ELIZABETHTON â The weekly free concerts at the Covered Bridge Park on the banks of the Doe River in downtown Elizabethton will continue on Saturday, July 24, when the band Retroville takes the stage at 7 p.m.
âWe are expecting a large crowd to come out and enjoy this energetic group,â David Nanney, Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department recreation manager, said.
Retroville formed in 2004 and has been going strong ever since. One of the unique things about the band is that it covers so many different musical styles. At most performances, they will cover material from the 1950s to the 1990s. The bandâs main focus is the 1970s and 1980s.
ELIZABETHTON â Volunteers from two East Tennessee churches helped make a Friends of the Park Community Service Day a success for the Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department.
The volunteers came from Grace Baptist Church of Elizabethton and a church youth group from the First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg. The two groups completed projects at Elizabethton City Hall and the Covered Bridge Park.
This latest round of service projects focused on First Baptist of Gatlinburg working on the landscaping of City Hall, while Grace Baptist worked on painting the fencing of the Covered Bridge Park and planting bushes at the Covered Bridge Stage.
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ELIZABETHTON â It appears that a mountain bike project on the Hampton Springs Watershed is receiving support from both City Council members from Elizabethton and county commissioners from Carter County.
The latest incident of cooperation was on display Monday evening in the meeting of the Budget Committee of the Carter County Commission. The Budget Committee voted to recommend the county donate $75,000 to city-owned property at the watershed to help expand a mountain bike trail system.
Wesley Bradley, trail liaison with the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association, discussed the various phases of trail development on the 238-acre hilly watershed property the city owns in Hampton, just blocks from Hampton High School and Hampton Elementary School. Although the property is several miles from Elizabethton, the city owns it because the springs flowing in the city provide over half of the cityâs drinking water. The city acquired part of the property when it appeared the land was
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