‘Gone.’ The main route through the NC mountains will take a long time to rebuild
Interstate 40’s path through the Pigeon River Gorge has always been precarious. It took 15 years to build and now it will ...
Family of Impact Plastics employee remember final phone conversations
Guillermo Mendoza can still remember the last phone call he received from his mother, Bertha, in the morning hours of Sept.
Rangers’ Evan Carter raising money for hometown in wake of extreme Hurricane Helene damage
Carter’s offseason home near his hometown of Elizabethton, Tenn. was washed away in the flooding that followed Hurricane ...
Where the case against Impact Plastics stands now
CEO Gerald O'Connor said in a video Friday that employees were told to leave 45 minutes before the flooding hit and that ...
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Palisade routs Summit High School football team
During the 2022 fall sports season, the Summit High School football team made history as a program by defeating Palisade High ...
Georgia K-9 trainer offers to donate a puppy to Erwin Police Department
A K-9 trainer from Georgia saw the original post asking for help in finding Scotty. Then because of poor cell service due to ...
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Impact Plastics report provides details into alleged actions
Impact Plastics of Erwin issued a report on its preliminary investigation into the events of Sept. 27, when a flooding event ...
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Impact Plastics report claims employee allegations false
Impact Plastics of Erwin issued a report on its preliminary investigation into the events of Sept. 27, when a flooding event ...
Impact Plastics CEO releases video statement
Impact Plastics President and CEO Gerald O’Connor releases a video statement concerning its preliminary internal review of ...
Battered community mourns plastics factory workers swept away by Helene in Tennessee
"We are going to prove to our region, to our state and to our nation, how strong a people we are," Erwin, Tennessee, Mayor ...
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Factory workers in Tennessee were swept away by Helene. Their families say they weren’t allowed to leave work in time to flee
“The findings are that employees were told to leave the plant at least 45 minutes before the gigantic force of the flood hit the industrial park,” Gerald O’Connor, founder, president and CEO of Impact ...