The combination of players, coaches, fans and community is what sets Bledsoe County High School football apart from other programs. Coming back from times without a coaching staff and a different head coach all four years of their football career, the seniors overcame and were true leaders for the Warrior football team, leading them to…

Bledsoe County High School’s Warrior Football team will leave the high school at 12:30 p.m. today in a charter bus heading to Watertown for their second round game in the TSSAA playoffs. The team will head to Bledsoe County Middle School, then to Pikeville Elementary on their sendoff route before traveling through Main Street Pikeville.…

Brothers Karim and Rahim Sadruddin formally pleaded guilty to “large government fraud” in connection with the failed Textile Corporation of America venture in Pikeville in front of a federal judge in Chattanooga Wednesday morning, November 13. The Sadruddins each pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. The brothers…

Scores of people filled the Bledsoe County Courthouse Lawn to celebrate the service and sacrifice of local veterans on Monday, November 11. Claude Lewis was the keynote speaker this year. Lewis was drafted into the U.S. Army at 22-years-old in 1964. In August 1965, he headed out to Vietnam and in October he landed in…

Candidates for the office of Mayor for the City of Pikeville were interviewed recently by The Bledsonian-Banner reporter Chase Smith. Both candidates were asked the same four questions and asked to give brief responses. The interview answers are transcribed verbatim, including filler words, in the interest of transparency for voters. The election for Mayor and…

Late October’s rainfall totals for Bledsoe County made up for an extremely dry September, with 8.56 inches of rain falling last month compared to 1.05 inches in September, according to local Volunteer National Weather Service (NWS) Observer Roy Lee Standefer. For more see the November 7 issue of The Bledsonian Banner.

Bledsoe County will receive money to spark workforce development from the State of Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee announced. Bledsoe’s portion is $118,867 out of a total $3 million distributed statewide. The money specifically goes toward rural counties, with Distressed and At-Risk Counties receiving the majority ($2.1 million) of the money to “bolster workforce development efforts.”…

Bledsoe County Commissioners approved a resolution to allow the Industrial Development Board to offer a tax abatement plan for Aviagen’s planned $32 million expansion for a poultry feed mill at a joint meeting on Monday, November 4. The proposed project known as “Project Protein” would be on a 50-acre tract the City of Pikeville currently…