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  • Utilities report more people falling behind

    By CINDY SIMPSON

    csimpson@roanecounty.com

    The weather may have warmed recently, but higher energy costs have left some worrying about how to pay the bill.

    Local utilities say they recently have seen slightly higher numbers of people seeking assistance with their payments, including more who are asking for extensions or additional assistance that have never done so before.

    Rockwood Electric Utility has said they recently wrote off $5,000 in bad debt.

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  • Bond reduced for Houston brothers

    By TERRI LIKENS

     

    tlikens@roanecounty.com

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  • Despite disaster, love of land remains

    By TERRI LIKENS

    rceditor@bellsouth.net

        Wayne Tollett lost his dock in the surge from the TVA fly ash impoundment collapse, but his sense of humor is still intact. He was amused at TVA work crews cleaning up along the water's edge near his Lakeshore Drive home Tuesday.

        “They were picking up dead fish first,” Tollett said, chuckling. “I wasn't sure why, but the first thing that came to mind was cover-up.”

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  • Coal ash spill stirs lots of interest

    By TERRI LIKENS

    rceditor@bellsouth.net

    Celebrity environmentalist Erin Brokovich will be in town Friday with a legal team.

    The American Coal Ash Association is beating her to the punch.

    The American Coal Ash Association, a Colorado-based trade group whose mission is proclaimed as “advancing the management and use of coal combustion products,” is holding a public meeting Thursday at Midtown Elementary School gymnasium at 2830 Roane State Hwy.

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  • Teen has hot ticket to history-making event

    By CINDY SIMPSON

    rccindysimpson@bellsouth.net

    An Oliver Springs youth gets to witness history first hand next week in Washington, D.C.

    Dillon Shelton, 14, an Oliver Springs Elementary School eighth-grader, will be involved in the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. president.

    Shelton is attending as a participant with the Junior Presidential Youth Inauguration Conference.

    “Politics has always been something I’ve been interested in; politics and history,” Shelton said.

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  • New TVA scrubber will mean cleaner air soon

    By CINDY SIMPSON

    rccindysimpson@bellsouth.net

    Technology that will reduce air pollution across East Tennessee is scheduled to start working at the Kingston Fossil Plant about a year from now.

    “We’re on schedule to be on line in early to mid-November ’09; we’ll actually be scrubbing flue gas,” said Robert Rehberg, an official with the Kingston plant.

    The scrubber will use a limestone slurry mix to clean the emissions of sulfur dioxide, a byproduct of the coal-burning process the plant uses.

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  • Former Harriman Mayor Wester Dies

    Former Harriman mayor Harold Wester died Tuesday.

    In his many years of public service, Wester also had been a member of the city council  and a member of the Roane Quarterly Court — the predecessor to the county commission.

    State Sen..-elect Ken Yager of Harriman called Wester “a real servant of the people."

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  • Corker says cleanup costs will be TVA's to bear

    By DAMON LAWRENCE

    rclawrence@bellsouth.net

    U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said he spoke at length with TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore during a stop in Roane County on Monday.

    One thing that didn’t come up, according to the senator, was whether TVA plans to increase power rates to cover cleanup costs in the area affected by last month’s ash slide at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant.  

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  • Fly ash spill becoming poster child

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  • Big crowd gets chance to talk to TVA directly

    By TERRI LIKENS

    rceditor@bellsouth.net

        Finding out what caused the fly-ash impoundment to fail at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant has dropped a notch in priority because TVA plans to shift away from that system.

        That's what TVA President Tom Kilgore told an audience of several hundred people Sunday who showed up in Kingston looking for answers.

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