County Commission Chairman Johnny “Coach” Bruce is featured speaker on Monday

NASHVILLE, TN (WLAF)- The annual County Government Day is today and Tuesday at the DoubleTree Hotel at Downtown Nashville. Campbell County is well represented.

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Leadership Campbell County donates food and funds to Food Life Services

A NOTE FROM THE GRAND ON CENTRAL: “There is so much good going on in our community, and I want to share all this good with you every Monday here on WLAF in hopes that you will start your week in a grand way making each week a Grand Week,” said Olivia Lobertini, owner of The Grand on Central.

By Charlotte Underwood

LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF)- The Leadership Campbell County 2025-2026 Class donated more than $5,000 as well as a trailer load of nonperishable food and canned goods to Food Life Services on Thursday morning. Class members also spent the first part of the day volunteering at the food pantry and organizing what they had donated to be ready for use.

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Mondays live telecast is presented by Kristy and Brian Osborn

Bracket courtesy of WLAF’s Clayton Carroll

KNOXVILLE, TN (WLAF)- Thursday night’s 63-51 loss to Central in the semifinals of the District 3-AAAA is ancient history for the Campbell County Lady Cougars in the post season where the theme is simply win and advance. “We’re looking forward to tonight’s game with Karns,” said Campbell Head Coach Jason Kitts.

Campbell takes on Karns in the third place game. Win or lose, both teams will move on to opening round games on Friday.

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Darryl Chapman for sheriff, Jack Lynch for mayor visited at The Grand on Central Friday

WLAF listeners hear from sheriff’s candidate Darryl Chapman during the Trading Post. “We need a dramatic change in our sheriff’s department. As your sheriff, I will put drug dealers back in jail. Our deputies will patrol all of our communities from the Kentucky line to Anderson County and from the Scott County line to Claiborne County,” said Chapman.

LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF)- The WLAF candidates forum is set for early March, and last Friday’s candidates breakfast featured comments from over 30 candidates live over WLAF Radio offering a taste of what’s to come at the forum. Major office candidates, Darryl Chapman for sheriff and incumbent Jack Lynch for mayor were among Friday’s guests.

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Black ice and some snow on the roads starting Monday. Temps are in the 20s, wind chills at 10.

LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF)- Bitter wind chills and spots of black ice are the main challenges to open our final week of February. We’ll see snow flurries here and there on Monday as the high will top out around the freezing mark ahead of Monday night’s low of 21. Dangerously cold wind chills persist Monday night into early Tuesday.

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Of the 51 candidates, 27 joined WLAF visiting on the radio Friday morning

By Jim Freeman

LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF)- Thank you to all the candidates who took time to make a stop at WLAF’s Candidates breakfast” on Friday morning at The Grand on Central.

Here’s who all attended:

M. David Adkins incumbent Independent candidate for County Commission- 1st District

Dewayne Baird incumbent Republican candidate for County Commission- 3rd District

Jerry Brown Republican candidate for County Commission- 2nd District

Darryl Chapman Republican candidate for Sheriff

Suzette Davenport Independent candidate for County Commission- 5th District

Ralph Davis Independent candidate for County Commission- 5th District

Joshua A. Etters Republican candidate for County Commission- 1st District

Brittany Miller Foust unopposed incumbent Republican candidate for Register of Deeds

Emily Suzanne Gaylor Republican candidate for School Board- 2nd District

David Greene Republican candidate for County Commission- 1st District

Beverly Stanfield Hall incumbent Independent candidate for County Commission- 2nd District

Randy Heatherly incumbent Republican candidate for School Board- 3rd District

Christopher James Lee Honeycutt Republican candidate for School Board- 2nd District

Jack Lynch incumbent Independent candidate for Mayor

Zachary Marlow incumbent Independent candidate for County Commission- 1st District

Jeffrey Miller unopposed incumbent Republican candidate for School Board- 1st District

Lawrence “Rusty” Orick incumbent Independent candidate for County Commission- 3rd District

Maria Partin Republican candidate for County Clerk

Ray Perry Republican candidate for County Commission- 4th District

Dennis Powers incumbent Republican candidate for State House of Representatives 36th District

Marvin T. Rutherford Democratic candidate for School Board- 2nd District

Noah Smith Republican candidate for State House of Representatives 36th District

Chris Stanley Republican candidate for County Commission- 4th District

Anthony Terry Republican candidate for County Commission- 3rd District

Bobby Vann unopposed incumbent Republican candidate for Circuit Court Clerk

Lance J. Wilson Republican candidate for County Clerk

Thank you to the WLAF Staff making Friday’s event such a success, Derrick Lee Anderson, Nancy Bright, Aaron Hopkins, Matthew Moore, Ann Rutherford and Susan Sharp. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-02/20/2026-1PM)

Blue Devils defeat top seed Oneida 62-59 to advance to title game

HARRIMAN, TN (WLAF)- Ten days and 30 points later, Jellico had its rematch with Oneida, and the Blue Devils made the most of it. On Friday night on Randy Nesbit Court, Jellico faced the top seeded Indians for a chance to advance to the District 3-A championship game and secure home court to start the region tournament.

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The meeting begins at 5:30pm on Monday at City Hall

LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF)- The City of LaFollette holds a monthly workshop Monday afternoon. Promotions are heavy on the agenda beginning with the promotion of Judy Brown to assistant payroll clerk, then promoting Billy Daniels to a full time entry level firefighter, and next is the promotion of Jackson Stagnolia and Jerry Campbell to full time patrolmen and rounding out the promotions are Jeffrey Hicks to a full time operator in the public works departments and Kainen Fernandez to a full time sanitation operator.

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The adoption center, animal shelter, is open Tuesday – Saturday, noon to 5:30pm, Towe String Road

JACKSBORO, TN (SPECIAL TO WLAF)- Meet Neo. your snack-loving sidekick!

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Lots of activities are planned for Friday, Saturday and beyond. See details below.

By Matthew Moore

CAMPBELL COUNTY, TN (WLAF) – There’s always something fun or interesting going on in Campbell County, and you can learn about it all right here!

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Early voting for May Primary election runs Wed., April 15- Thu., April 30, 2026

JACKSBORO, TN. (WLAF)- The window that opened on December 22 for candidates to request a petition to run for office in 2026 closed at noon Thursday. As a result, the ballot for the May primary is set with a partially set August ballot. The total count of petitions requested ended up at 73 with 51 of those being filed with the Election Commission Office.

The following county position term limits are up for election in 2026:

• County Mayor
• County Clerk
• County Commission, three (3) per district, there are five (5) districts
• County Attorney
• Circuit Court Clerk
• County Trustee
• Register of Deeds
• Sheriff
• School Board Member, one (1) per district, there are five (5) districts
• Constable, one (1) per district, there are five (5) districts

Here is who will be on the ballot for May and August 2026 elections:

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CAMPBELL COUNTY, TN. (WLAF)-CLICK HERE to view today’s legal notices.

(WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED 02/23/2026- 6AM- IMAGE FROM ar.inspiredpencil.com)

CAMPBELL COUNTY, TN. (WLAF)- Each week, WLAF publishes the names of couples who have applied for a marriage license in the last week.

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Campbell County musician has recently had several hit songs

NASHVILLE, TN (WLAF)- Campbell County’s very own Greg Marlow, whose career has skyrocketed over the past couple of years, will be presented with a resolution this afternoon at the state capitol.

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