Despite nationwide sales being down over the holidays more than 30 percent, local iSold It stores are seeing a business boom.
Jay Busé is like many Americans looking to cash in of stuff they already have.
“My wife has some china that she’s had for over 50 years. It is just something that we had [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 28, 2009
Local eBay stores benefit from economic downturn
January 28, 2009
Locally made mead finds an eager audience
Jason and Jennifer Russ moved here just over a year ago with one goal: to start a meadery.
The couple, that is to say, planned to make and sell mead, an alcoholic beverage whose primary ingredient is fermented honey.
They bought a house on 8 acres, built the two-room Fox Hill Meadery next door and started producing [...]
January 28, 2009
Beacon site prepped for future development
The 42-acre former Beacon Manufacturing site is getting a thorough cleaning in anticipation of possible development.
The massive blanket manufacturing plant closed in 2002 and burned nearly to the ground in a spectacular fire in September 2003. Contractors removed about 57,000 tons of debris from the site after the fire, and in March 2005 the investment [...]
January 28, 2009
Developers plan slender, green downtown condos
A local development company hopes to attract a few people who want to go green — and have a lot of green — to a 13-story building it plans to build on a postage stamp-sized lot downtown.
The 10 condominiums at 73 N. Market St. would sell for $2.1 million to $2.6 million and come with [...]
January 21, 2009
Tobacco manufacturer expanding operations in Clarksville
Smokeless tobacco manufacturer Conwood is expanding its operations in Clarksville.
The company, owned by Reynolds American, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., plans to purchase an existing building, according to The Leaf-Chronicle.
The $115 million expansion is expected to create 15 to 25 new jobs.
Conwood has been using locally grown tobacco to make snuff since 1907.
Company senior director of [...]
January 21, 2009
Census offers East Tennesseans jobs starting at $12 an hour
The Tennessee Career Center is pointing job-seeking clients to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Census Bureau’s Web site shows jobs out of the local office in Knoxville start at $12 per hour.
Chattanooga center coordinator Andrea Witt said more people than usual for this time of year are looking for work and she is directing them to [...]
January 21, 2009
2 medical employers announce job cuts
Two East Tennessee medical employers announced layoffs resulting in nearly 200 lost health care jobs in the region.
Mountain States Health Alliance, which operates the Johnson City Medical Center, announced Friday that it has eliminated 109 jobs.
Also Friday, Kingsport-based Wellmont Health System said it is cutting 86 jobs and won’t fill another 60 positions. Wellmont [...]
January 21, 2009
Goss Agency announces relationshop with Cary firm
Locally based marketing, advertising and public relations firm The Goss Agency has announced a new alliance with Rockett Interactive, based in Cary.
Rockett specializes in online advertising and media planning, management and results tracking.
Goss was recently asked to develop a cultural tourism ad campaign for the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Okla., to include magazine, billboard and [...]
January 21, 2009
Auto industry troubles hit home as jobs vanish
Western North Carolina is about 600 miles from Detroit, but that hasn’t prevented hundreds of the region’s manufacturing workers from losing their jobs because of troubles in the automobile industry.
A Citizen-Times tally found that more than 330 employees at automobile component plants or similar facilities in the region have lost their jobs over the [...]
January 21, 2009
New center offers one-stop shop for women’s wellness
Childbirth experts Trish Beckman and Ruth MacNair are rearing a new baby — their business, which brings a variety of women’s health services together under one roof. Last week the business partners opened the Women’s Wellness and Education Center in a small house off Charlotte Street.
“This process has been a lot like giving birth for [...]
