Here is an early SNEAK LISTEN to The Week The Was for this week just ended. The segment airs during the Saturday newscasts!
State Representative David Hawk says he will seek reelection.
Hawk made the announcement during comments to the Greene County Republican Party during their May meeting at the Headquarters on Snapps Ferry Road where he was guest speaker.
Hawk is in the middle of his 12th term in office, having been first elected in 2002.
He is the current longest serving Republican in the State House of Representatives.
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Greeneville High School has a new Principal for the new school year.
Greeneville City Schools announced Monday afternoon the appointment of Dr. Daisy Shepard as the next Principal of Greeneville High School, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Shepard has served as Assistant Principal at Greeneville High School since 2022 and brings more than 15 years of experience in education, including leadership roles in Washington County and Greeneville City.
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The Greeneville City Board of Education is getting close to a balanced budget.
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The Greene County Board of Education will present a balanced budget to the County Commission.
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Three items dealing with the transfer of properties at the Greene Tech Center site on Hal Henard Road were approved by the City Council.
The unanimous vote transfers operations of the Greene Tech Center to Greeneville and the McNeese building to Greene County.
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An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has resulted in the arrest of numerous employees of a group home for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Greeneville.
investigating allegations of abuse and neglect involving a vulnerable adult who resided in a group home
Last week, the Greene County Grand Jury returned indictments charging six people in connection with the abuse. Tuesday, they were arrested and booked into the Greene County Detention Center.
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29 year old Lavelle Scott has been found guilty on all four counts in the death of his 31 day old daughter, Sophia Flora Fields.
The jury of 11 women and 1 man returned its verdict at around 5:05 Wednesday afternoon, less than five hours after deliberations began.
Scott has been sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder in perpetration of child abuse and first degree murder in perpetration of child neglect.
Life in Tennessee means 60 years with a 85% release eligibility. Based on time served already and his behavior behind bars moving forward, he would not be eligible for parole until around age 75.
His attorney T. Hunter Shelton will file a motion for a new trial. That hearing will be September 5th.
A sentencing hearing on convictions for aggravated child neglect and aggravated child abuse will be July 30th.
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Greene County Mayor Kevin Morrison says he hopes to be able to use some of the recently announced Hurricane relief funds from the state for construction of an EMS station in the Camp Creek area in conjunction with a new Camp Creek Fire Hall.
Morrison told members of the EMS Board , during their quarterly meeting Thursday the last minute bill that was passed during the regular session of the state legislature as Radio Greeneville News first told you last week , designating Greene County $3 million for Hurricane Helene recovery and future disaster mitigation.
He said Thursday “Of course, one of the great lessons learned was with the collapse of the Erwin Highway Bridge, we did not have or had relatively little emergency medical coverage south of the river. Since then, an ongoing today, thanks to the Department of Health, we have a fort set up at the Crossroads at Camp Creek, but with that money, and we’re examining that right now, is to co locate a new ambulance station with the Camp Creek Volunteer fire department. So I’ve been out to speak to the fire department about this. They’ve been bequeathed some money from the state estate to construct a new fire hall and with some of this money that we could potentially contribute to the volunteer fire Department for their station and co-locate an ambulance at Camp Creek.
