coach Preston Roberts doesn’t shy
away from goals of competing for the
league title and making a deep run in
the playoffs.
“I really like the makeup of this
team,” Roberts said. “We have dif-
ferent personalities that mesh well
together in the clubhouse and on the
field. We are sort of a veteran team
with several returning starters.
“The goal is obviously to, stay
healthy, get better as the season pro-
gresses and make a run in the post-
season like we have in the past sev-
eral years.”
UNICOI COUNTY
Junior Lucas Slagle, a multi-sport
star, looks to shine on the diamond
after a strong finish to the 2021
season. The 6-foot-6 right hander also
brings power to the plate, having
tagged eight home runs a year ago.
Other pitchers include Eli Nelson,
Brayden Hendrickson and Chris
Chavez. While the Blue Devils gradu-
ated some high-impact players from
last season’s District 1-AA champion-
ship team, they return all-state
catcher Valentin Batrez, the leader in
multiple offensive categories.
Hendrickson shores up the infield
at shortstop when he’s not on the
mound. Chavez is versatile and is
comfortable at both shortstop and
third base.
“We are looking for Slagle to lead
our pitching staff with support from
Hendrickson, Chavez, Nelson, (Alex)
Green, and Tanner Berry,” Unicoi
County coach Chad Gillis said. “We
return our entire infield, so we
expect our infield play to be a strong
point of our defense. Offensively, we
return Valentin Batrez, an all-state
performer in ‘21. He will have great
support in Slagle, Hendrickson,
Chavez, (Nicky) Satterly and
Nelson.”
VOLUNTEER
Like the rest of the league, the
HILLTOPPERS
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rely on Torbett, who batted .381 last
season and will play center field
when he isn’t pitching.
Other good sticks are senior third
baseman Jaxon Diamond (.276 in
2021), Briggs at first base and out-
field, Conner at first base, and sopho-
more standout outfielder Landon
Smelser, who batted .392 last season.
Another weapon for the
Hilltoppers is senior shortstop Jack
Torbett, who has signed with Walters
State. He batted .396 last season, but
half because of foul
trouble and fouled out with
3:37 to play.
“This was kind of an
off-day for us,” Tshiebwe
said. “We didn’t really
make a shot. We still have
our confidence, and we’re
going to be ready next
week.”
Falcons have a trio of talented
pitchers to lead their team.
Sophomore Connor Haynes topped
Volunteer in wins and earned-run
average in 2021.
Junior Zach Justice is at shortstop
when not throwing, while Garrison
Barrett is a fierce competitor as
quarterback on the football field, an
all-conference basketball player and
now a baseball pitcher with a lively
fastball.
Senior Cooper Smith leads the
defense as a talented second
baseman, while senior Austin Goldie
is confident at catcher. Riley
Littleton swarms the outfield with
Colby Lawson regarded as a solid
outfielder and batter.
“This team has come a long way
since we ramped up,” Volunteer
coach Josh Peterson said. “They are
a family and play together well. I
think if we stay focused on the little
things, then the bigger things will
take care of themselves.”
OTHER SCHOOLS
UNIVERSITY HIGH
The Bucs could be the class of the
Watauga Valley Conference with four
top hitters from last season
returning.
They are Jesse Greene, Jacob
Pealer, Hank Stott and Cade Pollock.
University High is defensively strong
at the corners with Joseph
Armstrong at first base and Stott at
third.
Daniel Seehorn and Pollock share
catching duties, while Pealer and
Pollock are at second and shortstop.
In the outfield, the reliable Miles
Bembry is in center with Brayden
Ryder and Greene working the cor-
ners. According to Bucs coach Josh
Petty, the competition is still up for
Monday and Tuesday starting
pitchers.
“We are looking forward to what I
hope is deep run into the postseason
and like every year it starts with
trying to compete within our confer-
ence,” Petty said.
HAPPY VALLEY
Andrew Little, perhaps the best
athlete in the school, is the leading
pitcher and top hitter after sporting a
.455 average a year ago. Tucker
Shoun, a sophomore whose other
sport is bullriding, has gotten bigger
and stronger from a year ago.
Although a freshman, Drew Blevins
has high expectations as a versatile
player.
Senior Hunter Smith, a three-year
starter, will play at first base, while
Little is a tremendous center fielder
when not pitching. Junior catcher
Pedro Colunga is praised for the way
he manages the game behind the
plate.
Second baseman Colby Chausse is
a smart baserunner when on offense.
“Our upperclassmen have done an
excellent job at helping the younger
guys learn and they have brought the
team together as a family,” Happy
Valley coach Todd Caldwell said.
“They are truly working together as
one towards our goal of competing
for a conference championship.”
suffered a knee injury during foot-
ball season.
“He’s pushing to get back,”
Edwards said.
With the pieces in place, the
Hilltoppers are the favorite to win
the Big Five Conference and make a
bunch of postseason noise once
again. The Hilltoppers have reached
the state tournament three years in a
row (not counting 2020 when there
wasn’t a season), and 22 times in the
history of the school. They own state
titles from 2021, 1998, 1963, 1962 and
1947 and earned runner-up finishes
in 1981 and 1951.
“With a lot of returning players
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CHRIS O’MEARA
CAL’S MILESTONE
Calipari will have to wait
to break the record for
most wins in the SEC
Tournament. Calipari tied
Tubby Smith with No. 24
on Friday. He trails
Florida’s Billy Donovan
(27) and Alabama’s Wimp
Sanderson (25).
HAMPTON
The Bulldogs are coming off a
strong finish in 2021 when they won
14 of their last 21 games, including
two in the postseason. There are
early challenges with some players
part of the Hampton basketball team
in the state tournament.
When back from hoops, senior
Morgan Lyons is an offensive star
who produced a .400 average, 29 RBIs
and 17 stolen bases in 2021. Chance
Point is another dynamic player,
having led Northeast Tennessee with
32 stolen bases. He sported a .384
average and scored 31 runs.
Senior Caleb Royston, junior Josh
Whitson, and junior southpaw Brody
Hicks give Hampton experience on
the mound. They’ve all pitched well
at times, but coach Nick Perkins
wants to see a little more consistency.
“I like our athleticism, versatility,
physicality, the depth of our lineup
and the experience we gained in
2021,” Perkins said. “We understand
nothing will be given to us, that we
have to earn everything, pitch by
pitch and inning by inning.”
JOHNSON COUNTY
The Longhorns are playing for a
purpose with a goal to honor long-
time Coach Pete Pauvsek, who died
unexpectedly on Feb. 3.
Peyton Pavusek, the late coach’s
son, will anchor the defense at short-
stop. Seniors Asa Lewis and Seth
Conder lead the pitching rotation.
Dakota Holt gives Johnson County
a strong third arm, while Zack
Parsons has come off the basketball
court and looked good on the dia-
mond.
Ethan Icenhour brings experience
to catcher, while other defensive
standouts include outfielders
Graham Reece and Trey Snyder.
“Our main goal is to go out and
give it our all. We want to honor Pete
in all that we do,” Johnson County
coach Eric Crabtree said. “We want
to make him proud of the way we
play.”
UNAKA
There is expected improvement for
the Rangers with the return of three
of their top pitchers from last season.
Landon Ramsey, the younger
brother of former Unaka standout
John Boy Ramsey, leads the group. A
strong right hander, Ramsey features
good mechanics.
Joseph Slagle has good location
and an ability to throw strikes.
Jaelyn Hardin, who hadn’t pitched
before last year, has put in much
work during the off-season.
Brayden Powell is a versatile
infielder who can play at either first
and third base. Jaycob Nidiffer is a
sophomore left fielder with good
range and Michael Duvall will settle
in at catcher after being all over the
field last year.
“I think we’re going to take a step
forward this year,” second-year
coach Zach Naylor said. “At one
point last year, I had four freshman
and an outfielder who had never
played baseball before — but he
tracked the ball and didn’t make an
error. Hopefully, the playing time
they got last year will help us grow.”
from the 2021 state championship
team that went 34-9, the Hilltoppers
have a chance to be a top team once
again,” Edwards said. “The road will
be difficult as we focus on being pre-
pared for many challenges.”
Included in those challenges is a
loaded and far-flung schedule. The
Hilltoppers will play Bearden, Knox
Central, Seymour, Cookeville, Christ
Presbyterian Academy and Jefferson
County in the season’s first week as
part of the Playing For The Cure
tournament.
They will also participate in
Knoxville’s DeMarini Classic and the
John Whited Memorial Classic.
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BIG 12

No. 6 Kansas beats Texas Tech

74-65 to win Big 12 tournament
By Dave Skretta
AP Basketball Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ochai
Agbaji was a lightly regarded
three-star prospect when he left
his home in Kansas City,
Missouri, four long years ago to
play big-time college basketball
just down the road at Kansas.
Agbaji returned home this
weekend as the Big 12’s player of
the year, then showed out in
front of hundreds of friends and
family during the Big 12
Tournament, leading the sixth-
ranked Jayhawks to a 74-65 win
over Texas Tech on Saturday
night to capture not only the title
for his team but MVP honors for
himself.
“I’m just blessed to be in this
position, but I give it back to my
teammates,” said Agbaji, the
fifth player in history to win the
regular-season player of the year
award and the tournament’s top
honor. “I couldn’t have done it
without them.”
They couldn’t have done it
without him.
Agbaji scored 16 points,
including a couple clinching foul
shots with just over a minute left,
to lift the Jayhawks (27-6) past
the plucky Red Raiders (25-9) and
likely secure a No. 1 seed in next
week’s NCAA Tournament.
David McCormack added 18
points and 11 rebounds,
Christian Braun had 14 points
and Jalen Wilson and Remy
Martin scored 12 apiece for the
Jayhawks (27-6), who showcased
poise and resilience borne of a
veteran group of players in the
final minutes as the Red Raiders
fumbled away their own chance
at the title.
Texas Tech trailed 63-58 with
about four minutes to go when
Terrence Shannon Jr. was called
for charging. Kevin Obanor
turned it over on the Red
Raiders’ next possession, then
stepped over the end line while
trying to inbound the ball for
another turnover, each of them
allowing the Jayhawks to draw
away down the stretch.
The heavily pro-Kansas crowd
began its haunting “Rock, Chalk,
Jayhawk” chant with 28.6 sec-
onds left on the clock, and coach
Bill Self’s squad coasted to its
12th conference tournament title
since the league’s inception in
1996-97.
“I thought it was a great
game,” Self said. “The first half
we couldn’t stop them, they
couldn’t stop us. The second half
I don’t think was artistic on
either end, but we made a couple
of really good toughness plays
when we needed them.”
Shannon finished with 14
points, and Bryson Williams had
17 for the Red Raiders (25-9), who
still have never won the Big 12
Tournament. They also lost to
Oklahoma State in their only
other championship appearance
in 2005.
“They’re a team that’s
extremely difficult to prepare
for,” Texas Tech coach Mark
Adams said, “and I wish we had
two or three days to do that. They
play at a great pace and they
have a lot of players that do
things extremely well.”
The teams, who finished a
game apart in the Big 12, waged a
pair of nip-and-tuck classics
during the regular season with
each winning at home. Their
game at Allen Fieldhouse may
have been the league’s best all
Kansas forward Mitch Lightfoot celebrates following the Big 12 championship
game against Texas Tech in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday.
year, a back-and-forth showdown
that went to double overtime
before the Jayhawks escaped
with the win.
Just how evenly matched were
they Saturday night?
Neither team scored more than
five straight points in the first
half. Neither led by more than
four. Neither scored more than
two straight baskets without the
other team providing some kind
of answer at the other end.
Even when it looked as if
Kansas was building some
momentum, and Martin knocked
down a long jumper to make it
37-33 in the final minute,
Williams provided an answering
CHARLIE RIEDEL
3-pointer to keep the Red Raiders
within a point at the half.
It remained close throughout
the second half.
When Kansas edged ahead by
five, Shannon and the Red
Raiders responded with seven
straight points. When Texas Tech
took a 54-51 lead with 11:20 to go,
Wilson and Agbaji — the tourna-
ment’s MVP — provided back-to-
back buckets that began a 12-2
charge and gave the Jayhawks a
63-56 lead with less than five min-
utes to play.
Kansas maintained control the
rest of the way as the Red
Raiders began to crack under the
pressure.

BIG 10

Bohannon Purdue gets past

banks long, Michigan State, into
late 3, Iowa championship game
beats Indiana By Michael Marot
Associated Press

By Michael Marot
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Iowa guard
Jordan Bohannon couldn’t recall
how many times he tried a long,
game-winning 3 in his backyard. Or
how many times the shots went in.
No matter. Because when it came
to the real thing, he made it.
With the shot clock running down
in a tie game, a berth in the Big Ten
Tournament championship at stake
and the ball in his hands, Bohannon
did what he always does — took the
shot, this time from just inside the
midcourt logo.
And in the blink of an eye, the ball
banked off the backboard and
through the net with 0.8 seconds to
give No. 24 Iowa an 80-77 victory
over Indiana in the first of
Saturday’s two semifinals.
“It’s something that can’t be put
into words,” Bohannon said. “You
dream about it in the backyard
when you’re throwing up shots
there or at the YMCA or wherever it
might be. So when it went in, I just
started running in circles because I
didn’t really know where to go.”
Iowa fans know where the third
2,000-point scorer in school history
belonged — shooting himself out of
a slump.
Bohannon scored just 12 points
against the surprising ninth-seeded
Hoosiers. But he made three big 3s
in the final 2½ minutes to give the
fifth-seeded Hawkeyes (25-9) their
third win in three days. Next up,
they’ll face No. 9 Purdue on Sunday
and try to clinch their first confer-
ence tourney crown since 2006,
which is part of the reason
Bohannon returned this season.
While they may not have
advanced without Bohannon’s late-
game shots, they still needed
all-conference forward Keegan
Murray to do some work, too. He
finished with 32 points and nine
rebounds and put himself in posi-
Iowa’s Jordan Bohannon (3) celebrates in the arms of Connor McCaffery after Bohannon
hit the game-winning shot against Indiana on Saturday in Indianapolis.
tion for another board, just in case
Bohannon missed.
But the final shot didn’t even go
the way coach Fran McCaffery drew
it up.
“He was supposed to get a shot in
the corner but they jammed it up,
credit to them,” McCaffery said.
“But he just kept coming. You know
as long as he’s shooting, I think it’s
better than anything I can draw up
anyway.”
Bohannon made sure of it despite
going 4 of 10 from the field and
trying to rally the Hawkeyes, who
trailed for all but 122 seconds until
DARRON CUMMINGS
Murray’s 3 gave them a 74-73 lead
with 1:56 to play.
Bohannon’s next 3, with 50.1 sec-
onds left, made it 77-73 and appeared
to seal the victory.
Instead, Xavier Johnson made two
free throws and when Indiana (20-
13) forced a turnover, Johnson
scored on a breakaway layup to tie
the score with 30.7 seconds to go.
Johnson finished with 20 points and
nine assists.
And that’s how it stayed until
Bohannon’s bank shot. Johnson’s
desperation heave from 60 feet
bounced high off the backboard.
INDIANAPOLIS —
Jaden Ivey gave No. 9
Purdue the production and
energy it needed to reach
the Big Ten Tournament
title game.
Now he’s in position to
lead the third-seeded
Boilermakers to a champi-
onship that’s already
eluded them once this
season.
Ivey finished with 22
points, nine rebounds and
five assists, and Eric
Hunter Jr. made two back-
breaking 3-pointers late in
Saturday’s second semi-
final game to give Purdue a
75-70 victory over sev-
enth-seeded Michigan
State.
“Tomorrow’s a big game
for us,” Ivey said. “We
didn’t win a regular-season
championship. That was a
goal of ours and we fell
short. Tomorrow we have a
chance to win a champion-
ship and take it home.”
The Boilermakers will
make their first title game
appearance since 2018 on
Sunday against No. 24 Iowa
(25-9).
For Ivey, it was a sensa-
tional day inside the
building his mother, Notre
Dame coach Niele Ivey,
once called home as a
member of the WNBA’s
Indiana Fever. He went 7 of
14 from the field, made two
3s and six of eight from the
free-throw line while fre-
quently converting nifty
drives into points. The
result: Purdue (27-6) has
won three straight to reach
its first Big Ten title game
since 2018.
Ivey also provided gasps
from a noticeably favorable
crowd when he fell hard to
the ground, off-balance on
the game-sealing break-
away layup that made it
69-59 with 1:50 left. He
stayed down briefly and
appeared to be rubbing his
tailbone before getting up
and finishing the game.
But the Spartans (22-12)
fared far worse in the
injury department.
Starting point guard Tyson
Walker left in the first half
with what appeared to be a
sprained ankle and did not
return.
His replacement, sopho-
more A.J. Hoggard, turned
his ankle on the next pos-
session. Hoggard also left
but did return and finished
with 17 points and 10
assists, though the injuries
left Michigan State precari-
ously thin.
It wasn’t just Ivey
making a difference
against the Spartans, who
had a three-game winning
streak snapped.
Michigan State last
played in the conference
title game in 2019, and
when the Spartans cut the
deficit to 57-56 on
Hoggard’s jumper with 5:45
to go, it looked like the
drought might end.
Instead, Hunter knocked
down consecutive 3s, and
after Williams made one of
two free throws, Hunter
scored on a layup to give
the Boilermakers a 66-56
lead with 3:31 remaining.
They were the only 3s for
Hunter in the game and he
finished with 11 points.
Michigan State spent the
rest of the game futilely
playing catch-up in a close
contest featuring two of
the conference’s perennial
powers and the league’s
longest-tenured coaches.

SEC

Texas A&M’s remarkable run continues with 82-64 upset of Arkansas

By Fred Goodall
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Surging Texas
A&M isn’t leaving its NCAA
Tournament hopes to chance.
With three wins in three days
over favored opponents, the
eighth-seeded Aggies not only
have landed an unlikely spot in
the championship game of the
SEC Tournament but almost cer-
tainly ensured their inclusion in
the NCAA field of 68, too.
The Aggies can earn the SEC’s
automatic berth by beating No. 9
Tennessee on Sunday. But even
with a loss in the final, they’re
likely in — only weeks after
looking like they had no shot.
“That’s not up to me. I just go
out there, and I play my game.
That’s up to the higher-ups,”
leading scorer Quenton Jackson
said after his 20-point perfor-
mance helped the Aggies take
down No. 15 Arkansas 82-64 in
the semifinals on Saturday.
The Aggies (23-11) took down a
ranked opponent for the second
straight day, with Jackson also
contributing six assists, five
rebounds and four steals.
A&M improved to 8-1 since
ending a month-long, eight-game
losing streak in February.
“I think it’s really just a testa-
ment to what we’ve been
preaching to each other all week.
We know that for us to have a
chance to win any game, it’s got
to start with our energy level and
how we attack the game,” the
Aggies’ Hayden Hefner said.
Hassan Diarra, whose clutch
3-pointer in the closing seconds
of overtime gave the Aggies an
83-80 victory in A&M’s tourna-
ment opener, had 12 points.
Tyrece Radford and Henry
Coleman contributed 12 of 11
points, respectively, after playing
key roles in a five-point upset of
fourth-ranked Auburn in the
quarterfinals.
Arkansas (25-8) split a pair of
games with the Aggies in
January but was no match for
them Saturday after falling
behind by double digits in the
first half.
Stanley Umude led the
Razorbacks with 20 points.
Au’Diese Toney added 18, but
leading scorer JD Notae was
slowed by foul trouble and lim-
ited to five points — nearly 14
below his average — on 2-of-8
shooting.
Arkansas coach Eric
Musselman said his team “got
totally outplayed.”
“I think JD, obviously the foul
trouble was problematic. It
wasn’t just offense. I can’t
remember JD’s defense like that
since we’ve been together,”
Musselman said. “So it was both
sides of the basketball, to be
honest with you.”
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Fueled by allegations, LSU dismisses Wade

By Brett Martell
Associated Press
LSU has fired men’s basketball
coach Will Wade for cause amid
“serious” allegations of NCAA
violations, the university
announced Saturday in a joint
statement from its president and
athletic director.
The firing comes the day after
LSU was bounced from the
Southeastern Conference
Tournament by Arkansas, 79-67, in
a quarterfinal game Friday night.
“For more than four years, the
University has patiently allowed
the NCAA investigative process to
unfold, jointly working with the
NCAA Enforcement Staff and,
subsequently, with the Complex
Case Unit (CCU), to ensure the
evidence collected was as thor-
GERALD HERBERT
Hired by LSU in 2017, Will Wade posted
a 105-51 record as the Tigers’ coach.
ough and fair as possible,” said
the statement signed by President
William F. Tate and athletic
director Scott Woodward.
“Throughout that time, the
University and its men’s basket-
ball program have operated
under an exhausting shroud of
negativity.”
Wade did not immediately
return a message left on his per-
sonal phone by The Associated
Press. The allegations against
him stem from a wide FBI investi-
gation into corrupt practices in
college basketball that has impli-
cated major programs including
Arizona, Kansas, Louisville,
Oklahoma State, North Carolina
State and Auburn.
The Complex Case Unit this
past week issued LSU a formal
notice of allegations, which “con-
tains serious allegations,
including multiple charges
alleging Coach Wade’s personal
involvement in — or awareness of
— Level I misconduct,” the LSU
statement said. “We can no longer
subject our University,
Department of Athletics, and —
most importantly — our stu-
dent-athletes, to this taxing and
already-lengthy process without
taking action. Our responsibility
to protect and promote the integ-
rity and well-being of our entire
institution and our student-ath-
letes will always be paramount.”
Level I violations can include a
head coach’s lack of oversight on
compliance matters; failure to
cooperate in an NCAA investiga-
tion; unethical or dishonest con-
duct; or prohibited cash or sim-
ilar benefits provided to recruits.
LSU’s statement, however,
stressed that Wade’s firing was
“not an acknowledgement of
agreement with any of the alle-
gations. The University will
determine its positions on the
allegations after an exhaustive
and objective examination of the
relevant facts.”
The university also fired asso-
ciate head coach Bill Armstrong
and named assistant coach Kevin
Nickelberry as interim head
coach. LSU went 22-11 this season
(9-9 in the SEC) and appears likely
to receive a bid to the NCAA
Tournament.
Suspicion of wrongdoing has
followed Wade since 2019 reports
about leaked excerpts of an FBI
wiretap that captured Wade
speaking with a person convicted
of funneling illegal payments to
the families of college basketball
recruits.
In transcripts of the phone call,
Wade discussed presenting a
“strong” offer to an apparent
third party who represented
then-LSU player Javonte Smart,
who has since turned pro.

’Nova is Memphis forges

beast of ahead, will play
Big East for tourney title
The Associated Press
Tigers seek third
NEW YORK — Collin
Gillespie nailed consecu-
win over Houston
tive 3-pointers late in the The Associated Press
game that put No. 8
Villanova ahead for good, FORT WORTH, Texas
and the Wildcats beat — Lester Quinones hit a
Creighton 54-48 to win the long contested 3-pointer
Big East Tournament to put Memphis ahead
championship Saturday and the Tigers held on to
night at Madison Square beat SMU 70-63 in an
Garden. American Athletic
Gillespie missed this Conference tournament
tournament and the semifinal game on
NCAAs last season with a Saturday.
The shot by Quinones GARETH PATTERSON
torn ligament in his left
knee. But a year later he with 4:37 left made it 60-57 Memphis guard Alex Lomax
made the clutch shots in and was only the third drives to the basket in an AAC
lead change in the game semifinal conquest of SMU.
the waning minutes, hit-
ting the go-ahead 3 over JOHN MINCHILLO
matching teams still
the outstretched arm of trying to ensure making HOUSTON 86, TULANE 66
Hunter Cattoor, who spearheaded Virginia Tech with 31 points, drives past Duke’s Wendell Moore Jr.,
7-foot-1 center Ryan the NCAA Tournament. FORT WORTH, Texas
— Kyler Edwards had 20

Hokies upset Duke

Kalkbrenner with 2:44 left. But it broke the last of six
The 6-foot-3 senior then ties over a seven-minute points with six 3-pointers,
grabbed a rebound at the span. big man Josh Carlton
other end and came right Landers Nolley II and added 16 points and
back and drained another Alex Lomax had 12 points 18th-ranked Houston
jumper over Kalkbrenner, each to lead Memphis (21- advanced to its fourth

to claim NCAA bid

the Big East defensive
player of the year, for a
50-45 lead — sending the
Wildcats on their way to
yet another championship
under coach Jay Wright.
Villanova won the Big
East Tournament under
Wright in 2015, and then
three straight from 2017-19.
The school also took home
national championships in
2016 and 2018 under
Wright.
Justin Moore and the
rest of Villanova’s starters
circled Gillespie and fired
him up before he went to
the free-throw line in the
final seconds. The two-time
conference player of the
year hit both and was soon
mobbed by teammates at
midcourt to kick off the
championship party.
Gillespie led the sec-
ond-seeded Wildcats (26-7)
with 17 points and Moore
had 16 on a night when
points were tough to come
by until the furious final
minutes.
Kalkbrenner scored 19
but the fourth-seeded
Bluejays (22-11) again left
MSG empty-handed.
9), which won its sixth consecutive AAC final.
game in a row and 11th of The Cougars (28-5)
12 in a stretch where the matched their win total
only loss was to the from last season, when
Mustangs. Quinones had they won their first AAC
tion of the winningest coach in Division 10 points and eight tournament title and then
Prevail 82-67 in ACC I men’s college basketball.
The top-seeded and seventh-ranked
rebounds, while DeAndre
Williams had seven points
made it to the Final Four.
Houston played most of
championship game Blue Devils (28-6) got another chance for
a feel-good victory and to add at least
and 10 rebounds.
Marcus Weathers had
the game without first-
team all-AAC forward
The Associated Press one more trophy to the case for the 16 points for SMU (23-8). Fabian White Jr., who
retiring Hall of Fame coach, but again it Michael Weathers had 12 exited less than three
NEW YORK — For the second straight was not to be. points, as did AAC player minutes in because of
Saturday night, Duke failed to deliver When Justyn Mutts made a two-hand of the year Kendric Davis back tightness and didn’t
Coach K a send-off victory. slam over Duke’s star freshman Paolo on 3-of-13 shooting. return. The Cougars
This time it was Virginia Tech playing Banchero with 2:26 left in the second Tigers center Jalen eventually pulled away
party pooper. half, coach Mike Young’s Hokies led Duren, the 6-foot-11 without him.
Hunter Cattoor scored a career-high 76-64 and the Hokies fans rose with freshman who was a first- J’Wan Roberts, a
31 points and the seventh-seeded Hokies roar. team All-AAC pick, had 6-foot-7 sophomore, had a
won the Atlantic Coast Conference Virginia Tech’s first ACC champion- nine points and seven season-high 10 points to
Tournament for the first time, beating ship since joining the conference in 2004 rebounds in only 17 min- go with 13 rebounds for
Duke 82-67 on Saturday night to deny was sealed. utes. He got two fouls in the Cougars. Taze Moore
Mike Krzyzewski a league title in his Soon after Metallica’s “Enter the first 3½ minutes of added 17 points with
final season. Sandman,” the Hokies’ unofficially the game, and didn’t seven assists and Ramon
Virginia Tech (23-12) came to Brooklyn fight song, blared throughout Barclays return until after half- Walker Jr. had 11 points
in need a of a run to make the NCAA Center and the Virginia Tech fans sung time, when he exited for 6 with three 3-pointers.
Tournament, and the Hokies became along like it was the fourth quarter at 1/2 minutes after falling Edwards also had eight
just the second ACC team to take the Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia. hard to the floor after assists and seven
crown with four wins in four days. Banchero scored 20 points for Duke, blocking a shot by Davis. rebounds.
The Hokies also are the worst seeded which shot 4 for 20 from 3-point range Memphis, which won Jaylen Forbes scored 19
team to win the most-storied conference and allowed the Hokies to make 50% of both regular-season games for Tulane (14-15), which
tournament in college basketball. their shots. against regular-season jumped out to a 9-2 lead
Duke lost Coach K’s final game at Virginia Tech’s last — and only — con- AAC champion Houston, before White left, and an
Cameron Indoor Stadium to rival North ference tournament championship came plays the top-seeded early 30-second timeout
Carolina a week ago, derailing what the in 1979 when the Hokies were in the Cougars in the tourna- by Cougars coach Kelvin
school hoped would be a joyful celebra- Metro Conference. ment final on Sunday. Sampson.

Lady Bears, ’Horns advance to Big 12 final

The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — NaLyssa
Smith scored a career-high 37 points
to help No. 4 Baylor rout No. 21
Oklahoma 91-76 in the first semifinal
of the Big 12 women’s tournament
Saturday.
Smith’s previous high was 35 ear-
lier this year against Texas Tech.
The Bears used a 28-16 advantage
in the third quarter to blow open a
close game. Smith accounted for 14
points in the quarter and she headed
to the fourth with 33 points.
The Bears will face No. 7 Texas in
Sunday’s championship.
Baylor (27-5) also got a career-high
21 points from Caitlin Bickle. Smith
pulled down 11 rebounds. Queen
Egbo had 11 points.
Oklahoma (24-8) was led by Madi
Williams with 28 points. Taylor
Robertson added 17.
Baylor pulled away quickly in the
second half, scoring the first seven
points of the third quarter and led
61-42 after Sarah Andrews hit a
REED HOFFMANN
Jaden Owens (10) tries to bring in a rebound
during Baylor’s win over the Lady Sooners.
3-pointer and Smith converted an
alley-oop layup.
The lead ballooned to 24 points
before Oklahoma finished the
quarter on a 9-6 run. But it was too
big of a deficit to overcome.
TEXAS 82, IOWA STATE 73 (OT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rori
Harmon scored 12 of her 30 points in
overtime and No. 7 Texas outlasted
No. 10 Iowa State in the Big 12 wom-
en’s semifinals.
Texas’ Lauren Ebo had an attempt
in the lane with less than two sec-
onds left that rolled off the rim and
sent it to overtime. Texas (25-6) used
its size and strength inside to control
the overtime, outscoring Iowa State
19-10 in the extra period.
Ebo added 14 points and Joanne
Allen-Taylor and DeYona Gaston had
13 each.
Ashley Joens led Iowa State (26-6)
with 33 points. Lexi Donarski added 11.
The Cyclones opened the second
half with a 3-pointer, but the
Longhorns responded with a 7-0 run.
Allen-Taylor hit a 3-pointer from the
corner, and Deyona Gaston stole
back-to-back inbounds passes and
converted both for layups to trim the
deficit to two points.
The Longhorns kept pounding the
ball inside to counter the outside
shooting of Iowa State. Harmon’s
3-pointer with 2:58 left in the third
cut the deficit to one, and Aliyah
Matharu’s 3-pointer gave the
Longhorns their first lead since early
in the first quarter.
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NASCAR

Uncomfortably numb: Reddick deals with leg issues

By David Brandt
Associated Press
AVONDALE, Ariz. —
Tyler Reddick is enjoying
his status among
NASCAR’s fastest drivers
through the season’s first
three races, adapting
quickly to the sport’s Next
Gen car that has provided
solid racing and a new
degree of difficulty for
many drivers.
The only issue is Reddick
can’t seem to get comfort-
able in his Chevrolet’s seat,
leading to numbness in his
legs.
That, of course, is a
pretty big problem for a
driver in a 3,200-pound
hunk of steel that can
move over 150 mph.
“You know, I just think I
was in a really good place
in that old car for such a
long time and didn’t realize
how easy or how bad you
could end up missing it,
the comfort side of things,”
Reddick said.
If Reddick can find a way
to fix his leg issues, he
might just find a spot in
victory lane for the first
time in his NASCAR
career.
The 26-year-old, who is in
his third season with
Richard Childress Racing,
has led the most laps (90)
of any driver so far this
season.
So far, those laps up front
haven’t led to great finishes
in 2022. He was 35th at
Daytona and 24th at
Fontana after he was
doomed by a flat tire before
Tyler Reddick stands in the garage following Cup Series practice at Daytona International Speedway on
Feb. 15 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
a seventh-place showing at
Las Vegas last week. Now
the racing has moved
across the desert to the tri-
oval in Phoenix, which will
host the NASCAR champi-
onship again in November.
Reddick said it’s been
hard to diagnose his leg
problems because it’s diffi-
cult to re-create racing
conditions in the garage.
He’s not the only one
who has had numbness
issues in the new car: Alex
Bowman talked about
having some of the same
problems at Daytona.
Team Penske’s Austin
Cindric — who won at
Daytona — said his “right
butt cheek was on fire”
after a few laps at Las
Vegas last week.
“It’s pretty challenging
to understand sitting still,
you know with no load, no
bumps, no heat, whatever
it might be, to really feel if
there is going to be a
problem,” Reddick said.
“It’s hard to really under-
stand what’s OK and
what’s not.”
JOHN RAOUX
Kyle Larson — the
defending NASCAR champ
who already has won once
this season at Fontana —
said last week that he
expects Reddick to have an
“amazing season” after the
driver led the pack during
offseason testing.
That could start on
Sunday in Phoenix, though
everyone is wondering how
the new cars will adapt in
Arizona.
“It’s hard to say,”
Reddick said. “These cars,
it’s been a lot of fun.”
RESTART DRAMA
Speaking of the Next
Gen cars, Bowman is
curious how they’re going
to react to restarts fol-
lowing cautions at
Phoenix.
Restarts are somewhat
nuts at most tracks as
dozens of cars jockey for
position, but the tri-oval at
Phoenix Raceway provides
a new challenge because
drivers have a lot of space
to maneuver on the apron
if they can control their
car.
“Restarts here? They’re
kind of notoriously crazy
because of the dogleg and
being able to shortcut
that,” Bowman said. “I’m
not sure anybody’s gone
down there with the Next
Gen car yet, just because
of how rigid the car is and
how things happen when
the car hits the ground.”
Bowman, last week’s
winner in Las Vegas, said
he’s interested to see if the
apron is good for racing.
But he doesn’t plan on
being the guinea pig.
“Let somebody else
figure that out first I
guess,” Bowman said.
BLANEY UP FRONT
Ryan Blaney will be on
the pole while Denny
Hamlin will start on the
outside of Row 1 on
Sunday.
Two of the three winners
so far this season — Alex
Bowman and Austin
Cindric — will also start in
the top 10. Larson qualified
seventh but will start from
the back of the field on
Sunday because of unap-
proved adjustments to his
steering wheel.
Martin Truex Jr. won
last year’s spring race in
Phoenix and will start
20th. It’s Blaney’s third
career pole in Phoenix.
NINE TIMERS CLUB
Kevin Harvick is back at
Phoenix where he’s had
plenty of success.
But the 46-year-old hasn’t
won at the track since 2018
and the Next Gen car pro-
vides another wrinkle for
the veteran driver to navi-
gate. Harvick said the new
car might be different, but
after three races, it’s no
longer an excuse.
“This is just ‘The Car,’ ”
Harvick said. “It’s not
‘next’ anymore. We’re here
racing the car.”
Harvick’s nine wins at
Phoenix are far and away
the most in Sunday’s field.
Kyle Busch has won three
times while Joey Logano
and Denny Hamlin have
both won twice.
ODDS AND ENDS
Larson is a 4-1 favorite to
win at Phoenix, according
to FanDuel. Truex is next
at 7-1 odds ... Much of the
rest of the U.S. might be
groggy on Sunday because
they lose an hour of sleep
due to the clock change of
Daylight Saving Time. That
won’t be the case in
Arizona, which doesn’t rec-
ognize DST. ... Bowman is a
native of Tucson, Arizona.

Gragson breaks FORMULA ONE

through with F1 champ Verstappen

win at Phoenix tops last day of testing
The Associated Press at one point he even did a
By David Brandt 360 spin.
Associated Press
As world champion Running with the
Max Verstappen dazzled RB18’s upgraded sidepods
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Noah under the floodlights for and floor that clearly
Gragson shook off some frustrating Red Bull, easily topping worked, Verstappen
finishes over the past few weeks to the charts on the last day clocked a leading time of
race to his first victory of the season of Formula One pre- 1 minute, 31.720 seconds,
Saturday in a dominant performance season testing on the fastest across the
in the Xfinity Series at Phoenix
Saturday, title rival Lewis three days of testing in
Raceway.
Hamilton was not opti- Bahrain.
Gragson passed Brandon Jones
mistic about how He was around .5 sec-
with 14 laps left and pulled away for DARRYL WEBB Mercedes will fare when onds ahead of Mick
his sixth career Xfinity victory. The Noah Gragson (9) holds on to second early in an Xfinity Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway the season starts next Schumacher, who moved
23-year-old has had a fast car all year, on Saturday in Avondale, Arizona.
finishing third at Daytona and weekend. up when driving alone as
second at both Fontana and Las Hamilton missed out on the American-owned
fourth and John Hunter Nemechek through the race. The two-time
Vegas before breaking through for winner in Phoenix settled for a a record eighth F1 title on Haas team was granted
finished fifth.
the win. 10th-place finish. the last lap of the last two extra hours after
“This is exactly what the 19 team
“This team’s been on a roll so far Bayne was the pole-sitter but had a race last year and is everyone finished.
needed to turn the season around,” looking to grab his crown
this year,” Gragson said. “All top- pre-race scare when he couldn’t get That was agreed in
Jones said. back from Verstappen. order to make up time
three finishes in the first four races. I Gragson celebrated his win with a his car off pit road because of a
can’t thank everyone enough for steering wheel issue. His team fixed Although it’s only lost on Wednesday, after
burnout in front of pit road, shred- testing, which can be mis- the late arrival of freight
their hard work and we’ll try to keep ding his back tires in the process. He the issue before the green flag
it going.” dropped and he was allowed to stay leading because teams shipments left Haas
and his team continued the celebra- sometimes have some- unable to join in
There wasn’t much drama in this in the top position because NASCAR
tion by warming their hands over a thing in reserve, the task Thursday’s first session.
race with Gragson running up front determined the steering wheel switch
for the clean win. He led 114 of the hunk of burning tire on the track. was a safety issue. could prove harder than Before Schumacher’s
200 laps and his JR Motorsports Ty Gibbs — who won last week in Bayne’s Toyota won the first stage envisaged for the British late effort, Verstappen
Chevrolet was obviously the fastest Las Vegas — started in Row 2 but after beating Gragson back to the veteran with a record 103 placed .7 seconds ahead
car in the field. The only time he was shuffled to the back of the field finish line by 0.06 seconds. Gragson race wins. of Ferrari’s Charles
trailed during the last half of the after spinning out following contact recovered to easily win the second Verstappen looked to be Leclerc when the session
race was when he had to make a with Berry. He rallied to finish sixth. stage, foreshadowing his dominance in that sleek pole position ended under floodlights,
green-flag pit stop with 32 laps to go. Toyota cars earned four of the top six down the stretch. mode — he led F1 with 10 and in conditions similar
Jones had easily his best race of spots. Only 10 cars finished on the lead poles last year — beating to next Sunday’s opening
the season by finishing second. Josh Justin Allgaier started 36th but lap. There were no cautions in the his own leading time near race on the same Sakhir
Berry was third, Trevor Bayne was charged up to third place by midway final 100 laps of the race. the end, and going so fast circuit.

BIG 5
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this year,” Indians coach
Ryan Wagner said. “The
guys have worked hard and
now is the fun part in get-
ting to compete and play
games with their team-
mates that they will
remember forever. We have
a super competitive
schedule and could have
some learning lessons
early. We hope this helps
us play our best ball in
April and May.”
DANIEL BOONE
The Trailblazers pushed
the eventual state cham-
pions to the limit, losing
three one-run games to
Science Hill in 2021.
Graduation has hit Daniel
Boone hard, although the
’Blazers still have good
talent.
In fact, they could be
“Jones-ing” for a strong
season. Junior Brogan
Jones, an ETSU commit,
University High’s Cade Pollock follows through with a curveball
during the 2021 District 1-A baseball tournament.
brings experience as a
right-handed pitcher and
shortstop. Fellow junior
Griffen Jones is an athletic
outfielder, who can cover a
lot of ground. Graham
Jones is a freshman right
hander looking to accumu-
late innings.
Other pitchers include
junior Aiden Roller,
described as a crafty left
hander who can throw
JEFF BIRCHFIELD
three pitches for strikes,
and strong-armed sopho-
more Brayden
Blankenship. Seniors in
the infield are Hudson
York, Zach Zuehlke, J.T.
Sipos and Will Stevens.
“We are talented but
very young,” Boone coach
Scott Hagy said. “We will
have to grow up quick in
order to compete with a
strong non-conference
schedule and the always-
tough Big 5 schedule. We
know what is in front of us,
but I like our toughness.”
DAVID CROCKETT
The Pioneers could be
tough as well, particularly
when 6-foot-6 right hander
Gage Peterson is on the
mound. His velocity is
good and he has a good
command of the strike
zone.
Garrett Leonard is the
team’s No. 2 pitcher as well
as a strong hitter and a
good middle infielder. Left
hander Jacob Ayers
changes the pace and cre-
ates some tough pitching
matchups.
Noah Oster, a new edi-
tion to the team, is the
lead-off batter and a
speedy outfielder. Hayden
Osburn, described as a
Swiss-army knife, is pri-
marily a third baseman,
but can contribute at mul-
tiple positions. Caleb
Bradburn and Brenden
Reid bring strong defensive
efforts at catcher and other
spots, while Nate Laws is a
steady presence in the
infield with an ability to
turn double plays.
“We look to compete
with whoever steps across
the lines with us,” Crockett
coach Spencer Street said.
“With a tough schedule, we
look to be ready to play our
best baseball in May. We
are senior-heavy and that
presence in the dugout and
locker room is felt every
day. The guys work hard
and love each other.”
WEST RIDGE
With the strong tradi-
tions of Sullivan South,
Sullivan North and
Sullivan Central coming
together, the Wolves could
be a factor in the new Big 5
Conference.
After all, South won the
Region 1-AA title with
ETSU commit Drew
Hoover going 8-1 with 74
strikeouts in 2021. He had a
complete-game win over
Greeneville in the region
tournament, as did
Milligan commit Marshall
Buchanan in a win over
Unicoi County in the title
game.
Jackson Dean adds to a
strong rotation, while top
position players include
third baseman Sean Reed,
who hit .487 with 14 dou-
bles and 39 RBIs last
season. Hoover, who plays
left field and first base, had
a .444 average with 12 dou-
bles and 37 RBIs.
Centerfielder Isaac Haynie
is a clutch player who has
come through in big
moments.
“It’s exciting to come
together with the new
school. These kids have the
opportunity to do some-
thing few people do to start
something new,” West
Ridge coach Michael
Hoover said. “Hopefully, by
the end of the year, we will
have a chance to compete
and be successful. We have
a chance to be good in May
when tournament season
starts.”

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GOLF
Rain gone, raging wind takes over at Players Championship
By Doug Ferguson
AP Golf Writer
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.
— Rain suddenly was the least of
anyone’s problems Saturday in
The Players Championship.
Not with wind that was gusting
to 40 mph, making the island
green look more like a postage
stamp. Not with temperatures
plunging by the hour. And cer-
tainly not for the players who
had to play 18 holes of a second
round that was shaping up as
among the toughest ever.
“This is as tough as golf as
you’re ever going to play,”
Keegan Bradley said after a
1-under 71, which he called one
of the best rounds of his life.
Justin Thomas and Bubba
Watson did the unthinkable.
They didn’t make a bogey.
Bradley would have joined them
except for a double bogey on No.
16 when he was assessed a two-
shot penalty for not playing his
putt from where the wind had
blown it away.
“You’re not really making that
many swings. It’s just a lot of
TENNIS
Medvedev debuts as No. 1,
Nadal struggles at Indian Wells
The Associated Press
INDIAN WELLS, Calif.
— Daniil Medvedev beat
Tomas Machac 6-3, 6-2 on
Saturday in the second
round of the BNP Paribas
Open, the Russian’s first
tournament since
ascending to No. 1 in the
world.
Medvedev made quick
work of his Czech oppo-
nent, finishing Machac off
in just over an hour. The
Russian won 80% of his
first-serve points and saved
the lone break point he
faced.
Rafael Nadal didn’t have
it as easy in opening his
pursuit of a fourth title at
Indian Wells. He got
pushed to the limit by prac-
tice partner Sebastian
Korda before winning 6-2,
1-6, 7-6 (3), giving Nadal a
16-0 record this year.
“I started to play a little
bit more crosscourt with
my forehand and with
having a little bit more of
calm,” Nadal said. “He
made a couple mistakes
and I was able to save
myself.”
SOCCER
EPL bans Abramovich
running Chelsea,
hastening need for sale
By Rob Harris
AP Global Soccer Writer
In an unprecedented
ruling against a club
owner, the Premier League
ordered Roman
Abramovich on Saturday
to stop running Chelsea
and sell up after he was
sanctioned by the British
government over Russia’s
war on Ukraine and his
close links to President
Vladimir Putin.
The league board’s deci-
sion to disqualify
Abramovich from being a
director accelerates the
end of the Russian oli-
garch’s 19 years in control
of the reigning world and
European champions but
the club that transformed
into a perennial trophy
winner by his investment
is allowed to play on.
League regulations
would usually require
Abramovich to relinquish
control within 28 days but
the British government
now has a say in the sale
process under the terms of
the license that allows the
team to continue operating
despite the owner’s assets
being frozen.
The government wel-
Jordan Spieth hits to the 14th green during the first round of play in The Players
Championship on Saturday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
shots,” Thomas said after his 69
that featured a series of beauti-
fully flighted shots and some
numbers that showed just how
much the wind affected shots.
He hit two pitching wedges
from 185 yards. He hit a 5-wood
from 193 yards. The most satis-
fying was a 5-iron from 167 yards.
Nadal won the
Australian Open in
January for his record 21st
major championship,
breaking a tie with Roger
Federer and Novak
Djokovic. He won other
titles in Melbourne and in
Mexico.
Nadal trailed 5-2 in the
third set before winning
four straight games with
two breaks of Korda to
take a 6-5 lead. Korda held
at 6-all to force the tie-
breaker.
The 38th-ranked Korda
led 3-2 and then Nadal
reeled off five straight
points to close out the 2
1/2-hour match.
“He’s one of the greatest
players of all time. He’s
super hot. Hasn’t lost a
match this year,” Korda
said. “To kind of push him
to the edge was awesome.
Shows a lot of my game,
how dangerous it can be
against tough opponents.”
Before the match, Nadal
withdrew from the Miami
Open, which begins March
21. He is managing a
chronic condition in his
left foot.
comed the Premier
League’s move against
Abramovich, character-
izing the disqualification
as being part of holding
“those who have enabled
the Putin regime” to
account.
“We are open to a sale of
the club and would con-
sider an application for a
license to allow that to
happen,” the government
said.
The government now has
oversight of the buyout
process which the Raine
Group, an investment
bank, has been working on
since Abramovich last
week announced, before
being sanctioned, that the
club was up for sale.
One consortium
weighing a bid features
Todd Boehly, part owner of
the MLB’s Los Angeles
Dodgers, Swiss billionaire
Hansjorg Wyss and
Jonathan Goldstein, a
London-based property
investor who is CEO of
Cain International.
There was another finan-
cial hit to Chelsea on
Saturday when jersey
sleeve sponsor Hyundai
suspended its marketing
with the club until further
SPORTS
And to think The Players
Championship is not even at the
halfway point because of rain
that dumped 4 inches on the TPC
Sawgrass and saturated the
Stadium Course so much that it
took 54 hours and 16 minutes
from the start to the end of the
first round.
Earlier this week,
Medvedev received a
trophy commemorating his
status atop the ATP Tour
rankings. He displaced
Djokovic, who wasn’t
allowed to enter the U.S. to
play because he’s not vac-
cinated against COVID-19.
Medvedev has to reach
the quarterfinals in the
desert to stay in the top
spot.
“If I’m going to lose it
because I’m either going to
play a bad match or my
opponent is going to play
an amazing one, there is
the next tournament in
Miami,” he said. “That’s
how tennis is, every week
is a new story. Right now
it’s Indian Wells week and
I want to make it a good
story.”
Medvedev is among
players from Russia and
Belarus competing at
Indian Wells without flags,
symbols or anthems as a
result of Russia’s invasion
of Ukraine. The decision to
eliminate their national
identity was made by the
International Tennis
Federation and both tours.
Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before
their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at
Stamford Bridge stadium in London on Dec. 19, 2015.
notice and asked for its
logo to be removed. It fol-
lows main jersey backer
Three, the communica-
tions firm, also suspending
its partnership. But jersey
maker Nike is standing by
Chelsea ahead of a poten-
tial takeover.
Abramovich originally
hoped to divert the pro-
ceeds of a sale into a new
foundation for the victims
of the war in Ukraine,
which he is yet to condemn
Putin for launching. But
the government will only
sanction a sale that does
not see Abramovich ben-
efit as the government
tightens the screw on influ-
ential individuals it views
as enabling Putin’s regime.
The government did on
Saturday ease one of the
terms of the license
restricting Chelsea’s
finances, raising the cap on
Sunday, March 13, 2022 | Page C7
When darkness halted play held on for dear life, especially
Saturday evening, 27 players had when they came to the notorious
yet to tee off in the second round. island green on the par-3 17th.
The wind might not be quite as Over two days, only four
strong Sunday, but temperatures players hit into the water. On
when the round resumes were Saturday when play resumed,
expected to be in the upper 30s. the first four players couldn’t
Tom Hoge goes into Sunday find the green. Scottie Scheffler
with his name atop the leader- had the wind die and went long
board. He still has played only 18 into the water. Xander Schauffele
holes. He opened with a 6-under and Brooks Koepka caught a
66 on Thursday and was tied gust and came up short, as did
with Tommy Fleetwood, who was Collin Morikawa in the group
even par through three holes behind them.
when play was suspended. By the end of the day, 29 balls
Thomas and Watson shared had gone into the water.
the clubhouse lead at 3-under The average score for the
141. They left in a tie for 15th, and second round when play was sus-
six of the players ahead of them pended was 75.37, and it was cer-
LYNNE SLADKY
had not finished a single hole. tain to go higher Sunday
Kevin Kisner reached 6 under morning. The average was 75.41
in his second round until missing for the opening round in 2007, the
a short par putt on No. 4 and first year The Players was in
going from rough to water for a May. The highest ever for the
double bogey on the next hole. opening two rounds was 76.19 in
He shot 74 and was at 142. Dustin 2000 when it was in March.
Johnson birdied his final hole for Scoring tends to get lower after
a 73 and was at 142, with two the cut. The highest average
double bogeys on the par 5s over score for any round was 76.51 in
36 holes. the third round of 2005.
Those who spent more than six “Insane,” Thomas said to
hours on the course Saturday describe the challenge.
MARK J. TERRILL
Rafael Nada returns a shot to Sebastian Korda at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament Saturday in
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The San Francisco Giants’ grounds keepers prepare the field at Scottsdale Stadium on Saturday in
Scottsdale, Arizona, in preparation for the first day of workouts.
Spring forward: What to know
as MLB camps open Sunday
By Jake Seiner
AP Baseball Writer
TAMPA, Fla. — No more counterpro-
posals. No quarreling over the CBT.
From Clearwater, Florida, to Goodyear,
Arizona, it’s time for curveballs, Cracker
Jack and the perpetually inspiring clean
slate in the standings that comes at the
start of each season.
It’s time to play ball — or at least prac-
tice it. After a longer, darker winter than
normal, that’s reason enough to celebrate.
Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge and the
rest of baseball’s biggest stars are due at
spring training Sunday for the first offi-
cial day of preseason training following
the end of Major League Baseball’s 99-day
labor lockout.
Pitchers and catchers were supposed to
report a month ago, but camps across the
Grapefruit and Cactus leagues remained
closed while players and owners squab-
bled over the sport’s economics.
A deal was reached Thursday, and now
pitchers and hitters are ramping up for
four weeks of mad-dash preparations
ahead of a 162-game season that starts
April 7.
Jacob deGrom’s fastball popping in the
bullpen, Fernando Tatis Jr. taking aim in
BP, and Yadier Molina mentoring one last
pitching staff — just the sights and
sounds needed for a sport stuck in neutral
since December.
“Fans have been through quite a bit
lately,” Texas Rangers president Jon
Daniels said.
Here’s what to watch for when everyone
shows up:
THE NEW GUYS
Rangers fans are getting quite the
reward for their lockout patience — the
spring debuts of big-money free agents
Corey Seager and Marcus Semien, signed
for a combined $500 million before rosters
froze Dec. 2.
It might be hard to remember all that
happened back then, when clubs dropped
a one-day record $1.4 billion on free agents
before all went quiet.
Cy Young Award winner Robbie Ray left
Toronto for Seattle, and the Blue Jays
replaced him with former Giant Kevin
Gausman. The Tigers ponied up for short-
stop Javier Báez and starter Eduardo
Rodriguez. Even the Marlins tried making
a splash, dropping $53 million on Avisaíl
García.
A few more players have signed since
rosters unfroze Thursday, too. Clayton
Kershaw is back with the Dodgers, while
the rival Giants locked up lefty Carlos
Rodón to replace Gausman.
Another new face in the NL West: San
Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin, who
left the rebuilding A’s after 11 years in
Oakland.
Melvin’s old job went to Mark Kotsay,
getting his first crack at managing after a
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Half-century holdout over,
DH comes to National League
MATT YORK
17-year playing career. The Cardinals are
under new direction, too, promoting
35-year-old Oliver Marmol after Mike
Shildt was stunningly fired despite being
a finalist for NL Manager of the Year.
Of course, no team changed more than
the Mets. Max Scherzer came in as part of
owner Steve Cohen’s $254.5 million
spending spree, while new general
manger Billy Eppler hired veteran
skipper Buck Showalter to replace Luis
Rojas.
WHO’S MISSING?
The interruption of baseball’s offseason
left several stars in free agency limbo.
Sweepstakes are back underway for
Carlos Correa, Freddie Freeman, Kris
Bryant and well over 100 other free
agents. The trade market figures to heat
up, too.
The Yankees are expected to be at the
center of much of that action, eyeing
Correa or Trevor Story with a clear hole
at shortstop. And just like they did with
Brian McCann eight years ago, they could
pry Freeman away from Atlanta, spoiling
hopes that the fan favorite might be a
career-long Brave.
ABOUT THE SCHEDULE
Spring exhibitions will start March 17
— Red Sox-Twins and Diamondbacks-
Rockies begin the schedule. With so little
time left before opening day, big leaguers
figure to see more action in those games
than fans might be accustomed to in the
early days of spring training.
Rafael Devers, J.T. Realmuto and many
others players have been staying sharp at
high school and college fields across the
country, and it’s expected that most
starting pitchers will arrive Sunday
already prepared to go a few innings at a
time.
Of course, injuries remain a concern.
The whiplash of a coronavirus-shortened
2020 season giving way to a full slate in
2021 spurred rampant use of the injured
list. Another disruption to players’ rou-
tines was hardly ideal. That’s especially
true for players coming off injuries who
were forced to rehab this offseason amid
rules barring communication with team
officials — a regulation that MLB thought
necessary for legal protection amid the
lockout.
SHORT HOPS
The designated hitter was permanently
added to the National League as part of
baseball’s new labor contract. More rule
changes — like banning the shift, larger
bases and a pitch clock — aren’t likely to
be on the books until 2023 at least. ... The
Cleveland Guardians are breaking in new
gear and uniforms after unveiling their
new name in December. ... Sunday marks
the beginning of the end for Molina, who
plans to retire after the 2022 season, his
19th with the Cardinals.
By David Brandt
Associated Press
PHOENIX — It was an impressive
holdout for the National League, which
made it nearly 50 years staving off a full-
time designated hitter rule that the
American League implemented before
the 1973 season.
“We’ll continue to play by baseball
rules,” NL President Chub Feeney
famously said back then.
Well, the rules have finally changed.
Among the most noticeable switches in
MLB for the 2022 season will be that all
30 teams will use the designated hitter,
eliminating pitchers hitting and
changing one of the long-standing dif-
ferent quirks between the two leagues.
No more Madison Bumgarner taking
meaty cuts, no more Max Scherzer
trying to end last year’s 0-for-62 slump.
The extra hitter won’t be a completely
new concept in the NL: The league used
the DH in the coronavirus-shortened
season in 2020, in interleague games
when visiting AL parks and in the post-
season. There’s also the reality that
nearly every level of baseball — from
high school to college to the minor
leagues — usually uses the DH.
But the change is still substantial, and
it means some parts of the game will
almost certainly become endangered or
vanish — think sacrifice bunting, double
switches and a Bartolo Colon blast. On
the positive side, it also could add a jolt
of offense to a game that needs it. MLB
teams combined for a .244 batting
average last season, which was the
sport’s lowest mark since 1972 —-
pitchers didn’t help, combining to barely
hit over .100.
There are certainly some pitchers
upset that they don’t get to swing the bat.
Zack Greinke produced two singles in
last year’s World Series, including one as
a pinch-hitter for Houston.
But Diamondbacks infielder Josh
Rojas said he didn’t expect the change to
be a big adjustment.
“I do think it’ll help with run produc-
tion on the National League side,” Rojas
said. “Having that pitcher in the nine-
hole kind of cut off some rallies some-
times, or having to bunt him over instead
of swinging it. ... I don’t mind the DH.”
The DH position could also provide
more jobs for the sport’s 30-somethings,
who might not be as fleet in the field but
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Here are a handful of free agents who
could benefit most from having the DH
available for all teams:
Nick Castellanos: The 30-year-old has
developed into one of the best all-around
hitters in the game after batting .309 with
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2021 All-Star smacked 32 homers last
season and the 29-year-old is an on-base
machine when he’s healthy. There are a
lot of teams that would like that produc-
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Freddie Freeman: The Atlanta Braves
star is a solid first baseman, but he’s not
getting any younger at 32 years old. As
he looks for a big contact in free agency,
NL teams will be happy to know that
Freeman’s bat can remain in the lineup
even if he slows down some in the field.
Nelson Cruz: Now past his 30s, Cruz is
proving that 40-somethings can still
swing the bat, too. The 41-year-old has
spent a huge chunk of his career at DH
in the American League. Now there are
15 more teams in play who certainly
wouldn’t mind adding his bat. He’s got
449 career homers.
Eddie Rosario: He’s just OK defen-
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property business. Please send
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Assistants and Cooks.
Call 423-282-0280 to apply.
8ft, hydraulic trailer, type King
Disc, adjustable with hydraulic
cylinder, sealed bearings, A1
cond., $750.00
Diesel fuel tank, L type 100 gal.,
like new, $250.00
500 gal. farm diesel tank, good
cond., $150.00
Call: 423-794-6132, no text
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Heavy Duty Hay Wagon.
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International 14 inch New Plow
Shears (points). R8 W12 IH
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find. Set of two for $35.00.
Cultivator Hiller Sweeps left and
right cultivator points. Height
13 inches and 9 inches wide.
Difficult to find. Fits standard
cultivators. Great for hilling
potatoes. $15.00 for set of
two.
Call: 423-512-1799.
RIVER FRONTAGE!!
• 6BR, 6 Full & 2 Half Baths
• 260 Feet of River Frontage
• In-Law Suite on Main Level
• Billiards/Music Room
• 1000’s of Feet of Decking
MLS 9931179 $2,200,000
Conair compact fabric steamer,
model GS61R, new. A perfect
appliance for removing
wrinkles from any fabric,
including clothing, drapes,
linens, etc. Asking price is $49,
or best offer. It’s in
Jonesborough.
Call 423-913-3800.
Hamilton Beach Blender
(Drink master model)
1960’s; Mint condition! $30
Call 423-579-3725
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for $50. Call 423-963-0080
KitchenAid Pro 5 Plus Mixer -
Ice Blue - KV25G0X.
KitchenAid Pro 5 Plus Mixer in
like new condition. Comes with
the following: 5 qt. Stainless
Steel Bowl + Beater, Whisk,
Dough Hook + Owner’s Man-
ual. Powerful 525 Watt Motor
to tackle the larger jobs. Beau-
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(Retails new for $471.00)
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New Rotisserri Grill
(For healthy cooking)
Attachments included.
Real nice. Price reduced. $65
Call 423-765-1632
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Call or Text for more information
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Plano Model 747 Fishing TACK-
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some lures and reels included
3 REMOVABLE DRAWERS, 3
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Beautiful Mini Cavalier King
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Poodles. Very playful and
loving. Colors are black and
white, orange and red, and
RARE chocolate.
Hypoallergenic and non
shedding. Great companion for
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MALTI-POO PUPPIES
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& non-shedding. Located in
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Call: 276-565-6092
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2 1/2 ton garage floor jack $50
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Johnson City location call 423-
854-9496 after 10AM.
(2) Old Stainless Steel Matching
Swords with wooden wall
holder, New with shelves.
$200.00 FIRM.
Call: 423-474-3309
32 oz hot/cold coffee/tea insu-
lated server. Shatterproof (was
a gift - never used and still in
box). From Stock Pot $18.41.
Asking $9.00. Can send pics.
Smoke Free/ Pet Free Home.
423-483-0153, 8 am - 8 pm
Air Innovations Dual Atomizer
w/Aroma Tray Top Fill
Humidifier. Tabletop or Floor
Standing. Covers an XL Area.
With ceramic filter - 120 hour
run time - Black. New
Condition. Pictures & Manual
Available. Asking $45.00
Call: 423-946-6228
Barbie ornament
Springtime Barbie
Collectors Series: 1995 and
1996. Ballerina Barbie.
All 3 for $18.
Call: 423-202-5005.
Bell high volume foot pump!
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bikes, sport balls and
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Big Baskets - $5.00 each.
I have pictures. From a
smoke free home.
Call: 423-483-1392
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Easter. Chirstmas, Halloween,
and Fall Decorations for sale
all in excellent to new condi-
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Group of hardback murder /
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Call 423-276-5273
For Sale:
Home Brewing Equipment.
2 5-gallon glass carboys.
2 #7 stoppers.
2 fermentation air locks.
1 glass hydrometer with
jar and base.
1 carboy brush.
1 24" racking cane siphon
with hose.
1 triple scale hydrometer
1 10" plastic funnel
with screen.
1 Jet carboy and bottle
washer, brass.
17 or so Grolsch-style bottles.
1 2 oz. package sulphite crys-
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$100 OBO
423-239-7054
Hallmark Easter ornaments in
boxes with tags. Like new.
Apple Blossom Lane, Colorful
Goal Car, Lovely Lamb,
Jemima Puddle-
Duck. All 4 for $20.
Call: 423-202–5005.
Hallmark ornaments, like new,
in a box. Passenger Car
Cottontail Xpress, High Hopes
Tender Touches, Tigger in the
Garden Winnie the Pooh.
All 3 for $15.
Call: 423- 202–5005.
Hallmark ornaments like new in
the box. Tilling Time, Elegant
Lily, Twiddle Dee Tweet
collection. Treetop Duet.
All 3 for $15.
Call: 423- 202–5005.
"HERBIE THE LOVE BUG"
MOVIE POSTER
Large size, framed and in very
good condition. $70 OBO
Call 423-579-3725
HOT TUB COVER
Size: 91 inches X 100 inches
Color: Dark Teal
Less than a year old.
$300 Call 410-627-5006
KISS- GENE SIMMONS
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO
London Gardens 1977, 8 x 10,
very rare. $35
Call 423-579-3725
Metal 4 Leg - Mtn. Dew Party
Cooler/ Water Dispenser.
$75.00 423-747-6807
MINI ZEN GARDEN
Winter desktop garden, unused
in original box. $25
Call 423-276-5273
NEW hand painted hand saw on
wooden plaque. Saw is
29" long, plaque is 33" long
and 8 1/2" wide. $35
Call or text 423-408-9754
for pictures + more info
POTATO GUN
Heavy duty, electric lighter,
good condition, $75 OBO
Call 423-579-3725
Professionally framed
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II
MEMORIAL 37 cent stamp.
This is the first day of issue
size 18 inch by 14 inch.
$25.00. Other similar frame
stamp display available .
Call:423-512-1798 or 512-1799
Small combination safe.
App 24" x 18". $200.
276-386-6372
Three ornaments in a basket,
“Maypole Stroll”: Chester
Chipmunk, Ricky Rabbit, and
Dolly Duck. Like new in the
box. All for $15.
Call: 423-202–5005.
VHS & CD Tape Case Box
with 2 drawers. $5.00.
Have pictures. Smoke free
home. Call: 423-483-1392
4 Suits. Size 44. Pants 40 x 30.
9 Slacks 40 x 30, and 8 long
sleeve shirts, 17 x 34. All good
shape. $350 obo
Call 276-452-2301
BEAUTIFUL WEDDING DRESS
White, Full Length,Size S-
10-12. Satin Finish with Lace,
Pearl and Sequined Bodice.
Sleeveless with straps.
Plus, bra and waist cincher.
Exc. Cond. $125.
M/MIL Dresses. Variety of
Colors. Perfect for day or
evening wear. $25 - $40.
Plus some with matching shoes,
Sizes 7 - 7 1/2. $10.
Call: 423-282-2055
CHILDREN’S SNOW BOOTS
LIKE NEW.
GIRL’S - TiHERMOLITE Boots
with White Fleece lining. Size 4
BOYS - CRATER RIDGE,
Boots with camouflage design
on sides/dark brown trim Size 4
$14 for both pair of boots
Please call 423-282-3139
if you are interested.
"COACH" BROWN SIGNA-
TURE COATED CANVAS
BAG W/ Gold Chain Detail.
Size: 9"W x 6"L x 2 1/4"D
New - $25.00
Call: 423-349-0735, after 10 am
"EASY STREET" LADIES
Size 8 1/2 Wide. Black, Easy
Slip-On Swing Shoes.
New Retails $60, Sell for $30
Call: 423-349-0735, After 10 am
LADIES - NEED A LITTLE
PERK FOR A LOW PRICE?
Here are items to meet this cri-
teria. KIM - Heavy L/S Classic
Sweater w/Collar, Button Front,
Black, LAUREN - L/S Top,
Poly/Rayon, Deep Purple
JONES NEW YORK - L/S
V-neck Top, Cotton/Poly,Black
JONES NEW YORK - L/S V-
neck Light Sweater, Navy Blue
CROFT & BARROW - L/S Top,
Cotton/Poly, Navy/White Stripes
All are size L.
ALL ARE IN EXCELLENT
CONDITION. $25 for ALL.
Please call 423-282-3139 if you
are interested
MEN - DRESS UP YOUR
WARDROBE WITH THESE
MEN’S TROUSERS
AUSTIN MANOR - Wet
Weather Wool, Machine
Washable, Gray 36W X 34L
WOODMERE, Wool Blend
Pants, Brown 36W X 34L
WOODMERE, Wool Blend
Pants,Charcoal Gray,36W X34L
ALL for $15
Please call 423-282-3139
if you are interested.
Men’s ROCKY IRONCLAD steel
toe boots. New only worn in-
side house to test size. Bought
too big, Size 14W. Sells online
for $151.00 reduced to $65.00.
Call: 423-512-1799
(pictures available)
New Pair Men’s Size 9.5
Skechers - $35.00
423-747-6807
"SIMPLY VERA WANG"
Half Silver Chain Handbag.
10 1/2"W x 8"L x 5"D.
Color: Slate, New From Kohl’s.
Retails $90, Sell For $25.
Call: 423-349-0735, After 10 am
SIMPLY VERA L/S Pajamas,
Round Neck, Rayon/Spandex,
Excellent Condition, Black - M
KIM Ladies Sweatshirt and
Sweatpants, L/S, Cotton/Poly,
Royal Blue - M $15 for Both
Call: 423-282-3139
"ST. JOHN’S BAY" GREEN
SHOULDER BAG.
100% COWHIDE LEATHER
w/ Silver Tabs. Inside and
Outside Zipper Compartments.
10"W x 8"L x 4"D
Mint Cond. $20.00
Call: 423-349-0735, After 10 am
US NAVY PEACOAT
New condition! Size 42; $30
Call 423-967-9479
WINTER COAT
Eddie Bauer men’s large, long
gore tex coat, 100% nylon
lining abd 100% filled with
goose down w/ hood,
very heavy duty, extreamly
warm and water proof / snow
proof, tan in color. $150
Call 423-967-9479
1948 University of Tennessee
Yearbook. Featuring the
building of Neyland Stadium.
No markings or writing. Excel-
lent condition for 76 years old.
$20.00 J.C. 423-202-1374
4 occasional chairs. 2 are
matching pair. Excellent
condition. $25 423-782-9253
A 1960’s vintage 8" hard plastic
Indian Brave doll by Carlson
Dolls with all accessories.
Under glass dome. $30
Call 423-276-5273
Antique Black Hawk
Corn Sheller $70
423-765-1632
ANTIQUE COLLECTION OF
BEER STEINES
Beer glasses and shot glasses
from Germany and USA. All
are like new. Come take a
look! $5 OBO
Call 423-247-5583
Antique Tin Fire Engine, $1500.
Call: 423-474-3309, lv. msg.
Antique Tin Toy - Donald Duck.
New Cond. $1200.00
Call: 423-474-3309, lv. msg.
ANTIQUE WHITE ARMOIRE
Very unique and decorative.
Top has a rope design and criss
cross design on bottom. Top
opens for TV or can have
shelves put in for linens, etc.
3 small drawers in the center,
bottom opens w/ shelves and
drawers. 24"D x 44"W x 84"H
$300 Call 423-967-9479
Aroma Electric 3 in 1 Grillet-
Grills, Simmers and Steams.
Sells on Amazon for $36.54
+ tax and shipping. Rated
4.5 stars. New Condition.
Pictures & Manual Available.
Asking $20.00.
Call: 423-946-6228
Avondale by Covington Edition
stoneware. 8 dinner plates,
4 salad plates, and 3 cereal
bowls. Blue/white flowers,
Blue ring and trim. Most
pieces are new with tag.
17 pieces total. $15.00
J.C. 423-202-1374
Avon vintage cape cod glass
candle holder w/ glass flame
protector. $30
Call 423-276-5273
BAMBERGER SEWING
MACHINE
w/ caring case and sewing
instruction book.$60
Call 423-247-5583 and leave a
msg if no answer.
Brand New in Box - MaxLite
LED Desk Lamp. Matte Black.
110 volt, 220 lumens, flexible
neck, 22 year life span. USB
port for charging cell phone.
Great for computer desk or
simple night lamp. $6.00
J.C. 423-202-1374
Brass floor lamp. Basic style. 3
way switch, excellent condition
$22 423-782-9253
"BURWOOD COMPANY"
3 GOLD FRAMED MIRRORS.
(Hexagon, Octagon, & Square).
Mint Cond. Set of 3 For $15.
Call: 423-349-0735, After 10 am
Cast Iron Cobbler Shoe Form
Stand and Forms in very good
condition. Stand is 23 inches
tall, the forms are 6 1/2 inches,
8 1/2 inches and 9 inches .
This is from 1940’s - 1950’s.
Sell for $35.00.
Call: 423-512-1799. (pictures
upon request)
Coffee Pot - Makes one cup.
From a smoke free home.
$20.00 Call: 423-483-1392
Cuisinart convection/toaster
oven/broiler. Black stainless,
works great - like new cond.
(had to choose micro or toaster
oven due to room) used only 6
mos.Pd. $139.99,Asking $50.00
can do 6 pieces of toast at
1 time. Can send pictures of in-
side & out. Smoke free/pet free
home. 423-483-0153, 8a-8p
Farmhouse Style Table with
drawer (36 x 60) with four
chairs. Seats up to 6. Sturdy,
solid parawood - stained
natural. Purchased from
Whitewood Industries. Asking
$375.00, table alone cost more
than this. (we are downsizing).
Can send pictures.
Smoke Free/ Pet Free Home.
423-483-0153, 8 am - 8 pm
KENTUCKY DERBY FANS
100th Running Of The Roses
beverage glasses. Gold
embossed w/ names of winners
1875-1973. Unique and rare.
Set of 6 $55 423-282-2055
Life Ladder, model 2F-1, 15 foot
ladder. It provides instant fire
escape through a window. It’s
very flexible with chain-
connected steps and is very
compact (stored in a box that
measures 24 x 15 x 4 1/2
inches). It’s new, and is a very
good bargain for $17. Come
and take a look..it’s in
Jonesborough.
Call 423-913-3800
Matching pair of heavy plain
gold table lamps. Very pretty
and elegant. Perfect condition.
$45 for set.
423-782-9253
Priscilla style ruffled curtains.
Very full and beautiful. Cusom
made by Dorothy’s Originals.
Size of each panel is 81" x 62"
Perfect condition and can be
crisscrossed on windows.
Smoke and animal free home.
8 pairs avaliable. $22.50
423-782-9253
Rainbow E series vacuum.
Excellent condition, paid
$1699.00, will sell for $350.00
423-484-7145
Set of Books. The Preacher’s
Homilitic Commentaries 1895
Edition. The complete Old Tes-
tament and the New
Testament. Commentary of
Luke is missing. 31 books
plus 2 indexes. $65.00
J.C. 423-202-1374
TV Console for the corner style
44", Fits TV’s up to 50". Has two
open shelves then below has
2 doors with 2 shelves inside.
Very sturdy. Finish is graywash.
Purchased at Target.com,
ordered 2 this one didn’t fit in
my other room. In box - we ck’d
all there & good cond. easy
assembly. Must see, can send
pics. Pd. $239.99, asking
$150.00.Smoke Free/ Pet Free
Home. 423-483-0153, 8a - 8p
VIETNAMESE CERAMIC
ELEPHANT. 22x22.Colorfully
painted. Republican Alert. $75
423-282-2055
Vintage tupperware fresh fruit
and vegetable sectioned
server w/ high top lid cover. $25
Call 423-276-5273
2 Matching living room chairs.
Light gold trimmed in blue.
Used very little. Riverly house.
Pet and smoke free home.
$400 for all.
Will sell separately
Call 423-765-1632
2 Tables - One is Black with
a Shelf. $25.00.
One is Light with 2 doors and a
shelf and will swivel. $30.00
I have pictures of both.
From a smoke free home.
Call: 423-483-1392
Antique Ladder back chair
Good condition. $65
Call 423-765-1632
Beautiful solid wood, oak,
Rolltop computer desk. Has 8
cubbies, pullout printer drawer
with storage under top and
printer drawer lock, 52" high
29" and 48" wide. New
conidtion, perfect. $450
423-782-9253
BEAUTYREST MATTRESS /
ADJUSTABLE FRAME
Near Perfect Condition, locals
only (seller will not respond to
out-of-towners), less than 1
year old, Greeneville, TN,
Great price $1,800 OBO,
serious potential buyers only, no
delivery, 423-278-4277
BEDROOM SUITE
King size bed, foundation and
mattress, two nightstands,
chest and dresser. $650
Call 423-502-1545.
Big La-Z-Boy Recliner
Beige fabric. Excellent Cond.
$175.00 FIRM
Call: 423-727-1818
Brass table with glass top
27" long 20" high. $10 Call or
text 423-408-9754 for
pictures & more info
BROWN ELECTRIC
RECLINING LOVE SEAT
$25.00. Text 423-579-0259
Dark wood gun cabinet, holds
six guns, with storage drawer.
65" X 25". $65
Call 423-213-5789

Home sales can still get

a hold on growth
Submitted by:
By Rick Chantry
Market watchers warned it was coming.
But February’s NETAR Home Sales
Report was still a shock to some. After
a steady diet of sales gains for a decade,
seeing “sales were flat” is so foreign to
some locals that it raised eyebrows.
Just how flat remains to be seen.
Despite the geopolitical chaos, inflation
uncertainty, and stock market gyrations,
there’s a chance sales will gain a toe-
hold as we get into the prime home
buying and selling season. That’s
especially true if investors flee the
market and buy U.S. Treasury bonds.
That would be more short-term relief on
interest rates in what is shaping up to be
a volatile housing market in the coming
months.
There’s little chance we will see growth
like it was during the past several years
for a simple reason. There’s not enough
inventory to support it. But it would be
a mistake to ignore the growth coming
out of the ground. All three of the
region’s major markets see a wave of
new inventory coming.
One of the biggest headwinds is the
possibility that new home, townhomes,
build-to-rent properties, and multi-
family developments get stuck in the
building phase. There’s also a fledgling
increase in the share of homeowners are
warming up to selling in the upcoming
months. That’s understandable because
many think we are at or near the sellers’
market’s peak.
Home sales are a month, or less, inventory. At the same
function of inventory, time, new pending sales outnumber
and while there isn’t new listings, so there’s little if any
much of that, the dip inventory growth. It’s hard to get a
in mortgage rates has precise handle on how much the new
increased the urgency pending sales vs. new listings ratio
to buy before they get affects active inventory because some
back on the increasing of it is lost in a fast-moving market.
track. By the time this But it’s early. March is typically when
column is published, more listings come to market for the
there will be another spring and summer seasons.
weekly fixed rate
mortgage average. It Data hawks are watching the median
listing price vs. the sales prices.
RICK comes on the heels
of a decline for two February’s typical listing price was
up 11% from January. But the typical
CHANTRY weeks in a row. That
sales price was almost 18% below list.
That doesn’t mean Facebook posts
gave buyers a little extra buying power to
about over-list sales are hype. But it
does show there’s some negotiating at
leverage against higher prices. However,
FED Chairman Jerome Powell has play.
offered an unusual preview of anticipated The best advice for sellers and buyers
policy action. He says he will recommend is to bore down on the local market
a quarter-point interest rate increase when information. It’s dynamic and may
the FED meets later this month. While not look like what you read about
the central bank does not set mortgage
rates, its actions often influence them.
home sales or prices in the mass media
reports.
Politics aside, here’s the rule of thumb to
consider. A 1% change in interest rates
equals a 13.2% increase in home prices. NETAR is the largest trade association
While it’s likely that interest rates will in the Northeast Tennessee, Southwest
increase by a point – or a little more – it Virginia region representing over
won’t come overnight. The top-end of 1,500 members and 100 affiliates
the current forecasts for a fourth-quarter involved in all aspects of the
average is 4% by the Mortgage Bankers’ residential and commercial real estate
Ass., RealtyTrac and Kiplinger. The industries.
National Association of Realtors®’
forecast is 3.7%.
Currently, the region has barely a month’s
inventory of homes for sale. Some
city and major submarkets have a half
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Complete solid Cherry bedroom
set. 7-drawer chest with
landscape mirror/matching 2
drawer nightstand made by
Vaughn Bassett. Matching
bedframe with slat headboard
and footboard by Vaughn
Bassett. Simmons Beauty Rest
Pillow Top queen size mattres
s/box spring (does not include
comforter, pillows or sheets).
RARELY used. $800 Email:
lpgjerry67@gmail.com for
pictures.
CURIO CABINET
Made by Pulaski Furniture. Very
decorative w/ marble top, all
glass front and the side.
17" D x 72" W x 36" H. $275
Call 423-967-9479
DINING ROOM TABLE
Modern cherry wood w/ 2
pedestal legs. Can also be used
as a ping pong table, game
table or cards. Good condition;
42" W x 71" long with 1"
extension.$100
Call 423-967-9479
Farmhouse Style Table with
drawer (36 x 60) with four
chairs. Seats up to 6. Sturdy,
solid parawood - stained
natural. Purchased from
Whitewood Industries. Asking
$375.00, table alone cost more
than this. (we are downsizing).
Can send pictures.
Smoke Free/ Pet Free Home.
423-483-0153, 8 am - 8 pm
Golf balls. 6 doz. Prov 1
Plus many, many more. $225
423-963-0080
LEATHER SOFA W/ QUEEN
BED Light grey in color, ,
used for 1 year. $650
Call 423-335-1044
Mahogany Dining room table +
6 upholstered chairs. Table
measures 54” X 54” round.
W/24” extension measures 54”
W X 76” L. Excellent condition.
$450. (New cost $3000).
Pictures on request.
423-293-0439
Medium size easy chair
(rocker), Medium Blue in color
Very good Condition, No tears,
No worn places. $40.
Pictures on request.
423-293-0439
New electric recliner, beige,
$250.00 brand new
Beige sleeper sofa, queen,
$450.00
Round oak table with leaf & high
back chairs, $150.00
Call: 423-330-9702
QUEEN BED - $250
Queen size bed with mattress
and box spring. Made by
Stanley, in like new condition.
Headboard included.
6 drawers under the bed
All drawers are solid wood. The
rest is very thick veneer.
Light oak color.
(Also have matching nightstand
- $75.00)
From a pet and smoke
free home.
Extremely clean.
Pick up near Volunteer HS right
off 11W in Church Hill
Will need help to load it
onto your truck.
Call or text: 609-312-9517
Stressless Reclining Chair/
Ottoman. Dark Brown Leather.
Brand New. $275.00 FIRM.
Call; 423-727-1818
TABLE & 4 CHAIRS
(Bamboo) $250
Call 423-345-3199
TEMPUR-PEDIC MATTRESS
(Used approximately for 18
months) $625
Call 423-335-1044
TV TABLE
3 shelves, black, very nice! $75
Call 423-345-3199
Two French Provincial end
tables, heavy table, with pull out
drawers, can send pictures.
$30 / each. Call 423-502-0997
WROUGHT IRON CHAIRS
(4) black, 10 dollars each.
Can send pictures!
Please call 423-502-0997
50" flat screen TV, good
condition, $50.00
Call: 423-330-9702
ASUS LAPTOP, 14 inch
display, WIN10. excellent
condition - hardly used. $200.
Call or text for pictures.
615-285-8567
LONGMIRE: The Complete
Series 1-6 DVD. Ex. Cond.
$25.00. 423-926-0630
Sony XBR 3-D 52" 1080P TV
with Sony glasses and Sony
3-D Blu-ray player and Sony 5.1
surround system with sub
woofer all in great condition
will sacrifice for $850.00 423-
484-7145 or 423-256-3331
Table-top 19" Insignia TV
with ROKU streaming remote.
$75.00 FIRM.
Call: 423-727-1818
Radio Shack 100 channel
mobile scanner, PRO-2046,
new in box, $100.
Call 423-213-5789
RX-DP10VBK Stereo Receiver,
can send pictures. $200
Call 423-502-0997
Black & Decker 10,000 btu
Air Conditioner. Portable,
(on wheels). Still in Box.
$300.00 FIRM.
Call: 423-727-1818
100 ft. of four wire copper
house wiring for new home
construction or repairs.
Price $100.00 Call after
10:00 A.M. 423 725 3170
Box of Brass Plumbing Fittings.
Various Sizes - $40.00 for All.
423-747-6807
*A CLEAR CHOICE
* Window Cleaning
* Pressure Washing
* Gutter Cleaning
* Screen Repair
www.clearchoicewc.com
423-943-7575
ACE SIDING
Siding / Roofing / Windows /
Storm Repairs / Ins Claims/
Residential /Commercial. 17 yrs
Exp / Local References /
Free Estimates.
Licensed, Bonded & Insured
Call Rocky:
423-794-6145
HOME IMPROVEMENT &
LANDSCAPING.
Let’s see what we can do to
"Spring" you in to Summer!
Remodeling,Tile Work, Roof-
ing, Flooring & Trim Work, Sid-
ing, Landscaping, Tree Trim-
ming. All Around Handyman!
Free Estimates 423-433-9003
Keith’s Home Repair
All types of small jobs around
the house, Plumbing, Rental
Property Maint. Free Est.
423-306-5193
Z Schwartz Construction Z
Solutions
Decks and screened-in
porches. State licensed &
insured.Call (423)-329-4398
or for more info go to
schwartzconstructionsolution
.com
SIMPLE MAN
REMODELING +
Bathroom remodeling, tile,
painting, flooring, retaining
walls, patios, decks,
framing, vinyl siding, carport
enclosures, landscaping,
porch, etc. Call Rodney for
a free estimated.
(423)-343-4449
Wholesale Construction
Remodeling windows, doors,
concrete pads, privacy fences,
and all other work.
Licensed and insured
423-408-3041
Let us help you reach potential
clients by advertising in the
Johnson City Press Business
& Service Directory
To Advertise: 423-722-0509 or email classifieds@ johnsoncitypress.com
We accept prepayment by check, credit card or cash for your convenience.
CEILING FAN
Harbor Breeze, 48" black,
3 speeds
(forward & reverse), $50
Call 423-357-8558
CERAMIC TILE
12" X 12" - 140 pcs. in box.
Beige. $70.00
Call: 423-753-8273
Wood Building materials
Building 30 x 40. To be
removed. Reduced to $4,000
276-452-2301
1957 Chevrolet Nomad -
Green 1:18 scale - Die Cast
Metal - Road Legends $35
623-910-5653
30 Video Games, PS2 and Wii
and Game Console.
$30.00 for All. 423-747-6807
HOT WHEELS
New in pack (168) All for $125.
Will sell separately.
Call or text 423-408-9754
for pictures & more info.
Hot Wheels Treasure Hunts
excellent condition, $10.00
Call: 423-845-0157
Jonesborough
Large Doll House with Furniture
55 1/2" long, 37" high and 13"
wide. $50 Call or text
423-408-9754 for pictures and
more info.
Marvel Incredible Hulk #181
Comic Book – 1974. Missing
Cover & Value Stamp. $500.
Good Condition.Jonesborough
(423-845-0157).
MTH O Scale C&O Reefer Car
– Stk # 20-94014, Rd # 23161.
From 2000 MTH Premier
Catalog. In Box. Excellent
Condition. $50.
Jonesborough. (423-845-0157).
.243 ammo. 13 boxes; .32
ammo, 2 boxes. $450 for all.
Will sell separately
276-386-6372
(4) Rifle Scopes: 1- Tasco,
2 - Bushnell Banners (3x9x40)
1 - Burris (1.75x6). $30 - $60
Will sell or trade for firearms.
423-477-7518
WILL’S CARPENTRY
Custom Decks, Porches,
Remodeling, Trim Work,
Repairs & More. 25 yrs Exp.
Lic. & Ins. 423-491-2905
ALL STAR LAWN SERVICES -
INSURED LAWN SERVICES
mowing, weeding, mulching,
debris removal, tree services.
Call423-620-5405
GREEN’S LAWN &
HOME MAINTENANCE
Landscaping, Decks,
Tree Work & Mulching
Pressure Washing,
Gutters, Odd Jobs,
Lic. & Ins. Call 423-723-
9877or 423-863-3445
LAWN CARE 2022
Call 423-612-5373 for all of your
lawn care needs.
Free estimates! Serving the
Tri- cities area.
TRI-CITY LAWN CARE
Mow edge and blow
Licensed and insured.
Free estimates
(813) 300-4871
TriCityLC@yahoo.com
& TOLLEY PAINTING &
ALL projects big & small,
difficult homes, wallpaper
removal, cabinet refinishing,
20 years experience. We
care about what we do!
FREE ESTIMATES!
Call (423)-612-9264
** NO LIMIT ROOFING**
Specializing in leaks and
repairs 28 yrs. Get it done
right. Licensed & all
work guaranteed.
Free estimates!
423-297-1069
Service Guide Specials
4 lines 30 days 10 lines 30 days
$118.99
Brandon Spotting Scope
80 mm. $200
423-392-4322
CZ 52 9mm Pistol. Ex. Cond.
With holster, 2 clips, &
cleaning rod. $600 firm
276-386-6372
Embark brand large (75 cm)
anti-burst fitness ball. It
includes a dual-action hand
pump. It’s new, and is a good
bargain for $15 (about half-
price). It’s in Jonesboough.
Call 423-913-3800
Fishing Reels: Old Baitcaster,
Mitchells, Johnsons and
Zebco. $5.00 - $10.00
Also, Old Rods: $5.00 - $15.00
Will sell or trade for firearms.
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masonry, restoration demo,
custom design, Patios, retaining
walls, walkways, driveways,
fireplaces. Concrete demo
& replace. Excavator & Skid
Steer Service. 26 years exp.
Call 423-431-8573
HANDYMAN SERVICES
Over 30 yrs. exp. Installation
repairs, bathroom repairs,
dry wall, paint, plumbing,
windows, decks, siding,
No job too big or too small.
Call me today for a free
estimate! 24 hour service.
Call (423) 963-7003
One call does it all!
T - M PLUMBING
Honest work for an honest
price! General plumbing
repairs. Toliets, showers,
bathtubs, kitchen sinks,
leaks, clogs, pipes and
drains. FREE estimates.
Contact 423-791-7597
A1 DON’S Tree &
Stump Removal
Topping, trimming, removal,
lot land cleaning, 75’ Bucket
truck, brush grinder, logging
Lic & Ins’d. Senior Citizen
Discount & Free Estimate
Emergency Storm Damage
Call or text 423-773-1816
AAATRUE TALENT
TREE SERVICE
Family Owned & Operated
Get a head start on
Spring Trimming &
Landscaping needs.
Lic./ Ins./ Free Estimates
26 Years Experience
(423) 268-0202
We Now Accept All Major
Credit Cards.
DOGWOOD TREE WORKS
Topping, Removal, Stumps,
Firewood, Lot / Land Clearing,
Bobcat, Masonry Work! Crane
Serv. Insured 423-773-0449
HAVE SPURS WILL CLIMB
TREE SERVICE
Climbing, Felling, Contract
Climbing, Free Estimates,
Quality Work at Reasonable
Rates. Call 423-574-2122
$150.00
Full size trampoline, kids have
outgrown $25 You haul.
Tusculum location.
Golf bag and pull cart $5.00
each
Call 423-854-9496 after 10AM,
will text pictures
Heddon river runt
spook floater fishing lure $12
623-910-5653.
Knives - over 80. No Case
brand. $2.00 - $10.00.
Will sell or trade for firearms.
423-477-7518
MOJO 32" skate board, Fun 20"
unicycle. Monster Pogo Stick.
All in VGC.
$60.00 CASH for all 3.
423-737-6775
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NEW CZ 75 P01 9mm with box KINK CURB BMX BIKE
two 15rd mags and (2021) Perfect for any rider
paperwork.May trade on other looking for a solid first bike.
handguns. Call or text Great condition! $150 OBO
423-794-7057 Text is best. Call or text 276-275-6264
If no answer, leave a message.
RIP DECK, made by Perfect Fit- Can send pictures.
ness. Complete with workout
instructions and in like new REALM VXR .08 MOUNTAIN
condition. A good value at $25 BIKE in excellent condition.
.00 (less than half price). Also Realm Mountain Bike features
great for a work-up before the an Attractive Blue Unisex Me-
tough stuff, the Precision
Speed Rope. Brand new and a
dium Frame (Rust Free). 18
Speed Shimano Shifting,
26"Mountain Tires with Ample
real bargain at $7.50 (less
than ½ the cost elsewhere). tread, Front Shocks to smooth
Bargain offer $30 for both. the ride, Front and rear caliper
Take a look, in Jonesborough. brakes. $85.00
Call 423-913-3800 BIke on a Budget! Aluminum
frame Mountain Bike. Next
Ruger 10/22 Rifle - .22 LR. Avalanche Mt. Bike, features
Copper Mica Special Edition. medium red and gray unisex
Model #21139. Like New in Box. aluminum lighter weight frame.
$350.00. Jonesborough. 18 Speed Shimano Shifting.
(423-845-0157). Front shocks for a smoother
ride. 26" Mountain Tires. Front
and rear caliper brakes.
$65.00
Phone/Text: 423-220-7331.
Pictures Available.
Olympian Back Pack w/wheels
and a pull-up handle for
rolling. Like new, with a bargain
price of $25. Come and take a
look...it’s in Jonesborough.
KAYAK - WILDERNESS
Call 423-913-3800.
SYSTEMS
OSPREY EXOS 48 Tsunami 145 with rudder, spray
ULTRALIGHT HIKING skirt, and paddle. Excellent
BACKPACK. condition. Stored in garage.
The Exoform harness and New $1700. Experienced
AirSpeed ventilated suspension $1200. Unicoi County
combine with trail-friendly 423-833-7514
features like Stow-on-the-Go
trekking pole carry plus many
additional features to make
your backpacking trip as
comfortable and enjoyable as Lowpro Pro AWII Camera bag.
possible. Model: Exos 48, $300
Size: Small, 2746 cu. in., 423-392-4322
Weight: 2.6 lbs, tunnel green.
Like new! $140 Nikon AFS 120-300F-28E ED
Call 423-926-0630 SR VR Lens. $9,400
423-392-4322
Nikon AFS VR 600 MM
F/4 Lens $5,900
423-392-4322
Hamblen County Board of Education is accepting bids on the
following: elevator service, paint, playground mulch, garage pickup &
resodding of the practice fields at East & West High School.
Bid packets are available in the office of the Supervisor of Maintenance at
353 Boyd School Road, Morristown, TN 37813, M-F 8:00 – 3:00,
telephone 423-587-4800. Sealed bids marked with type of bid on the
envelope will be accepted in the office of the Supervisor of Maintenance
until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at which time they will be
opened.
Hamblen County Board of Education reserves the right to accept/reject
any/all bids
Maintenance office will be closed March 28th through April 1st for Spring
Break.
POLICE ENTRANCE EXAMS
The City of Bristol Tennessee is accepting applications for
entry-level positions of POLICE OFFICER . POST certified
Police Officers may be eligible to receive a bonus incentive
up to $2,000. To be eligible to take the Police Officer exam,
applicants must complete an application online at the City of
Bristol Tennessee website at http://bristoltn.org/jobs.aspx ;
and apply under the Police Officer job title. Deadline for
applications: Thursday, March 31, 2022. Applications
received after the deadline will be held until the next test.
EOE
FIRE ENTRANCE EXAMS
The City of Bristol Tennessee is accepting applications for
entry-level positions of FIREFIGHTER .TENNESSEE Certified
Paramedics may be eligible to receive a bonus incentive up to
$2,000; and Firefighters who have attended Basic Firefighting
Academy and obtained Firefighter II Certification may also be
eligible to receive a bonus incentive up to $2,000 in accordance
with City policy. Applicants who have both these certifications
could receive a total incentive package of up to $4,000.
Applications must be completed at the City of Bristol Tennessee’s
website at www.bristoltn.org. Deadline for applications:
Thursday, March 31, 2022. Applications received after the
deadline will be held until the next test . EOE
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Nikon D-780 DSLR Camera
$2,200
423-392-4322
All FIREWOOD
Split hardwood, Big Load.
423-773-0449 or 232-0470
1-Bolens BL110 Weedeater
$40.00
1-Weedeater brand Weedeater
FL20 with new carburator
$45.00
1-Homelite Chainsaw 240 with
case 16"
$60.00
1-Homelite Weedeater straight
shaft
$40.00
Call after 10:00 A.M.
423 725 3170
Craftsman garden cart [pull be-
hind riding mower] like new
$125
Stihl 14" chain saw $100.00
Johnson City location call 423-
854-9496 after 10AM, will text
pictures
CRAFTSMAN SELF
PROPELLED WALK BEHIND
LAWN MOWER $40
Just needs a tune up. Starts
right up. Pictures are
available. Serious inquiries only.
TEXT (804)317-4112
A member of the franchise system of BHH Afifiliates, LLC.
20 ACRE ESTATE 5BR 5BA in
Gray. Fenced pasture and horse barn.
Covered and open outdoor living with
FP, grill, wet bar. Large cook’s kitch-
en with granite and stainless. Wood-
paneled library office, bsmt rec room,
and more! $1,574,900 9930625
WATAUGA RIVER 3BR 2½ BA
offers main level living and an open
plan with relaxed and defined living
spaces. Bonus room and 3-car garage.
The covered back veranda overlooks
a secret garden, and the front porch
views the river. $550,000 9926634
423-282-2411
JOHN DEERE LA135
GARDEN TRACTOR
22HPV -Twin - 42 inch cut.
Hydrostatic. $800.00
423-753-3018
Push Mower-Murray large
wheels, adjustable, height.
Looks and runs great.
$150 obo 423-357-8558
Riding mower. Murray, 13.5 hp.
40 in. cut. New belts and
blades. Looks and runs great.
$695 obo
Call 423-357-8558
Toro zero turn mower, 42” time
cutter, smart speed control, 22.5
hp-commercial v-twin engine,
used one season for $2500.
Jonesborough, TN
614–260–6056
Health Equip. Bundle. 1
wheelchair w/cushion , 1 folding
steel frame bedside commode,
1 bench for bathtub, & 1
medical back brace. $350 obo
Call 276-452-2301
PORTABLE POTTY CHAIR
Good condition; $15
Call 423-345-3199
Jennifer Hyder
office
423-282-2411
cell
423-588-8331
87 ACRES +1400 ft creek frontage,
+/-1.2 miles bordering Cherokee NF.
Strongly flowing creek, pastures, level
timber acreage, gently sloping woods,
2 bridges (one by Thomas Constr). 2-
3BR cottage in great setting. South of
Jonesborough. $699,000 9931384
OVER 2 ACRES Build your dream
home in Barton’s Creek, a neighbor-
hood in Boones Creek area. Zoned
for Lake Ridge Elementary. Privacy
and great views on a cul-de-sac near
all the north Johnson City amenities
and Boone Lake. $119,000 9923099
www.BHHSgregcox.com
FOR RENT: 2 Bedroom 1 Bath Two cemetery plots in Garden 2 Leather jackets
WANT TO BUY: Riding apartment located convenient of Everlasting Life III, East 1 men’s - XL with chaps 36
Mowers, Zero Turns, Log to Gray and Boones Creek. Lawn Cemetery. $2500 each. Length, 1 ladies -L with pair
Splitters and Gasoline Stove, refrigerator, water and 423-578-6763 chaps 30 Length $100 per set.
Golf Carts. Any condition! trash included. NO PETS. If no answer leave a message OR $150 for all 4 pieces
Call 423-202-6962 $600 per month plus $600 Ask for Terry 423-360-8871
security deposit. 12 month
lease. Credit, employment, DIRTY BILL JACKET by the
and rental history late, world-famous, leather-
will be checked. crafter of Roan Mt., not a
Call: 423-426-2581 knock-off, handmade by him,
BABY BED - $40.00 all original, mint condition, lightly
423-747-6807 **REDUCED RATE** worn, carefully stored. $1500
1BR apts, central H & A, 1 BUYING ALL VEHICLES (423) 429-0305
Dark Mahogany Baby Bed. w/d hk-ups, 2 min to ETSU.
It’s Like New. From a smoke Running or Junk H-D LOGO STEEL PADLOCK,
$575/mo +dep. Water included, Cars, Trucks, Vans,
free home. $90.00 No Pets. 423-557-6493 Circa 1988, seldom used, both
Call: 423-483-1392 Buses, Salvage. Pay up to keys, chrome, mint condition.
$1700.00 Free Pick-Up No longer available, collectors
Call:24/7 423- 943-3634
item for H-D buffs. Sell $50
(423) 429-0305
2003 LEXUS LS430
COSTUME JEWELRY 4 door, Like New Condition, SHOEI RF-1200 Motorcycle
Helmet – Size Large. Yellow.
Collectors, Dealers, Sellers 70,400 miles.
Necklace and earring sets. Call for more information. Snell Approved. DOT
5 for $ 15.00. Excellent cond. BEAUTIFUL! 423-542-6693 Certified. Like New. $200
Boones Creek. Call 282- 2055 This 3BR / 2BA is simply Jonesborough. (423-845-0157).
for appt. stunning! Updated interior to A 1985 CORVETTE
include, new kit, new BA’s,
Necklace with Large Anchor, new flrs, new HP. VERY
with rope, stainless steel. $200. CLEAN HOME w/ a very
Call: 423-474-3309, lv. msg. WE BUY JUNK CARS
affordablepayment. In-house
financing avail! Don’t miss this! Cars, Trucks, Vans
Starter Set of Jewelry Repair Paying up to $800.00
Call Sandy for more
Tools, Casting Equipment, info: (423)952-0805 OR Free Pick-Up
Watch Battery and Band Call: 24/7 423-943-3634
(423)360-3632
Replacement Tools with Red exterior and red interior,
Instruction Tapes & Books. second owner, always garage
$2,000.00 kept, new tires, 27,900 miles.
Please Text: 423-579-4663 $16,000 firm.
1 cemetery lot in Masonic Call 423-433-7204 4 Firestone Destination Tires
Garden at Oak Hill $2,000. TOP DOLLAR PAID for size 245/60/18 4 to 5 32’s
Call 423-357-3430 leave a unwanted running or junk tread left. All 4 for $50 OBO
message or call after 6pm vehicles. Car, trucks, buses or Call or Text for more informa-
any salvage. If no answer leave tion 423-677-2406
1 cemetery plot in Masonic msg or text 423-557-9576 Honda Ridgeline 18 Inch
Garden at Oak Hill cemetery Wheels Like came on a 2016
For sale $2,000
Leave message 423-357-3430
to 2019 Ridgeline Aluminum 2
Nice condo in NJC 2BR/1.5BA, lots wheels, 1 is in excellent condi-
of closets, new appls, w/d hook-up, tion with center 1 has a small
1200 sq. ft., No Pets $675.00 + 2 burial plots in Washington
curb scrape. Will take $100.00
$675.00 deposit. Credit check & County Memory Gardens 2008 TOWN & COUNTRY
references required. Call: Plots are located in the Garden TOURING VAN for both. Call or Text for more
423-282-3472 of Everlasting Life. Metal Flake Blue, All Power, information. Can Text Pictures
Asking $2600 for both plots. Stow and Go, Air & Heat 423-677-2406
Seller will pay transfer fees. Good, Cruise. Recent Hub
Rotor replaced - $300 for 4 tires. 20,000 miles. Hankook.
Call Terry @ 423-360-8871 P265/70R16 111T
parts and labor. Bought at
Beautiful Cemetery Plots (Two), 193,000 miles, Now has Originally $740 for all.
1BR exceptional value, Easy Access. East Lawn Will sell for $350
North JC conveniently 205,782 miles. Runs well,
Cemetery, Garden of Memories. Strong 3.8 engine, 16-21 276-452-2301
located near mall, w/d $2700 each. 423-288-4991.
hk-ups all appliances, mpg. Few Flaws, Looks Engine - Briggs 7 3/4 HP.
Leave a Message. Good, No Rattles. Can be Craftsman. Run’s great.
CH&A 24-7 manager. No
Pets. Only $450/mo + seen at Greyhound Bus Used very little. $125
$400 deposit Station, on side. 423-357-8558
423-335-3161 $4,795.00, OBO.
Serious Inquiries Only! FOUR (4) HUB CAPS
View @ www.triapt.com
No Dealers. Came off a 1979 Ford truck.
Call: 423-202-4273, $100 FIRM Call 423-345-3199
ask for Darrell.
Four vintage six lug 16.5 X 7
five spoke factory GM
aluminum wheels with center
caps. $250 Call 423-213-5789
12ft utility trailer
$1500, OBO Rear Black Bumper Cover
423-957-0832 1987 Volkswagen GTI 16 valve.
Not in mint condition, but is a
Travel Trailer - 2022 Grand Design 297RSTS Rear living model with A 6ft X 12ft utility trailer great replacement for
all extras. 50 amp service, 2 ducted AC’s, 4-seasons Good Condition damaged bumper or to use in a
protection, 21 ft LED awning, outdoor kitchen, sofa bed and 2 $1500, OBO, 423-957-0832 restoration. Will probably fit
heated vibrating theater seats, island kitchen with large deep sink other years. $10.00
SAVE YOURSELF $100! J.C. Cell: 423-202-1374
with overhead faucet and pullout sprayer, full sized microwave, A 5 x 8 trailer for lawn tractor.
residential booth dinette with two dining chairs, rear queen BR Excellent condition, less 75 Two Continental Pure Contact
with great space and w/d hookup. MUCH MORE! Best available 4 miles on it Load capacity LS All-Season Radial Tires.
year warranty conveys. Never traveled, only 360 rt miles from and is 2000 lbs. $800 205/60R 16 92V. $80.00 FIRM
Call 423-207-6944
return to dealer. Spent 6 wonderful months in campground, until Call: 423-727-1818
jobs changed. New comparably equipped identical model MSRP New in town? Get a place to live quick . . . New in town? Get a place to live quick . . .
is $63k+ Titled already, $42k firm, 423-956-0441 read today’s Classified Ads! Dial 722-0509 read today’s Classified Ads! Dial 722-0509

205 GRAHAM STREET, ELIZABETHTON, TN 204 & 206 WILLOW STREET, ROAN MOUNTAIN, TN
DIRECTIONS: From 19E take Broad Street to McDonald’s. DIRECTIONS: From Elizabethton take 19E to Roan Moun-
Turn right onto S Lynn Avenue. At the stoplight turn left tain and turn right onto Main Street. Cross the river and
onto Mill Street. Take the next right onto Cambridge and turn left onto Stratton Street. Turn right onto Willow
then the first right onto Graham Street. Houses are at the Street. Home and garage apartment are on the right. Fol-
end on the right. See Signs. low Signs.

REAL ESTATE: Investor’s/Flippers opportunity! These homes REAL ESTATE: Flippers opportunity! Sit outside and en-
both need extensive repairs and updates and would make joy country living! This 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath one level brick
good rentals this close to town. The main home is a fixer home has investor potential and needs a little refreshing.
upper featuring 2,212 total square feet with 4 bedrooms Home features 1,414 square feet with a living room, dining
along with 1.5 baths. The home has a kitchen, living area, room, kitchen, and laundry area along with a large carport.
and a couple other bonus rooms that could be used as of- Home has a newer roof, but has no heat and air. The garage
fices or rec rooms. The second home is a distressed double- apartment is a two bedroom, 1.5 bath featuring 920 square
wide in poor condition and it’s not recommended to enter feet with a living area and kitchen. Apartment is in need
the building. Don’t miss this sale! Visit www.birchfieldauc- of TLC. Situated on a level 101x130 foot lot. Don’t miss this
tions.com, www.auctionzip.com or our facebook page for sale! Visit www.birchfieldauctions.com, www.auctionzip.
more photos. com or our facebook page for more photos.

TERMS: Real Estate: 10% Down day of sale by cash or TERMS: Real Estate: Court Ordered Auction. 10% Down
good check. Balance due in cash 30 days from court ap- day of sale by cash or good check. Balance due in cash 30
proval. Sale is subject to chancery court confirmation case days from court confirmation. Sale is subject to Chancery
#P190208. NO BUYERS PREMIUM! Lead based paint may ex- Court Confirmation Case #31445. NO BUYERS PREMIUM!
ist. Any person has the right to inspect the building 10 days Lead based paint may exist. Any person has the right to inspect the building for lead based
paint 10 days prior to the auction. A waiver must be signed at day of sale.
prior to the auction. A waiver must be signed at day of sale.
ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE DAY OF SALE TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ALL OTHERS
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Who’s
next?
After Ukraine,
Europe wonders
where Russian will
turn its attention
By Dusan Stojanovic
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELGRADE, Serbia —
For some European coun-
tries watching Russia’s
brutal war in Ukraine,
there are fears that they
could be next.
Western officials say the
most vulnerable could be
those who aren’t members
of NATO or the European
Union, and thus alone and
unprotected — including
Ukraine’s neighbor
Moldova and Russia’s
neighbor Georgia, both of
them formerly part of the
Soviet Union — along with
the Balkan states of Bosnia
and Kosovo.
But analysts warn that
even NATO members could
be at risk, such as Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania on
Russia’s doorstep, as well
as Montenegro, either
from Moscow’s direct mili-
tary intervention or
attempts at political desta-
bilization.
Russian President
Vladimir Putin “has said
right from the start that
this is not only about
Ukraine,’’ said Michal
Baranowski, director of
the German Marshall
Fund’s Warsaw office.
“He told us what he
wants to do when he was
listing his demands, which
included the change of the
government in Kyiv, but he
was also talking about the
eastern flank of NATO and
the rest of Eastern
Europe,” Baranowski told
The Associated Press in an
interview.
The Biden administra-
tion is acutely aware of
EUROPE
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transportation for
Ukrainians to join family
and friends there or in
other parts of Europe.
Countries farther afield
have similarly pledged sup-
port. The Belgian govern-
ment, for example, is run-
ning a campaign to identify
vacant public housing and
find people willing to host
Ukrainians.
The policy response has
also been uncommonly fast
and generous. Speaking in
a unanimous voice that was
unexpected — given the
fractures of recent years
among member states over
refugees and migration —
the European Council last
Thursday in a first-ever
move triggered the
“Temporary Protection
Directive.” (It wasn’t acti-
vated during the 2015-16 ref-
ugee crisis, which included
people escaping Syria, Iraq
and Afghanistan.) This
measure offers protection
for one year to those fleeing
Ukraine. The protection
status may be extended up
to three years. This blanket
designation means that
countries won’t have to
assess asylum claims for
each person.
Though this is a mile-
stone for EU policy and
spares national asylum sys-
tems from huge burdens,
the action represents just
the first lap. Policymakers
in Brussels and other
European capitals are
understandably focused on
the immediate provision of
food, shelter and now legal
status, but they need to also
consider bigger near-term
realities: Finding housing
and providing access to
jobs, education and health-
care for new arrivals.
The tasks are enormous,
but if politicians activate
the right levers, they can
lessen some of the chal-
lenges and avoid the public
perception that they are
poorly managing or losing
control of the situation — a
widespread concern among
governments on both sides
of the Atlantic.
Here’s what EU countries
should do:
A woman walks past the Operational Group of Russian Forces
headquarters in Tiraspol, the capital of the breakaway region of
Transnistria, a disputed territory unrecognized by the international
community, in Moldova, Nov. 1, 2021.
deep concerns in Eastern
and Central Europe that
the war in Ukraine may be
just a prelude to broader
attacks on former Warsaw
Pact members in trying to
restore Moscow’s regional
dominance.
A look at the regional sit-
uation:
MOLDOVA
Like its neighbor
Ukraine, the ex-Soviet
republic of Moldova has a
separatist insurgency in its
east in the disputed terri-
tory known as Trans-
Dniester, where 1,500
Russian troops are sta-
tioned. Although Moldova
is neutral militarily and
has no plans to join NATO,
it formally applied for EU
membership when the
Russian invasion began in
a quick bid to bolster its
ties with the West.
The country of 2.6 mil-
lion people is one of the
poorest countries in
Europe, and it’s hosting
tens of thousands of
Ukrainians who fled the
war.
GEORGIA
War erupted between
Russia and Georgia in
August 2008 when
Georgian government
troops tried unsuccessfully
to regain control over the
Moscow-backed breakaway
province of South Ossetia.
Russia routed the Georgian
military in five days of
fighting and hundreds
Establish a fast and
smooth registration pro-
cess, including identity and
security checks. Refugees
will be required to register
with authorities in an EU
country to access this
newly available temporary
protection status and
related rights. Because the
goal is to quickly provide
protection, having
Ukrainians queue up with
other asylum-seekers
would thwart that ambi-
tion. Instead, there should
be specific registration
offices set up for those
fleeing Ukraine. A key
lesson from Europe’s
2015-16 crisis should be
taken: These registration
offices must be robustly
staffed and the delivery of
documents automated.
Without a well-functioning
registration system,
Ukrainians will not be able
to access the status and ser-
vices essential to their inte-
gration. EU institutions,
such as the border manage-
ment agency Frontex and
the EU Agency for Asylum,
can also be major resources
for countries that become
overwhelmed.
Deliver on the right to
employment enshrined in
the Temporary Protection
Directive. New arrivals will
need support to navigate
the written and unwritten
rules of the local labor
market. Ukrainians were
already an important
source of labor within the
EU before the Russian inva-
sion. Countries like Poland
and Germany, which face
persistent labor shortages,
have actively sought to
attract Ukrainian workers
in recent years. Other
member states confronted
with similar shortages may
learn from their example.
The EU could seize the
opportunity to coordinate
country efforts in the area
of credential recognition,
using the digital tools that
Germany and others devel-
oped in 2015 to efficiently
recognize and certify the
skills of Syrian arrivals.
Work with the large
Ukrainian diaspora already
in Europe. Before the inva-
sion, there were some 2 mil-
lion Ukrainians in Poland.
Large Ukrainian communi-
INSIGHT/OPINION
DMITRI LOVETSKY
were killed. Afterward,
Russia recognized South
Ossetia and another sepa-
ratist region, Abkhazia, as
independent states and
bolstered its military pres-
ence there.
THE BALTICS
Memories of Soviet rule
are still fresh in Latvia,
Lithuania and Estonia.
Since the invasion of
Ukraine, NATO has moved
quickly to boost its troop
presence in its eastern
flank allies, while
Washington has pledged
additional support.
To residents of the Baltic
nations — particularly
those old enough to have
lived under Soviet control
— the tensions prior to the
Feb. 24 invasion recalled
the mass deportations and
oppression. The three
countries were annexed by
Josef Stalin during World
War II and only regained
their independence with
the breakup of the Soviet
Union in 1991.
THE BALKANS
It would be hard for
Russian troops to reach the
Balkans without engaging
NATO forces stationed in
all the neighboring coun-
tries. But Moscow could
destabilize the region, as it
already does, with the help
of Serbia, its ally which it
has been arming with
tanks, sophisticated air
defense systems and war-
planes.
ties also exist in Germany,
the Czech Republic, Italy,
Spain and Portugal. If
mobilized effectively, these
diaspora communities can
be valuable in helping new
arrivals integrate. Support
from diaspora members
and community groups to
navigate employment,
enroll children into schools
and find longer-term
accommodation can speed
up integration. But such
support cannot fall to the
diaspora community alone.
Successful integration is
essential, not just for the
well-being of displaced
people shell-shocked by the
devastation to their lives
and country but for Europe
itself. The early open-arms
welcome could turn cold if
Europeans perceive the
costs to their communities
as too high, such as in
strained public services
and overcrowded schools.
Indeed, the conditions
were set long before this
crisis for potential acri-
mony, given the hard stance
Poland, Hungary, Greece
and other member states
have taken in recent years
— and even in recent
months — against asy-
lum-seekers from Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan and other
parts of the world. Echoes
of this can be seen in the
racialized response
unfolding now as Africans
and Asians living in
Ukraine and attempting to
flee are being treated far
less favorably than white
Ukrainians.
The devastation in
Ukraine has been stag-
gering, and the response to
the huge displacement of
people has been remark-
ably swift. Yet this moment
calls for European policy-
makers, governments,
humanitarian groups and
others to keep a disciplined
eye on mid- and lon-
ger-term integration even
as they’re racing to provide
immediate food, medical
attention and shelter. Much
rides on their success.
Hanne Beirens is director of
Migration Policy Institute Europe, a
nonpartisan think tank in Brussels.
Copyright 2022 Los Angeles
Times. Distributed by Tribune
Content Agency.
FLEEING
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— which my older son
loves — and a set of felt-tip
pens that my younger son
can’t live without. We left
everything else in our Kyiv
apartment on the left bank
of the city: Ukrainian art-
work, photography books,
a collection of comics,
copies of my book about
the Russians who fought
for the Islamic State.
Our whole life fit into
two suitcases. My husband
and I have already gone
through this: I was forced
to leave Crimea after
Russia annexed the penin-
sula in 2014, and my hus-
band took his family out of
the occupied Donbas
region, where separatists
seized control. Putin’s war
against Ukraine really
began eight years ago, but
back then the missiles
landed only in one region.
Now the war has spread
all over the country.
Driving through Kyiv to
get to the railway station
this week, I watched how
the city had changed.
Lines at supermarkets,
checkpoints made of
bricks and car tires, volun-
teer Ukrainian soldiers
with machine guns on the
side of the road. Most of
the bridges across the
Dnieper River, connecting
the left bank of the city to
the right, were blocked by
military equipment. Only
two bridges were open,
and there was a long
traffic jam of cars with
people scrambling to leave
the city.
I’ve seen this before,
when I worked as a war
WAR
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became a hero and inter-
national celebrity over-
night for refusing to leave
Kyiv and his country,
instead rallying morale
with a series of self-filmed
videos speaking directly to
his citizens, to the Russian
people and to the world.
The fortitude, resilience
and spirit of the Ukrainian
people are widely being
recognized and respected
internationally. With this
recognition, however, an
unsettling response began
to emerge on social media.
As the Ukrainian mili-
tary held strong against
the Russian forces, people
online began to draw com-
parisons of the war to fic-
tional narratives. Most
commonly these involve
stories in which a small
group of fighters resists a
larger, better-equipped
opponent despite seem-
ingly insurmountable
odds: Think “Star Wars,”
“Lord of the Rings,”
Marvel and the like.
In addition to recog-
nizing President
Zelenskyy’s bravery and
ingenuity, the online dis-
course swiftly moved to
praising his attractiveness
and relatability, going so
far as to begin fan-casting
what actor ought to play
him in a hypothetical
movie about a crisis that
had just begun unfolding.
“This just keeps getting
better by the second,”
wrote a user on Twitter. “It
seems like something on
Netflix.”
While it may be tempting
to look to fiction for a
framework in which to pro-
cess a real-life war that you
have no connection to,
there are consequences for
doing so that harm the
people you are attempting
to empathize with.
The Ukrainian story is
much more complex than
that of a scrappy army of
fighters led by their relat-
able, unflappable leader.
While the most popular
pieces of media depict the
former, Ukraine is a nation
of more than 40 million
people who are undergoing
immense trauma and expe-
riencing the full spectrum
of human emotion. “I am
afraid” is a message I have
received every night from
my friends in Kyiv since
the war began.
As of March 3, 1 million
Ukrainian refugees have
left their homes abruptly,
many families separating
as men remain in the
country under martial law
in response to a war
Sunday, March 13, 2022 | Page D5
correspondent in the
Donbas territories eight
years ago. The face of the
largest city in eastern
Ukraine, Donetsk, changed
dramatically then.
War fundamentally
alters the face of cities; it
is imprinted on everything
that previously seemed
normal. Even the sky
seems to change its color
and acquire a grayish,
rotten hue. With each shot
and each explosion, the
city’s colors are washed
away more and more,
mixing into a homoge-
neous dirty mass.
Passing though Kyiv, I
saw track marks from
tanks in yards and on
roads. A shell destroyed a
new building that served
as a beautiful wedding
hall. I saw a tram burned
to the ground, and streets
marked with funnels from
fallen rockets. I noticed the
stern faces of volunteer
Ukrainian fighters and the
worried faces of cyclists.
Kyiv’s train station is
crowded with people these
days. Thousands of
Ukrainians are trying to
get out of the war zone to
the West. A few days ago,
before the invasion, I had
complained to friends
about how tired I was of
the atomization of a
society divided by political
disputes, Facebook algo-
rithms and various preju-
dices.
Yet at the station,
everyone came together:
students from India and
migrant workers from
Central Asia, the homeless
and top managers of tech
companies, representa-
tives of ethnic minorities
Ukraine never provoked.
These realities are incon-
gruent with the common
stereotype ascribed to
Eastern Europeans: of a
hardened, cold people with
a proclivity for violence
and the capacity to with-
stand immense hardship.
While there are many
moments in Ukraine’s his-
tory that have forced its
people to build resilience,
circulating images under
this stereotype reinforces
the idea of a people built
for war. And despite
gushing media reports of
expats booking plane
tickets and signing up to
fight, given a choice, most
citizens do not want to be
soldiers.
Some may argue that
Ukraine itself is leaning
into this narrative, and
there is truth to this.
Zelenskyy’s videos, while
relatable, are not acci-
dental — he is leveraging
his skills to boost the
morale of his citizens
during war and secure mil-
itary and humanitarian
support for a nation that
desperately needs it.
Others may say
Ukrainians themselves are
mythologizing figures in
the war — the response of
the soldiers on Snake
Island to a Russian war-
ship has become an unoffi-
cial national battle cry.
Propaganda works. It can
be helpful for people going
through hell to mytholo-
gize their situation and
their leaders to help them
through it.
But when the world
looking on buys into that
mythology, it can make it
seem like help isn’t desper-
ately needed. If you are not
experiencing the violence
or trauma that Ukrainians
and the diaspora commu-
nity are, please be mindful
of the assumptions you are
making about the
Ukrainian people and of
how you are processing
this war, especially in
public forums such as
social media.
Even if not ill-inten-
tioned, comparing an
ongoing war to your
favorite action movie or
TV series implies that you
are invested in what’s hap-
pening insofar as the
“story” continues to be one
you find entertaining to
watch. But the “charac-
ters” in this narrative are
not fictional and the out-
come of this war is unde-
termined.
Choosing to selectively
consume the moments of
war that depict camara-
derie, wit and defiance —
the “highlights” — and not
the death, trauma, dis-
and religious fanatics —
everyone got onto the
same train. No more dis-
putes. The country’s 44
million residents now
seem to be getting to know
each other on these evacu-
ation trains, and they are
all united by full-scale war
unleashed by the Russian
president.
Those who are staying
behind are risking their
lives. Some spend days and
nights in bomb shelters;
some join local defense
units; some organize logis-
tics centers to help the mil-
itary and refugees. The
whole country has united
into a single pulsating
heart, which Russian
shells can burst at any
moment.
At the Lviv railway sta-
tion exit, some fellow jour-
nalists met me late at
night. They, too, had
recently moved here from
Kyiv to continue their
work in relative safety.
As I write this piece, a
siren is roaring in Lviv.
Russian missiles can reach
this cozy business city on
the border with Poland.
Since the Russian bombing
began last week, all
Ukrainians have been
living and hoping that we
will survive and win. We
are waiting for this endless
nightmare to end.
Katerina Sergatskova is the edi-
tor-in-chief of Zaborona, a Kyiv-
based news media outlet. @
KSergatskova. Copyright 2022
Los Angeles Times. Distributed by
Tribune Content Agency.
placement of families,
destruction of cities and
eradication of culture will
isolate you from the people
you want to show soli-
darity with. Ukrainians do
not have the luxury of
experiencing the war in
this way, tuning in and out
as they like.
I do believe most people
want to express compas-
sion and are likely using
beloved fictional narra-
tives to make sense of what
is happening. However, if
you are watching this war
with no connection to
Ukraine or its people, I
strongly urge you to be
more aware of what media
you are consuming.
Is it providing you with
accurate information
about what is happening to
the country and its citizens
or is it turning the violence
into a more palatable spec-
tacle? If you can only
empathize with or care
about Ukrainians as long
as they behave like the tri-
umphant characters in
your favorite war movie,
that is not only dehuman-
izing, but you’re also set-
ting yourself up to tune
out if the good guys don’t
keep winning.
You may be reading
about and watching videos
from the war on the same
devices where you’ve been
consuming your entertain-
ment, but the citizens in
Ukraine are not per-
forming their acts of resis-
tance for the pleasure of
an audience.
Zelenskyy’s now famous
quote, “I need ammuni-
tion, not a ride,” was not a
punchline from an action
hero — it was an actual
request from a president to
the world stating what his
country requires for sur-
vival. While the world may
stand with Ukraine, what
Ukraine needs in addition
to moral support is more
tangible: military supplies,
humanitarian aid and
political pressure.
Rather than being a
spectator, you can support
Ukrainians in their fight.
Resist the temptation to
look away as the less glori-
fied parts of the war con-
tinue to play out.
Regardless of the narrative
that may be ascribed to
them, Ukrainians will con-
tinue to fight. They have
no other choice; they are
doing so to defend their
homes. their country and
their independence.
Kristina Fialko is a Ph.D. candi-
date at the University of Chicago.
Copyright 2022 Chicago Tribune.
Distributed by Tribune Content
Agency.
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COVID-19

A few days in March 2020 echo two years later

The Associated Press astonishingly — began to adversary — if you could The ones we didn’t: How
talk about whether it actually obtain them. Hand to combat the extreme
The conversations went would be able to work from sanitizer was squirted so mountains of mis- and dis-
like this: It will be just a home. liberally that some distill- information surrounding
few days. It can be kept at “We would recommend eries pivoted from whiskey the virus and the vaccines
bay. There will be some that there not be large to alcohol antiseptics. that emerged from the sci-
inconvenience, sure, but crowds,” the nation’s top People discussed ventilator entific community aston-
the world will merely be infectious disease shortages over family ishingly quickly? How to
paused — just a short researcher told Congress meals. Zoom became, for manage the anger, and the
break, out of an abundance two years ago Friday, pre- the nation, a household national division, that
of caution, and certainly saging two years of argu- word; suddenly your col- poured from the political
not any kind of major ments over that exact leagues were arrayed on a arena into the protracted
grinding to a halt. statement. His name was screen in front of you like virus discussion and
Certainly not for two years. Anthony Fauci, and he personalized, workaday burned in conversational
Certainly not for hun- would become one of “Brady Bunch” opening trash fires across the land?
dreds of thousands of Pandemic America’s most credits. How to navigate the emo-
Americans who were polarizing figures, caught All these things were tional rubble of an entire
among us at that moment between provable science new once. generation of kids whose
in mid-March 2020 — who and charges of alarmism In the weeks that fol- lives and educations would
lived through the begin- MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ and incompetence and lowed, as the scope of be upended?
ning, watched it, worried A student wears a mask and face shield in a 4th grade class amid the malevolence, even occa- things revealed itself grad- Those questions are the
about it (or didn’t), and COVID-19 pandemic at Washington Elementary School in January in sionally from the former ually, there were questions ones that, right now, don’t
who, plain and simple, Lynwood, Calif. president himself. we knew to ask, and ques- seem outdated. They seem
aren’t here anymore. And for a while, there tions we didn’t. fresh and immediate, and
“Just a temporary 12, 2020, no one really knew years ago this weekend, weren’t large crowds. The ones we knew to ask: they remain largely unan-
moment of time,” the man how it would play out. How when Major League Except when there were. How does it spread, and swered today — a time
who was then president of could they? Baseball’s spring training For weeks in those early how easily? Can we keep it when it can be difficult to
the United States insisted. Flattening the curve — games trickled to an end days, Americans in many out? Can I even go outside summon memories of the
Just a few days. Just a few such a novel term then, with their season suddenly corners of the republic all safely? Should I wash my beginning of this thing
weeks. Just a few months. such a frozen moment of a postponed, when universi- but shut down. Faces dis- groceries? Will there be a because of all that’s hap-
Just a few years. phrase today — seemed ties told students to stay appeared as masks went vaccine, and if so, how pened since, and all that’s
The fact is that on March genuinely possible two away, when Congress — up against the invisible quickly? still happening.

Some want ballots to be counted by hand

The Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. —
Growing suspicion about
the security of voting sys-
tems has kindled a back-
to-the future moment
among conservatives in
some parts of the U.S.
Republican lawmakers
PATRICK SEMANSKY in at least six states have
U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chairwoman of the Congressional introduced legislation that
Black Caucus, speaks with members of the press after meeting would require all election
with President Joe Biden at the White House recently in ballots to be counted by
Washington. Standing with Beatty are U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, hand instead of electronic
D-Fla., from left, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, U.S. Rep. tabulators. Similar pro-
Hank Johnson, D-Ga., U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., U.S. Rep. posals have been floated
Steven Horsford, D-Nev., and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, within some local govern-
D-S.C.
ments, including about a
dozen New Hampshire
it’s unrealistic to think
election officials can count
millions of ballots by hand
and report results quickly,
given that ballots often
include dozens of races.
The partisan review last
summer of the 2 million
ballots cast in Maricopa
County, Arizona, which
included a hand count,
took several months and
hundreds of people to com-
plete.
“If you have a jurisdic-
tion with 500 voters, you
might be OK. But if you
MIKE STOCKER
have a jurisdiction with
Members of the Canvassing Board, Judge Betsy Benson, left, and
Judge Deborah Carpenter-Toye look over a ballot during hand thousands of voters, tens
counting at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office in of thousands of voters,

Dems press Biden towns and Washoe County

in the presidential battle-
ground state of Nevada.
The push for hand-
Lauderhill, Fla., on November 2018.

to count every vote and to

imbue confidence in our
landslide victory and that
cheating is the only way to
hundreds of thousands of
voters, it’s just not going to
work,” said Jennifer
Morrell, a former elections

to go it alone with
counting ballots comes
amid mistrust of elections
among many Republicans
who believe the false nar-
citizenry that our elections explain how New clerk in Colorado and Utah
are fair and free, and that Hampshire voters elected a who now advises state and
their vote is being Republican governor and local election officials.
counted,” said New GOP majorities in the Even in New

executive orders
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Top
Democrats are pleading
for President Joe Biden to
act alone on some of the
party’s core legislative
priorities, viewing execu-
tive action as their best
hope of delivering on their
promises and energizing
liberal voters they worry
are going to sit out the
elections in November.
In areas like voting
rights, police reform and
immigration where
Democratic bills have
been thwarted by GOP
opposition in the Senate,
the leaders of the influen-
tial Black and Asian
American caucuses made
their requests directly to
Biden during a recent
meeting at the White
House, urging him to
issue executive orders
that could push their pro-
posals forward without
votes in the House and
Senate.
The pleas come at a
particularly desperate
moment for House
Democrats, who are
heading into a difficult
midterm election season
where the loss of only a
handful of seats will end
their majority. Biden’s
flagging poll numbers are
adding to the steep head-
winds Democrats are
facing in a midterm elec-
tion year that historically
has been unfavorable to
the party in power.
“I don’t want anyone to
think that we believe that
executive action is better
than legislation,” said
Rep. Pramila Jayapal,
chair of the Progressive
Caucus, during the House
Democratic issues confer-
ence in Philadelphia.
“But certainly, there
are a lot of areas where if
we don’t get legislation,
the administration can
take action to help move
us more quickly towards
the goals that we’re
working on.”
During the recent
meeting with Biden, the
caucuses’ leaders seemed
to acknowledge the
damage done in recent
months, when intraparty
squabbling led them to
many dead ends.
The way to turn things
around, argued Black
Caucus Chair Joyce
Beatty, Hispanic Caucus
Chair Raul Ruiz and
Asian American Caucus
Chair Judy Chu —
recalling the case they
each made or will make
to Biden — is for the pres-
ident to put pen to pad.
“The Congressional
Black Caucus has not
been silenced for this,”
Beatty said of the
caucus’ efforts to move
forward with voting
rights. “We know the
value and importance of
preclearance for us,”
referring to the Voting
Rights Act requirement
that mandates states or
localities with a history
of racial voting discrimi-
nation get federal
approval for election
policy changes.
Jayapal and Ruiz told
reporters that the
Progressive and Hispanic
caucuses will be releasing
a list next week of their
own priorities for execu-
tive action.
Reliance on executive
action is a strategy that
Biden knows well, having
seen it in action when he
was President Barack
Obama’s vice president.
Facing a GOP-controlled
Congress in 2014, Obama
declared that he had a
“pen and a phone” and
began taking executive
actions on matters like
guns and immigration.
Biden has acted unilater-
ally as well, most recently
on a series of orders pun-
ishing Russia for the inva-
sion of Ukraine.
rative that widespread
fraud cost former
President Donald Trump
reelection in the 2020 presi-
dential contest. Despite no
evidence of widespread
fraud or major irregulari-
ties, conspiracy theories
have proliferated among
his allies that voting sys-
tems were somehow
manipulated to favor
Democrat Joe Biden. That
has prompted calls to ban
electronic tabulators used
to scan ballots, record
votes and compile race tal-
lies.
“It’s our responsibility,
and it should be our desire,
Biden wants US oil to drill more, but ...
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Jordan Fabian and
Kevin Crowley
Bloomberg News (TNS)
The war in Ukraine has touched
off a feud between the White House
and U.S. oil industry as many compa-
nies reap record profits from rising
prices despite pumping less crude
than before the pandemic, leaving
American consumers beset by
surging gasoline costs.
President Joe Biden has urged U.S.
oil companies to step up production
— but they are wary given his his-
toric hostility toward fossil fuels and
the risk that new drilling won’t pay
off over the long term.
The political dangers are stacking
up for an administration set to lose
ground in midterm elections in
November with record-high inflation
stinging voters even before Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine.
For now, polls show most
Americans support the U.S. ban on
Russian crude even if it means
higher prices at the pump. Biden has
pinned the surge directly on
Vladimir Putin. This is “Putin’s price
hike,” he said.
“His logic of where to point the
blame is probably justifiable and
politically smart,” said Charles
Franklin, director of the Marquette
Law School Poll. “But does it make
people ignore the fact that it’s costing
them an extra 12 or 15 bucks to fill up
the average car? I don’t think it
makes those economic concerns to
households go away.”
Hampshire state Rep. Legislature, but then Hampshire’s small towns,
Mark Alliegro, sponsor of backed Democrats for fed- hand-counting is a compli-
a hand-counting bill that is eral office. cated, lengthy process
similar to ones proposed in Critics of the proposals when a typical ballot might
Arizona, Colorado, to ditch electronic ballot include 50 questions, said
Milford Town Clerk Joan
Missouri, Washington and tabulators and return to
West Virginia. hand-counting are blunt Dargie, who spoke against
the proposed legislation on
Alliegro said he was about what they see as the
behalf of the New
motivated by his analysis motivation.
of recounts in nearly 50 “It’s coming from con- Hampshire City and Town
New Hampshire state leg- spiracy theories and lies,” Clerks Association. She
islative races, not by the said Sylvia Albert, director estimates her town would
2020 presidential election. of voting and elections for have to increase its
But some of the bill’s Common Cause, a nonpar- number of election
supporters reference the tisan group that advocates workers from 200 to 350,
2020 election to explain for expanded voter access. and said many of her
why they feel his hand- “It’s attempting to lower fellow clerks have said
count legislation is needed. people’s confidence in elec- they will quit if they have
They cite a belief that tions.” to tabulate every ballot by
Trump actually won a Albert and others said hand.
The Biden administration finds said Thursday in an emailed state-
itself in the uncomfortable position ment.
of pleading with oil companies to Franklin, the Marquette pollster,
boost crude production, despite its said inflation and gas prices are
long-term goal of shifting the U.S. “made-to-order issues for the opposi-
away from the fossil fuels that tion party” because “people feel
worsen climate change. them and you can point blame at the
“We are on a war footing,” Energy president.”
Secretary Jennifer Gra In these U.S. shale producers expect the oil
uncertain times, be sure to save a few price spike to be short-term, and
cents by buying Mr. Douglas’ shareholders don’t want companies
Rutabaga eco-fuel. It’s made of 100 investing capital in robust drilling
percent fermented rutabagas (so you programs delivering new production
can mix a tasty drink with it also). in 18 months, Pioneer Natural
Plus you have the satisfaction of Resources Co. Chief Executive Officer
knowing that every gallon you buy Scott Sheffield said Wednesday. Oil
doesn’t support those God-fearing futures indicate companies would get
communists. Come in today! nholm lower prices for crude that begins
told oil executives at the CERAWeek flowing in 12 to 18 months.
by S&P Global conference The administration’s approach
Wednesday. “We need oil and gas assumes oil producers will turn on a
production to rise.” dime in response to pleas from the
But it’s not as simple as oil compa- same people “telling everybody that
nies turning on a spigot. These busi- they are going to be obsolete in 30 or
nesses make drilling plans based on 40 years,” said Benjamin Salisbury,
economic forecasts for at least a year director of research at Height Capital
out, when OPEC+ may have boosted Markets.
output and prices may have long Investors in shale also have
since peaked. brushed aside arguments that
That leaves Biden in a political drillers should crank up production
bind. Republicans are confident that because it’s their patriotic duty.
inflation and gas prices will help Many still bear scars from the last
deliver them control of Congress boom-and-bust cycle, when compa-
despite White House attempts to nies chased production growth, ulti-
steer voters’ anger elsewhere. mately contributing to a glut that
“Biden’s attempt to deflect blame is drive down prices.
an insult to every American and “The upstream industry is not a
small business owner struggling to public service industry,” said Ben
afford the cost of everyday goods,” Dell, founder of Kimmeridge Energy
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Management.
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Writing a New Chapter

Real Estate,
Community
Development,
Local
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Left to right, Scott, Amelia and Jenna Stuckey walk — and bike — through Founders Park in this July
2020 file photo. In an effort to beat the heat, the Stuckeys had just finished dipping their toes in the
stream at Founders and were getting ready to grab some ice cream.
Results of tally show
residents generally
pleased with city
By David Floyd
PRESS STAFF WRITER
dfloyd@johnsoncitypress.com
A new Johnson City
survey finds that residents
are generally pleased with
services offered by the
municipality.
The 2021 National
Community Survey, con-
ducted by the National
Research Center and
Polco, found that 90% of
respondents rated the city
as a good or excellent place
to live.
“The survey was con-
ducted last October-
November, about a year
and half into the pan-
demic,” City Manager
Cathy Ball said in a press
release. “It’s remarkable
that in a time when life
was generally not very
favorable for many people,
the city received highly
favorable scores in most
categories. I believe it’s a
reflection of the tremen-
dous work of our staff.”
Surveys were mailed to
3,000 randomly selected
households, and an open
participation survey was
available online. Johnson
City has administered the
survey every two or three
years since 2012. The last
one occurred in 2018.
Researchers compared
the results to 600 other
communities across the
country, which allows
them to judge how
responses in Johnson City
compare to other cities
across the U.S.
Of the 3,000 households
that received invitations to
New Johnson City visitors
center expected to open in June
By David Floyd,
PRESS STAFF WRITER,
dfloyd@johnsoncitypress.com
As fears about the pan-
demic waned, Washington
County saw its tourist
activity surge to pre-pan-
demic levels in 2021,
marking a 37.8% increase
compared to 2020 and an
8.5% increase over 2019.
“In 2021, we saw visita-
tion numbers that
exceeded pre-pandemic
numbers,” Johnson City
Convention & Visitors
Bureau Chair Andy
Marquart and CVB
Executive Director Brenda
Whitson said in the organi-
zation’s 2021 annual report.
“People’s desire to
socially distance paired
with our access to the
great outdoors took leisure
travel to new heights and
helped to offset the loss of
corporate and group
travel. In the coming year,
Survey says
Johnson City Police Chief Karl Turner speaks during the 2021 Umoja Festival.
Surveys were mailed to 3,000 randomly
selected households, and an open
participation survey was available online.
The last one occurred in 2018.
participate, 435 completed
the survey, which was an
overall response rate of
about 15%.
“This survey is an
important tool in priori-
tizing city projects and
funding,” Ball said. “The
survey results support sev-
eral projects that are
already under way but will
also be taken into account
as we go through the
budget process.
“We will constantly be
asking if our future plan-
ning efforts are in line
with this data as well as
the city’s strategic plan.”
Read a full summary of
results at www.johnson
citytn.org/residents/
we plan to grow the leisure
travel sector by imple-
menting marketing strate-
gies in drivable markets.”
In total, more than 1.2
million people visited
Washington County last
year, according to data
assembled by a company
called Arrivalist. Now
tourism officials are laying
the foundation for further
growth.
In June, the Johnson
City Convention and
Visitors Bureau expects to
open its new visitors
center in a portion of the
former CC&O train depot
on Buffalo Street.
“We believe this space
has the potential to engage
local citizens, inform those
choosing to relocate to our
community, and inspire
travel for visitors leading
to extended stays,” tourism
leaders wrote in the
bureau’s annual report.
Whitson told the Press
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citizen_survey.php.
TRANSPORTATION
According to the survey
results, respondents had
slightly higher ratings on
several mobility-related
items compared to 2018.
About 81% gave positive
marks to the ease of travel
by car, which was an
increase over 73% in 2018.
Additionally, nearly 60%
had favorable reviews
about the ease of parking,
a 10% increase over 2018,
and almost 70% rated
traffic flow on major
streets as excellent or
good, which the report said
was higher than the
national benchmark and
last May that the location
stood out because it’s at a
nexus downtown, having
easy access to Interstate 26
as well as many businesses
and recreational opportu-
nities. Previously, the visi-
tors bureau was situated in
the Chamber of
Commerce’s old building
at 603 E. Market St.
Last summer, the city
purchased the two-story
portion of the train depot
at 302 Buffalo St. for
$750,000. The visitors
bureau has since moved its
offices to the building and
work began on the first
floor visitors center in late
fall.
Visit Johnson City has
also partnered with the
Northeast Tennessee
Tourism Association and
the Northeast Tennessee
Regional Economic
Partnership to form a pro-
gram designed to attract
remote workers to the
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JOHNSON CITY PRESS
In this 2017 file photo, an Afton farmer puts out strawberries, blueberries, green beans and other items
at the Johnson City Farmers Market in the Pavilion at Founders Park in downtown Johnson City.
JOHNSON CITY PRESS
the city’s 2018 results.
However, only half of JONATHAN ROBERTS/JOHNSON CITY PRESS
respondents gave excellent A Johnson City Transit bus bound for South Roan Street leaves the
or good marks to the city’s Johnson City Transit terminal in downtown Johnson City in
pedestrian accessibility, September 2019.
which is lower than the
About three-quarters of respondents said city
national benchmark, and
fewer (41%) reported ease respondents said they felt parks were either excellent
in traveling by bicycle, very or somewhat safe or good, and 79% praised
which aligns with results from property crime and the overall quality of parks
from other cities across the violent crime. About 76% and recreation opportuni-
U.S. of residents reported ties in Johnson City.
feeling safe in the down- Additionally, more than
SAFETY town commercial district, 80% of respondents said
Nine in 10 residents want which was lower compared Johnson City was an excel-
the city to focus on safety to benchmark communi- lent or good place to raise
over the next two years. ties across the nation.
children and 83% rated it
Ratings for city safety ser- as a favorable place to
vices remained positive in OTHER RESULTS
2021, but respondents did Residents also valued the retire, which was higher
quality of the city’s utility than the national bench-
report a decline in the
overall feeling of safety infrastructure and avail- mark.
between 2018 and 2021, able parks and recreation Less than half, 45%, said
dropping from 83% to 72%. opportunities. Roughly the Johnson City commu-
Almost 80% gave favor- 80% of residents compli- nity does a good or excel-
able ratings to the police mented the city’s drinking lent job at taking care of
department, 85% for emer- water, sewer services and vulnerable residents,
gency medical services power utilities. which is lower than the
and 96% for fire services. More than 80% of national benchmark.
BY DAVID FLOYD/PRESS STAFF WRITER/DFLOYD@JOHNSONCITYPRESS.COM
The Johnson City Convention and Visitors Bureau expects to open its new visitors center in the two-story
portion of the former CC&O railway depot in June.
region. so far accepted 13 appli- eternal optimism.”
Assisted by funding from cants. According to data assem-
Johnson City, the program “There is much to be bled by the visitors bureau,
is offering incentives to proud of in 2021 and we are revenue generated by
encourage remote workers thrilled for what’s to come tourist activity in
to move to the Appalachian in 2022,” Marquart and Washington County in 2020
Highlands. Since June, 145 Whitson wrote. “One thing resulted in local house-
people from 29 states have that remains constant in holds paying $344 less in
applied. The program has the tourism industry is our state and local taxes.
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Workforce development a top Election Commission moves

priority for state, local officials ahead with technology upgrades
By Robert Houk application to help with weeks to reconcile within
By Robert Houk PRESS SENIOR REPORTER the check-in of voters at less than an hour.
PRESS SENIOR REPORTER rhouk@johnsoncitypress.com the polls, will also save Jones said the Poll Pads
rhouk@johnsoncitypress.com money and reduce will also save on printing
Officials with the human error. Bill costs and reduce the
Washington County law- Washington County Whitehead, a representa- number of machine oper-
makers are helping Gov. Election Commission say tive of MicroVote, said ators needed at the polls
Bill Lee to expand new they are in the process of the Poll Pads are more for each election.
workforce development making changes to ensure “efficient and stream- The Washington County
programs in Tennessee. the voting process they lined” than the tradi- Election Commission has
State Rep. Tim Hicks, oversee is fair, efficient tional poll books. also moved to decrease
R-Gray, said in February and trustworthy. “Currently, election the county’s current 35
he had put on hold legisla- Most recently, officials have to flip voting sites to 23 election
tion that he and state Sen. Washington County com- through many voter regis- precincts.
Rusty Crowe, R-Johnson missioners approved tration books on Election Most of the redrawn
City, have filed to broaden amendments to the Day,” Whitehead told voting precincts will be
the curriculum at Election Commission’s commissioners during a located in the Washington
Tennessee Colleges of budget in February to demonstration of the Poll County and Johnson City
Applied Technology to purchase digital tablets to Pads. “A voter’s identifi- school systems. Johnson
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lege” concept. verified within 35 seconds. Center is among the new
a 100 percent job placement for its practical nursing graduates
Instead, Hicks said he Election Day. The funds It removes human error voting precincts, and will
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
and Crowe will work with will be used to buy 48 Poll from the process.” also serve as one of four
Lee to pass the governor’s Pads, which use a secure He said the Poll Pads early voting sites for this
own initiatives to create a Officials have been Elementary School into a Apple iPad application to automatically pull up the year’s mid-term election
pilot program for such dual satellite campus for the ensure voters receive the voter’s registration infor- calendar.
enrollment programs at
working to make Tennessee College of correct ballots at the mation and makes sure he Jones said the decision
TCAT campuses in Boones the TCAT-Boones Applied Technology in
Elizabethton.
voting precincts. or she is issued the proper to consolidate voting sites
Creek, Elizabethton and Election officials have ballot on Election Day. was made “not simply to
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to expand TCAT dual regional dual a boon to local high school the mistakes that “stand-alone” system at sible as possible to every
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nor’s bill in the General cept allows a student in ment programs in the precincts reported get- Dana Jones, the coun- on the cost of holding the
Assembly. I want to make Tennessee to graduate high region. ting the wrong ballot for ty’s administrator of elec- next election, which will
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appears to be going through a nice
business consultant before deciding to go
all in with Pizza Inn. At the opposite end
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recovery over the past several months.
Elizabethton Planning and
of the shopping center, Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Press 1038 N Main Ave,
closed its Elizabethton location, and the
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One such building is Fast Pace Health
Urgent Care, which rebuilt the lot and
large vehicle dealership on West Elk
Avenue built by Steve Grindstaff.
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Automated water meters to be installed

By John Thompson
ELIZABETHTON BUREAU CHIEF
jthompson@johnsoncitypress.com
ELIZABETHTON — The
Elizabethton Water
Resources will soon be
starting a $6.3 million
project to replace all the
old water meters for its
customers with automated
meters.
The project will replace
11,684 water meters. That
includes 6,128 water meters
of customers who reside
within the city limits, but
also 5,556 residences that
are outside the city limits.
WHY IS THE CITY OF
ELIZABETHTON REPLACING
THE WATER METERS OF
COUNTY RESIDENTS?
Those county residents
who will be getting the new
automated meters are
water customers who get
their water from
Elizabethton.
The Elizabethton Water
Resources is actually the
largest single provider of
water to county residents.
Those 5,556 customers who
are provided with water
from Elizabethton Water
Resources is 35% of the
county’s total customers.
The next largest system
is the First Utility District
of Carter County, which
provides water to 3,892 cus-
tomers, for 24% of all
Carter County water cus-
tomers outside the city
limits.
The total number of
county water customers is
15,918.
WHY IS THE CITY PLANNING
TO REPLACE ALL OF THE OLD
WATER METERS WITH NEW
AUTOMATED METERS?
Jonathan Pleasant, the
general manager of
Elizabethton Water
Resources, said there are
six advantages to having a
totally automated metering
system.
For the customers, the
automated meters can pro-
vide a look at their own
Jonathan Pleasant, Elizabethton Water Resources general manager,
shows off one of the automated water meters the city is considering
purchasing.
individual usage. “They
can monitor how much
water they are using, they
can set a budget and keep
track of how well they are
meeting the budget,”
Pleasant said.
Most important, the
automated meters give the
customers a quick alert
when there is a leak on
their property. In the past,
a leak could have gone
undetected until the next
time the meter reader
came to the residence. That
means the water line may
have been leaking for an
entire month.
HOW BAD COULD THAT BE?
The answer is that it can
provide some nasty shocks
for the billpayer.
Here are two real water
bills sent to west Carter
County residents in March
and May of 2021. One
monthly bill was for
$909.45. The other customer
had a bill for $1,805.42.
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Pleasant said “seventy
percent of leaks are never
seen on the surface.” But
the automated water
meters would not only
detect the unusual water
usage, but send out an
alert to warn of the leak,
something that might not
have been discovered for a
month.
The ability of the auto-
mated water meters to
detect leaks is also
important to the city,
which has had an aggres-
sive program to find leaks
and repair them for the
past two decades. When
the city started the leak
detection program a couple
of decades ago, the system
was losing more than 60%
of its treated water to
leaks.
That has improved as old
and leaky water lines have
been replaced, but the city
sill has a major problem
with leaks.
The way all cities used to
read meters was to send
the readers out every day
to physically record the
meter reading. There was
no way to get a snapshot of
the entire system because
it took a whole month to
read all the meters.
That will now change
and a snapshot of all the
meters can be made by get-
ting all the meter readings
at one time. The meters
can then be checked again,
finding out where there
are large water losses.
Pleasant said a third
advantage is that the
changeover “cleans up our
billing system.” Some of
the current accounts date
back to the 1950s, Pleasant
said. The project should
help bring the accounts up
to date.
Another advantage that
could help the customers is
that the bills can be more
flexible. In the past, the
billing system was depen-
dent on when the meters
were read in a 30-day cycle.
Now, a customer with lim-
ited resources can request
a certain time that is the
best to pay the bill, and the
schedule could be adjusted
for the customer’s conve-
nience.
Pleasant said another
advantage is automated
meter reading will
increase manpower for the
department. He said the
department will not lose
positions because meter
readers are not required
to read the meters manu-
ally.
Pleasant said their job
will change to customer
service technicians. They
will help the department
provide more timely
responses to customer
calls and greatly improve
customer service.
The final advantage is
that all the systems can be
monitored from the water
resources offices at a
moment’s notice. The read-
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Rolling with the changes

Town had to replace
some heavy hitters
after retirements,
but rallied
By Jonathan Roberts
PRESS STAFF WRITER
jroberts@johnsoncitypress.com
JONATHAN ROBERTS/JOHNSON CITY PRESS After years of steady
Jonesborough Mayor Chuck Vest, left, and incoming Town leadership, Jonesborough
Administrator Glenn Rosenoff sign Rosenoff’s contract with the has been forced to fill sev-
town in March 2020. eral key positions over the
past two years due to
retirements.
Since March of 2020, the
town has hired a new town
administrator, a new town
recorder and will soon hire
a new police chief.
In March 2020, the town
hired Erwin Town
Administrator Glenn
Rosenoff to replace Bob
Browning, who served as
the town administrator
three times since 1978, and
from 2001 to 2020. Then, in
October 2021, the town
hired Pat Ryder to replace
Town Recorder Abbey
Miller, who had been with
the town for nearly 20
years. Miller announced
her plans to retire in April
2021.
More recently, Police
Chief Ron Street
announced his intention to
retire, effective April 30.
Throughout the turnover,
the town has kept moving
along — something town
Mayor Chuck Vest credited
to their foresight and
ability to hire good people.
“I think using foresight
to know when you have
people that’s going to be
leaving and start searching
for the perfect replace-
ment, it’s important,” said
Vest. “I think we’ve been
successful with that in
Jonesborough so far. We’ve
got a few more changes
coming up, but we’ve been
looking for replacements
for months and will con-
tinue to make good deci-
sions on personnel.”

Crews have now

turned their
attention to utility
work at the site of
the $42.75 million
K-8 school project
in Jonesborough.
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JONATHAN ROBERTS/JOHNSON CITY PRESS

The Silver Raven is located at 125 East Main Street in downtown Jonesborough.
Town will be busy with various
construction projects in 2022
New businesses opening in Officials hope
downtown Jonesborough Jackson Theatre,
Lincoln Park
By Jonathan Roberts together, but at the same time we don’t will be completed
PRESS STAFF WRITER want to leave Main Street. This seemed to
jroberts@johnsoncitypress.com be the best solution.” By Jonathan Roberts
Bowers is, however, far from the only PRESS STAFF WRITER
With Jonesborough’s increased support jroberts@johnsoncitypress.com
owner who has decided to open a business
for its local businesses in recent years, it’s in Jonesborough in the past year.
no surprise that some of its more estab- Last May, Izzy’s Boutique opened up on This year promises to be
lished shops are looking to expand, which Courthouse Square, fulfilling a dream for a busy one for the town of
is exactly what the Crystal Raven did ear- owner Crystal Valentine. Valentine said at Jonesborough as they
lier this year when it opened the Silver the time Jonesborough was a beautiful look to complete and
Raven, also in downtown. begin several major proj-
town and that she was excited to be part
While the Crystal Raven carries a ects in town, including the
of the downtown business community.
variety of crystals, herbs, incense and years-long renovation of
In November, McLeod Organics relo-
other metaphysical supplies as well as a the Jackson Theatre,
cated to downtown Jonesborough from
limited selection of jewelry, the new store, which is expected to JONATHAN ROBERTS/JOHNSON CITY PRESS
North Carolina. Owner T. McLeod told the finally be completed in
the Silver Raven, will only sell jewelry. The marquee was placed on the front of the Jackson Theatre in
Press in December that the shop “could 2022.
Owner Carla Bowers said the idea to open 2021. Town officials hope the project will be completed in 2022.
not be happier” with the move to The multimillion dollar
a jewelry store came after the Crystal
Raven was the runner-up for best jewelry Jonesborough, and said owners love the renovation of the theater, opments including a be no different than how
store in the Johnson City Press’ Readers community. which was expected to be Weigel’s and potentially a we ended 2021,” Rosenoff
Choice contest last year. “It feels good to be part of a nice down- completed in 2018, began Cookout restaurant, said.
“By opening the new store we are able town community and getting to know the in 2017 and has been met major infrastructure In addition to the phys-
to showcase more jewelry for our cus- people in town,” McLeod said at the time. with a number of design, improvements and of ical projects, the town will
tomers and at the same time create more “When we get a break, it’s fun to walk and funding and construction course, continuing con- launch two major pro-
space in Crystal Raven for more unique shop and visit with other merchants. delays. struction of the town’s grams in 2022 to help busi-
items,” Bowers said. “Jonesborough was There is a sense of camaraderie in town. Also on the list of major $42.75 million K-8 school. nesses in downtown. One
lacking a jewelry store. We hope to use In the evening we can walk to a restaurant projects is the beginning Rosenoff called the will utilize banks to offer
this store as a way to provide something and listen to live music or go see a great of construction of side- school project “the biggest loans to people who are
new for the community.” production by the Jonesborough walks along East Main project in the history” of looking to purchase or
Bowers said Jonesborough is home for Repertory Theater.” Street that is expected to the town, and said things renovate a building in
them. Beyond downtown, other businesses are begin in 2022, the comple- have been going well since downtown, as well as a
“The town is beautiful. The community looking to open in Jonesborough, tion of Lincoln Park work began on the site in program offering grant
is welcoming. It just made sense,” Bowers including a Weigel’s gas station that’s behind the senior center, late 2021. money to downtown busi-
said. “Ideally we would prefer to expand expected to open later this year, a car the widening of Shell “That project is going nesses looking to upgrade
to a larger building and keep everything wash and a fast food restaurant. Road, commercial devel- great and I expect 2022 to their façades.

Washington expanding its waterline infrastructure

By Robert Houk
PRESS SENIOR REPORTER
rhouk@johnsoncitypress.com
Washington County officials say
extending waterlines to rural areas
of the county continues to be a top
priority.
A 2019 engineering report prepared
by Tysinger, Hampton & Partners
Inc. found Washington County has
214 miles of roadway with no access
to public water.
Washington County Mayor Joe
Grandy told the Press in January
that the county ended 2021 by
installing 2,800 feet of waterlines to
the Treadway Trail subdivision in
the Telford area.
That project was made possible by
a seven-person county crew working
under the supervision of the town of
Jonesborough to help speed comple-
tion of waterline projects in the
county.
County commissioners have
approved an interlocal agreement
with Jonesborough to create the
work crew, which officials said would
help to both speed up and reduce
costs of waterline projects in the
ZACH VANCE/JOHNSON CITY PRESS town’s service area.
This file photo shows former Johnson City Mayor David Tomita, left, “We have eight projects identified
and Washington County Commissioner Bryan Davenport turning a for that crew over the next few
valve in 2018 to commemorate the completion of the Ford Creek years,” the mayor said, noting the
Water Extension Project’s first segment at the corner of Ford Creek next will be two separate projects
Road and Douglas Shed Road in Gray. along Greenwood Drive.
County officials hope to use a large
share of the county’s American
Recovery Plan Act money to fund a
number of waterline extension proj-
ects in those rural areas.
Commissioners voted last year to
proceed with a list of 15 water proj-
ects to serve rural communities.
Those projects were identified by the
county’s Water Task Force and cover
48 months of work.
The waterline resolution didn’t
specify how those water projects —
totaling nearly $8 million — will be
funded, but commissioners have
indicated they would like to see a siz-
able portion of the $25.1 million the
county will receive from ARPA go to
expanding the county’s water infra-
structure.
That includes designating some of
the federal finds for hiring and
equipping the new waterline installa-
tion crew to be supervised by the
town of Jonesborough.
The county will be working with its
municipal partners on the following
waterline projects:
• City of Kingsport — Deakins
Road, Double Springs Road and Hunt
Road.
• City of Johnson City — Grassy
Valley Road, Bill Bennett Road,
Hartmantown Road and Pleasant
Valley Road.
• Town of Jonesborough —
Greenwood Drive (East and West),
Dry Creek Road, portions of Tenn.
Highway 81 South, Ralph Hoss Road,
Treadway Trail, Malone Hollow and
Bill Cox roads, and the eastern por-
tion of Saylor Hill Road.
In an earlier interview with the
Press, Commissioner Bryan
Davenport, the chairman of
Washington County’s Water Task
Force, said passage of the waterline
resolution is a “very important step”
in improving infrastructure in the
county.
“This sets a road map going for-
ward to get every citizen in
Washington County access to munic-
ipal water,” he said. “This will take a
commitment from future commis-
sions to complete, but the journey
has begun.”
He said the resolution also demon-
strates what can be done by working
together as a commission with local
municipalities to identify the proj-
ects that make sense to complete.
“We worked with the engineer to
determine the priority of the proj-
ects, the projected cost and the
number of households served,”
Davenport said. “It was a very ana-
lytical process.”
He said his task force will con-
tinue to “work with our municipal
water partners in Jonesborough,
Johnson City and Kingsport to iden-
tify additional projects in the near
future.”
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Erwin offers funding for school system’s newest capital projects

By Kayla Hackney
PRESS STAFF WRITER
khackney@johnsoncitypress.com
The town of Erwin is
doing its part to help
improve school facilities
for Unicoi County stu-
dents.
The Erwin Board of
Mayor and Aldermen
recently voted to commit
$325,000 of their American
Rescue Plan Act funding to
help the Unicoi County
School System pay for
three major capital proj-
ects — new tennis courts, a
new track and renovations
to the Unicoi Elementary
School gymnasium.
The Erwin BMA origi-
nally voted to commit
$100,000 to the school
system for the construction
of new tennis courts
during their Feb. 14
meeting, but voted to give
the additional $225,000
during their Feb. 28
meeting two weeks later
after hearing from Director
of Unicoi County Schools
John English.
Members of the Erwin
BMA, alongside members
The Erwin BMA voted to commit $100,000 in ARPA funding to build new tennis courts in partnership
with Unicoi County Schools during their Feb. 14 meeting. The board later voted to commit $225,000
more. Deliberating are alderwoman Paula Kay Edwards and Glenn White, mayor.
of the Unicoi BMA and
the Unicoi County
Commission, met with
English about the projects
KAYLA HACKNEY/JOHNSON CITY PRESS
in late October where
English updated the offi-
cials on the poor condi-
tion of the elementary
school gym, as well as the
track and tennis courts,
which are currently
unable to be used for com-
petitions.
“I feel like as director of
schools that it’s my job to
advocate for our kids,”
English said during that
Oct. 28 meeting. “Our kids
deserve to be able to prac-
tice here in their county.
We shouldn’t have to bus
them to a neighboring city
to practice on a tennis
court surface because we
can’t provide it.”
The Unicoi County
School System set aside
$2.8 million from their
Elementary and Secondary
School Emergency Relief
funds for the three proj-
ects.
With the addition of the
$325,000 from Erwin, the
system has just over $3.1
million earmarked for proj-
ects. The estimated cost of
all three projects is $5.2
million, and while the town
of Erwin was the first
municipal body to commit
a set amount of funding,
English said that with the
municipalities all receiving
ARPA monies, he is
hopeful that the town of
Unicoi and the Unicoi
County Commission will
commit enough to allow
the projects to be com-
pleted.
“Right now we feel like
with all the funding bodies,
including us, getting
COVID relief money, now’s
the time,” said English. “It
wouldn’t be a burden on
taxpayers, they wouldn’t
have to get into their gen-
eral funds, so we just feel
like now is our best oppor-
tunity to get this done
while we all have some
kind of free money that
came in.”
English said he plans to
meet with the Unicoi BMA
during its March 21
meeting to ask them to
commit funding to the
projects, and said he hopes
to be able to send the gym
renovations out for bid in
April.

Scott’s
Strawberry and
Tomato Farms
sell buckets of
strawberries
during the
annual Wayne
CONTRIBUTED Scott
The all-inclusive resort will feature 10 dwellings, which will include an outdoor living area with a Strawberry
fireplace, hot tub, plunge pool and a dining area. Festival in
Unicoi.
KAYLA HACKNEY

Getaway for two Town says strawberry festival

Luxury couples
resort coming to
Unicoi County
By Kayla Hackney
PRESS STAFF WRITER
khackney@johnsoncitypress.com
Unicoi County is
expanding its offerings for
tourists looking for an
upscale, luxury getaway.
The developers of Coffee
Ridge Resort hope to build
a 300-acre luxury cou-
ples-only resort and spa
located in the Coffee Ridge
area of the county. It “will
act as an intimate and pri-
vate setting for couples to
reconnect and appreciate
the awe-inspiring beauty
of nature,” according to
information from the cre-
ators.
The all-inclusive resort
will feature 10 dwellings,
which will include an out-
door living area with a fire-
place, hot tub, plunge pool
and a dining area.
Couples will also have
access to the resort’s spa,
which will feature private
rooms with a fireplace,
shower and steam room,
and guests will be able to
take advantage of curated
treatments by therapists.
“My goal is to create an
environment where each
couple can experience true
connection with each other
and nature to the utmost
tailored standard of
luxury,” said Deborah
Hatley, CEO and
co-founder of Coffee Ridge.
“For some couples, like my
husband and I, the only
true one-on-one time we
get among our busy lives is
on vacation. We want to be
the place that provides a
feeling and an overall expe-
rience of the very best. A
place you leave feeling a
deeper connection within
and to each other like
never before.”
In addition to the upscale
spa and dwellings, couples
staying at the resort will
also have access to a wine
cellar with rare and vin-
tage wines and will have
the option to dine on farm-
to-table meals either in the
resort’s lounge or in their
private dwellings.
Coffee Ridge Resort is
expected to open in
October 2023, and couples
will be able to begin
making reservations for
the resort early next year.
Prices are expected to start
at $3,000 per night.
Tyler Engle, the former
executive director of the
Joint Economic and
Community Development
Board of Unicoi County,
told the Press in November
that the resort would play
a role in Unicoi County’s
economic development.
“We’ve worked closely
with the family who is
bringing the resort here,”
Engle said. “We’re really
excited to see their vision
come to fruition, and we
know that this is just
another part of our eco-
nomic development
strategy to see a broad and
growing economy.”
For more information on
Coffee Ridge, visit their
website at www.coffee
ridge.com.
will be ‘bigger and better’
By Kayla Hackney
PRESS STAFF WRITER
khackney@johnsoncitypress.com
After being canceled in 2020 and
making a successful comeback in 2021,
the town of Unicoi’s Strawberry Festival
is returning again this May.
Town of Unicoi Board of Mayor and
Aldermen members voted unanimously
during their Feb. 24 meeting to hold the
19th Annual Wayne Scott Strawberry
Festival. The festival is scheduled for
May 21 and is one of the town’s largest
annual events.
“Historically the town had always
approved the Strawberry Festival, for
many years we did not, but it does require
to request the school for the property, it
does affect traffic flow and those sort of
things, so we just thought it would be a
reasonable practice to go ahead and
approve the fact and sanction the fact that
we’re going to have the Strawberry
Festival,” Unicoi Mayor Kathy Bullen
said during the BMA’s Feb. 24 meeting.
The festival features live music, food
vendors and a craft market where ven-
dors sell everything from jewelry to
housewares to handmade soaps. Last
year’s festival also featured a Miss
Strawberry Festival pageant, a straw-
berry recipe contest, a vintage car show
The festival features live
music, food vendors and a
craft market where vendors
sell everything from jewelry
to housewares to handmade
soaps. Last year’s festival
also featured a Miss
Strawberry Festival pageant.
and an expanded kid’s zone complete
with inflatables. Scott’s Strawberry and
Tomato Farms also has a booth where
festival-goers can purchase buckets of
fresh strawberries straight from the
farm.
Unicoi Communications Director Eli
Bare said the town is hoping to follow up
last year’s success with an even bigger
and better festival this year.
“It’s just kind of one of the things that
the town is known for and we want to
keep it going,” Bare told the Press fol-
lowing the Feb. 24 meeting. “We’re
hoping this year is bigger and better.”
The 19th annual Wayne Scott
Strawberry Festival is scheduled from
10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at Unicoi Elementary
School.

Local real estate market grapples with tight inventory

By David Floyd
PRESS STAFF WRITER
dfloyd@johnsoncitypress.com
On the cusp of the prime
home buying season, the
region is dealing with
record low inventory,
according to the Northeast
Tennessee Association of
Realtors.
In a press release, the
organization said the
region’s active inventory
of 761 listings is about 25%
lower compared to 2021,
which was itself a tight
year. The region had less
than a month of inventory
at the end of February,
and some local markets
had just over half a month
left.
Home sales ended up
being flat in February,
NETAR reported. There
were 566 closings, which is
down 1.6% compared to
last year. Meanwhile, the
average sales price,
$255,599, is up 17.8%. the
organization said.
On average, homes that
sold in February spent 59
days on the market, which
is up three days from the
January average.
“So far, the housing
market has held up, and
consumers have been
resilient despite the fluid
economic conditions cre-
ated by the crisis in
Ukraine, high inflation
reports and higher fuel
prices,” NETAR President
Rick Chantry said in the
release.
“Mortgage rates have
declined for two weeks in
a row, giving buyers a
little more leverage
against higher prices.”
According to NETAR
data analyst Don Fenley, a
persistent lack of inven-
tory is driving prices
higher.
Fenley wrote in a blog
post that February’s
pending sales have
reversed a five-month
decline and new listings
have increased, but
pending sales continue to
outnumber new listings.
“For the first time, the
region had less than a
month’s inventory on the
last day of January,”
Fenley wrote.
“Five to six months’
inventory is the bench-
mark for balanced real
estate market conditions.
The last time the region
had balanced market con-
ditions was in the first
quarter of 2018.”
Builders are trying to
construct new homes to
fill those gaps, Fenley
said, but supply chain
issues and increased costs
are slowing that process.
If conditions stabilize,
the local market could
return to “moderately bal-
anced conditions” by 2024.
HOW ARE THE PROSPECTS
FOR YOUNG HOMEBUYERS?
Over the last few
decades, homebuyers
under age 25 have chiseled
out a toehold in the
housing market.
According to a report by
the Inspection Support
Network, 6.9% of new
Johnson City homebuyers
in 2020 were under 25.
That’s based on an anal-
ysis of home purchase
loans authorized in the
Johnson City metro area.
It’s a slightly higher share
than the United States at
large.
About 4.6% of home pur-
chase loans in the U.S.
went to adults under 25 in
2020. Most originate from
homebuyers in the 25-34
age range.
Young adults in Johnson
City received a total of 148
home purchase loans in
2020, with the median loan
amount being $115,000.
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This dirty little gas tank dropped plenty of rust and sediment on me while I was working with it six
Dirty hands are proof of hard work. inches above my face.

Go on, get ’em dirty
Dirty hands are the sign
of honest work. Besides,
they wash
I don’t think that’s fair. boot contributed to my play on screens. But I think that, believe the best and most ful-
Dirty hands are the dirty hands and the especially during the pandemic filling use of what little free time
mark of honest, tan- faulty clutch. In when so many other activities we have is pursuing a passion.
gible work. They’re a preparation for my moved to computers and tablets, Find what you can do with the
sign that you’ve been
toiling away at some-
spring garden, I
planted tomato seeds
we have a need to feel varied sen-
sations.
resources you have to engage
and enrich yourself. It sounds
thing real. in starting trays. After hours of typing on a key- like easy advice to give, but it’s

S
omewhere along the
course of the English lan-
guage’s evolution, having
dirt on your hands became a bad
thing.
People with good morals who
“get their hands dirty” have
compromised their principles,
and, like poor Lady Macbeth, can
never get that damned spot out.
I spent last weekend — By Sunday evening, I
and probably the realized that the
weekend this pub- NATHAN BAKER grime under my fin-
lishes, too — doing gernails and, most
tasks that got my hands dirty. importantly, the tactile sensa-
On my 47-year-old truck, I tions of doing real things, was
dropped a rusty gas tank and what I’d been missing for a
tried to diagnose clutch issues — while.
I think the brownish fluid puking I’m not anti-screen. I work on
out of the clutch slave cylinder screens, I learn on screens and I
board or twisting joysticks, our
hands get bored and need some-
thing different to do, like digging
in dirt or trying to feel an air
leak in a dry-rotted tire.
Many of my friends have said
they feel dissatisfied right now
and think they could benefit
from a new hobby or pastime. I
completely understand, and I
something many of us aren’t
taking the time to do.
Get messy. Feel things.
When you’re done, take a look
down at the dirt on your hands
and be proud. Then, go wash
them — those things are filthy.
Reach Nathan Baker at
nbaker@johnsoncitypress

Who’s ready to mingle?

Event serves as largest
fundraiser for McKinney Center
Contributed to the Press

Masterpiece Mingle is a popular event

that will bring together art, music and
great food to the McKinney Center in
Jonesborough this year on Friday, April
29 from 7-9 p.m.
It is the largest fundraiser for the
McKinney Center each year, and proceeds
support scholarships for K-12 grade stu-
dents who have financial needs and other
educational programming throughout the
year for McKinney Center art classes.
The event provides plenty of opportuni-
ties for art and music lovers to meet and
mingle in a fun and elegant atmosphere as
they admire the work of art they get to
take home, or even exchange with another
guest.
This event, which sells out well in CONTRIBUTED
advance each year, will feature an exhibit A look at some of the art to be offered
of 125 different works of art, and each
guest will take one of these works home.
The artwork, which has been donated by Another piece of art
regional artists, includes mediums such
as watercolor, acrylic, ceramics, fabric Jonesborough’s Mary B. Martin Program
art, jewelry, woodwork and more. for the Arts, which teaches various art
All pieces will be on display for guests to skills to all participants through a quality
admire throughout the evening until the program of instruction open to all seg-
event ends, and each guest takes their cor- ments of Jonesborough’s population.
responding piece of art home with them. In addition, a primary mission of the
Guests receive their artwork at random. center is to enhance minority participa-
Each artwork is assigned a number, and tion in the planning and implementation
each program the guest receives will cor- in all activities in Jonesborough while
respond to one of those numbers. specifically celebrating the contribution
Guests can keep their original mystery of the African-American community in
masterpiece, or find other guests with the growth and development of the town.
whom they may “swap.” The activities of the McKinney Center are
Amid the fun atmosphere, guests will designed to enhance the quality of life of
enjoy live jazz music by a combo from the all Jonesborough residents.
Jonesborough Rhythm Express. They can Tickets for Masterpiece Mingle are $50,
also enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres from which includes the event, food, music and
Main Street Café and Catering, and a the original piece of art each guest will
silent auction featuring more exquisite take home.
art, great books and top-quality art sup- Tickets are limited to 125, as this is the
plies. Beer and wine will also be for sale number of works that has been donated.
by Main Street Café and Catering. To purchase tickets, call the
The mission of the McKinney Center at Jonesborough Visitor Center at
Booker T. Washington is to provide a com- 423.753.1010 or purchase online at
prehensive program through Jonesborough.com/tickets. Three more pieces of art
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‘Jena 1800’ looks at roots REVIEW

of Romantic Movement A tale of a boy and his bird in his chest

in small college town By Nathan Pensky
Star Tribune (TNS)
sometimes awkward dance
between a teenager’s
inward self and his public
thing altogether slower
and more meditative than
the standard fare — and all
A boy born with a bird in his body, and comes to sym- the better for it.
things in themselves
Big philosophical actually are,” as
chest struggles to understand bolize the familiar struggle Most of the story takes
his place in a hostile world. to come to terms with place in Owen’s mind as
names part of book’s Neumann writes, because
“the scope of our knowl-
“The Boy With a Bird in His one’s own difference. we follow his personal
Chest” by Emme Lund; Atria They live under constant musings on the teenage
scope edge is limited,” no indi-
vidual should obey any
(308 pages, $27) threat of discovery by out- social world from which he
law that they themselves siders, or so says his has been excluded, and his
By Randy Rosenthal Emme Lund’s debut mother, an alcoholic but yearnings for human con-
did not find rational.
Star Tribune (TNS) novel “The Boy With a loving parent who works nection. Readers of all
Schiller was already
Bird in His Chest” is not tirelessly to protect her races, creeds, sexual orien-
known for lectures pro-
A fascinating, though flawed your typical coming-of-age son. Owen’s mother knows tations and genders will
claiming that “art liber-
deep dive into the German fantasy. The book features that the world of doctors recognize Owen’s feelings
ated man from the rule of
college town that spawned more than a few standard and government agents — of misplacement — but
mere conceptualized
the Romantic movement. markers of that genre — ominously named the
thinking,” and Schelling queer readers perhaps will
“Jena 1800: The Republic of for instance, the title is no Army of Acronyms —
focused on nature, which ATRIA find something more.
Free Spirits” by Peter passing metaphor. Our would jump at the chance
“functioned as a medium “The Boy With a Bird in His Emme Lund, a trans-
Neumann, translated from teenaged protagonist, to put Owen and Gail
for the mind to recognize Chest,” by Emme Lund gender woman, suffuses
the German by Shelley Frisch; Owen Tanner, actually under their microscope,
itself.” her narrative with clear-
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (244 does have a bird living in ripping apart their family
Novalis’ spiritual boys his age. Owen and his sighted metaphors for teen
pages, $27) his rib cage, with part of in the process.
poetry and prose pro- bird, Gail, share a relation- alienation, though her
his chest cavity open to the So the strange three-
moted a re-enchantment ship more like that of story will likely carry par-
As most intellectuals air so that the bird can some of mother, child and
of the world, with his magician and familiar ticular resonance for
today write about superfi- poke its beak through his bird live in secrecy for
blue flower symbolizing rather than pet and owner, readers who feel out of
cial matters such as race, exposed ribs. years, until one day when
the ineffable search for and they do not always get step with their bodies or
class and gender, it’s hard But as opposed to your Owen decides to start ven-
the infinite, and the along. As much as Gail genders.
to imagine a time when “Twilights” or “Harry turing outside their small
Schlegel brothers put depends upon Owen to “The Boy With a Bird in
thinkers focused on everyone’s ideas together Potters,” this story focuses suburban household to
deeper matters of the in large part on the rela- feed and protect her, the explore and quickly draws His Chest” offers a much-
in the short-lived but needed corrective to the
mind, exploring how truth tionship between bird and boy also seems to need the the attention of prying
immensely influential average coming-of-age fan-
could be perceived boy rather than the mag- bird for approval and affec- eyes.
journal Athenaeum, tasy, as Lund tenderly and
through imagination, ical world-building that tion. Gail endangers Owen, Again, if that sounds
which made the German deftly walks us through
intuition and the creation would make their relation- but she also completes like the premise of a rip-
Romantics what they are.
of art. Of course I’m refer- ship possible. him, forms a symbiosis ping yarn with the narra- the process of making
Being a literary artist
ring to the Romantics. Lund zooms in close on with him that he could not tive pacing of those young peace with the fragile
himself, Neumann tells
Though the Romantic personal moments of live without. adult fantasies already animal we all carry
this story so much like a
Movement flourished in introspection, as Owen The unfolding drama mentioned, think again. In around with us, showing
novel that I often forgot it
England and America, it’s wasn’t. With a sweeping comes to terms with what between boy and bird spite of its genre trap- us how to let it live and
the German Romantics style, he charmingly ani- sets him apart from other embodies the halting, pings, this book is some- breathe in a hostile world.
who originated ways of mates the atmosphere of
thinking that still domi- Jena, with its lecture
nate so much of our cul- halls, living rooms and REVIEW
ture, from our idealiza- Saale River. Yet he
tion of nature and art to
our (mis)understanding
of Buddhism.
In “Jena 1800,” German
focuses on relationships,
the alliances and rivalries
of friends and lovers. And
like most biographers,
Six acclaimed titles now in paperback
poet and philosophy pro- Neumann plays with the By Moira Macdonald Artificial Friend — for sale can navigate both sleaze cious, insatiable wanting.”
fessor Peter Neumann hypothetical. The Seattle Times (TNS)
beautifully captures the in a shop window, in a not- and cheese, jokey tweets “The Rope: A True Story of
For instance, after too-distant future society and surprising earnest- Murder, Heroism, and the
special moment when, Fichte’s unabashed Some of 2021’s most — as a companion piece to ness, that we not only buy Dawn of the NAACP,” by Alex
guided by Goethe and atheism gets him ousted
inspired by Kant, the acclaimed titles are his earlier novel “Never her character’s emotional Tresniowski (Simon &
from Jena and he unsuc- making their way into Let Me Go.” I thought of epiphany but are moved by
young philosophers Schuster, $18.99).
cessfully suggests that all paperback around now; that, while immersed in it.”
Fichte, Hegel and Two threads intertwine
the Schlegels come live here are six fresh ones, to “Klara and the Sun” last “How Beautiful We Were,” by
Schelling, poets Schiller with him in Berlin, in Tresniowski’s nonfic-
and Novalis, brothers make the spring come year, and marveling how a Imbolo Mbue (Random House, tion work: a Black man
Neumann gets in Fichte’s faster. book about someone who $18).
Fritz and Wilhelm mind: “Fine, he thought falsely accused of the
Schlegel and their wives “Who Is Maud Dixon?” by isn’t human could none- Named as one of the 10 murder of a child in 1910,
— let them figure it out Alexandra Andrews (Little,
Dorothea and Caroline all theless become a poignant, best books of the year by and groundbreaking Black
for themselves.”
lived in the same small Brown, $16.99). unexpected story about The New York Times, journalist Ida B. Wells’
But if you’re going to
university town, Jena, at Film rights sold quickly love. (I also thought of Mr. Mbue’s follow-up to her work to expose the truth
put words in your sub-
the same time, and tried for Andrews’ Highsmith- Stevens, in “The Remains acclaimed debut “Behold about lynching.
jects’ heads, why not
to remake the world. esque debut, a twisty tale of the Day,” and how good the Dreamers” is set in a
actually write a novel? Washington Post reviewer
In many ways, Indeed, “Jena 1800” of a young aspiring nov- Ishiguro is at characters fictional African village,
Jerald Walker called it an
Romanticism was an would have been much elist who gets a job as who feel more than they where representatives from
“outstanding, meticulously
intellectual counter-revo- better as fiction. assistant to a famously can express.) an American oil company
researched book.”
lution to the For despite reclusive writer whose “No One Is Talking About have come to meet with the
“You Made Me Love You:
Enlightenment. By 1790, Neumann’s knowledge, true identity is a secret. This,” by Patricia Lockwood people they are poisoning.
the pure reason promoted Selected Stories, 1981-2018,”
everyone blurs together; “The playful Andrews (Penguin, $17). “This decades-spanning
by French philosophers alerts us early on, with a This book, a 2021 Booker fable of power and corrup- by John Edgar Wideman
to me, only Novalis is (Scribner, $18.99).
led to the bloody Terror, distinct. And this is per- nod and a wink, to what Prize finalist and one of tion turns out to be some-
and when Napoleon she might be up to in this The New York Times’ 10 thing much less clear-cut This is the first short-fic-
haps because I adore
ended the revolution, the assured novel, though best of the year, is than the familiar David- tion anthology from
Penelope Fitzgerald’s
center of European novel about him, “The there is a bit of misdirec- Lockwood’s debut novel; and-Goliath tale of a socio- Wideman — winner of the
thought moved into the Blue Flower.” tion here, too,” wrote she previously published pathic corporation and the 2019 PEN/Malamud Award
Germanic states of the As Polish author Olga Sarah Lyall in The New two poetry collections and lives it steamrolls,” wrote for Excellence in the Short
Holy Roman Empire, and Tokarczuk asked in the York Times. an acclaimed memoir, The New York Times books Story — since 1992; it
to Jena in particular. New Yorker, isn’t it often “Priestdaddy.” In it, a staff. “Through the eyes of includes 35 stories.
Fichte arrived there in the case “that we “Klara and the Sun,” by social media star navigates Kosawa’s citizens young Publishers Weekly wrote,
1794 and students flocked remember characters Kazio Ishiguro (Vintage a worldwide appearance and old, Mbue constructs a “In stories selected from
to hear him build on better from novels than International, $16.95). tour after going viral. NPR nuanced exploration of 1981’s Damballah up
Kant’s “Critique of Pure we do real people?” Alas, Ishiguro, one of the most reviewer Heller McAlpin self-interest, of what it through 2018’s American
Reason” by declaring though Peter Neumann elegant prose stylists called it a “tour de force ... means to want in the age of Histories, Wideman con-
that, now that “we can seems the ideal person to working today, wrote this It’s a testament to her capitalism and colonialism veys a mastery of gritty
know nothing about how write a novel. bestselling tale of an skills as a rare writer who — these machines of mali- realism.”

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A dog day at the dentist

You might set out a second, squirrel-friendly feeder that offers
them their favorites, which may make them less likely to go after
the bird feeder.
How to deal with pesky
squirrels mooching
By Joan Morris
The Mercury News (TNS)
DEAR JOAN: I’m having
major squirrel problems! I
bought what I thought was a
squirrel-proof feeder. Should
I buy the Coles’ brand bird
food that is hot or what
should I do?
Deborah, Birmingham,
Alabama
DEAR DEBORAH:
Squirrels and rodents are
said to have a strong dis-
like for capsaicin, which
is the stuff in peppers
that make it hot. Birds, on
the other hand, aren’t
bothered by it, so the
spiced bird seed should
help deter the squirrels.
You might also set out a
second, squirrel-friendly
feeder that offers them
their favorites, which may
make them less likely to
go after the bird feeder.
DEAR JOAN: My husband’s
friend told him that feeding
the wild finches and other
small wild birds on our back
porch will attract rats to our
house. Should I stop?
Barbara Largent,
Burlington, Washington
DEAR BARBARA: Rats
visit our yards and homes
with or without invita-
tion. The rats might eat
the bird seed, but getting
rid of your feeders won’t
get rid of the rats. They
are just a fact of life.
Make sure entrances into
your home are sealed off
to keep them out, keep
DREAMSTIME
the areas clean around
and under the feeders,
and enjoy watching the
birds without guilt.
DEAR JOAN: We have many
feeders in our yard, and love
to watch the smaller birds
return in spring. However, we
have a terrible problem with
crows that seem to instinc-
tively know when to attack
the food.
I use safflower for the
mourning doves and that
helps, but the crows are very
persistent. Is there a way we
can deter them? We’ve tried
reflective pie plates, but that
only works for a day or two.
Larry Smith, Campbellford,
Ontario, Canada
DEAR LARRY: Buy
yourself a fake dead crow
and, under cover of dark-
ness, hang it in your yard
where the crows are sure
to see it first thing in the
morning. They’ll likely
gather around their fallen
comrade, have a wake
and then fly off, never to
return (or at least not for
a long time).
I was skeptical this
would work, but many of
my readers have tried it
with great success. The
most important thing is
to avoid being spotted in
the act, or the crows will
mark you as a crow-killer
and mob you wherever
you go.
By Michelle Crouch
Kaiser Health News (TNS)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —
The first time 11-year-old
Levi McAllister had a tooth
pulled, he screamed,
kicked, and struggled so
much that his mom had to
hold him down.
So when Levi returned to
Charlotte Pediatric
Dentistry in January to get
two more teeth pulled,
dental hygienist Barb
Kucera had a surprise for
him: a friendly yellow
Labrador retriever named
Atkins.
“Would you like Atkins
to lie on your lap?” she
asked.
Levi nodded, and Kucera
helped Atkins hop into the
dental chair and rest her
head on a pillow on Levi’s
chest. As Levi stroked the
soft fur on Atkins’ ears, the
dentist numbed Levi’s
mouth and eased out two
of his teeth.
“The dog made me feel
happy and calm,” Levi
said.
Across the country, a
growing number of den-
tists are bringing in four-
legged staff members to
reduce stress for both chil-
dren and adults — typi-
cally at no additional cost
to patients. Dental patients
at a practice in Green Bay,
Wisconsin, can cuddle with
a cockapoo named Charlie,
for instance, while those at
a practice in Nashville,
Tennessee, visit with
PeeWee, a French bulldog.
In Cornelius, North
Carolina, Whalen
Dentistry advertises that a
goldendoodle named
Beamer will “make any
appointment a little less…
RUFF!”
Yet the proliferation of
dental dogs highlights a
surprising lack of regula-
tion. In most states,
nothing prevents a dentist
from bringing in an
untrained pet and calling it
a comfort or therapy dog,
possibly putting patients at
risk for an infection or a
dog attack. Patients with
allergies or a fear of dogs
might also have concerns.
In North Carolina, com-
plaints from patients con-
cerned about sanitation
and safety prompted state
regulators to approve a
rule allowing only certain
types of highly trained
dogs in dental exam rooms.
It took effect in June 2021
and is thought to be the
first regulation of its kind
nationwide.
As many as 1 in 3
Americans experience
dental anxiety and fear.
For them, a visit to the den-
tist can be terrifying, and
research indicates dogs
can help. A small study
published in the journal
Animals found that
“The dog made me feel happy and calm,” Levi McAllister said. Levi
got two teeth pulled.
patients with a fear of the
dentist who had a dog lie
on their laps during treat-
ment experienced a
decrease in their stress and
blood pressure levels.
Other research shows
animals in health care
facilities can reduce the
perception of pain and
boost patients’ moods.
The Americans with
Disabilities Act allows
people with disabilities to
bring a service dog into
health care facilities,
including dental clinics.
Such animals do not pose a
significant risk of trans-
mitting infection in a den-
tist’s office, according to
the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
The North Carolina State
Board of Dental Examiners
published an initial rule
that would have allowed
only service dogs for
patients with disabilities in
dental exam rooms, effec-
tively banning “rehabilita-
tive facility dogs” like
Atkins. In response, dog
lovers and dental patients
flooded the board with
emails, said Bobby White,
the board’s CEO and legal
counsel.
The board then proposed
also allowing facility dogs
in dental offices.
Facility dogs get the
same intense training as
service dogs but learn
tasks to help many people,
rather than just one, said
Kyria Henry Whisenhunt.
She’s the executive director
and founder of
Paws4people Foundation,
the North Carolina-based
nonprofit that trained
Atkins and three other
MICHELLE CROUCH
dental dogs in the state.
Facility dogs are trained
to work in specific profes-
sional environments,
Whisenhunt said. For
instance, Atkins had to be
desensitized to sounds
such as the screech of the
dentist’s drill. The dog also
had to practice laying her
head on a patient’s lap and
staying still while a dentist
works.
Other facility dogs work
with professionals in spe-
cial education, physical
and occupational therapy,
and mental health care.
The new North Carolina
regulation defines a “certi-
fied facility dog” as one
trained in a program
accredited by an organiza-
tion that promotes training
standards for assistance
dogs, such as Assistance
Dogs International or
Animal Assisted
Intervention International.
It also requires the dog’s
handler to be trained and
certified.
“Our whole goal was to
make sure the dogs are
safe,” White said. “There’s
a lot of difference between
a facility dog that has spe-
cial training and a person
who goes on the internet,
buys a vest, and puts it on a
Chihuahua.”
The Animal Legal and
Historical Center at
Michigan State searched
laws and regulations in all
50 states for KHN and
found that only Virginia,
New Jersey, and Georgia
specifically prohibit ani-
mals (except for service
animals) in dental facili-
ties. Center attorney
Rebecca Wisch found no
Across the country,
a growing number
of dentists are
bringing in four-
legged staff
members to reduce
stress for both
children and adults
— typically at no
additional cost to
patients.
other guidelines related to
dogs in a dental office. “I
think the NC regulation is
unique,” she said in an
email.
Dr. James Sparks, an
Oklahoma dentist who is
president of the American
Association of Dental
Boards, said he wasn’t
aware of any similar laws.
He added that he person-
ally would never bring an
animal into his practice. “I
can’t take the chance of a
dog jumping up while I do
work,” he said.
Atkins, who is 6 years
old, received 600 hours of
training from Paws4people.
She and Kucera then
trained together for an
additional 50 hours. There
was no charge for Kucera
to get Atkins, but she had
to commit to raise $10,000
for the foundation.
Although Atkins lives with
Kucera, she is owned by
Paws4people.
On the days Atkins
works at Charlotte
Pediatric Dentistry, a sign
in the reception area alerts
patients that a dog is on
duty. If someone has aller-
gies or a fear of dogs, the
staff puts Atkins in her
kennel in a back room.
For the youngest
patients, Atkins jumps into
the dental chair and
models behavior. She gets
her own clip-on napkin and
holds her mouth open
while Kucera checks her
teeth with a mirror.
When patients want
Atkins in their laps,
Kucera uses a disposable
drape to create a barrier
between the patient’s
clothing and the dog so the
patient doesn’t go home
covered with dog hair. She
said that she’s never had a
problem with Atkins dis-
turbing a dentist’s work
and that many families
request the pooch for every
appointment.
Levi said that’s his plan,
too. “It’s just really
helpful,” he said.
“Everyone should have
one.”

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OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Get yourself underground
Caverns aren’t just a
hole in the ground
By Tanner Cook
SPORTS WRITER
tcook@johnsoncitypress.com
What makes any caverns
a wonder to everyone that
explores them?
The fascination might
perhaps be that a hole in
the ground has so many
different formations that
have come to be over mil-
lions of years.
We’re lucky enough to
have two attractions at the
Appalachian Caverns and
Bristol Caverns right in
our own backyard.
APPALACHIAN CAVERNS
HISTORY
Located at 420 Cave Hill
Road in Blountville near
the Tri-Cities Golf Club,
the Appalachian Caverns
offers an expansive tour of
the attraction that is mil-
lions of years in the
making.
Archaeological evidence
released in 2006 revealed
that the caverns were used
by early Woodland Native
Americans over 1,300 years
ago.
The archeologists found
burnt firewood located in a
fire pit that has been radio-
carbon dated to 675 A.D.
They also found pottery,
arrowheads, and other evi-
dence of habitation.
The log cabin located on
the property was discov-
ered to have been built in
1777.
Historical documents
located in the Sullivan
County Archives indicate
the caverns and cabin were
used as a stopover point
and shelter during the
harsh winter months as
users were making their
way westward.
Due to the size of the
cavern, it could handle
housing larger groups of
people and because of the
wind flow, fires could be
built for heat and cooking.
With the abundance of bat
dung (an important ingre-
dient in the making of gun-
powder at the time) and the
fairly consistent tempera-
ture, this made the cavern
a good place to stay when
the weather was cold.
Historic families such as
the Boones and the
Crocketts, along with other
less known but very
important key pioneers,
were tied to the property
and the caverns.
During the American
Revolution as well as the
Civil War, the availability
of the bat dung was
important for gunpowder,
as well as it being used by
New TWRA guide available
From staff reports
NASHVILLE —
Tennessee’s 2022-23 fishing
regulations are now in
effect and anglers are
encouraged to obtain the
new Tennessee Fishing
Guide now available at
locations throughout the
state, on the Tennessee
Wildlife Resources Agency
website (www.tnwildlife.
org) and on the TWRA “On
the Go App.”
Hard copies of the guide
are available wherever
hunting and fishing
licenses are sold and at the
TWRA’s four regional
offices located in Jackson
(Region I), Nashville
(Region II), Crossville
(Region III), and
Morristown (Region IV).
This year’s statewide and
specific region regulation
changes are featured in the
“What’s New” section on
page 1 of the guide.
The TWRA offers a
reminder that hunting and
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the settlers as a place to
store their goods during
the harsh winters.
WHAT IS OFFERED AT
APPALACHIAN CAVERNS
There are a variety of
tours offered ranging from
easy to advanced.
Every tour will leave
from the headquarters
both every half hour and
every hour.
Advanced tours will need
to be scheduled a min-
imum of 24 hours ahead of
time. A deposit may be
required when booking the
advanced tours. An addi-
tional fee is required for
after hours and private
tours. It is required to call
ahead for special group
pricing of 10 or more.
The caverns also accom-
modate birthday parties,
church groups, school field
trips, and other special
events. The caverns also
have a military discount. CONTIRBUTED/TERRI CAMPBELL
All guests of the caverns A scene from Appalachian Caverns
also have access to the
picnic areas.
More can be found at
www.appalachiancav-
ernstn.com/tours,
including information on
the gem mine.
BRISTOL CAVERNS
Even though the site at
1157 Bristol Caverns
Highway is currently for
sale, the attraction remains
open.
The caverns have been
one of the oldest and most
beautiful attractions in
Northeast Tennessee and
have thrived as one of
Bristol’s most visited
tourist attractions.
It is a modern system of
concealed, indirect lighting
that highlights the natural
colors and beauty of the
formations for your enjoy-
ment.
The tour itself takes you
to all three levels of the
caverns from Mayor
Preston’s Chamber in the
MARINA WATERS/KINGSPORT TIMES NEWS
upper section to the
winding banks of the The Bristol Caverns has been listed for $4.5 million and includes 78 underground acres.
Underground River that is
180 feet below on the
cavern floor.
Along the Underground
River, there are dramatic
displays of formations
reflected in the stream’s
waters. You can also peer
over Lover’s Leap, view the
breathtaking Bridal Veil
formation and stare in
wonder at the dazzling for-
mations of the Entrance
Hall.
Tours are available year-
round, but hours depend
on the season. Call ahead
or check www.bristolcav-
erns.com/tour.html for
more information.
All tours leave from the
gift shop and last approxi-
mately one hour.
Hard copies of the
guide are available
wherever hunting
and fishing licenses
are sold
fishing licenses and per-
mits are now valid for one
year from the date of pur-
chase. All previous annual
Tennessee hunting and
fishing licenses expired
Feb. 28.
Licenses are available
online anytime at www.
GoOutdoorsTennessee.
com, on the “On the Go
App,” or at one of 474
license agents across the
state. You can also select to
auto-renew your license.
Customers can also pur-
chase a new design of the
collector’s card for any
annual license. The new
card is waterproof and
MARINA WATERS/KINGSPORT TIMES NEWS
durable and features a
choice of two pictures. The Bridal Veil is one of the Bristol Caverns’ attractions.
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In Loving Memory
of the dearly departed pets who left paw prints on our hearts
Blueberry Muffin
6-2005 - 12-2016
Gone from my side but not
from my heart. My heart was
broken the day you left me.
Sherry Maines
Snowball
1989 - 2004
Thank you for 15 years of
loving memories, I will never
forget you, you were my pride
& joy.
Mary Ann Chandler
Molly
In Loving memory of my sweet Molly,
you are always in my heart, you were
more than a companion, you were
my sunshine in the pouring rain! I
will love you forever! Momma misses
you....until we meet again on the
rainbow bridge!
Teresa Story
Scarlet
My sweet precious lady.
I love you so much.
Ruth Sluder
Ginger
Thank you for all the love and
happiness you gave me. You
will be in my heart forever.
Carol Walker
If you would like to honor your pet
mail or drop off the information to:
Thanks to Petcare Cremations for sponsoring this page allowing our readers to honor their pet at no charge.
Happy Day
3-2003 - 1-2019
My sweet little perfect buddy.
I will love you forever - you
broke my heart too.
Sherry Maines
Bubbie Christian
We still miss you. We love
you. We remember when
you loved to dress up for
holidays and spend nights
with Brandon.
Joan Armstrong.
Syd
Although I had 13 short
years. I’ll remember you
forever.
Joyce McKeehan
Ty Boy
2008 - 2019
If love could have saved you,
you would have lived forev-
er. We miss the joy and love
you gave us.
Lynn & Tammy Martin
Rufus Baxter
Daddy’s baby for 15 years.
Mama’s boss for 18 years and
11 months. Rest in peace with
Daddy. You are loved.
Janice Baxter
Kingsport Times News
701 Lynn Garden Dr., Kingsport, TN 37660
Attn: Pet Memorial or email: classifieds@timesnews.net
Gracie
2002-2021
Thank you for being our faithful
friend for 19 years. You will be
and are forever missed. You gave
us many memories we will never
forget. You will live forever in
our hearts. We loved you Gracie.
The Davidson Family
Fred, Kathy, Dustin, Lakin
& Maisy
Cassie
2011-2021
Thank you for being the best
girl ever. We miss you so
much and you are
forever in our hearts.
The Scharfstein Family
Buddy Love
2004 - 2016
It was love at first sight!
You are missed every day!
We love you always,
Maw and Paw
Pebbles
Pebbles was a wonderful
family member and will be
missed dearly.
Chasity
Zoey
2007 - 2021
Jessie Earl
2006 - 2018
You both will always be in
our hearts forever. Never will
we forget all the good & bad
times we had!
Carolyn & Howard Vaughn
Sir Diamon Jim of
Cain-”Tuk”-y
Thank you “Tuk” for bringing
us so much love, joy, & happi-
ness for 17 1/2 years. You will
always be in our hearts.
The Robinson Family
Bella “Baby Girl”
Aug. 2009 - June 2021
“We miss you dearly”
Mom, Dad, Sissy
Lady Gabee
2005 - 2019
We love and miss you so
Very much. Thank you for
Making us better people!
Maw and Paw
Spunky
2007 - 2021
Thank you for the endless
joy, comfort, companionship
and love you gave in your
14 years. You will be forever
missed and loved.
Cuba Edwards
Searia
17 years of pure joy. She was a
well kept family member. The
only time she broke my heart
is when she passed away.
James Leeper
OR
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Cotton Chandler
2014 -8-26-2016
I watched you, “Baby Boy”
Oso (Spanish for Bear)
Cotton walk away from me to
You left us too soon. You left cross Rainbow Bridge.
so much love behind.
We will never forget you. I miss you.
Al & Carole Meehan Mary Ann Chandler
Greta Von
Sweet Peach
In loving memory of my sweet
Greta, you were the light of my life
& momma’s baby girl! There’s a hole Lilylee and me
in my heart that can never be filled!
I hope you know how much momma --”our last day together”
loved you! Until we meet again on
that rainbow bridge. God bless u!
Ruth Wilson Patricia Chapman
Sebrena Sable
You are very much loved and
I wanted you to know that I love you and I want you to
you’re precious. know that you are precious
Ruth Sluder to me.
Ruth Sluder
Angel Eli Edward Bradley
I miss you so very much. I will forever love and miss
Thank you for the love and you my sweet “momma’s”
happiness you gave to us. boy!
Doug & Martha Sherry Bradley
Austa Pooh
Approximately 2009 - 2009-2021
January 20, 2022 Loved riding the motorcycle
My rescue dog! She was the with big brother Chad stuck
sweetest dog ever and the
center of my world for 8 years. down in his jacket
Shirley Christian
Rich Griffin
Johnson City Press
204 W. Main St., Johnson City, TN 37604
Attn: Pet Memorial or email: classifieds@johnsoncitypress.com
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Signaling a shift, ‘Drive My Car’ rides into the Oscars

The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Since the
flurry of text messages
that greeted him when he
stepped off a plane in
Berlin on Oscar nomina-
tions morning, Ryusuke
Hamaguchi has had some
time to reflect on why his
film, “Drive My Car, ” has
resonated as it has.
But he’s not so sure.
There’s only so many ways
to reason how a three-hour
Japanese drama in which
the opening credits don’t
even arrive until 40 min-
utes in, can rise to
Hollywood’s highest
summit. “Drive My Car,”
an emotional epic of grief,
connection and art, is nom-
inated for four Oscars,
including best picture, best
director and best adapted
screenplay.
“The more I think about
this, the less sure I am,”
says Hamaguchi. “But one
thing I can say is that this
is a very normal movie. It’s
about people who have all
these different flaws each
trying to have a better life
for themselves. Loving
someone or something is
one way to do that. But
when we love someone, one
day you lose or separate
from that person.
“It’s almost like an oxy-
moron,” he adds. “That’s
sort of the normal aspect
of this film, that it’s about
the loss and gain of love.”
“Drive My Car,” the first
Japanese film ever nomi-
nated for best picture, shat-
ters the mold of the tradi-
tional Oscar contender.
Even Bong Joon Ho’s
“Parasite,” which two
years ago became the first
non-English language best
picture winner, was less
surprising. “Parasite” was
a stylish genre film from a
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, winner of the award for best screenplay for the
film “Drive My Car,” poses for photographers at the 74th
international film festival, Cannes, southern France, in July.
Hamaguchi is nominated for an Oscar for best director.
world-renown filmmaker
whose movie had already
won the Palme d’Or at the
Cannes Film Festival.
The road taken by “Drive
My Car” to the Academy
Awards is, like the movie,
more winding. While
Hamaguchi’s films — he
last year also released the
beguiling anthology film
“Wheel of Fortune and
Fantasy” — are interna-
tionally acclaimed, the
43-year-old filmmaker was
far less known in
Hollywood. “Drive My
Car” won best screenplay
at Cannes last summer, but
the response to
Hamaguchi’s lengthy film,
fittingly, needed time to
gather force.
“Drive My Car” instead
found its momentum from
critics who championed
the film (both New York
and Los Angeles critics
groups named it the best
film of the year) and a
steady rollout in theaters.
There was also something
undeniable about it. Just
VIANNEY LE CAER
about everyone who has
sat down and watched
Hamaguchi’s film has
come away deeply moved.
“Drive My Car” may be a
tough sell, but it’s proven
easy to love.
“Audiences respond to
great movies. They just
do,” says Jonathan
Sehring, the longtime IFC
Films chief who released
“Drive My Car” with the
newly launched distributor
Sideshow, along with
Janus Films.
Still, “Drive My Car” is
less of an anomaly than it
seems. Series like the
small-screen sensation
“Squid Game” have
showed that subtitles
aren’t nearly the hurdle
they were believed to be. At
the same, the Academy of
Motion Pictures Arts and
Sciences, in striving to
diversify its historically
white and male member-
ship, has in recent years
welcomed waves of new
international members.
Once distant movie
realms have grown closer.
Along with “Drive My
Car,” a number of foreign
films — “The Worst Person
in the World,” “Parallel
Mothers,” “Flee” — scored
nominations this year out-
side of best international
film. At the March 27
Oscars, these films are
punching well above their
weight. In best director,
Hamaguchi edged out
A-list favorites like Denis
Villeneuve (“Dune”).
“Drive My Car” landed
twice the number of nomi-
nations as “Spider-Man:
No Way Home.”
“The fact that it’s three
hours long also shows us
that maybe the times are
changing, peoples’ recep-
tivity is slightly changing,”
Hamaguchi said in a recent
interview while quaran-
tining in a hotel room in
Japan after traveling over-
seas. “I thought it would be
difficult to reach a large
audience because of the
length of the film, despite
being proud and confident
with the final product.”
Make no mistake,
Hamaguchi and everyone
involved with “Drive My
Car” are still astonished at
the film’s success.
“We’re all pinching our-
selves. No, slapping our-
selves is more like it,” says
Sehring. “I’d be lying if I
told you any of us thought
it would get this kind of
reception. But we were all
incredibly moved by it.”
At IFC, Sehring helped
pioneer the now common
use of day-and-date
releases, with films
debuting theatrically and
on video-on-demand. But
he thinks the groundswell
around “Drive My Car”
could have only happened
in theaters. There, it’s
made $1.8 million in ticket
sales over the past few
months, often ranking
among the best per-theater
averages. On Wednesday, it
began streaming on HBO
Max.
“A three-hour Japanese
movie was going to be very
challenging. If it pre-
miered on a streaming ser-
vice — and streaming ser-
vices are great things — it
would be lost,” says
Sehring. “They would
never promote it, and I’d
be surprised if any
streaming service out
there would acquire it
except for our partners at
Criterion.”
Hamaguchi says all he
can do is be grateful — and
look forward to meeting
Steven Spielberg and
Denzel Washington.
Hamaguchi has one thing
in common with Spielberg.
“Drive My Car” is one of
only six movies to sweep
the New York Film Critics
Circle, the Los Angeles
Critics Association and the
National Society of Film
Critics. The others are
“Goodfellas,” “L.A.
Confidential,” “The Hurt
Locker,” “The Social
Network” and Spielberg’s
“Schindler’s List.”
Some have claimed that
the Oscars risk becoming
too “elitist” when films like
“Drive My Car” are hon-
ored ahead of most pop-
ular ones. But there’s
noting elitist about “Drive
My Car,” a movie that, like
Hamaguchi’s “Wheel of
Fortune and Fantasy,”
maneuvers to bring dispa-
rate characters together in
intimate dialogue about
their lives. His movie
seems to steer steadfastly
toward something sincere.
Filmed both before and
during the pandemic,
“Drive My Car” ends with
its characters in face
masks, like it’s trying to
meet us where we are.
“There’s this higher,
more present form of com-
munication that takes
place. It’s not possible with
just my normal self to have
that level of communica-
tion,” says Hamaguchi.
“The act of creation really
brings forward that
authenticity.”
“Drive My Car” is based
on a Haruki Murakami
short story and centers on
a theater actor, Yûsuke
Kafuku, played by
Hidetoshi Nishijima,
directing a multilingual
production of Chekhov’s
“Uncle Vanya.” Still
mourning the death of his
wife, Kafuku leads the cast
in rehearsals where the
actors sit and read their
lines flatly, ingesting the
language for days before
acting it out.
Hamaguchi utilizes the
same approach with his
casts. The effect that
“Drive My Car” spawns, he
believes, starts with his
and his actors’ connection
within.
“In each piece that we
create, it’s important for us
to really connect to our-
selves first. To create
something that’s great, we
first have to open our-
selves,” says Hamaguchi.
“That process of creating,
itself, is like an authentic
communication.”
As he talks, it’s easy to
get the impression that this
is why Hamaguchi makes
movies — that the connec-
tion that his characters are
searching for is what he is,
too. “That feeling,” he says,
“is indeed something that
sticks with me when I
create a story.”

Who’s the face of Styles’ new
beauty brand? Mick Fleetwood
Fleetwood Mac
drummer face of
beauty, apparel brand
By Nardine Saad
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Pop sensation Harry
Styles and rock legend
Mick Fleetwood have taken
their cross-generational
friendship to the beauty
industry.
The “Watermelon Sugar”
singer, 28, has enlisted the
74-year-old Fleetwood Mac
drummer — Styles’
musical hero and confidant
— as the new face of his
beauty and apparel brand,
Pleasing, which Styles
launched late last year.
“He’s a magical man,”
Styles recently told Vogue.
“Mick is someone who
brings me — and countless
others — great joy. I felt
there couldn’t be a better
embodiment of Pleasing,
or a person who could so
naturally capture the wiz-
ardry that we love.”
The campaign for the
brand’s second micro-col-
lection, Shroom Bloom,
launched recently, with
Fleetwood at the front of
the product launch that
includes face and nail
products and apparel that
Styles says is “an intoxi-
cating escape-evoking curi-
osity.”
Photographed by
Anthony Pham, Fleetwood
is portrayed as a psyche-
delic sorcerer of sorts. The
British rocker is captured
sporting a lavender, zebra-
print suit accompanied by
a purple top hat and
wearing Pleasing nail
polish. He peeks down
from behind half-moon
spectacles in one shot,
strums a guitar in the next
and lazes alongside an
illustrated frog in a field of
flowers and mushrooms in
another.
The campaign, which
features Pleasing T-shirts
and a number of colorful
manicures, was shot at
Fleetwood’s home in Maui
and his pet pig Tilly also
makes an appearance,
Vogue said.
Harry Styles Performs On NBC’s “Today” at Rockefeller Plaza in
February 2020, in New York.
As for how the musical
mates came together,
Fleetwood credits a 2014
One Direction concert at
the Rose Bowl that his
then-12-year-old twins
insisted that he take them
to.
“Eventually, the girls
realized Dad was actually
causing a bit of a commo-
tion,” he said of being rec-
ognized at a meet-and-
greet. Styles, who had been
a lifelong fan, spotted the
6-foot-5 rocker at the show
and introduced himself.
(Styles is also friends with
Fleetwood’s bandmate
Stevie Nicks, who often
speaks lovingly of the pop
star in interviews.)
“Two factions from com-
pletely different worlds
came together,” Fleetwood
told Vogue, adding, “We
really connected because it
turned out Harry had been
brought up around
Fleetwood Mac’s music
when he was a child. And
so on and off for years
we’ve had this passing-in-
the-night relationship,
ARTURO HOLMES
which has included him
doing Fleetwood Mac
songs and doing countless
little and big things with
Stevie.”
With the Pleasing cam-
paign, Fleetwood is pro-
moting the brand’s vision
of genderless style and
beauty, which Styles
embodied in 2020 when he
wore a Gucci gown as the
first man to grace the
cover of Vogue alone. And
it’s a gender-norm-flouting
movement that Fleetwood
and his peers helped pio-
neer in the late ‘60s and
‘70s.
“When I think about
what happened in my gen-
eration, we had a sense of
freedom, a sense of feeling
that what had happened
before didn’t need to be
repeated. Millions and mil-
lions of people in my
world, our generation, saw
that, felt that,” Fleetwood
said.
“Don’t be judgmental
and have fun with it,” he
added. “That’s what
Pleasing represents.”
‘That Dirty Black Bag’ adds
to TV’s Western resurgence
By Luaine Lee
Tribune News Service (TNS)
Westerns used to be the surefire
money makers in Hollywood. Directors
like John Ford, Sam Peckinpah and
Sergio Leone elevated the genre to fine
art. But comic book heroes nudged the
cowboys off the big screen, and the
Hollywood Western rode off into the
sunset.
Still there is hope on that distant
horizon as TV is resurrecting the classic
Western. With shows like “Yellowstone,”
“Hell on Wheels,” “Godless” and now,
“That Dirty Black Bag,” the Western is
galloping back into the mainstream.
Nurtured in the style of Sergio Leone’s
spare and bloody spaghetti Westerns,
“That Dirty Black Bag” premieres
Thursday on AMC+. It tells the tale of an
upright sheriff (Dominic Cooper) bur-
dened by a twisted past and a scurrilous
bounty hunter (Douglas Booth) known
for decapitating his enemies and toting
them around in — you guessed it — a
dirty black bag. With laconic Leone logic
he explains: “Heads weigh less than
bodies.”
The eight-part series was filmed in
Morocco, Italy and Spain – where Leone
crafted most of his stylistic movies.
One major site was Almeria, Spain.
Booth recalls, “We shot in ‘Fort Bravo,’ a
lot of the Leone movies were shot there.
And when we were doing our horse
training, we could ride from one classic
film set to another. You would be in a
Western town, and the next minute,
you’d be outside a little church in
Mexico. So that was quite fun.
“You’d watch the movie the night
before and then doing the horse training
the next day, you’d be riding around the
(original) sets. That was very cool.”
One of the sites was the location of
Leone’s first spaghetti Western, “A
Fistful of Dollars,” which starred Clint
Eastwood, recalls Booth. “It made quite
a nice coffee break going out and looking
through all those classic sets. But the
feeling of the space – it’s so visually
stunning, and it goes on and on forever
— these dry, rolling hills that you’ve
built completely like you’re in the Wild
West. It doesn’t feel like you’re in Europe
at all. So, you can see why, historically,
people over many years, have come there
to make these iconic films.”
Not only was the cast and crew
besieged by debilitating heat in Morocco,
they had to cope with the COVID-19 out-
break and the ever-capricious weather.
“We had a problem after we were filming
for several weeks for the first time in
many, many years they had a very wet
season,” recalls Cooper, 43.
“And within literally over the space of
a night, we had rainfall. And our land-
scapes that were dry and arid suddenly
became lush and green. And, again, our
wonderful (director of photography) was
struggling to find — we were really
working day-to-day finding new loca-
tions very quickly to make sure that it
continued to look dry and arid because it
was ever-changing,” he says.
“And I think that that sensation of
being able to get even more impressive,
wonderful, stunning backdrops — which
after a moment of watching — you have
to keep reminding yourself, ‘Oh, my God.
Look at the background. Look where we
are.’ It really is very cinematic and beau-
tiful!”
The filmmakers didn’t plan to dupli-
cate what Leone had done, says Cooper.
“We wanted to replicate and play our
childhood dreams out, but we also
wanted to be part of something that was
new, fresh and had a reason to be being
made,” he says.
“And I think that all those reasons
were given to us by the producing team
and the directing team, and it had a very,
very distinct style. It was, yes, an
homage to the spaghetti Western, but ...
it was clearly its own thing. And we all
agreed that when we read it ... You read a
lot of material. And this, you couldn’t
help but want to know what was hap-
pening next.”
Booth, 29, who was born in London,
didn’t grow up playing cowboys and
Indians the way many American kids do.
“I used to be obsessed with ‘Lord of the
Rings’ so I used to get a big stick in the
garden and do Gandalf’s ‘You shall not
pass’ on my lawn — to no one. So, I was
obsessed. I did audition for it once and
didn’t get a part.”
Cooper, also a Brit, says he fantasized
about being an entrepreneur. “I used to
sit behind a desk and pretend I was a
businessman and put a suit on and hope
that one day I’d have a desk and a tele-
phone. I had a telephone that wasn’t
attached to anything, a pretend com-
puter, and a toy Ferrari that I used to
push around in the hope that one day I
would be a successful businessman.
That’s what I did as a kid.”
JACKSON IN APPLE TV+ MINISERIES
While most folk may recognize Samuel
L. Jackson as the guy who wants to
know what’s in your wallet, he’s made
more than 100 movies. And while he’s
terrific in most of them, it’s his perfor-
mance in “The Last Days of Ptolemy
Grey” that sets a new standard. In the
miniseries, premiering on Apple TV+,
Jackson plays an old man suffering from
dementia and loneliness who has the
chance of recovering his memories
briefly.
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NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

DEAR ABBY

Widow
gives mixed
signals
DEAR ABBY: My first wife
and I married in 1989,
divorced in 1994 and even-
tually married others. My
second marriage also
ended in divorce; hers
ended with the death of
her husband. A year and a
half after his passing, she
invited me to dinner. We
talked for hours, and we
both admitted there is still
love between us.
We decided to start
seeing each other, but she
told me she needs to go
slow, which I understand.
We have been seeing each
other for seven months
now, but she has been run-
ning hot and cold. She gets
close, then pulls back. I
haven’t said anything MARCH 13 IN HISTORY SUDOKU
about it because I’m trying
Today is Sunday, March their owners. Bien Phu began during the
to be understanding.
Last month, she REALLY 13, the 72nd day of 2022. In 1933, banks in the U.S. First Indochina War as Viet
pulled back, and we hav- There are 293 days left in began to reopen after a Minh forces attacked
en’t seen each other since the year. Daylight saving “holiday” declared by French troops, who were
then. We text, but that’s all. time returns Sunday at 2 President Franklin D. defeated nearly two months
Now I don’t know what to a.m. local time. Roosevelt. later.
think. I’m sure last month Today’s Highlight in In 1938, famed attorney In 1995, two Americans
was hard for her because it History: Clarence S. Darrow died in working for U.S. defense
marked the anniversary of In 1925, the Tennessee Chicago. contractors in Kuwait,
her husband’s death. This General Assembly In 1943, financier and David Daliberti and
is also hard on me. I don’t approved a bill prohibiting philanthropist J.P. Morgan William Barloon, were
know what to do. I would the teaching of the theory Jr., 75, died in Boca Grande, seized by Iraq after they
greatly appreciate any of evolution. (Gov. Austin Florida. strayed across the border;
advice you may have. — Peay signed the measure on In 1946, U.S. Army Pfc. sentenced to eight years in
HOPING FOR THE BEST March 21; Tennessee Sadao Munemori was post- prison, both were freed
repealed the law in 1967.) humously awarded the later the same year.
DEAR HOPING: Your ex-wife On this date: Medal of Honor for sacri- Today’s Birthdays: Jazz
may still be grieving the In 1781, the seventh planet ficing himself to save fellow musician Roy Haynes is 97.
loss of her husband and, of the solar system, Uranus, soldiers from a grenade Songwriter Mike Stoller is
although she has feelings was discovered by Sir explosion in Seravezza, 89. Singer-songwriter Neil
for you, may not be ready William Herschel. Italy; he was the only Sedaka is 83. R&B/gospel
to make the kind of com- In 1862, President Japanese-American service singer Candi Staton is 82.
mitment you’re looking for. Abraham Lincoln signed a member so recognized in Opera singer Julia Migenes
You are overdue for a face- measure prohibiting Union the immediate aftermath of is 73. Actor William H.
to-face conversation with military officers from World War II. Macy is 72. Comedian Robin
her about the fact that returning fugitive slaves to In 1954, the Battle of Dien Duke is 68.
when you feel you get
close, she backs away. LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
A lot has happened to CROSSWORD ANSWER
both of you since your
long-ago divorce. There
could be any number of
reasons for her behavior,
and you deserve some
honest answers before
deciding whether or not to
continue pursuing her. If
she’s honorable, she will
give them to you.

DEAR ABBY: My husband

and I recently hosted a
dinner party for six close
friends. I spent the day
cleaning, cooking and set-
ting the table nicely with
flowers. Our guests were
supposed to arrive at 5
p.m., but didn’t show up
until 6. One couple brought
their dog along, and pro- NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY
ceeded to give it a bone on CROSSWORD ANSWER
our newly cleaned couch.
The guests talked only
with each other, and any-
time my husband and I
tried to talk, we were inter-
rupted and the subject was
changed back to their per-
sonal discussions, which
included making plans for
the next evening, cell-
phones ringing and calls
being taken, etc.
One of the men was
extremely rude. He com-
plained about the ingredi-
ents of the food, demanded
to move to the head of the
table and made negative
remarks throughout the
meal, after which he
abruptly announced he SUDOKU ANSWER
was tired and wanted to go
home immediately.
My husband and I were
very upset after they left,
and my husband said he
never wants to have them
for dinner again. I need
your advice because I’m
close friends with the
women and would like to
clear the air. — HOSTESS

DEAR HOSTESS: The man

should be stricken from
your guest list. The couple
who fed their dog a bone
on your newly cleaned
couch should be given the
opportunity to pay for
having it cleaned again.

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TV Q&A
What was Tom Jones saying at the end of his variety show?
By Rich Heldenfels
Tribune News Service (TNS)
You have questions. I
have some answers.
Q: What was the Welsh saying
expressed by Tom Jones at the
end of his weekly show in the
1960s? What does it mean?
A: Ah, Tom Jones. A
huge star in the 1960s, he is
still part of the pop culture
world in his 80s, with his
newest recording released
in 2021. In addition, a cur-
rent Toyota commercial
with Joneses – Tommy Lee,
Leslie and Rashida – used
Tom’s “It’s Not Unusual”
as its music. From 1969 to
1971 he hosted “This Is
Tom Jones,” a musical
variety show; a native
Welshman, he ended the
show by saying, “Gwyn
eich byd a dymunaf i chwi
lawenydd bob amser,”
which one of my TV refer-
ence books translates as
“May you always be well
and be happy.”
Q: We need more laughs these
days! One silly show that made
me smile was “The Gong
Show.” Do you know if it is
coming back? The host alone
WHAT’S ON TV?
Crystal, Berry get spotlight at critics’ awards
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES TIMES (TNS)
SUNDAY
Billy Crystal and Oscar
winner Halle Berry are
singled out for special
honors at the “27th Annual
Critics’ Choice Awards.” 7
p.m. TBS
An “A” student suspects
that some of her class-
mates are making the
grade without really trying
in the new TV movie
“Cheating for Your Life.” 8
p.m. Lifetime
Only the strong survive
in new episodes of the
rebooted trivia challenge
“Weakest Link.” Jane
Lynch hosts. 9 p.m. NBC
It’s not TV, it’s “Family
Guy.” A new episode of the
irreverent animated sitcom
spoofs the HBO hits
“Succession,” “Game of
Thrones” and “Big Little
Lies.” 9:30 p.m. Fox
What in the wide, wide
world o’ sports is a-goin’ on
here?! Find out in the new
series “Game Theory With
Bomani Jones.” 11:30 p.m.
HBO
MONDAY
Don’t hate her because
she’s beautiful, in the new
music and comedy special
“Catherine Cohen: The
Twist … ? She’s Gorgeous.”
Anytime, Netflix
A priest, a cop, a boxer
and an IRA soldier are
among the unusual sus-
pects in a robbery in
Rochester, New York, in
1993 in the new docuseries
“Holy Heist.” Anytime,
Discovery+
A cool half a mil is on
the line for the remaining
contestants on the first
season finale of
“America’s Got Talent:
Extreme.” 8 p.m. NBC
Save the liver! Eight
amateur cooks try to follow
in the footsteps of a
beloved celebrity chef in
the new series “The Julia
Child Challenge.” 9 p.m.
Food Network
Our humble hero
Gawain (Dev Patel) tries to
get a head in King Arthur’s
court in David Lowery’s
hallucinatory 2021 medi-
eval fantasy “The Green
Knight.” 9 p.m. Showtime;
also 7 p.m. Saturday
There’s stripping, none
of which involves furni-
ture, in the new true crime
series “Secrets of the
Chippendales Murders.” 10
p.m. A&E
TUESDAY
March Madness tips off
with the first four
matchups of the “2022
NCAA Basketball
Tournament.” 6:30 and 9
p.m. truTV; also Wednesday
What’s cookin’? The
Dwayne Johnson sitcom
Welsh singer Tom Jones, born Thomas Jones Woodward, circa 1965
is worth watching the show.
A; The deeply weird
“talent” program “The
Gong Show” originally
aired in 1976-80 with Chuck
Barris (known mainly as
the man behind “The
Dating Game” and other
shows) as the best-remem-
bered host. Oddly talented
people performed for a
panel of judges (among
them Jaye P. Morgan,
Jamie Farr and Rip Taylor)
Dev Patel in the film “The Green Knight”
“Young Rock” is back for a
second season. 8 p.m. NBC
Clayton Echard makes
his selection in the season
finale of the reality series
“The Bachelor.” 8 p.m. ABC
“Mr. Mayor” gets a
second term in this
L.A.-set sitcom starring
Ted Danson and Holly
Hunter. 8:30 p.m. NBC
“Westworld’s” Evan
Rachel Wood opens up
about the abuse she
allegedly suffered at the
hands of shock rocker
Marilyn Manson in the
new two-part series
“Phoenix Rising.” 9 p.m.
HBO; also Wednesday
Hosts Dave and Jenny
Marrs attempt to renovate
a historic 19th century
home in their new spinoff
“Fixer to Fabulous:
Welcome Inn.” 9 p.m.
HGTV
Wednesday
A shady NYC restaura-
teur and her even shadier
husband go on the lamb —
sorry, that’s “lam” — in the
new docuseries “Bad
Vegan: Fame. Fraud.
Fugitives.” Anytime,
Netflix
Welcome to the jungle!
We’ve got celebrities
playing “Survivor”-style
games for charity in the
new competition series
ENTERTAINMENT
HULTON ARCHIVE
who could either give them
a score or “gong” them to
stop their performance.
There was also a revival of
the series in late ‘80s
without Barris. But you
may be thinking of the
most recent version hosted
by Tommy Maitland, a
character played by comic
actor Mike Myers, which
arrived in 2017. (Barris, by
the way, had died earlier
that year.) It ran for about
20 episodes across two sea-
“Beyond the Edge.” 9 p.m.
CBS
The new spinoff
“Expedition With Steve
Backshall: Unpacked” goes
behind the scenes of the
outdoor-adventure series.
10 p.m. PBS
Return with us now to
“Temptation Island.” The
rebooted reality competi-
tion is back for another
season. Mark L. Walberg
hosts. 10 p.m. USA
Thursday
Crikey! You’ve been
invited to go “Below Deck
Down Under” in a new
Australia-set entry in the
reality TV franchise.
Anytime, Peacock
The state of the union is,
um, not that great, frankly,
in the new dystopian
thriller “DMZ.” Rosario
Dawson and “Law &
Order’s” Benjamin Bratt
star. Anytime, HBO Max
A 1970s feminist gets in
bed — figuratively
speaking — with an
adult-magazine publisher
in the new comedy series
“Minx.” With Ophelia
Lovibond and “New Girl’s”
Jake Johnson. Anytime,
HBO Max
A state trooper (Grant
Gustin, “The Flash”) teams
up with a rambunctious
shelter dog in the feel-good
sons, but there has not
been a new telecast since
2018. So I would not look
for more.
Q: Is the next season of “The
Amazing Race” in production
and when can we expect it to
air?
A: I’d expect the racers to
get to work soon. CBS on
March 9 announced an
order for a 34th round of
the adventure competition
as part of its lineup in the
2022-23 season. At the same
time, it picked up new sea-
sons of “Tough as Nails”
(which, like “Amazing
Race,” is hosted by Phil
Keoghan), “Survivor” and
“Secret Celebrity
Renovation.”
Q: I am wondering about the
actors in a movie I saw in 1954
or so. It was an English movie
and as an emotional teenager I
cried my eyes out. I believe it
was called “The Girl Who
Couldn’t Quite.”
A: That is the correct
title of a 1950 movie based
on a play of the same
name. It involves a tramp
helping a young woman
who is unable to smile.
Elizabeth Henson played
TNS/SHOWTIME
2022 tale “Rescued by
Ruby.” Anytime, Netflix
Host Gordon Ramsay
puts a fresh batch of
mini-Ramsays through
their paces in a new season
of “MasterChef Junior.” 8
p.m. Fox
Documentary crew
descends on small town,
hilarity ensues in the new
sitcom “Welcome to
Flatch.” With Seann
William Scott and “The
Boys’ ” Aya Cash. 9:30 p.m.
Fox
Motivational speaker
Stormy Wellington edu-
cates women on how to get
that shmoney in the new
unscripted series “Million
Dollar Hustle.” 10 p.m.
Lifetime
Friday
Zach Braff and Gabrielle
Union play the heads of
household in “Cheaper by
the Dozen,” a 2022 update
of the 2003 remake of the
1950 comedy. Anytime,
Disney+
Ben Affleck and “No
Time to Die’s” Ana de
Armas are in over their
heads in Adrian Lyne’s
2022 thriller “Deep Water”
based on the Patricia
Highsmith novel. Anytime,
Hulu
The Hormone Monsters
that bedevil our “Big
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the girl, Ruth, with Bill
Owen as the tramp, Tim.
The cast also included
Betty Stockfeld and Iris
Hoey.
Q: I am wondering if actress
Lynn Hamilton is still living.
She played a neighbor on “The
Waltons” and I thought she
had a beautiful smile.
A: Hamilton is appar-
ently still with us at the
age of 91. She has had a
long acting resume. Her
first screen role was in
John Cassavetes’ film
“Shadows” in 1959. She
played Fred Sanford’s girl-
friend Donna Harris on
“Sanford and Son,” and
was in “Roots: The Next
Generation,” “Rituals” and
other TV productions. She
was also a regular theater
performer including with a
one-woman show, “Go Tell
It on the Mountain.” She
was married to the poet
and playwright Frank S.
Jenkins for more than 40
years, until his death in
2014.
Q: Whatever happened to the
mob movie “The Irishman,”
with Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino,
Joe Pesci and others? It hit the
Mouth” middle schoolers
take center stage in the
new animated spinoff
“Human Resources.”
Anytime, Netflix
“Is It Cake?” Culinary
artists bake fantastic fakes
in this new competition
series. “SNL’s” Mikey Day
hosts. Anytime, Netflix
It’s a matter of “Life &
Beth” in this new comedy
starring Amy Schumer as
a dissatisfied 30-something.
Michael Cera also stars.
Anytime, Hulu
A stuffy New England
university comes in for a
long overdue racial reck-
oning in Mariama Diallo’s
2022 drama “Master.” With
Regina Hall. Anytime,
Amazon Prime
Teens from around the
world assemble for a
robotics competition in the
2022 documentary “More
Than Robots.” Anytime,
Disney+
This just in:
“Mindhunter’s” Anna Torv
plays a network anchor in
1980s Australia in the
imported drama “The
Newsreader.” Anytime,
Roku
A once-promising
startup winds up a Wall
Street nonstarter in the
new fact-based series
“WeCrashed: The Rise and
Fall of WeWork.” Jared
Leto and Anne Hathaway
star. Anytime, Apple TV+
A wealthy married
couple (Jesse Plemons, Lily
Collins) play cat-and-
mouse games with an
intruder (Jason Segel) in
the 2022 thriller
“Windfall.” Anytime,
Netflix
A film exec (Olivia
Munn) learns to silence
that critical voice in her
head in Justine Bateman’s
thought-provoking 2021
drama “Violet.” 9 p.m.
Showtime
A young Angeleno (Zoe
Lister-Jones) reflects on
her life as the apocalypse
looms in the 2021 comedy
“How It Ends.” With Fred
Armisen. 9:35 p.m. Epix
“The Power of the Dog”
and “West Side Story” are
among the nominees at the
“Movies for Grownups
Awards With AARP the
Magazine” on “Great
Performances.” 10 p.m.
KOCE
Saturday
The neighbors never
take their trash cans in —
oh, and there’s also a serial
killer on the loose — in the
new TV movie “Sins in the
Suburbs.” 8 p.m. Lifetime
“Love & Marriage:
Huntsville” returns, fol-
lowed by the debut of the
matrimonially minded
reality series “Marry Me
Now.” 8 and 9 p.m. OWN
streets for about a week and
then disappeared? Were there
bad reviews? I’m really curious.
A: The 2019 movie
directed by Martin
Scorsese was not really
made for theatrical show-
ings aside from a few to
make it eligible for Oscar
consideration. (It manages
to get 10 nominations but
no wins.) The streaming
service Netflix agreed to
put up the reported $100
million budget Scorsese
said he needed and so
obtained the main rights to
show the film. You can still
find all three-and-a-half
hours of the movie on
Netflix along with a con-
versation among Scorsese,
Pacino, DeNiro and Pesci.
It has also been released on
Blu-ray and DVD in a
lavish Criterion Collection
package.
Do you have a question
or comment about
entertainment past, present
and future? Write to Rich
Heldenfels, P.O. Box 417,
Mogadore, OH 44260, or
brenfels@gmail.com.
Letters may be edited.
Individual replies are not
guaranteed.
Philaharmonic
to play at
Geffen Hall
By Karu F. Daniels
New York Daily News (TNS)
NEW YORK — The
New York Philharmonic
will have new and
improved hall to play in
this fall.
After decades of strug-
gling to redesign the
concert hall the
orchestra calls home,
Lincoln Center
announced recently that
the redevelopment will
be completed by this fall
— ahead of schedule.
With a $550 million
budget in place, the
redesigned David Geffen
Hall is now slated to
reopen in October 2022,
with spacious perfor-
mance spaces to host
different kinds of
events.
“The new David
Geffen Hall will be
NYC’s cultural hub,
teeming with excitement
from early morning to
late at night — a place
where New Yorkers will
drop by just to see
what’s happening,
knowing they will find
welcoming public spaces
offering dynamic free
entertainment, food,
fun, art and culture in
addition to the superb
performances of the NY
Philharmonic,” Lincoln
Center board chair
Katherine Farley said in
a statement.
Originally opened in
1962 as Philharmonic
Hall, the venue was
renamed Avery Fisher
Hall after renovations in
1976.
After decades of
stalled revitalization
efforts, billionaire music
and movie mogul David
Geffen got the wheels
turning with a $100 mil-
lion donation toward the
renovations and secured
the naming rights.
In April 2021, it was
announced that the con-
struction timetable had
accelerated because of
the pandemic with the
intent to reopen some-
time this fall, about one-
and-a-half years ahead
of the original schedule.
“This project is a
statement of faith in the
future of culture in our
city,” Farley said. “We
built through the pan-
demic because we knew
New Yorkers needed
jobs as much as they
needed culture.”
The venue will have a
seating capacity of 2,200,
down from 2,738, with
the rows in the
orchestra cut from 43 to
33. The stage moved for-
ward 25 feet, allowing
seven rows of wrap-
around seating.
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Altrusa International.........2
Hosting a paint party FUNdraiser

50 Years in the Making......3 M a rc h 1 3, 2 0 2 2 A S p e c i a l Ed i t i o n o f t h e J o h n s o n C i t y Pre s s

Celebrating old time, blues and
bluegrass with a live concert

Sunday Scrapbook..........4-5
Celebrating Dr. Seuss and more

Sunday Showcase...........5, 8
Highlighting local businesses

Pro-Art Association............6
Presenting IONA in concert

Washington College
Academy.............................7
Announcing the spring class lineup
TOWN OF JONESBOROUGH
Editor’s Note: Email us anytime Discover everything from Highland Games and a fun run to live Irish music
at scrapbook@sixriversmedia.com. and green beer during the annual St. Paddy’s Celebration on March 19.
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Shamrockin’ on the Plaza
SPACE NOW St. Paddy’s Celebration
AVAILABLE! returns to Jonesborough
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your restaurant JONESBOROUGH — A celebration of Celtic culture is coming to

Tennessee’s oldest town. Discover everything from Highland Games and a
in our weekly fun run to live Irish music and green beer during Jonesborough’s fifth
Dining Deal. annual St. Paddy’s Celebration on Saturday, March 19.
Get into the St. Paddy’s spirit with Sigean, the premier Irish traditional
band of East Tennessee, as it takes the stage during Shamrockin’ on the Visitors can also step back in time with the Heritage Alliance by taking a
Schedule now to Plaza in front of the International Storytelling Center from 5-7 p.m. The town tour at 1 p.m. Tour tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the
group’s seven members create a foot-stomping blend of traditional dance Chester Inn Museum, located at 116 West Main St. The museum will be
secure this space. tunes and moving ballads through acoustic instruments. Sigean has per- open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
formed at the Knoxville Irish Festival, Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion All attendees are encouraged to arrive dressed in kilts, leprechaun out-
423-392-1319 Festival, Big Stone Celtic Festival and many others. fits or all decked out in green. Shamrockin’ on the Plaza is sponsored by
During Shamrockin’ on the Plaza, enjoy a beer garden brought by Main Main Street Café and Catering and Jonesborough Area Merchants
Street Cafe and Catering, with beer from Depot Street Brewing and Association (JAMSA). To learn more, visit Jonesborough.com/St.Paddy or
Tennessee Hills Brewstillery. Main Street Café and Catering will also pro- call 423-753-1010.
vide a menu of Irish foods consisting of bangers and mash with onion
gravy and beef stew. Food and drinks will be available starting at 4 p.m.
The Appalachian Highlands Celts will be in Storytelling Park from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to bring Highland Games to Jonesborough. Enjoy demon-
strations from members of the group, and attendees can try their hand at
being a Highland Games athlete. The Appalachian Highlands Celts will
guide attendees through the safety of performing in the games and show
step-by-step techniques. Visitors can try their hand at the stone throw,
weight over bar, archery and spear-throwing.
The Paddy’s Dash: Brew Fun Run starts at 4 p.m. The run will begin at
the Storytelling Center and go to Depot Street Brewing for a free small
pour of beer or root beer, then head back to the Storytelling Center for
food, libations and live Irish music. The Fun Run is for all ages, and there
is no fee to enter. Participants are welcome to walk, jog or run. After the
run, participants are encouraged to stay for Shamrockin’ on the Plaza.
2 Sunday Stories | Sunday, March 13, 2022
ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL OF KINGSPORT
Community members of all ages are invited to unleash their
hidden talents and help raise money for a good cause during
Altrusa International of Kingsport’s paint party FUNdraisers.
At right, participants show off the finished product.
Altrusa International of Kingsport will
host Paint Party FUNdraiser on April 9
Submitted by
Regina Lawson
KINGSPORT — It’s time to
unleash your hidden talent
by attending an Altrusa Paint
Party FUNdraiser, where
Altrusa International of
Kingsport offers folks a
chance to create their own
masterpieces.
Paint parties have been a
great way for Altrusa
International of Kingsport to
offer expert instruction, a fun
atmosphere and some great
refreshments on a laidback
Saturday afternoon — all the while raising funds to support
the club’s community service projects.
“All the materials are furnished, so participants just show
up and create,” said Regina Lawson, the club’s president. “I
love being able to leave with a finished painting that I can
personalize a variety of ways.”
The next event is scheduled for April 9, at which time
participants will be painting a vintage truck full of flowers
sure to light up any area of their homes.
The club invites community members to gather up
friends and family members to join the fun on April 9 at
1 p.m. at Mafair United Methodist Church. Tickets are $25
and are sold in advance. The class usually takes about three
hours. For ticket information, call 423-384-0425 or check
out Altrusa International of Kingsport’s Facebook Page.
Make it an event with the kids, a girls’ afternoon out, or
come solo. Everyone can be an artist.
Kelly Gardner, the instructor, has been an artist “her whole
life” and has been helping skeptical participants uncover
their hidden talents for five years. Though she gives
detailed instruction on how to make the picture look like
the planned creation, she also encourages participants to
use colors they love and other details to create a painting
that is truly individualized. She will also help “fix” what
some might consider mistakes.
The club is asking this
month’s participants to bring
new or gently used children’s
books to trade for tickets for
a door prize drawing.
For over 100 years, Altrusa
International has been
working to make its mem-
bers’ communities better by
meeting the needs through
community service.
The Kingsport club has
contributed untold hours of
service since its formation in
1962. Current projects
include working with
organizations such as Oasis,
St. Charles Elementary School, veterans at Mountain Home
and a scholarship at Northeast State, as well as collecting
and distributing hundreds of books each year to promote
reading by children and adults.
“These are all labors of love,” said member Sally Steele.
“Our paint parties help fund these projects.”
Reading, specifically reading nonfiction texts, has a direct
correlation to student success and graduation rates. Studies
show reading nonfiction results in higher reasoning skills, a
broader vocabulary, the increased ability to link information
across subjects, and developing greater real world and job-
related skills.
“Though we enjoy participating in other types of projects
as well, promoting reading and literacy is one of Altrusa’s
primary passions,” Kingsport member and current Altrusa
District Governor Susie Quillen said.
The club meets the first Tuesday of every month, and
everyone is welcome.
“My membership in Altrusa has given me many opportu-
nities over the years,” Lawson said. “We are always on the
lookout for new members who share our passion for
making our communities better by meeting local needs.”
To make a reservation for the April 9 paint party or to
discuss how to become a member of Altrusa International
of Kingsport, contact Lawson at 423-384-0425.
Learn to simplify
your garden during
free SAPS program
Submitted by Joy Moore
Author and garden designer Debra Knapke will
present “Simplifying Your Garden without Diminishing
Your Joy” on Thursday, March 17, at 7 p.m. The free
Zoom presentation is sponsored by Southern
Appalachian Plant Society (SAPS).
To register, visit the SAPS
website at http://saps.us/.
Registration deadline is
Thursday at noon. For details,
e-mail sapsnews@gmail.com.
There are many reasons to
simplify your garden: moving
to a smaller home and yard,
physically not being able to
maintain a larger garden, or
just making the choice to
Debra Knapke define what you want from
your garden instead of trying
to have it all. True success in simplifying your life and
subsequently your garden depends on understanding
its parts and how they fit within the bigger picture.
And the way to find joy in your garden is to know
what you want from it and not going crazy trying to
achieve it.
Knapke will use her own garden and those of others
to provide inspiration for the creation of a simpler,
blissful garden. She loves being a gardener and has
packed an amazing variety of perennials, trees, shrubs
and edibles onto the 2/3-acre lot surrounding her
home. Anyone interested in learning more can visit
her website at www.debrathegardensage.com.
After two other careers, Knapke turned her avoca-
tion of plant study and gardening into her full-time
career in 1992. Known as “The Garden Sage,” Knapke is
passionate about gardening, sustainable garden
design and the natural world, and she enjoys sharing
knowledge through her writing, public speaking and
garden consulting in the private and public sectors.
She has served on various local and national com-
mittees and boards that focus on education, the envi-
ronment and sustainability. She has championed
those passions during her two-year term (2014-2016)
as honorary president of the Herb Society of America
and as the current chair of the sustainability com-
mittee of GardenComm. In addition, she has mentored
the future of the landscape industry at Columbus
State Community College for 24 years.
Southern Appalachian Plant Society is a regional
nonprofit educational organization dedicated to pro-
viding learning opportunities about plants and gar-
dening through programs, projects and member inter-
actions. SAPS membership is open to anyone with an
interest in gardening, whether a beginner or expert.
Visit http://saps.us/ for details.
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50 Years in the Making

Celebrating old time, blues and bluegrass music
Submitted by Sylvia Crum
DUFFIELD, Va. — An all-star lineup of per-
formers will join forces next month for a live
concert celebrating old time, blues and blue-
grass music.
Proceeds from the event benefit
Appalachian Sustainable Development.
The concert will be held April 4 at 7 p.m. at
The Woodrow W. McGlothlin Center for the
Arts on the campus of Emory & Henry
College in Emory, Virginia. Tickets are $20 in
advance and $25 at the door. Children 12 and
under are $5.
Seating is limited. A photo ID, face masks,
and proof of COVID-19 vaccination or nega-
tive test (within 72 hours of the event) are
required for admittance.
Abingdon resident Jack Hinshelwood is the
event host. He brings together 12 remarkable
artists, who are releasing a new recording
containing 22 tracks from their recent collab-
oration, to celebrate three distinct but con-
nected musical traditions: bluegrass, old time
and blues.
The concert will feature recognized mas-
ters of all three music forms, including (from
top left, down) Hinshelwood as host, Phil
Wiggins, Rob Ickes, Trey Hensley, Butch
Robins, (from top right, down) Ivy Phillips,
Sandy Shortridge, Debbie Yates, Scott
Freeman and Jacob Eller.
A special feature of the concert will be two
European artists, Uilleann piper Ronan
A special feature of the April 4 concert will be
two European artists, Uilleann piper Ronan
Browne (left) and euphonium maestro Steven
Mead, performing via YouTube.
Browne from Ireland and euphonium mae-
stro Steven Mead from England, performing
via YouTube.
The concert is the result of a recording
project by the same name, a 22-track
anthology of old time, bluegrass and blues
music that’s being released with this event.
“These songs and tunes have been gath-
ering in my repertoire for about 50 years,
hence the title of the concert. Many of the
artists who played on the recording are part
of the live concert, and we will share
selected tracks from the recording, as well as
additional numbers that feature these
remarkable artists,” Hinshelwood said.
Living better. Locally. It’s what drives ASD’s
commitment to propel its mission to build a
thriving regional food and agriculture system
that creates healthy communities, respects
the planet and cultivates profitable opportu-
nities for Appalachians.
Since 1995, ASD has been working in
Central Appalachia, providing hope and
making a difference for the people who call
the region home. What began as opportuni-
ties for struggling tobacco farmers to grow
fruits and vegetables have become lasting
solutions to regional challenges that impact
economic development, workforce develop-
ment, food access, health and wellness. Over
the years, ASD has expanded its reach from
Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia
to include partners in West Virginia, Ohio and
Kentucky, enabling the organization to bring
resources back to the region.
The concert is presented by The United
Company Foundation. Additional support is
provided by JA Street, Six Rivers Media, Blue
Ridge Beverage Company, Chinquapin
Designs, Davenport Financial, Emory & Henry
College, Food City, Hampton Inn of Abingdon,
WEHC, A Likely Yarn, Abingdon Olive Oil
Company, BurWil Construction, Electric
Hardwoods, HBC, CPA’s, Holston Medical
Group, HVAC, Inc., and The Polished Diamond.
Tickets are available online at https://
www.tix.com/ticket-sales/ehc/4926/
event/1257594. Tickets can also be pur-
chased in person at the McGlothlin Center
box office during certain hours. For details,
call the box office at 276-944-6333. To learn
more about ASD, visit https://asdevelop.org.

This week at Johnson City Public Library

Submitted by Hannah Kiger
JOHNSON CITY — Here’s a look at what’s on tap this week
at the Johnson City Public Library (100 W. Millard St.)
FOR CHILDREN
• Storytime in the Park will be held Wednesday and
Thursday (March 16-17) at 10:30 a.m. for children ages 2-5
and their caregivers. The program meets at the King
Commons Natural Adventure Area across the street from
the library. No registration required; choose one day.
• Middle Grade Graphic Novel Book Club meets on
Thursday, March 17, at 6 p.m. in the Jones Meeting Room.
Students ages 8-12 can learn about graphic novels.
Registration required; call 423-434-4458.
• R.E.A.D.ing Paws will be held Saturday, March 19, from
11 a.m. to noon for children ages 5-10. Register the child
for a private 15-minute timeslot to read to a trained lis-
tening dog in the Storytime Room. Registration required;
call 423-434-4458.
FOR TEENS
• Dungeons & Dragons Club meets on Monday, March 14,
at 5:30 p.m. in the teen area of the library. Anyone ages
10-18 can play Dungeons & Dragons with other teens. No
registration required.
• A St. Paddy’s Day Escape Room will be held Tuesday,
March 15, at 6 p.m. for students ages 12-18. Work with
others to figure out a series of St. Patrick’s Day themed puz- METRO CREATIVE CONNECTION
zles to “escape” the Jones Meeting Room. Registration is
required; visit jcpl.org/calendar to register. 6 p.m. in the Tennessee Room. Anyone ages 18 and older is
• Adulting 101: Cleaning and Laundry Lessons will be invited to join the conversation group to practice Spanish
held Thursday, March 17, at 6 p.m. in the Jones Meeting language. All skill levels welcome; no registration required.
Room for students ages 12-18. Registration is required; visit • Seekers Book Club meets on Thursday, March 17, at
jcpl.org/calendar to register. 6:30 p.m. at the Langston Centre (315 Elm St.). Open to
anyone ages 18 and older, the book group will discuss “The
FOR ADULTS Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley.”
Registration is required; call 423-434-5785 to register.
• Spanish at Your Library meets on Thursday, March 17 at Visit jcpl.org/calendar for more details.
4 Sunday Stories | Sunday, March 13, 2022

Read Across America

Surgoinsville photos submitted by Cindy Childress;
Mount Carmel photos submitted by Kim McCann

Today’s Community Scrapbook features photos from

Read Across America Week, celebrating both the birthday
of Dr. Seuss (on March 2) and the importance of reading.

Students at Surgoinsville Elementary School, on the left

half of the page, celebrated Read Across America week by
dressing up as what they want to be when they grow up
(“Oh, the Places You’ll Go”), wearing crazy hats and socks
(“The Cat in the Hat” and “Fox in Socks”) and enjoying
Read My Shirt Day and Hooray for Diffendoofer Day.

Meanwhile, a few “stinky” feet, several silly hats, some

sleepy children and even some wacky tacky people
filled the halls of Mount Carmel Elementary School,
on the right half of the page. See more photos online!
 Sunday, March 13, 2022 | Sunday Stories 5

National FFA Week in Sullivan County

First Butterfly of 2022 Submitted by Andy Hare

Submitted by Nancy V. Knight The Sullivan County Commission recognized the Sullivan East FFA officers for their efforts to have Feb. 20-25
declared National FFA week in Sullivan County. In celebration of National FFA Week, the Sullivan East FFA
Spring is definitely on the way. Our first butterfly was chapter received a New Holland tractor from West Hills Tractor.
spotted flying near the Asbury Place Whisperwood
Butterfly Garden on Feb. 25. It seems early, but last year Long-Time
the first one was seen on Feb. 24. I believe it was a small
female Clouded Sulphur. According to Rita Venable’s Supporters
“Butterflies of Tennessee,” these will survive Tennessee
winters as chrysalises, which are green. After mating,
Kingsport K of C Submitted by
Clouded Sulphurs lay eggs on clover and many other Tammy Baumgardner
plants. She may be dreaming of warmer days to come.
The detail is awesome; only God can make a butterfly! Food City continued its
long-time support of
Friendship Niswonger Children’s
Hospital with a $20,000
Family of donation to the hospital
during a check presentation
Dealerships on Feb. 10 at the State of
Franklin Food City.
Tabs Thomas to
Lead Institute
Submitted by
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Mitch Walters March 4 - April 8
The Friendship Family
Sullivan East — Church
Saint Dominic’s 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Chip Thomas as president
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The Bristol native graduated from King College with Submitted by Andy Hare FISH FRY MENU
a business and economics degree. He comes to Friend- Fried Fish
ship with over 40 years of sales experience and has run Sullivan East celebrated its OR
a successful sales and leadership consulting business for annual High School
30 years. He will apply his extensive experience as a sales
Baked Fish
Readiness Night event for
trainer to head up Friendship’s performance-based the Class of 2026. Future CARRY-OUT ONLY French Fries
leadership program. In his new role, he will expand the high schoolers got to Homemade Mac & Cheese
training success of the Friendship Leadership Institute connect with teachers, Proceeds Benefiting Green Beans
by offering sales and leadership training to other clubs, organizations and St. Dominic Catholic School Cole Slaw
automobile dealership organizations outside the region teams to better prepare Dessert
and to local non-automobile companies. them on their journey.
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Pro-Art marks St. Patrick’s

Day with two shows by IONA
Submitted by Diana Burden

PENNINGTON GAP, Va. — IONA’s music is a

unique, acoustic weave of the traditional
music of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall,
Brittany (France), the Isle of Man, Asturies
and Galicia (Spain), as well as their trans-
plants in America. Blending songs, dance
tunes and aires into a rich and stunning
tapestry, their style is outstanding in an
arena where these traditions are seldom
intertwined.
The Pro-Art Association will celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day with two performances by
IONA in Southwest Virginia. The first show
will be Thursday, March 17, at 7 p.m. at the
Lee Theatre in Pennington Gap. The second
will be Friday, March 18, at 7 p.m. at the
LODENS GREEN
Jettie Baker Center in Clintwood.
General admission tickets are $10 at the Percussive dancer and singer Marsha Searle (left) is part of the lineup that allows IONA to blend songs, dance tunes and aires into a rich and
door for each performance, and all children stunning tapestry. The Celtic group will perform March 17 in Pennington Gap and March 18 in Clintwood.
and students are free to attend. Pro-Art
season tickets will be honored for the per- and multi-instrumentalist Leigh Oben grant from the Virginia Commission for the Visit proartva.org or follow @ProArtVA on
formances. Season tickets can be purchased (guitar, bass guitar and double bass), IONA Arts and the National Endowment for the social media to learn more. Because Pro-Art
at proartva.org, in person at any show or by has become the leading Celtic group in the Arts, as well as the Slemp Foundation, The partners with a variety of venues, individ-
calling 276- 276-376-4520. Mid-Atlantic region. University of Virginia’s College at Wise and uals with mobility issues are encouraged to
Conceived in 1986, IONA was the musical For the safety of everyone attending, Mountain Empire Community College. call or email the Pro-Art office to make
offspring of lead singer, bouzouki, guitar and Pro-Art requests patrons wear a mask for Pro-Art’s mission is to promote the arts arrangements for parking.
bodhrán player Barbara Ryan and wind sec- the duration of the performance. and expand accessibility to cultural experi- For evolving conditions related to the
tion Bernard Argent. With fiddler Jim Queen The performances are held in conjunction ences for residents and students in Wise, global pandemic, inclement weather or
(who also pitches in on banjo and vocals), with the W. Campbell Edmonds Concert Lee and Dickenson counties and the city of unforeseen circumstances, visit proartva.org
percussive dancer and singer Marsha Searle Series. Pro-Art is supported in part by a Norton. or call 276-376-4520 for the latest updates.

Cornerstone Christian Academy to hold Narnia-themed fundraiser

Submitted by Sylvia Musgrove
ABINGDON, Va. — Cornerstone Christian Academy is wel-
coming the 2022 spring season by hosting its 11th annual
Spring Fling and Auction, giving the Abingdon-based pri-
vate school an opportunity to raise proceeds in support of
its scholarship fund.
This year’s event, “The Chronicles of Narnia: Into the
Wardrobe,” is scheduled for Friday, March 18, from 5-9 p.m.
at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in
Abingdon. Featuring a catered meal, live auction and jazz/
big band music by The Diamonds, the event will give
attendees the ability to bid on a range of auction items,
including gift baskets and vacation getaways.
Previous auctions have raised close to $50,000 for CCA.
“Our Spring Fling and Auction is always a fun, exciting
experience for our school families and surrounding commu-
nity, and this year’s event promises to be no exception,” says
Fred Conley, head of school at Cornerstone. “For those who
would like to support CCA, or perhaps have an interest in
learning more about our school, we invite you to join us for
an entertaining evening as we raise scholarship funds for
families who need financial assistance.”
Admission to the Spring Fling and Auction is $35 for
adults and $10 for students. Tickets can be purchased at
the school, located at 16210 Elementary Drive in Abingdon,
or via the school’s website, www.cornerstoneabingdon.org.
To learn more, call 276-623-7164.
Founded in 2011 with 22 students, CCA has grown to
more than 220 students with the 2021-22 school year
being a record-breaking year for enrollment. CCA offers a
classical, non-denominational Christian education with rig-
orous academic standards and many opportunities for
hands-on learning.
Serving students in grades Pre-K through 12, the mission
of CCA is to prepare students to go into the world equipped
to make a difference and fulfill God’s calling for their lives
by thinking creatively, reasoning logically and writing per-
suasively. CCA provides a college preparatory experience
and offers a variety of fine arts courses and electives, in
addition to a robust athletics program that includes volley-
ball, basketball, baseball, swimming, golf, cross country and
track and field.
Since 2016, CCA has been accredited by the Association of
Christian Schools International for grades K-12. Visit
www.cornerstoneabingdon.org. Cornerstone Christian Academy is located in Abingdon.

One of Washington College Academy’s new divisions is the School of Arts and Crafts
where sewing, basket making and drawing are among the many classes offered.
Washington College Academy
releases spring workshop lineup
Submitted by Jennifer Rasnake
LIMESTONE — Washington College
Academy will continue its tradition of
providing new learning opportunities to
the public and preserving the classics
with a full slate of offerings this spring.
The historic college campus, dating
back to 1780, offers a unique backdrop
for exploring traditional and non-
traditional arts in the following areas:
basketry, blacksmithing, clay, cosplay cos-
tuming, drawing, metals, painting, mixed
media, textiles, wood, art exploration and
special topics.
Music classes are also being offered,
with preregistration available for guitar,
fiddle, piano, songwriting and dulcimer.
All of the classes are taught by experi-
enced local artisans and musicians.
Here’s a look at what’s on tap:
March Workshops
March 16: Paint Night, 7-9 p.m.
March 17 & 24: Mermaids & Mythical
Creatures: Adventures in Paper Mache,
Youth (Grade 3 and older), 5-8 p.m.
March 19: Neat Pleats: Make A Kilt,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
March 22-31: Wheel Throwing Basics,
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-7 p.m.
March 31: Beginning Drawing for Young
Children, Youth (Grades K-2), 5-8 p.m.
CONTRIBUTED
April Workshops
April 2: High School Day, 9 a.m. to
4 p.m.
April 5-14: Wheel Throwing Basics,
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-7 p.m.
April 7: How to Use Your Sewing
Machine 101, 6-9 p.m.
April 9: Introduction to Colored Pencils
for Adults, 1-4 p.m.
April 11-14: Quilting Fundamentals,
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day
April 19-28: Wheel Throwing Basics,
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-7 p.m.
April 21: Highland Wear Cape,
5:30-9:30 p.m.
April 23: Neat Pleats: Make A Kilt,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
May Workshops
May 5: Highland Wear Cape,
5:30-9:30 p.m.
May 7: Neat Pleats: Make A Kilt,
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
May 26: How to Use Your Sewing
Machine 101, 6-9 p.m.
May 28 & June 4: Traditional
Flintknapping, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
May 28-29: Magical Cosplay Wizard
Robes, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day
Visit www.wca1780.org for more infor-
mation on each class and to register. New
classes are added weekly. You can also
connect with WCA on Instagram, Twitter
and Facebook. Or call 423-257-5151.
Sunday, March 13, 2022 | Sunday Stories 7
UVA Wise-based jug band
hits road, returns with prize
Submitted by Senta Scarborough
WISE, Va. — A 15-hour road trip and six
songs later, three University of Virginia’s
College at Wise students playing a jug,
washboard bass and kazoo brought home
third place in the Minneapolis Battle of The
Jug Bands.
The students — brothers Luke and Blane
Sage of Marion, Virginia, and Ashlyn Mullins
of Wise — make up Crowe Hollerers. The
band, the youngest group at the event
which has been going on for about 40 years,
took on 14 other jug bands during the
Feb. 20 contest at The Cabooze.
“It was an amazing experience,” Mullins
said. “The atmosphere didn’t feel competi-
tive, and everyone was interacting with
each other and complimenting each other’s
instruments and performances.”
The band routinely performs in North
Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and
Virginia. UVA WISE
“It was an out-of-world experience. I A trio of UVA Wise students, including Luke
couldn’t believe we were playing in a major
city in front of hundreds of people,” Luke
Sage (above) drove nearly 1,000 miles for
an epic jug band showdown at The Cabooze
in Minneapolis. Luke Sage, Blane Sage and
Sage said. “It was super fun.”
The trip to Minnesota was the furthest Ashlyn Mullins make up the Crowe Hollerers.
any of them had ever traveled, he said.
“We applied for the contest, not realizing
it was in Minneapolis, but when we got
chosen as one of 15 bands to compete, we
knew we had to find a way to make it up
there,” Mullins said. “The groups came from
all different backgrounds. They were all also
located no more than about an hour away
from the competition, so they were
impressed that we came from so far away.”
Bands had to perform with a jug and at
least one homemade instrument. The Crowe
can think of and can’t think of” sang and
Hollerers selected a washtub bass. played kazoo, guitar, jug, washboard, har-
Each band had a 20-minute slot to set up,
monica and drums.
take down and play. The group is well-known for its “Crowe
“We played a couple of traditional jug
Hollerers’ Medicine Show,” which is fash-
band songs and jugged up a Johnny Cash ioned after old-time medicine shows where
song,” Luke Sage said.
snake oil salesmen would pitch patent
They had time to play six songs. The set medicine with a healthy side dose of
list featured “New River Blues” (Memphis
singing, dancing and performing.
Jug Band), “Raise a Ruckus” (Old Crow All three musicians are also part of the
Medicine Show), “Mother’s Other Son” (an
UVA Wise Papa Joe Smiddy Bluegrass Band,
original CH song), “Jackson” (Johnny Cash founded by UVA Wise Band Director Richard
and June Carter Cash), “K.C. Blues” (Charlie
Galyean and directed by Chris Rose, the UVA
Parker) and “Wytheville Blues” (CH original Wise guitar ensemble director and
song on their upcoming album).
instructor.
Mullins, a junior theater and music perfor- “The competition on Sunday was so much
mance double major, played upright bass
fun. The venue was for 1,000-plus people,
and sang during the contest. Freshman and it was pretty packed. It felt like a giant
Blane Sage played guitar and sang. Luke
gig,” Mullins said. “We all loved every second
Sage, a junior theater major who Mullins of it, and if we had to drive 30 hours to do it
says can play “basically any instrument you again, we would.”
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AUBREY PLAZA'S W A LT E R S C O T T A S K S . . .
SPY GAME
It’s a mix of action and comedy for
Plaza when the Parks and Recre-
TED DANSON
A two-time Emmy winner for Cheers and but I was gone a lot. But Neil absolutely loves his
ation star joins Jason Statham in
three-time nominee for The Good Place, daughter. He quit his job just so he could be
Operation Fortune: Ruse de
Guerre (coming soon). She plays a
Danson, 74, returns as fictional Los Angeles around her and raise her. So there’s a lot of love
tech guru on a spy squad trying to Mayor Neil Bremer in the second season of and good intention.
stop the sale of a deadly new Mr. Mayor (March 15 on NBC). The comedy What’s it like working with Holly Hunter, who
weapons technology by a billion- series continues the tale of the inept politi- plays Neil's adversary, Arpi? It’s like playing
aire arms broker (Hugh Grant). To cian, who angers his staff, faces a potential tennis with somebody who’s better than you: You
do so, they enlist a Hollywood recall election, begins dating again and tries end up having to improve your game. Holly’s
movie star (Josh Hart- to successfully parent his teenage daughter. very much that for me, Ted—and for Neil as well.
nett) to help them infil- What do you like about Neil? I love that he is The Good Place got people to think about
trate a world of wealth, good-natured, he is kind, he is so self-absorbed in what it means to do the right thing. Are you
luxury yachts and fast his little orbit of being a billionaire that he just takes satisfied with that as its takeaway? Yes: Try to
cars. “It’s an for granted that he can pull off being mayor—and be the best you can every day. We’re not going
action-packed he can’t. He’s in way over his head, but he’s doing it to become monks or philosophers overnight,
spy thriller to prove to his daughter he’s still got it. but you do know what’s ethically right, especially
about a rag-tag
You’re a father. How would you judge him as a the longer you’ve been on the planet.
group of private
contractors dad? A smidge self-absorbed. But you know You’re a longtime environmentalist. What is
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day and have young, I was doing Cheers and running off and tors of Oceana and have been pretty much since
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What surprising turn of events happened when his wife, Mary Steenburgen, guest-starred on Mr. Mayor?
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HEYYY . . . IT'S HENRY WINKLER

What does it mean to be human? Winkler,
He revealed
that he didn’t
THE CRITICS CHOOSE
Nicole Byer, 35, the co-host of TV’s Wipe-
out, joins Taye Diggs, 51, as he returns to
76, provides the voice of Keith From Grief actually ride host the 27th annual Critics Choice
in the new animated workplace-comedy the motorcy- Awards (March 13 on TBS and the CW),
series Human Resources (March 18 on cle on Happy for which winners are voted by broadcast,
Netflix), about a group of creatures Days. After he print and online journalists who review
that help humans navigate crashed it on television and film. The movies West Side
his first at- Story and Belfast lead the film nomina-
through various emotions and
tempt, it was tions with 11 each, while Succession is the
phases of life. Here are some
mounted on a top contender for
fun facts about the former Fonz
board with wheels and pulled. TV honors with
from Happy Days.
eight. “Oooh!”
He won his first Winkler co-wrote, with He’s godfather to says Byer.
Emmy at age Lin Oliver, the Hank Bryce Dallas Howard, “The
72 for his sup- Zipzer book the daughter of Ron gowns,
porting role as series, featur- Howard, his Happy the stars,
acting teacher Gene ing a boy with Days co-star. T the atten-
Cousineau in the HBO dyslexia. tion . . . I’m very
dark comedy Barry. excited for all
of it.“
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BEHIND THE SONGS
Sex, love, feminism, retro jive, Clint Eastwood,
human rights, reggae, an enduring riddle,
smoke and ashes—we have the scoop on the
most memorable groundbreaking music of 50
years ago. By Jim Farber

he pop charts sang some different tunes in 1972. New points of view arrived

T on the radio to serenade the blossoming feminist movement (Helen Reddy’s

“I Am Woman”), the emerging world of gay rights (Mott the Hoople’s “All
the Young Dudes”) and fresh global perspectives (with the breakthrough of reggae
“Doctor, My Eyes”
JACKSON BROWNE song used a
Like “American
Pie,” Browne’s
breakthrough

artists, including Johnny Nash with his No. 1 smash “I Can See Clearly Now”). buoyant beat and a fetching melody to soften
Other new stars went on to become cultural touchstones, including Bette Midler, a tough message. The singer notes that his
Roberta Flack, Al Green and Jackson Browne. We go behind the scenes of some of sight needs healing after all the harshness he’s
our favorite 1972 tunes. witnessed in his life. To contrast the gloom,
Browne hired guitarist Jesse Ed Davis to cre-
ate the song’s barreling solo, which he recorded
in one take. He also paired his own voice
“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” with the harmonies of friends David Crosby
and Graham Nash. The latter suggested the
ROBERTA FLACK song serve as the single from Browne’s debut
Flack’s recording of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” from album, which resulted
her 1969 debut initially floundered. All that changed after she got in a Top 10 hit. Two
a call from actor Clint Eastwood, who said he wanted to use “First months later, a song
Time” in the 1971 film that would mark his directing debut, Play Browne wrote with
Misty for Me. “He called me at home,” Flack told The Guardian. Glenn Frey, “Take
“I almost passed out. He wanted to use my song only in a part of the movie where It Easy,” gave the
there was pure and absolute love. I told him OK, but that I wanted to re-record it be- Eagles their inau-
cause I thought it was too slow. He said, ‘No, it’s not.’” Clearly, Eastwood was right, be- gural hit.
cause the song became Billboard’s top song for 1972. It also took the prizes for both
Song and Record of the year at the Grammys.
“Go All the Way”
Few lyrics have inspired more speculation than “American Pie.” It’s as much a pop quiz as
a pop song, a rhyming riddle bursting with veiled references to kings (Elvis?), queens and
RASPBERRIES
court jesters (Bob Dylan?), as well as possible allusions to bands of the era (the Byrds and Raspberries’ leader Eric Carmen knew he
the Rolling Stones). The song’s refrain—“the day the music died”—points to wanted to write a song about sex when he
the 1959 plane crash that took the lives of entertainers Buddy Holly, Ritchie penned “Go All the Way.” But he gave the
Valens and the Big Bopper. McLean kicks off the song alluding to his time tune an uncommon point
working as a paperboy at 13 when he delivered headlines that reported of view, with a girl begging
Holly’s death to his local com- her guy to “go all the way,”
munity. The song wound up a twist in those sexist,
making its own headlines for
“American Pie” male-dominated times.
its length: a whopping 8 min- Among the first “power
utes and 42 seconds. For nearly
DON MCLEAN pop” songs—a genre that
half a century, it held the record as the longest cut to mixes sweet melodies with
hit No. 1, until Taylor Swift broke it in 2021 with her hard-driving rhythms—the
10-minute-plus remake of her song “All Too Well.” Top 5 hit also boasted an unusual structure:
Over the years, McLean confirmed some of the a chorus that lasts far longer than the verse.
identities of the stars alluded to in the song, but And the album cover featured scratch-and-
not all. He said that his lyrics are “beyond analysis. sniff raspberries.
They’re poetry.” continued on page 9

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 from page 8
The same year that Gloria Steinem
“I Am Woman” launched her groundbreaking Ms.
magazine, a song arrived that could
HELEN REDDY have served as its soundtrack. “I Am
Woman,” first released on Reddy’s debut album in 1971, had a rebirth
the next year when it was featured in a feminist film titled Stand Up and
Be Counted, starring Jacqueline Bisset. Though the film bombed, Reddy’s
record company felt the song could be a hit, given the nascent women’s
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movement. In 2003, Reddy told Australia’s Sunday Magazine that she

was inspired to write the lyrics by the “strong women in my
“Smoke on the Water”
family who had gotten through the Depression and world DEEP PURPLE
wars and drunken, abusive husbands.” Song co-writer Ray The lyrics to Deep Purple’s monster hit
Burton matched Reddy’s words to rousing music, helping couldn’t have been more literal. They tell
it bound up the charts to Billboard’s No. 1 spot, making Reddy the first the true story of “some stupid with a flare
Down Under artist to achieve that feat. In a memorable moment at the gun” whose reckless act reduced to ashes
next year’s Grammys, she accepted the prize for Best Female Perfor- the casino in Montreux, Switzerland, where
mance by thanking “God, because she makes everything possible.” the band was supposed to record their new
album. Instead, they recorded in a mobile
recording unit used by the Rolling Stones,
“Love Train” “I Can See Clearly Now” writing “Smoke” at the last minute as filler to
complete the album. Later, guitarist Ritchie
THE O’JAYS JOHNNY NASH Blackmore admitted that he based his iconic
Released in the last weeks of 1972, Reggae broke big in the U.S., thanks in part to recurring riff—one of the most famous in rock
“Love Train” broke into the Top 40 the Johnny Nash. He wasn’t the first star to have a major history—on the first movement of Beethoven’s
same day that the Paris peace agree- island-style hit here, but 1972 greatly expanded Fifth Symphony.
ment was signed. The timing couldn’t the reach of reggae, beginning in September when
have been the very American group
more apt, Three Dog Night went
“All the Young Dudes”
as the song No. 1 with a cover of the MOTT THE HOOPLE
called for ev- Maytones’ reggae hit When David Bowie got word that Mott the
ery nation to “Black and White.” Two Hoople—a struggling British cult band at the
get on board months later, Nash (one time—was about to break up, he offered a
with its mes- of the first non-Jamaican song to keep them together.
sage of get- artists to record reg- First, he suggested the super-
ting in the groove of love. The music, gae music in Kingston, charged “Suffragette City,”
driven by the sound of Philadelphia soul Jamaica) topped the a song meant for his own
with rich strings, a danceable beat and charts with a song that stands as one of pop’s most upcoming album. But the
soulful vocals, matched its strong mes- optimistic anthems. “The rain is gone,” Nash sings. band rejected that in favor of
sage. As the group’s Walter Williams “All of the bad feelings have disappeared / Here another tune, “All the Young
told The Guardian, “Vietnam was rum- is that rainbow I’ve been praying for.” The same Dudes,” an unrecorded bal-
bling on, the rich were getting richer… year, Jimmy Cliff released the song “The Harder lad Bowie performed for
so it was the perfect time to sing about They Come,” which doubled as the title track to the them. “I knew that one was
social issues.” The result gave the seminal reggae film starring the singer. And all this special,” Mott’s lead singer,
O’Jays their most successful single ever, took place three years before Bob Marley’s global Ian Hunter, told Billboard. Bowie even offered
crowning Billboard’s Hot 100. breakthrough. to produce the single, which cracked the U.S.
Top 40. More than a hit, “Dudes” became an
“Boogie Woogie A strange thing happened in the early ’70s: Stars anthem for the era’s glam-rock style and the
Bugle Boy” began scoring hits with songs from the 1940s. emerging gay rights movement, inspired by
The Pointer Sisters had “Salt Peanuts,” based a same-gender sexual relationship in the lyric.
BETTE MIDLER on a 1942 riff from Dizzy Gillespie, and Bette That same year, Lou Reed scored a hit with
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Midler found her first smash with a jivey cover of a song made popular in 1941 the equally edgy “Walk on the Wild Side,”
by the Andrews Sisters. Midler says two oldies compilation albums, given which name-checked Andy Warhol’s cast of
to her by her parents as a child, introduced her to vintage music. Her record underground stars. Together, those two songs
company initially intended “Bugle Boy” as the B-side of another song, “Delta made 1972 a watershed year for pop’s new
Dawn.” But when Helen Reddy released her version of “Delta Dawn,” they sexual expressiveness.
flipped the sides, resulting in a Top 10 hit.
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New Pill Repairs
Aged Cells All
Over the Body
Based on groundbreaking research from UC Davis, anti-
aging pioneer creates the world’s first life-extension pill
that boosts the energy center of cells
Researchers at the Univer-
sity of California, Davis, have
discovered a new compound
that has the amazing ability
to reverse the aging pro-
cess in cells, extending lifes-
pan and restoring health.
The compound was im-
mediately formulated into
an all-natural pill which
adults and seniors, from
all over the country, are
now taking every day.
Sold under the brand
name Ultra Accel II, the new
once-daily pill promotes
and protects the healthy
function of the body’s
most vital organs and sys-
tems, including memory
and recall, heart and lung
function, immune defense,
and robust energy levels.
Research shows the
pill’s primary ingredients
support the growth of
new mitochondria in the
body’s most important or-
gans, a process called mi-
tochondrial biogenesis.
Scientists long believed
this was virtually impos-
sible after a certain age.
But the latest research
proves that it can be
achieved with the ingredi-
ents found in Ultra Accel II.
Energizes the Body’s
Most Vital Organs
And because plentiful,
vigorous mitochondria are
associated with a youthful
vigor, there’s evidence that
Ultra Accel II fully supports
an active, healthy lifestyle
that defies one’s chrono-
logical age. Here’s how:
Mitochondria are found
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in all cells (and there are
trillions of them in your
body), They produce the
cellular energy required
by your organs to function.
In the most energy-de-
manding organ, like the
brain and heart, there can be
as many as 2,000 mitochon-
dria per cell. And according
to a landslide of clinical data,
the health of these mitochon-
dria determines our level of
health and how long we live.
When organs lack the
cellular energy they re-
quire to work at a 100%
efficiency, your health dete-
riorates and you age faster.
This is why mitochondria
dysfunction are the root
of many problems associ-
ated with growing older.
Low energy, fatigue, muscle
weakness, memory loss,
poor immunity, skin aging,
and blood sugar problems,
are often the result of an
energy crisis in your cells.
But now, for the first
time ever, there’s a fix for
the estimated 50 million
adults and seniors who
suffer — often unknowing-
ly— from these ailments.
“With daily use, Ultra Ac-
cel II helps users feel more
energetic and vital. Many
also notice significant im-
provements in brain, heart,
and lung function too,” ex-
plains Dr. Al Sears, creator
of the Ultra Accel II pill.
“And that’s because Ul-
tra Accel II multiplies the
number of youthful mito-
chondria in every cell of
your body and in every im-
portant organ and tissue.
The result is an enormous
spike in cellular energy that
literally reverses your bi-
ological clock. In laymen
terms, you grow younger.”
The University Study
That Started the
Anti-Aging Movement
Dr. Sears’ inspiration for
Ultra Accel II came after
reviewing the new study
published by researchers at
UC Davis. These research-
ers discovered that when
mice were fed the natural
compound called PQQ the
number of mitochondria
in their cells multiplied.
In eight weeks they saw a
staggering 55% increase in
young, youthful mitochon-
dria. Even more remarkable
was the fact that the mice
with the strongest mitochon-
dria showed no signs of ag-
ing even when they were the
equivalent to 80 years old.
“After reading the study
on PQQ, I immediately
called my manufacturer. He
explained to me PQQ was in-
credibly hard to source, but
after a few months I finally
got my hands on some and
successfully blended it into
a softgel,” explains Dr. Sears.
“I was the first to try it.
After the first dose I felt an
immediate boost in energy.
With daily use I noticed my
endurance, memory, vision
and even the appearance of
my skin and hair improved.
It was truly amazing.”
Science of Age Reversal
Two key ingredients make
up the Ultra Accel II softgel.
The first is a patented form of
If your bottle of CoQ10 does not have this nutrient
in it, then you are NOT getting the full benefits of
CoQ10
PQQ called BioPQQ. The sec-
ond is Ubiquinol, the most
effective form of CoQ10.
Research shows that as we
get older the number of mito-
chondria in our cells declines
sharply. In fact, by age 67
nearly 80% of the mitochon-
dria we had at 25 have died.
This dramatic decline
can trigger many serious
health problems, including
heart failure, memory loss
and relentless fatigue. It
can also cause the skin to
look older and accelerate
the overall aging process.
The BioPQQ in Ultra Accel
II is one of the only known
compounds to actually mul-
tiply the number of mito-
chondria in your cells! And
just like a power cord, the
Ubiquinol has the amazing
ability to energize these new,
youthful mitochondria so
that they are fully charged.
Patients Hail
Improvements in Health
and a Deceleration in
Aging
The initial feedback from
patients using Ultra Accel II
has been strong. Many say
they have never felt better.
“I’m a 70-year-old man
and I’ve been taking Accel for
2 1/2 months. On a recent
treadmill stress test, I was
told that I did as well as sev-
eral patients tested who were
in their 20s,” raves one user.
Adds another: “I no-
ticed a difference within
a few days. My endurance
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almost doubled. But it’s
not just in your body. You
can feel it mentally too,”
Changing the Way We Age
Ultra Accel II is an excit-
ing new anti- aging pill that’s
now helped thousands of
people reclaim their energy,
vitality, and youth regardless
of their age or health status.
With daily use, it can help
you look and feel decades
younger and sidestep the
illnesses that accompany ag-
ing and can make life hard.
You can now regain
boundless energy, new vig-
or and physical capabilities
you enjoyed in your youth.
Where to Find
Ultra Accel II
This is the official release
of Ultra Accel II. As such,
the company is offering a
special discounted supply
to any reader who calls
within the next 48 hours.
A special hotline num-
ber and discounted pricing
has been created for all.
Discounts will be avail-
able starting today at 6
a.m. and will automatical-
ly be applied to all callers.
Your toll-free hotline
number is 1-800-236-
9253 and will only be open
for the next 48 hours, use
Promo Code PARAUA35
when you call in. Only a
limited discounted supply
of Ultra Accel II is current-
ly available in your region.
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