Hey; do you remember yo-yos?
From time to time, I have allowed all you faithful listeners access into the inner workings of life at “Fred and Jo Mooty’s” Place; so, let’s …
Hello again! It ain’t nobody; it’s just me!
Yeah! No bout adoubt it, as we used to say! What a year, 2020 has been.
One of the five most startling plays ever in football history occurred during the 15th Rose Bowl Game of 1929! Roy Riegals, the captain of the…
The United States dollar has been very much in the news lately; mostly for all the wrong reasons. Someone said the one dollar bill is very rel…
Well, we did it! We got ‘er done!
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I love these mountains! Oh, it isn’t that I haven’t seen any other beauties of God’s Creation – I have – in many different locations, in many …
With apologies to the old Jimmy Buffet country music song that it is “Always 5 O’clock Somewhere”; I saw where Monday, October 12 is “Thanksgi…
Doors! Doors! And more doors!
I am ‘purt near 99.4% certain that you know people who are doing what they have been trained all their lives to do – you know – when they star…
Ok, I admit it; I didn’t know that!
Providence Baptist Church is happy to introduce new youth pastor Steven Neal and his family.
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Ok! You got me! I will stand up and admit my mistakes; and take whatever punishment you deem best! I done it!
Did you ever have that almost continual “run-in” with your childhood play mates when one said you “did”, and the other said “did not”; and, be…
Hello! My name is Tom Mooty; in case you have forgotten me. It has been waaaaaaay too long since last we met in this media platform. Things ha…
Editor’s Note: Information provided by Sandy Shetley, Tom Mooty, the late Omega Jackson and the late Bill Vasquez.
In 1918, Rev. H.L. Trim, Church of God District Overseer, conducted a tent revival in the McCowan Creek community, which lies between Rankin a…
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Fellowship Presbyterian Church, PCA is located at 2331 Early Road, just off Hwy. 321 south of Newport.
Newport Presbyterian Church, now located off Hedrick Drive above Cocke County High School, is now in its third century of serving local parishioners.
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Maple Grove Church
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Jones Chapel United Methodist Church stands in a beautiful grove of trees in Del Rio near the intersection of Hwy. 107 and Dry Fork Road.