Profile for James Shea

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  UPDATED: Fire burns Bristol, Tenn., home

  A structure fire burned a Bristol, Tenn. home today and left a family homeless.

  05/24/2012 7:03 PM

• Sullivan County getting out of brush pick-up business

  Sullivan County Commissioner Dwight King, of Piney Flats, told the other commissioners that the service is costing the county’s Highway Department $200,000 a year, and the county attorney has expressed concerns about the legality of the service.

  05/23/2012 8:00 AM

• Sullivan Co. commission denies campground request

  The Sullivan County Commission denied a request to rezone a residential piece of land next to Boone Lake in Piney Flats, where the property owner wants to build a 20-site campground.

  05/22/2012 11:33 AM

• Executive committee meets to discuss budget, talks turn to other issues

  The Sullivan County Executive Committee was supposed to  hold a work session Monday to look at potential cuts to a proposed 2012/13 budget that is nearly $10 million out of balance.

  05/22/2012 10:40 AM

• Sullivan register of deeds blasts county commissioners for being fiscally irresponsible

  Sullivan County Register of Deeds Bart Long blasted county commissioners Monday for being fiscally irresponsible, but that didn’t stop them from appropriating an extra $144,500 to the sheriff anyway.

  05/22/2012 10:37 AM
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  Emerging Power series: Sandy Ratliff helps small businesses in Southwest Virginia

  Sandy Ratliff turned a family tragedy into a career. A Buchanan Countynative, Ratliff was raised in a coal-mining family.

  05/22/2012 7:32 AM

• Sullivan County gives sheriff $144,500 to balance budget

  After weeks of wrangling, Sullivan County transferred $144,500 to the sheriff's office budget Monday.

  05/21/2012 3:18 PM

• Sullivan County closes dental clinic

  He said he approached county commissioners about opening a dental clinic in Kingsport around 2003.

  05/21/2012 8:00 AM

• Sullivan 4-H students learn 'how county government works'

  Around three-dozen fifth-graders from schools throughout Sullivan County spent Thursday touring county government.

  05/18/2012 7:42 AM

• Becoming a student at Sullivan County's new technology school will be tough

  So far, 277 students have applied for the 160 slots at the new school, developed as a partnership among Sullivan County Schools, Kingsport City Schools and East Tennessee State University. Around 60 percent of the applicants are male. Half of the students will come from Sullivan County and half will be from Kingsport.

  05/17/2012 8:17 AM
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  Sullivan schools face $6 million shortfall

  Without a property tax increase, Sullivan County’s schools will face layoffs, Director of Schools Jubal Yennie said Tuesday, but he wouldn’t estimate how many.

  05/16/2012 4:51 PM

• Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee relocating to Sullivan County

  Speaking to the Sullivan County Administrative Committee Monday night, Second Harvest Executive Director Rhonda Chafin said the non-profit needs more space than is available at its current location in Gray, which is in Washington County. The organization provides food to soup kitchens and food pantries in an eight-county region of East Tennessee that includes Sullivan County.

  05/16/2012 8:00 AM

• Sullivan sheriff needs $1.5 more for next year, but admits he doesn't know how the county will pay for it

  Sullivan County Sheriff Wayne Anderson said Monday night he had no idea how the county could fund the additional $1.5 million in his budget request for the next fiscal year.

  05/15/2012 8:04 AM

• The Bristol Blotter for May 15, 2012

  Bristol Virginia Police Department May 13 A man in a red Camaro at a gas station onEuclid Avenuewas believed to be “under the influence of something” and “acting strangely.”

  05/15/2012 6:22 AM

• Sullivan sheriff to talk budget at meeting

  The Sullivan County Administrative Committee is meeting tonight at 7 p.m. The committee is set to talk about the 2012-2013 budget for the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office.

  05/14/2012 2:54 PM
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  Interlibrary loan program funding eliminated in Tennessee

  Under a cooperative agreement, Sullivan County, Bristol and other libraries in East Tennessee loan books between library systems, called interlibrary loans.

  05/14/2012 8:00 AM

• Sullivan County Sheriff's Office budget shortfall near resolution

  Through a series of accounting adjustments, the Sullivan County Budget Committee and the Sheriff’s Office reduced the budget shortfall at the sheriff’s office and forwarded a motion to the full commission to cover the remaining $180,000.

  05/11/2012 8:00 AM

• Sullivan County Sheriff's Office budget shortfall $332,251

  It turns out that neither side was correct in the ongoing and at times personal debate over the amount of the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office budget shortfall.

  05/10/2012 7:46 AM

• Auditor: Sullivan sheriff has $332,000 shortfall

  The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office has a $332,251 budget shortfall, according to an analysis released by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.

  05/09/2012 5:18 PM

• Annual Steele Creek Park Concert Series kicks off May 18

  The free concert takes place at 7 p.m. Friday, May 18, at the pavilion by the lake at Steele Creek Park. The concert will feature Outta the Blue with the Holloway Sisters, a bluegrass band from Lenoir City, Tenn.

  05/09/2012 8:00 AM