Farmers Market shows kids food is fun

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Abingdon Library Youth Dept. Amanda Bailey reads the book "Food for Thought" at the Abingdon's Farmers Market. Following the reading the kids are given coupons to buy food at the market.

Battle of Blountville Park shown to State Officials

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Tenn. Rep. Tony Shipley, Chairman of the Battle of Blountville Military Park Comm., left, and Lee Curtis, Dir. of Programs for the TN. Dept. of Tourism Develpement, stand in the Blountville Cememtery looking towards Blountville as was done during the battle of blountville by the Union cannons.

Battle of Blountville takes places again

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General Lee talks to the crowd gathered in Blountville to explain the Battle going on behind him.

History came alive on the streets of Blountville

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Confederate Troops fire on Union troops during the Battle of Blounville on Sat.

Blues in Abingdon brought out hundreds

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Lead singer of the Delta Playboys, Dean Osejo dressed for the Blues Music in Abingdon Sat. at the 4th Annual Blues Festival.

Bristol comes up short in Kingsport

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PHOTO EARL NEIKIRK/BRISTOL HERALD COURIER..Bristol #10 Darwin Matos pitches to a mets batter. The sox lost their first game of the season to become 3-1

Garden Club to raise money to help community

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PHOTO EARL NEIKIRK/BRISTOL HEARLD COURIER..United Fund of Bluff City Board Member Mary Duncan looks at some of the Daylilies to purchase at the Good Daylilies in Bluff City, TN. This year the United Fund of Bluff City are hosting a Garden Tour and Sale each day 10 a.m. till 6:00 pm.

Bristol starts season 3-0 with wins over Greeneville

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Sox #21 Dusty Harvard is safe on third as he knocked the ball out and the Glove off the third baseman for Greeneville.

BriSox win in extra innings against Greeneville

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Bristol #18 Daurys Mercedes holds up the ball after Greeneville #40 Davidson is called out after falling backwards off the bag after first being called safe.

First Day of Summer Fun at Sugar Hollow

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Krystal Richardson, 12, left, and Sebastian Richardson,8, sit and cool off in the stream at Sugar Hollow Park in Bristol, Va. on Tuesday the first day of summer.

Rolling Thunder dedicate empty seat at BriSox game Tuesday.

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Earl Leonard with Rolling Thunder Chapter 4 salutes during the dedication of the POW MIA baseball fan empty seat at the Bristol White Sox game on Tuesday.

Sox score with homeruns against Greeneville

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Bristol Sox #32 Collin Kuhn gets some advice by Manager Pete Rose, Jr. at third base Tuesday.

Brumit flies Angel Flights

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Steve Brumit sits in the cockpit of his plane he uses for Angel wings.

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Summer Job ideas around the area

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Anna Dolan has been a lifeguard for 4 yrs. and is now working at the Haynesfield pool in Bristol, Tn.

Glade is slowly getting back to normal

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Shannon Henderson floats in the new pool next to her grandfather ( Carolous Henderson) house in Glade Spring. The old pool was destroyed and the new one gives her a nice break from the destruction around her on Stagecoach Road.

Glade slowly on the mend.

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Carolous Henderson stands next to the basement of his house in Glade Spring. He is getting modular home to replace the house following the storm.

Holston advances to State Final in Radford

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Holston #8 Morgan Lowe, right, and catcher Megan Honaker celebrate the win on Friday against William Campbell to get to the State Finals in Group A Division 1 softball.

Virginia High going to State Finals in Softball

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VHS #4 Mackenzie Marray, left, celebrates with her teammates winning semi Finals of the Group A Division 2 softball.

Tribute band draw hundred downtown

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Neill Byrnes sings with his Aerosmith Tribute Band named "Draw the Line" during a concert at the Downtown Center in Bristol Tn. on Thursday night. His band sings Aerosmith and he is a double for Steven Tyler.

Kelly Girls going to State

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JJ Kelly Girls tennis-
Hannah Barnette, Lindsey Ritchie, Claire Rigg,Lizzie Hildebrand, Cassidy Lawson,Ana Bates, Hannah Collins, Decima Baker Kaitlin Ponish

The J.J. Kelly girls tennis squad, in what is almost certainly its final season before planned consolida tion this summer, has turned back the clock with its first Group A state tournament appearance since 2000. State tournament berths were once as ho-hum for the Kelly girls as fourth period, with the Indians advancing to the final every year in the 1990s, a run that included a state-record seven consecutive state championships between 1991 and 1997.