🌱 How a King University junior is elevating flag football in Kingsport

Greetings Kingsport! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How a King University junior is elevating flag football in Kingsport
• Why Kingsport home prices fell while sales climbed last month
• How did Kingsport’s representatives vote on Tennessee’s school voucher expansion?

Also on today's calendar: Springtime Jubilee and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 83 and low of 54 degrees.
• Saturday: Increasing clouds, temps: high: 83, low: 48.
• Sunday: Mainly cloudy; breezy, cooler, with a high of 62 and low of 35 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Alyssa Ramos Finds Passion in Flag Football at King University (nationaltoday.com) — A standout flag football player at King University in Kingsport is helping put the school’s growing program on the regional map, after finding her passion for the sport there. Denver native Alyssa Ramos, now a junior, has led King to multiple tournament wins and will chase a regional title later this year, underscoring new opportunities for women in collegiate flag football.
   

• NETN Association Realtors: Median price of homes in region sitting at $282K (wjhl.com) — Kingsport’s housing market saw a 5% jump in March home sales, with 100 properties sold, even as its median price slipped 12.8% to $278,000. New NETAR data shows overall Tri-Cities sales up over 10%, with nearby Johnson City, Elizabethton, Blountville, Bristol and others also posting notable shifts in prices and activity.
   

• School voucher bill narrowly passes state House (greenevillesun.com) — Two Kingsport lawmakers, John Crawford and Bud Hulsey, voted in favor of a closely contested bill to expand Tennessee’s school voucher program, which passed the House 52–43. The measure would boost available scholarships to 35,000, send funds with students to approved private schools, and provide some state money back to public districts that lose enrollment.
   

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📸 Around Kingsport

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Kingsport

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Kingsport Arts Festival
  Downtown Kingsport Association, 140 W Main St, Kingsport
  12:00 pm

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Other local events

Sunday April 19

• Springtime Jubilee
  The LampLight Theatre , 140 Broad St , Kingsport
  3:00 pm

Monday April 20

• K-POP GOLDEN SHOW (Kingsport TN)
  Renaissance Arts Center & Theatre, City of Kingsport Office of Cultural Arts , 1200 E Center St Ste 224 , Kingsport
  4:30 pm

Friday April 24

• Dead Set On Life
  Gypsy Circus Cider + BBQ Smokehouse , 2645 Fort Henry Dr , Kingsport
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Alice in Wanderland
  The LampLight Theatre , 140 Broad St , Kingsport
  2:00 pm
• Yacht Rock The Dock With Ambrosia & John Ford Coley at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center
  Kingsport Chamber of Commerce , 212 Tusculum Boulevard , Greeneville
  7:30 pm

Sunday April 26

• Alice in Wanderland
  The LampLight Theatre , 140 Broad St , Kingsport
  3:00 pm

Wednesday April 29

• Survivor 50 Viewing party at the Banq Events in Kingsport, TN
  BANQ - The Tri-Cities' Premier Event Venue , The Corner of and Streets , Broad St , Kingsport
  6:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• đRyk's Groundbreaking Ceremony
  Holston Habitat for Humanity , 1102 Glen St , Bristol
  12:00 pm
• 1964 The Tribute at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center
  Kingsport Chamber of Commerce , 212 Tusculum Boulevard , Greeneville
  7:30 pm

Saturday April 25

• 40th Annual Exchange Place Spring Garden Fair, Kingsport, TN
  Exchange Place , 4812 Orebank Rd , Kingsport
  10:00 am
• Woolly Days & Colonial Gardening Days
  Rocky Mount State Historic Site , 200 Hyder Hill Rd , Piney Flats
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• I'm going to be baking up some goodies this weekend.
  I've been thinking of setting up a stand for my baked goods where people can just stop by and get some goodies. I feel like there are a lot of those… (Nextdoor Lynn Garden Dr)
• I saw where a new restaurant named "Thai Avenue" has put up their sign at the location of the late "Rancho Mar" location in Colonial Heights.
  Does anyone know any details as to when it might open? (Nextdoor Beechwood/Kendrick)

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🗞 Nearby News

Blountville

• Fellowship of Christian Athletes hosts annual All-Star Basketball games (wcyb.com)

Bluff City

• Wolverine boys headline Patriot Invitational (wataugademocrat.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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