What’s in a name? Politics, if you ask proud new father Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton, Tenn.

Jacob Richardson, 18, woke up at 7 a.m. and practiced for four hours.
“You know they switched the cookies and changed the size of the chips,” he said looking down at the neatly labeled items on the checkout counter.
Richardson won the state bagging competition last year and is trying to be the first ever, two-time state winner in Food City history.

Explanation of Cogno’s Corner question in The Mountain Adviser 0811

Local music lovers and museum supporters are ready to welcome hundreds of traditional musicians July 13 -15 to the Tazewell County Old Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention, which will feature two nights of Band Competition this year.  The event is held at the Tazewell County Fairgrounds and is a benefit event for Crab Orchard Museum.