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In search of the Great Pumpkin
We will be there, Linus. We will share in your ever-sosincere search in that pumpkin patch. We will wait with you and hope with you and almost believe with you. But the Great Pumpkin won’t appear. He always spends the fall season with families in Hayden. More...
Health Care Authority offers west Blount assistance in developing medical clinic
by Ron Gholson

Wendell Ellis told the West Blount Development Association last Wednesday at Hayden’s town hall that Blount County Health Care Authority is prepared to work with a group representing the community to develop a doctors’ group practice or medical clinic to serve citizens in that part of the county. More...

System and county can’t agree on tax issue
Oneonta City Board of Education
by Rob Rice

“I’m just really disappointed that money intended to go toward the children of this county and their education is not used for that purpose,” Oneonta Supt. Jack Housch told the Oneonta City Board of Education during Monday night’s meeting. More...

 News
• Correction
In the October 21 issue, a printer error led to the omission of page A3. Here is the page that was to have run last week. More...
• Cellular South to buy Corr Wireless
• Commission tries new tack with Whistle Stop Estates
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 Columns
• Downtown tour stirs considerable interest
Editorial
Blount County Historical Society had no idea what kind of response it would get to its first tour of historic Oneonta, but it’s a given its members hadn’t anticipated the some 100 who came downtown that bright, pleasant Sunday afternoon Oct. 18. More...
• My side
• From the Archives
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 Letters
• What to give a lady for her 50th birthday
Birthdays for females are always special, but especially the 50th. It’s difficult to select the perfect gift for fear of making a heartbreaking mistake. Some ladies want exotic perfume to give the right setting for those romantic memories of her younger life. Some ladies want that special piece of jewelry she has waited for so long. More...
• Retake Cleveland plans to do just that
• Cleveland citizens finally unite
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 Sports
• article has image Four teams make the playoffs
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL • WEEK TEN PREVIEW
Now that the regular season has almost wound down and the dust – er, mud – has settled, four Blount County teams have qualified for the high school football playoffs. More...
• article has image Panthers shock Bulldogs
• article has image Golden Eagles run over Hornets
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 People
• Blount County Writers Circle anniversary
The Blount County Writers Circle celebrated its one year anniversary Oct. 10 at the Oneonta Public Library. There were snacks and coffee as the group assembled to greet the public and new members before the morning meeting began. More...
• article has image Owens - Holston
• article has image Specialized tags bring Blount group money
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 Faith
• article has image THE BIBLE SPEAKS
The same, but different
Background Scripture: 1 Peter 1. Devotional Reading Deuteronomy 7:6-11. More...
• CHURCHBRIEFS
• article has image FAITH MATTERS
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 Obituaries
• OBITUARIES
If there appears to be a disagreement among family members about information to appear in an obituary, The Blount Countian reserves the right to decline to publish any of it. More...
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 News Briefs
• NEWSBRIEFS
FREE COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SENIORS, 50 and older, will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. beginning Thursday, Nov. 5, at Cleveland Career Technical School with instructors from Wallace State Community College. Since seating for the computer and job skills program is limited, you should pre-register with Lynette at the AWARE office, 625- 5159. More...
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