Tourism generated $207M in 2025
Visitors to the spring 2026 Clinch River Spring Antique Festival check out items at one of the vendor booths lining and filling Market Street. The spring event was a return to Market Street after the area was closed for most of 2025. - G. Chambers Williams III
Outsiders coming to Anderson County for shopping, sightseeing, lake activities and more generated $207 million in spending in 2025 during their time here, according to a new study released by the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development. That estimated spending was up 3.9% over that of the 2024 Tourism Economics study, the state agency said. It also gave Anderson County a ranking of 15th among the state’s 95 counties in visitor spending, up from 16th in 2024. Such an increase could be considered a surprise, considering that Clinton’s biggest tourism economic generator – the nationally renowned antique shops in the historic downtown area – had to deal with a shutdown of Market Street for nearly all of the year to accommodate a $5.9 million street and sidewalk improvement project.
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Anderson County EMS personnel work to free a driver after a car crashed into a column at the Claxton Community Center on Friday, Sept. 4. - Tony Cox
A car drove through a column at the Claxton Community Center on Friday, Sept. 4. The Tennessee Highway Patrol reported the Volkswagen Jetta was traveling westbound on Highway 170 when it ran off the roadway to the left. It traveled down an embankment, through a field and crashed into the building at 1150 Edgemoor Road. The Jetta knocked over one of the center’s pillars before coming to what THP called an “uncontrolled final rest.” Nathan Sweet, director Anderson County Emergency Medical Services, told The Courier News that ACEMS responded to the accident at around 10:10 a.m. ACEMS transported one patient, the driver, who Sweet said was in critical condition. He declined to comment further.
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GOP, Democrats to field District 8 candidates
Both the Republican and Democratic parties will field their own candidates to run for the District 8 seat on the Anderson County Commission in a special election on the Nov. 3 general election ballot. During a specil caucus Friday evening, the Democrats chose Gina Grubb as their candidate. Besides independent candidate Phil Yager, who was one of two incumbents in District 8 until last week, there will be one Republican and one Democrat running for the seat, along with any other independents who file to run by the noon deadline today (Wednesday, Sept. 9). The winning candidate will fill the seat that was won by Democrat Elizabeth “Liz” Henry in the Aug 6 county general election. Henry chose not to take the position, and did not appear last week (Sept. 1) to be sworn in along with other county candidates who won positions in the general election. As of Friday afternoon, Yager was the only candidate who had successfully filed a petition to be on the Nov. 3 ballot as an independent, according to county Elections Administrator Mark Stephens.
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Community
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School
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