Youth club partners with city on sports

The city of Marathon will join forces with a local youth club by hiring a dedicated Parks and Recreation Department employee to oversee sports activities at the Marathon Community Park.

September 5, 2010

Harvard's done it. So has the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Now the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences is trying. The effort is to establish -- almost from scratch and in an era of dwindling support -- a research program with the faculty and equipment capable of studying this era's most important scientific questions.

Restaurant report card — Whitfield County

Restaurant reports from the Whitfield County Health Department

Double Dutch team wants to rope in more kids for fun, exercise and competition

Capito said the Angels managed to raise about $3,000 last summer, which allowed them to send six jumpers to a big workshop in Florida through the National Double Dutch League.

BJ's Wholesale Club August total sales up 4.9 pct

BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. said Thursday that sales at its warehouse clubs open at least a year rose just 2.4 percent as more customers came to its stores but spent less. The results came in shy of the 3.3 percent increase that analysts were expecting.