2025
A man tried to pass himself off as his deceased brother when he was stopped by Greeneville Police.
2024
Greeneville natives The Dugger Band released their 5th studio album “Goin’ Places” in a release show at the NPAC.
Greeneville Fire Department added a new ladder truck to their fleet. This truck has a 100′ ladder capable of reaching the highest buildings in Greeneville. It is at the newly opened Carson Street station. The cost was approximately $1.4 million.
2022
Greene County native and THP Tropper Vince Mullins passed away at age 54. He was Trooper of the Year in 2013 and 2016 and was a US Army Veteran.
2021
Greene County had 261 active COVID-19 cases.
2020
Senator Steve Sotherland sponsored a bill to have a statue of David Crockett at the State Capitol. The statue is scheduled to be put in place in late 2026.
2018
The Tennessee Department of Health gave official approval of the merger of Wellmont Health Systems and Mountain States Health Alliance into Ballad Health. Takoma Regional Hospital, a Wellmont facility, and Laughlin Memorial Hospital, a Mountain States facility, are part of that merger.
2014
The Greeneville Fire Department added a new ladder truck to Central Fire Hall. The $750,000 truck replaces a 1988 model truck that will be retained for training purposes.
2013
Flooding closes schools, results in road closures, and helps January 2013 to be the wettest January on record with 9.14 inches of precipitation, breaking a record that had stood since 1954. There were four days in this month where more than one inch of rain was recorded.
2012
A rock slide on I-40 closed all lanes near the Tennessee/North Carolina border.
2011
Greeneville Police Detective Stuart Kilgore began his final week on duty as he retired the following week. Kilgore began with the department in 1987 and was instrumental in the Shop With A Cop program.
The high was 63 degrees in a brief break from normal January weather.
2010
Plans were announced for the burial of Greeneville native Staff Sergeant Rusty Christian, who was killed while serving in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in a vehicle he was walking by. Christian was a 2004 graduate of Greeneville High School and was a Green Beret.
2008
2,600 people were affected by a morning power outage caused by a switch failure at the substation on Industrial Road.
2007
UP to 6″ of snow was in the forecast for the upcoming days.
2006
Greene County Bancshares, Inc., the second largest bank holding company in the state, reports 47 branches throughout the state. Founded in 1890 as Greene County Bank, the company would cease to exist by 2017.
2005
The Greene County Fair won first place in the Tennessee Association of Fairs large division.
Shots were fired in an altercation at the Houston Valley Club. There were no injuries.
2003
The band programs in Greene County Schools are progressing, according to a report from Director Dr. Joe Parkins. Funding from the Niswonger Foundation helped establish the programs where were being extended to the middle schools this year.
2002
A Post-Conviction Relief Hearing began for Crystal Sturgill, one of six Kentucky teens who pleaded guilty in the 1998 roadside murders of the Lillelid family. Their bodies were found off Van Hill Road in Baileyton.
2001
Byron “Low Tax” Looper was officially indicted by a Cumberland County Grand Jury in the murder of State Senator Tommy Burks. Looper was Burks’ re-election opponent.
