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  • Rockwood financial crisis

    Rockwood City Administrator Jack Miller may be out if the Rockwood City Council approves a budget proposed by Mayor James Watts.
    However, some council members are not so ready to see Miller go.
    Since Miller took office late last year, the city council has been more aware than ever about the financial strains the city is facing.
    One of those strains is a negative fund balance of more than $1 million, with city expenditures continuing to substantially outpace revenues.

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  • Tip foils prank at Rockwood High

    A group of Rockwood teens must have been disappointed when their small prank went awry last week.
    A school employee was tipped off that there would be a prank at Rockwood High School on the night of Thursday, May 10. The employee kept an eye on security cameras and saw the group of pranksters enter through the boiler room, move into the hallway and drop what a Rockwood police report characterized as “inappropriate pictures.”
    No damage was done to the school and the male teens ran out of the building after dropping the pictures.

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  • Police Explorers help sick girl

    The dreams of a sick little girl will be answered, thanks to help from the Kingston Police Department Explorer Post 376.
    The Explorer Post adopted 12-year-old Kimberly through Make-A-Wish Foundation of East Tennessee.
    “We have made her an honorary Explorer for life. She decided she wanted to do this, and she loves the post,” said Matthew Sackett, Explorer Post adviser.
    “She came to our meeting last month; for the first time we got to meet her,” Sackett added.

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  • Many TVA reservoirs low due to little rainfall

    Despite recent rainfall, several TVA reservoirs are experiencing lower water levels due to below normal rain and runoff this spring and may not reach targeted summer recreation levels by June 1.
    TVA is working to provide the highest possible water levels to support popular recreation activities, including boating, fishing and swimming all across the Tennessee Valley.
     Rainfall since the first of April is 92 percent of normal in the eastern part of the Tennessee Valley above Chattanooga and only 53 percent of normal below Chattanooga, including West Tennessee.

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  • Looseleaf Laureate: I’ll be out on the porch if you’re looking for me

    Cool mornings and afternoons in the shade — it’s porch-sitting time again.
    I have a sizeable back deck facing the woods behind my house, but more often I am drawn to my covered front porch.
    Mornings are a great time to sit there. I can slowly sip a steaming cup of black coffee while studying the glittering dew on my lawn, listening to the morning chorus of birds and clearing the cobwebs cluttering my mind.

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  • Carrying the load
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  • Oak Ridge Reservation issues complicate cleanup

    For years, many have recognized the extreme complexity of the Oak Ridge Reservation with regard to environmental management activities and challenges.

    The complexity includes a diversity of waste products disposed of and treated in a myriad of ways in a setting where there is abundant rainfall and nearby population centers. This situation is further complicated by the complex geology of the site and the resulting hydrologic conditions.

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  • Ash spill workshops continue

    TVA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are inviting the public to the fifth in a series of six workshops on the restoration of the river system affected by the December 2008 fly ash spill at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County.

    The workshops provide information on the River System Engineering Evaluation and Cost Analysis Report on the Kingston recovery project.

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  • Kingston ponders beer law change

    Kingston City Council members want to make sure no one gets too hot about cold beer.

    The council delayed another decision this month about a change in the city’s beer ordinance, which currently requires establishments that have retail beer sales to have a 250-foot distance, lot line to lot line, from “churches, schools, or other places of public gathering.”

    The city council’s proposed amendment to the ordinance would change it such that the 250-foot measure was from building to building — rather than lot line to lot line.

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  • Solar farm jolts grid

    Officials held a “power up” ceremony on Tuesday to celebrate the new solar farm at the East Tennessee Technology Park. 
    Restoration Services Inc. self-financed the 1.3 acre project as part of its Brownfield-to-Brightfield initiative.

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