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ATHENS — Athens High School students and teachers will spend the first 56 days of the school year at the former Athens Middle School on Clinton Street before moving to their new campus, officials said.

The Morgan County Commission will vote on a fiscal 2019 general fund budget next month that increases spending by 4 percent, including hikes in employee salaries and increased appropriations for the county’s libraries and mental health agency.

Decatur City Schools has all its teacher vacancies filled for the start of school today, and minor construction around the district’s two high schools will not interfere with operations and students arriving, school officials said.

An ALDOT project report issued last week again slated 2043 as the year when preliminary engineering on widening Interstate 565 would begin, dampening the hopes of some local officials who had hoped the governor’s election-year enthusiasm for the project would…

Decatur City Schools' 1,170 employees reported for roll call Tuesday at Austin Junior High, with the superintendent speaking about his non-negotiables for administrators and teachers because he said there apparently was some confusion about what they meant.

Some of the most famous steamboat captains to navigate the Tennessee River made journeys to and from Decatur.

First Response ambulance response times failed to meet Decatur City Code requirements, but the EMS committee on Tuesday did not recommended City Council action or make a finding that the ambulance service had good cause for its failure.

The environmental nonprofit Tennessee Riverkeeper has joined the Center for Biological Diversity in planning to sue Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA and the city of Huntsville over the construction and operation of a manufacturing plant in the Greenbrier area.

NORTH COURTLAND — North Courtland Assistant Police Chief Markus Solomon got a surprise Tuesday morning when he pulled over a motorist for speeding.

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