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Oath Keepers Profiled A "felony" stop for a "rolling" stop. "It started off well enough, er, sort of.., As I passed the OathKeepers truck and moved in front to get off at the HWY 68 exit (I-75 exit #60 in TN) I waved but he didn't see me so we both exited and came up to the stop sign for our right hand turn into Sweetwater/Madisonville. I came to a slow rolling stop and proceeded on but when I looked into my rear view mirror I already saw blue lights and Darren's truck had just reached a stop. As he...

“We could've talked for another hour. People were really getting into it,” said Reuben Grassl, who organized a Feb. 14 community meeting in Shiro to discuss the proposed I-69 corridor route through Grimes County. The meeting was led by Grassl, Charles Wendt, and Edna Keasling and was attended by a cross section of 65 people from as far as Madisonville and Iola, who showed up with both questions and suggestions for opposition plans. “We gave them the latest information we received from the four recent meetings in the area, because a lot of information TxDoT and TTC put out would...

Madisonville folk raise high-flying flag When alderman ran idea up the proverbial pole, everyone in the town saluted, built it A 1,800-square-foot Old Glory atop a 150-foot flagpole flies over U.S. 411 Thursday in Madisonville. It is the centerpiece of a new Veterans’ Flag Memorial, and the flagpole is reputed to be the tallest in Tennessee. By LOLA ALAPO, alapol@knews.com April 18, 2003 MADISONVILLE, Tenn. - Monroe County residents have erected what's thought to be the tallest flagpole in Tennessee in honor of veterans and those fighting in the Middle East. At 150 feet tall, the flagpole stands at the...