Business

The Tennessee Small Business Development Center will present a free June 16 workshop on the 30-minute business.

The seminar will be from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in The Roane Alliance building at 1209 N. Kentucky St., Kingston.

It is geared toward helping those who are currently in business and needing new direction for their company.

In addition to direction, it can provide information for business owners who need to borrow money in order to achieve desired results.

What a difference a month makes.
Roane County’s unemployment rate has consistently been among Tennessee’s five lowest for more than a year.
That all changed in April, according to statistics released last week by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Roane County, which held the state’s fourth-lowest jobless rate at 7.7 percent in March, slipped to ninth place last month with an increase of 0.7 to 8.4 percent, the state reported.
That increase, in fact, is somewhat higher than in April 2010, when the county registered an 8.2 unemployment rate.

The Leadership Roane County class of 2011 will present the fourth annual Symposium on Powerful Teaching in June.
The symposium will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. June 18 at Roane State Community College’s Roane County campus.
The event is for educators from all grade levels.
A continental breakfast and lunch are included with the $15 registra-tion.
The registration deadline is June 10.
The symposium is titled “On the Cutting Edge.” Topics will include innovations in the classroom, technology in education and creative teaching on a budget.

Y-12 National Security Complex’s final Recovery Act-funded demolition project recently completed three months ahead of schedule when the final truckload of debris left the site of the former Biology Complex.
The $26.5 million project removed four of the seven buildings from the complex and helped modernize the site through much-needed footprint reduction.
The deactivation and decommissioning project eliminated 135,812 square feet of deteriorated facilities that will improve on-site safety, reduce environmental risk, and lower the site’s annual maintenance and security costs.