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Today's Features

  • Look Back: A Little Something From Our Files From the Week of March 20

    25 Years Ago

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  • Mr. & Mrs. Souther 71st

    Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Souther will celebrate their 71st wedding anniversary on March 22.

    The couple was married on March 22, 1942, in Chatsworth, Ga. Their family said they have had a great life and still live indepedently at ages 92 and 87.

    Their children and spouses are Joan and Dan Runyon, and Brad and Tanya Souther.

    Grandchildren and spouses are Kevin Keith, Shannon Runyon, Adam and Pam Souther, and Ashley and Jason Harris.

    There are three great-grandchildren: Hunter and Zoe Runyan, and Whitley Harris.

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  • Mamie’s 100 and loving life
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  • Finding might give us more reason to smile

    Microbes from the human mouth are telling Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists something about periodontitis and more after they cracked the genetic code of bacteria linked to the condition.

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  • TVA tackles fish study

    Fishing enthusiasts interested in the health of sport fish in TVA’s reservoirs along the Tennessee River are invited to observe the annual surveys this spring.

    The surveys, which have been conducted yearly since 1995, collect data on sport fish species such as black bass and crappie.

    This year’s surveys began March 12 at Wilson Reservoir, near Muscle Shoals, Ala., and will continue through May 9 at Douglas Reservoir east of Knoxville, sampling nine TVA reservoirs.

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  • Juniors from county’s five high schools converge for career fair

    At the Roane County Chamber of Commerce’s Fifth Annual High Schools Career Day on April 5, around 475 juniors will have to opportunity to learn about careers they may never have considered and what it takes to prepare for them.

    With a little more than a year from graduating from high school, these students are thinking about their futures and their careers.

    About 50 businesses plan to participate in the Career Day at Roane State Community College’s gymnasium.

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  • Easter Egg Hunts
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  • Church Calendar: March 16-24

    SATURDAY, MARCH 16
    • A “Give My Regards to Broadway” concert to benefit Kingston United Methodist Church’s All God’s Children ministry will begin at 7 p.m. in the church at 202 Church St. University of Tennessee lecturer Terry Silver-Alford and Mike Adcock, church director of music ministries, will perform piano duets of their arrangements of favorite Broadway melodies. Donations will be accepted.

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  • ‘Broadway’ concert boosts Kingston ministry

    “Give My Regards to Broadway,” a concert to benefit Kingston United Methodist Church’s All God’s Children ministry,  will begin at 7 p.m. in the church at 212 W. Church St.

    Donations will be accepted.

    The concert will feature University of Tennessee theater professor Terry Silver-Alford and Mike Adcock, church organist and director of music.

    Silver-Alford teaches musical theatre performance, directing, introduction to theatre and acting at UT.

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  • Pair of blood drives March 25 in Harriman

    Medic Regional Blood Center has a need for all blood types, particularly O-negative.

    Roane Countians can help out during a couple of blood drives on March 25.

    A Tennessee Technology Center at Harriman blood drive will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the school’s lower-building conference room.

    A Medic mobile unit will be at Harriman Food City from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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