News · August 31, 2026
Hayden’s Triple Roundabout Wins Regional Safety Award After Cutting Crashes in Half
The triple-roundabout interchange ALDOT built where State Route 160 meets I-65 at Exit 284 - the Hayden/Corner exit - has […]
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News · August 18, 2026
Hayden Probate Office Reducing Days Due to Staff Shortage
Beginning Sept. 1, the Hayden Annex probate office will be open Tuesdays and Thursdays only, per the Blount County Commission.
News · August 3, 2026
Sheriff’s Office Releases Details on Hayden-Area Shots-Fired Incident; One Suspect Still Sought
The Blount County Sheriff's Office says the August 2 shots-fired incident began with a trespassing encounter, not a disturbance at the Valero itself. One suspect is in custody, one remains at large, and the stolen vehicle involved has been recovered.
News · August 2, 2026
Blount County Schools Releases 2026-2027 Calendar
First day is August 6, last day is May 27 -- the key holidays, breaks, and weather-day plan for the new school year.
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Smith Ford and the Vaughn Bridge
In 1932, an old man named B.H. Vaughn wrote a letter to the Southern Democrat remembering the hard years after […]
The Unsolved Burning of the Standridge Bridge
It happened on a Thursday night in November 1967, on a bend in the Locust Fork east of Hayden that […]
From Rockland to Hayden
Long before it was Hayden, this was Rockland - settled starting in the 1820s by families whose names still fill […]