The Model City Times
On April 15th Bill Iffrig is running his third Boston Marathon when, as he nears the finish line, he’s knocked down by one of two bomb blasts that kill three people and is caught in a news photograph that immediately goes viral. Iffrig, 78, gets up and finishes the race.
Edward J. Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, reveals that he leaked documents detailing mass-surveillance programs of the U.S. government. Snowden, 29, holes up in a Hong Kong hotel after fleeing the United States and in July will be granted temporary asylum in Russia.
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and his wife, Kate, “could not be happier” after she gives birth to a boy. The future king (Prince George) is born in the same hospital in London’s Paddington where Diana, Princess of Wales, gave birth to princes William and Harry.
On the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, President Obama takes to the same steps of the Lincoln Memorial to remember how the “soaring oratory” of the civil rights leader “gave mighty voice to the quiet hopes of millions.”
MTV names Miley Cyrus, who made “twerk” part of the national vocabulary, its Best Artist of 2013. It says Cyrus had the year’s most-visited artist page on the Internet and that her medley of “We Can’t Stop/Blurred Lines” with Robin Thicke from the MTV Video Music Awards was the most-watched video.
After many hours in the back of a trailer, Tom aka the captain and Larry of the Mandalorian Steelers come to an agreement. It is time for a new group of geocachers for our area, a new start, a new order.. a New Cache Order. Late October of 2013 the group was formed and began gathering members. the nCo started with about 10 members from East TN and Southwest VA.
Eastman Chemical made a huge announcement for the city of Kingsport in May. Eastman made a long-term commitment to stay in the Model City, which includes building a new headquarters on its campus there and adding jobs. The building was built next to the Eastman Credit Union on the corner of Wilcox Drive and Lincoln Street.
Did you know.. by November of 2013, the word “selfie” was appearing frequently enough in print and electronic media that the Oxford English Dictionary chose the word as its Word of the Year!
