KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Something is happening in Strawberry Plains, and Holston Haun is on the beat.

His beloved dinner spot — a Taco Bell — is gone, but it’s being built back better than ever. Holston, a possible budding broadcast journalist, has made it his mission to keep this community informed on the latest.

“All that remains is rubble. All that remains is this beacon of hope,” Holston said in one of his earliest reports. Those reports started as a summer project, but have snowballed into something else entirely.

“We did our first one, then we saw the comments, they said ‘do another one,’” Holston said while visiting the WVLT News station. “We have a little construction paper and she writes them. And I like to take takes, and then we pick up the best one. Then we edit it and the

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