Today's News

The waters that are the lifeblood for Watts Bar Lake’s many ospreys almost took the life of one of the birds last month.
It took a cooperative effort to save the youngster.
Larry Steidle of Blue Springs Marina was working when he happened to see an exhausted young fledgling poke its head from the water.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett joins the Roane County Election Commission in reminding area residents that September is National Voter Registration Month.

Hargett is working with Roane County election officials to make eligible voters aware of registration deadlines and requirements, as well as encouraging already registered voters to update their current registration if they have recently changed their address.

Henriette “Jette” Wenzl, center, a Rotary Youth Exchange student from Germany, is welcomed to a recent Kingston Rotary Club meeting by Rotary International District 6780 Outbound Youth Exchange Chairman Bill Nichols and Kingston Rotary Club President Suzanne Horsfall.

Wenzl, a student at Webb School of Knoxville, spoke to the club about her home country, her family and her initial impressions about the East Tennessee area.

Pears have a venerable history that goes back for 35-40 centuries.

Originating in western Asia and in the area around the Caspian Sea, pears have been known in Europe as far back as the Stone Age.

Homer, writing in Greece about 580 B.C., calls this fruit “the gift of the gods.” He lists pears among the fruits in his own garden.

Some centuries later, Theophrastus, Plato and Pliny recorded many varieties of pears. They gave lengthy descriptions of methods of grafting and pruning as early as 200 B.C.