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Cleanup work underway at former American Nuclear Corp. site in Claxton
Work to clean up the former American Nuclear Corp. site in the Claxton community has begun and is going well, according to Carter Owens, on-scene coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 in the federal agency’s Superfund and Emergency Management Division. “We have completed full site radiological...
Former Vanderbilt football player and police officer sentenced to 26 years in prison
Former police officer and Vanderbilt football player Cassen Jackson-Garrison will spend the next 26 years in prison following his January conviction of statutory rape. He was sentenced April 12 and does not have the possibility of parole. Jackson-Garrison was found guilty in Knox County court of grooming and having sex...
Pool, animal shelter, streets ... Oak Ridge City Council ranks future projects
Replacing or renovating the pool, increasing the amount of money spent on street improvements, building a new animal shelter: Oak Ridge City Council members recently ranked their priorities among large projects facing the city as the local government staff prepares the budget proposal for the upcoming year and looks to budget years ahead.
‘Let this one be what it originally was’ | Oak Ridge considering several multi-million dollar renovation plans for city pool
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Families have enjoyed the Oak Ridge Outdoor Municipal Swimming Pool for nearly 80 years. The pool opened in the 1940′s and hasn’t seen a major renovation since the 90′s. Now, Oak Ridge City Council is considering several design plans to renovate the pool.
Volunteer Energy Cooperative plans power outage for Ten Mile area on April 19
ROANE COUNTY, Tenn. — The Volunteer Energy Cooperative announced a planned power outage for the Ten Mile area of Roane and Meigs counties on Friday evening. VEC said the outage is scheduled for 11:30 p.m. and is expected to last for approximately six hours. The outage will affect 6,400 members from the Ten Mile Substation.
Safe Haven Baby Box to be added to bay at Clinton fire station; blessing service Wednesday
The public is invited to "a blessing" at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at Clinton Fire Station No. 2, 264 Hiway Drive South Clinton, where the community can find out more about the Safe Haven Baby Box program in which mothers in crisis can legally leave their infants and protect their identities.
Security issues to be topic at April 24 Altrusa Oak Ridge meeting
"Security issues and more" will be the topic at the Wednesday, April 24, meeting of Altrusa International of Oak Ridge at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel. Speakers will be Brandon Ingram, of Covenant Health, and Oak Ridge School Superintendent Bruce Borchers. This meeting topic was scheduled for March, but postponed until Aprill 24. ...
Free classical music with coffee on April 21 in Oak Ridge
Zofia Glashauser, violinist, accompanied by Emi Kagawa on piano will perform an Oak Ridge Civic Music Association coffee concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at the First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge. The duo will perform music by Wieniawski, McKay, Vaughn Williams, Fauré, and Drigo-Heifitz. The concert is free and refreshments will be served after the performance. ...
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