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  • Church sanctuary burns

    Kingston United Methodist Church’s sanctuary was destroyed in an electrical fire Saturday evening.

    Pastor John C. Anderson was mowing the parsonage’s lawn next door when he noticed the church was on fire.

    Anderson called 911 at approximately 7 p.m. He checked himself to make sure no one was in the building.

    “The building can be built back. I’m just thankful no one was hurt,” Anderson said at the scene Saturday. “The way I look at it, the building isn’t the church; the people are.”

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  • READERS VOICES: Your comments on the killing of Osama bin Laden

    Tim Crass, Sequoyah Shores subdivision: “It’s been a long time coming. He lived 12 years that he shouldn’t have lived. They should have killed him a year before he attacked the towers in New York. If they had done that we would still have those towers. That’s why I’m saying 12 years.”

    Steven Robinette, local mixed martial arts instructor: “I want to see the body.”

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  • Bin Laden burial at sea: Roane Countian on ship

    Sandra Steele is a little closer to history these days.

    Her son, Rockwood High School graduate Chad Steele, is a sailor on board the USS Carl Vinson, the ship that carried out Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea after the terrorist leader was killed.

    “Me and my husband are so proud,” she said. “We’re just about to bust.”

    Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and America’s most wanted man, was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs who were sent in to find him at his compound in Pakistan.

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  • Second THP building placed on register

    The second of Rockwood’s two old Tennessee Highway Patrol buildings has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

    The first, which fronts Kingston Avenue, was added to the list in 2001.

    This year, an amendment to the registry adds the second one, which fronts Gateway Avenue.

    A museum is in the Kingston Avenue building.

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  • Eagle Furnace may get cable

    Residents in the Eagle Furnace area may someday get the opportunity to have cable television and natural gas.

    Ron Berry, who sat as the interim general manager of Rockwood Water, Sewer and Gas and is helping transition new manager Kimberly Ramsey, has recommended looking at extending gas service to the customers in this area and approaching Comcast about sharing the cost of the ditch to extend cable to that area as well.

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  • Woody demands better terms before more investment in Plateau Park

    Part of Gov. Bill Haslam’s strategy for bringing jobs to Tennessee is getting rural communities to work together to spur economic development.              
    “The only way they’re going to do that is if they don’t get in a bind like Roane County, and one county pays for it and another county reaps all the benefits,” said Roane County Executive Ron Woody.
    Roane, Cumberland and Morgan counties could be a test case of how well multi-county alliances work.

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  • Wilderness first responder classes offered

    Roane State Community College instructors will teach a Wilderness First Responder course May 16-23 at Camp Wesley Woods in Townsend.
    The course provides extensive training in handling medical emergencies in the wilderness.
    The class is designed for those who operate extensively in the outdoors, such as outdoors enthusiasts, wilderness guides, environmental educators and missionaries.

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  • OR team to finish K-25 Site cleanup

    The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday awarded a $2.2 billion contract for the cleanup of the former K-25 Site to the URS/CH2M Hill team at Oak Ridge.

    The team succeeds Bechtel Jacobs, which has been involved since 1998 in the environmental cleanup of the former Manhattan Project site now known as East Tennessee Technology Park on Hwy. 58 in Roane County.

    URS/CH2M Hill will be responsible for the remaining environmental cleanup and support functions at ETTP, according to a DOE release.

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  • Audit reveals utility system's financial snarls

    If new members of the Rockwood Water Sewer and Natural Gas Board weren’t fully aware of the daunting work ahead of them, a briefing on the most recent annual audit brought the full scope of the utilities’ problems into focus.

    Besides repayment of interdepartmental loans to the water and sewer departments from gas operations, other repeat problems were detailed during the briefing on the audit from June 30, 2009 to June 30, 2010.

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