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Today's Features

  • Rockwood Cub Scouts staying busy

     

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  • THP to conduct sobriety check in Roane County

    The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct a  sobriety checkpoint from 10 to 11 p.m. Jan. 20 on Hwy. 58 at the new bridge.
    Recognizing the danger presented to the public by intoxicated drivers, troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles being operated by intoxicated drivers.
    The Tennessee Highway Patrol has found these sobriety checkpoints to be an effective means of enforcing DUI laws of Tennessee while ensuring the protection of all motorists.

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  • Soup’s On! for center that aids Roane

    The seventh annual Soup’s On! for the Kids First Child Advocacy Center of the Ninth Judicial District will be on Jan. 25 in Tellico Village Community Church’s Christian life center.

    Lunch and dinner will be served during the event to raise funds for the nonprofit agency that serves severely abused children and their nonoffending family members in Roane, Loudon, Morgan and Meigs counties.

    Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door for lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

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  • Look Back: A little something from our files

    25 Years Ago
    Harriman City Council unanimously passed a resolution to borrow $3.1 million for a new wastewater treatment facility. The state ordered the city to have a new facility operating by July 1988 in order to meet new clean water regulations. The amount of the Harriman Utility Board sewer rate increases would depend on the price of the bids and how many grants the city could obtain. Initial estimates ranged from 35- to 80-percent rate increases.

    10 Years Ago

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  • Mr. & Mrs. Colbert

    Julie Anne Kirkham of Rockwood and Richard Logan Colbert of Brentwood were married on Oct. 22 beside the Evins Mill Pond on the south lawn of the Inn at Evins Mill in Smithville.

    The Honorable David Durham officiated during the double-ring ceremony.

    The bride is the daughter of Philip and Lucy Kirkham of Rockwood. Her grandparents include David Kirkham of Rockwood and the late Mary Kirkham and the late James and Mary Elizabeth Frazier.

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  • Births: Dec. 22-29

    Babies born at Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, to Roane County parents:
    Dec. 22 — Margaret Elizabeth McGhee and Charles Edward Dotson, Oliver Springs. A girl, Charli Elizabeth, 5 pounds, 10 ounces. Grandparents: David and Sherrie McGhee.

    Dec. 26 — Kayla Suzanne Gentry and Matthew Caleb Dagley, Harriman. A boy, Colton Matthew Elijah, 7 pounds, 13 ounces. Grandparents: Teresa Ellis; Tommy Gentry; Jerry Books; Tonya Freels; Chuck Freels.

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  • Kingston Lions planting trees

    Lions Club members all over the world are planting trees to signify to the public the presence of Lions in their communities while replacing trees lost by tornadoes, tsunamis and disasters.

    The goal is to plant more 1 million trees to represent one tree for each member of Lions Clubs International.

    The program has been a great success — more than 4.2 million trees have already been planted, and more are planted each day.

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  • The Garden Gate: Old-time herbalists knew how to treat aches, pains

    By Ellen Probert Williamson
    In January the Cree Indians say, “This is the time the world changes, the time when you can be transformed. You are the center fire. You are the flowering tree. The whole of a human’s life is watched by the thunder chiefs. You have a road within you, a turquoise road. Move your spirit on your turquoise road.”

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  • Billy Hodges bringing solo act to Kingston’s Shiloh Baptist

    Well-known gospel tenor Billy Hodges will sing this weekend in Shiloh Baptist Church.

    Hodges, formerly with the Kingdom Heirs, the Dixie Echoes and the Florida Boys, will sing beginning at 6 p.m. Jan. 8 in the church at 4242 Decatur Hwy.

    “I am excited about the opportunities that God has given me,” said Hodges, a native of rural West Tennessee who plans to present his solo act in select venues during 2012.

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  • Church Calendar

    SATURDAY, JAN. 7
    • Bethel Presbyterian Church, Kingston, will have a tai chi class at 9 a.m. in the church at 203 S. Kentucky St. A photography club will meet at 10. Call 376-6340 or visit www.bethelpcusa.org for details.

    SUNDAY, JAN. 8
    • Billy Hodges will sing at 6 p.m. in Shiloh Baptist Church at 4242 Decatur Hwy., Kingston.

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