March 31, 2002 – Walters State Community College was recognized as the Community College of the Year during the College System of Tennessee TBR SOAR Awards on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. “With opportunities for Tennesseans to attend college at an all-time high thanks to Tennessee Promise and Tennessee Reconnect, the Tennessee Board of Regents will […]
TCAT celebrates expansion
September 19, 2021 – Tennessee Governor Bill cut the ribbon on the brand new Tennessee College of Applied Technology – Morristown building on Friday, September 17, 2021. The $20 million expansion now has students in it, learning some of the latest technology in advanced manufacturing, welding and HVAC. “This TCAT we cut a ribbon on […]
Morristown ranked 6th best place to work in manufacturing
December 23, 2019 – The city of Morristown has been recognized for its place in the manufacturing world. According to SmartAsset, a personal finance technology company headquartered in New York, Morristown is the sixth-best place to work in manufacturing in the nation, following Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana, Greenville, North Carolina, Elizabethtown/Fort Knox, Kentucky, Spartanburg, South Carolina and […]
Hamblen Schools Awarded Internship Program Grant
March 9, 2018 – Hamblen County is getting assistance from the state as it grows its student internship program this year. “We wrote the grant so we could expand that,” said Chuck Carter, supervisor for Career and Technical Education for Hamblen County schools. The state sent out a news release announcing that a total of […]
Lakeway Area schools graduation rates higher than state average
September 17, 2017 – Schools in the Lakeway Region are graduating at a much higher rate then the state average. Numbers released by the Tennessee Department of Education last week show most counties in the area graduate about five points higher than the state average of 89.1 percent. Hamblen County schools had a 94.1 percent […]
New HVAC Program Coming to TCAT
December 18, 2016 – Vice Chancellor James King of the Tennessee Board of Regents, who oversees all 27 Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology, announced that TCAT-Morristown has been selected to become an HVAC Center of Excellence, only the second school in Tennessee to receive this distinction. TCAT-Morristown will partner with Trane and NC3, National Coalition […]
Lakeway Area awarded a second L.E.A.P. Grant
September 21, 2016 – For the second time, a region and coalition of educators has been awarded a state Labor and Education Alignment Program grant to improve workforce development in high schools and higher education. This time, it is in the amount of $983,440. “Strengthening the Lakeway Links 2.0: Providing a Demand Driven Workforce Supply […]
TCAT celebrates results of USDA grant
June 24, 2016 – Last year, the Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Morristown (TCAT) became the recipient of a $110,020 Rural Business Development grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant was to be used at the Morristown & Hawkins County campuses to assist with the purchase of state-of-the-art technology equipment to be used […]
West High School Earns Recognition
The Washington Post has released its 2016 list of America’s Most Challenging High Schools, and Morristown-Hamblen High School West has been named as 13th in the state of Tennessee. “This is an incredible honor for West High School to be names to such an elite list of schools by the Washington Post,” director of schools […]
Morristown High Schools Named to America’s Best High Schools List
The U.S. News & World Report’s list of America’s Best High Schools of 2016 has been released, and Morristown-Hamblen High Schools West and East have been named as recipients of silver medals, ranked 20 and 25 in Tennessee respectively. “First off, I would just like to say congratulations to both East and West high schools […]
Morristown Recognized for ED Efforts
Morristown has been recognized in several categories of Southern Business & Development magazine’s The Best of Economic Development in the American South in the state of Tennessee. Members of the Southern Economic Development Roundtable were polled to come up with the best of 30 economic development categories in each Southern state. SEDR is a group […]
Call Center to Create 300-500 Jobs
Morristown answered the call for jobs in the Lakeway Area with today’s announcement regarding a global leader in the customer service industry. Officials from Sykes Enterprises attended the June 23 meeting of the city’s Industrial Development Board to finalize details regarding the company’s newest inbound call center location that will begin training its first wave […]
Lakeway Area High Schools Recognized
Morristown-Hamblen High School West has been named a top ten high school in the state of Tennessee by the U.S. News and World Report in the annual “Best High Schools” list. “I am incredibly proud of the teachers and students and their hard work,” Dr. Jeff Moorhouse, outgoing Morristown West principal, said. “It’s reflecting what […]
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