Covington and Newton County continue to gain traction as a premiere filming spot, with local tourism officials going so far as to give us the title "Hollywood of the South." Nothing keeps a town on the radar like a successful, long-running TV series, and we have "The Vampire Diaries" to thank for our latest round of attention. There was a major scare Thursday when the building on the square that hosts the façade of the fictional Mystic Grill restaurant accidentally caught fire when a tall delivery truck snagged some electrical wires behind the building, taking down a poll and pulling wires
Mystic Grill