ELIZABETHTON â On Monday night, the Carter County Commission took the first step toward updating its 10-year-old legislative districts on Monday night, and adjusting them to fit the latest demographic data from the U.S. Census.
By law, each county commission must complete the redistricting process by the end of this year, in time for the 2022 May primary elections to use the revised and more up to datedistricts.
The most important step the county commission took on Monday was to create the committee responsible for the redistricting, and to appoint the people who will do the work and come up with a recommended redistricting plan in time for the county commission to vote on it during the December monthly commission meeting. The 11 members of the committee include the eight members of the commissionâs Rules and By-laws Committee, plus the countyâs administrator of elections, the director of the Carter County Planning Commission and the countyâs assessor of prop
ELIZABETHTON — Elders and deacons from Southside Christian Church are on tonight’s agenda to ask City Council to name a new bridge in honor of a World War II veteran
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Donation of 28 acres accepted to add to trail
ELIZABETHTON â By a 21-2 vote, the Carter County Commission voted Thursday to accept a donation of 28 acres of land between Valley Forge and Hampton that could extend the Tweetsie Trail by 4.5 miles and provide connections with the Hampton Springs Watershed Mountain Bicycle Trail and Green Bridge Park in Hampton.
The property being donated is the route by which the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad used to operate a narrow gauge rail line between Valley Forge and Hampton. It extends from Mill Pond in Valley Forge to Railroad Street in the Rittertown Road area of Hampton. The donation also includes a tunnel that is in good shape and a bridge over the Doe River that is unsafe.