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Today's Features

  • View life in Scarboro at museum exhibition

    Glimpses of life into the African-American community of Scarboro is shown in a special exhibit on display through April at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge.

    “When you look at the pictures, personal items and hear the oral histories told by Scarboro High School graduates, you journey back in time to relive their experiences,” said Rose Weaver of Oak Ridge, collector of Scarboro memorabilia.

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  • Collins-Austin

    Danielle Collins and Thomas Kaine Austin of Tallahassee, Fla., announce their forthcoming marriage.

    The ceremony will be at 6:30 p.m. April 15 in Tallahassee.

    The bride-elect is the daughter of Lt. Col. and Mrs. James D. Collins of Tallahassee.

    An office manager and commercial real estate agent for Structure Commercial Real Estate, she is a graduate of Mosley High School and Florida State University.

    The prospective groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Milburn of Brentwood and Thomas A. Austin of Kingston.

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  • Look Back: A Little Something From Our Files From the Week of Feb. 16

    25 Years Ago
    After much discussion — and knowing taxes would have to be raised to pay for it — the Roane County Commission voted 11-3 to give the next county executive and county attorney pay raises of $7,679 and $6,613, respectively. Reasons cited were a demand for service, progress and quality government and keeping in mind the responsibilities of each.

    10 Years Ago

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  • AARP Tax-Aide born from happenstance chat

    By Patricia Bryant
    Tennessee AARP Tax-Aide

    Did you know that the nation’s largest free volunteer-run tax assistance program began with a chance discussion between two naval reservists more than 40 years ago?

    During a weekend drill, an Internal Revenue Service agent expressed concerns about older tax filers making mistakes on their returns to then-AARP Executive Director Bernie Nash. 

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  • Run for Dunn 5K, walk scheduled for March 19

    Run for Dunn, a 5K run and 1-mile walk presented by the Michael Dunn Foundation, will be on March 19 on the main campus of Roane State Community College in Roane County.

    Check-in, prerace entertainment and registration begins at 8 a.m.; the run and walk start at 9.

    Preregistration is now under way at www.michaeldunnfoundation.org and www.michaeldunncenter.org.

    Entrance fees by March 13 are $25 per person 15 and older, $20 per Knoxville Track Club member and $15 per youth ages 14 and younger.

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  • Residential council needs computers

    The Harriman Residential Council is seeking donations of newer used desktop computers.

    The computers will to be used in the library in the Residential Council Building at Spencer Drive and Bennett Circle in Harriman’s Fiske Heights area.

    Call Floyd Lawson at 335-0701 or Julia at the Harriman Housing Authority at 882-9636 for more information.

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  • UT concert band members to play at Babahatchie venue

    Members of the University of Tennessee Concert Band will play with Babahatchie Community Band during a free concert this weekend.

    The concert will begin at 3 p.m. Feb. 13 in Harriman High School’s James Williamson Auditorium.

    Featured soloist Josephine Denys will perform Cecile Chamanaide’s Concertino for Flute and Band and Gabrile’s Oboe.

    The Babahatchie Band will showcase Malcolm Arnold’s four Scottish Dances, Curnow's Celebrations and Ravel's Bolero.

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  • Avery Trace DAR plans genealogy workshop

    Avery Trace Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution is anxious to share information to help members of the public trace their roots.

    The organization is planning a genealogy workshop on Feb. 26 in the clubhouse of Southwest Point Golf Club at 2002 Decatur Hwy., Kingston.

    Sign-in will begin at 9 a.m., with the workshop following from 9:30 to noon.

    Cost is $10 to cover instructional material.

    Refreshments will be served.

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  • Harriman Lions perform student vision screenings

    Roane County Schools has a partnership with the Harriman Lions Club for the benefit of young students.

    More than 200 public school pre-K and kindergarten students who returned permission slips received free vision photoscreening as a service from Lions Club members.  

    The screening process is done with a special camera that enables specialists from the Eye Center at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital to see possible future eye problems.

    The screening process has an 85- to 90-percent accuracy rate.

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  • Knox manufacturer supporting Camp Buck Toms shotgun range

    SportDOG Brand of Knoxville has extended its support of youth outdoor activities with a $50,000 donation to the Boy Scouts of America’s Great Smoky Mountain Council.

    The funds will be used for the construction of a shotgun range at Camp Buck Toms on Watts Bar Lake near Rockwood.

    Camp Buck Toms is host to 6,500 annual visitors who go to the 750-acre property for camping, swimming, boating, fishing, shooting and other family and scouting activities.

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