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Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Traffic slows Tuesday as people view the decorations along Main Street. Pushed through by the vision of resident and business owner Lola Sells and the help of many others, downtown Pikeville, Tennessee, has been transformed this year with the goal of having Christmas decorations preferably lights on every home and business on the main street through downtown. Sells says her goal is to make it look like a Hallmark town that people would want to adidas samba donna come visit and spend money in. salomon PIKEVILLE, Tenn. - Credit Lola Sells for the bright idea.The business owner and longtime resident of Pikeville envisioned her town as a Christmas destination, like the fictional town of Evergreen from Hallmark movies. This year her wish came true.With a $10,000 check from the city and considerable cooperation from other residents and businesses, Pikeville s downtown has been transformed into a wonderland of lights that locals hope will drive tourism chanclas yeezy to the Bledsoe County seat. She said, I want it to be like a Hallmark picture, said Pikeville Mayor Philip Cagle. She succeeded in her goal. Bledsoe County is among a handful of Tennessee counties listed as economically distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission, but there have been developments on the big-picture business front. In July 2020, global poultry breeding company Aviagen announced a $35.3 million expansion for a new feed mill in Pikeville. Last month, Virnig, a M Prxe Georgia deputies asked to look inward during Blue Courage training
TOP TRAFFIC FATALITY FACTORS鈥?Motorists not wearing seat belts鈥?Excessive stanley cup deutschland speed鈥?Impaired driving鈥?Failure to yield鈥?Distracted driving such as cell phone useTraffic fatalities are down by 86 this year compared to last year, p stanley cup utting Tennessee on track for the first sub-900 fatality year since statistics were recorded.The Chattanooga area is looking just as strong, down 16 fatalities this year.At the end of June 2010, Tennessee had 501 traffic deaths, but 2011 has only seen 415. Although gas prices are high and police have been out in force to keep the roads safe, Clint Shrum, law enforcement liaison for the Governor s Highway Safety Office, attributes the decline to one simple factor - more people are buckling up.According to a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga study, seat belt usage is up to just over 87 percent from 81.6 percent l stanley cup ast year. I think the message is finally hitting home. We put the message out there, click it or ticket, buckle your seat belt because it s the law, and people are starting to see the carnage that happens in accidents when people are not using a seat belt, Shrum said. That one act can determine whether you live or die in a crash. Although fatalities are up in some local counties, numbers are down overall. For example, Hamilton County is down four deaths and Bradley is down nine. Everything seems to be on a downward trend right now, so that s good news. It means what we re doing is working, Shrum said.Police across the state have focused o
Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Traffic slows Tuesday as people view the decorations along Main Street. Pushed through by the vision of resident and business owner Lola Sells and the help of many others, downtown Pikeville, Tennessee, has been transformed this year with the goal of having Christmas decorations preferably lights on every home and business on the main street through downtown. Sells says her goal is to make it look like a Hallmark town that people would want to adidas samba donna come visit and spend money in. salomon PIKEVILLE, Tenn. - Credit Lola Sells for the bright idea.The business owner and longtime resident of Pikeville envisioned her town as a Christmas destination, like the fictional town of Evergreen from Hallmark movies. This year her wish came true.With a $10,000 check from the city and considerable cooperation from other residents and businesses, Pikeville s downtown has been transformed into a wonderland of lights that locals hope will drive tourism chanclas yeezy to the Bledsoe County seat. She said, I want it to be like a Hallmark picture, said Pikeville Mayor Philip Cagle. She succeeded in her goal. Bledsoe County is among a handful of Tennessee counties listed as economically distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission, but there have been developments on the big-picture business front. In July 2020, global poultry breeding company Aviagen announced a $35.3 million expansion for a new feed mill in Pikeville. Last month, Virnig, a M Prxe Georgia deputies asked to look inward during Blue Courage training
TOP TRAFFIC FATALITY FACTORS鈥?Motorists not wearing seat belts鈥?Excessive stanley cup deutschland speed鈥?Impaired driving鈥?Failure to yield鈥?Distracted driving such as cell phone useTraffic fatalities are down by 86 this year compared to last year, p stanley cup utting Tennessee on track for the first sub-900 fatality year since statistics were recorded.The Chattanooga area is looking just as strong, down 16 fatalities this year.At the end of June 2010, Tennessee had 501 traffic deaths, but 2011 has only seen 415. Although gas prices are high and police have been out in force to keep the roads safe, Clint Shrum, law enforcement liaison for the Governor s Highway Safety Office, attributes the decline to one simple factor - more people are buckling up.According to a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga study, seat belt usage is up to just over 87 percent from 81.6 percent l stanley cup ast year. I think the message is finally hitting home. We put the message out there, click it or ticket, buckle your seat belt because it s the law, and people are starting to see the carnage that happens in accidents when people are not using a seat belt, Shrum said. That one act can determine whether you live or die in a crash. Although fatalities are up in some local counties, numbers are down overall. For example, Hamilton County is down four deaths and Bradley is down nine. Everything seems to be on a downward trend right now, so that s good news. It means what we re doing is working, Shrum said.Police across the state have focused o
