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Today's News

  • Lady 'Cats take on familiar coach

    The Oliver Springs Lady Bobcats took on a pair of Class AAA teams over the weekend as Michelle Christopher’s squad split with William Blount and Seymour.

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  • Physical Tigers down Oakdale, 65-51

    On the football field, the Rockwood Tigers are known as a tough, hard-nosed team that looks to pound their opponents into submission.

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  • No one fights alone

    The school mascot is a yellow jacket, but lately the Cherokee Middle girls basketball team has been sporting some zebra stripe.
    That’s because the team has dedicated its season to Amy Workman.
    “It was awesome,” she said of the team’s gesture. “I had no idea they were going to do it.”
    Workman is battling neuroendocrine carcinoma. The ribbon for her type of cancer is zebra stripe. The slogan is “No one fights alone.”

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  • No light duty in Rockwood jobs

    Light duty is no longer an option for Rockwood city workers with illnesses or injuries.

    Rockwood officials passed first reading of an ordinance establishing a policy regarding light duty at last month’s City Council meeting.

    The city’s Civil Service Board asked the council to create a written policy after issues of how department heads should handle requests for light duty were brought up.

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  • Courthouse received no bomb threat, searched as precaution

    More than 20 courthouses around Tennessee reportedly received bomb threats on Nov. 27.

    Roane County’s wasn’t among them, but officials here didn’t sit idly by.

    “We went ahead and searched ours
    as a precaution,” Roane County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Tim Phillips
    said.

    No bomb was found during the search, he added.

    County Executive Ron Woody said officials decided to search the courthouse because they wanted to be proactive and not wait for a threat.

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  • New roof for historic structure

    The heart of Harriman, the castle-like Temperance Building, will be getting a new roof.

    A storm damaged part of the existing roof, and Harriman Mayor Chris Mason confirmed last month that the Tennessee Municipal League’s insurance pool will be paying for the project.

    Harriman City Council voted to take bids on the work, a process that left Ron Decker disappointed.

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  • Rockwood takes on new health and educational facilities board

    A Rockwood Health and Educational Facilities Board has been reborn to allow medical facilities such as Victorian Square to acquire bonds.

    The Victorian Square building formerly housed Chamberlain Memorial Hospital and its successor, Baptist Hospital of Roane County.

    Victorian Square rents the facility from the Chamberlain Board, which Mayor James Watts said approached him to re-establish the health and educational facilities board.

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  • Rarity Ridge developer indicted

    Michael L. Ross, the man behind Roane County’s Rarity Ridge and several other high-end developments in East Tennessee, was indicted on 28 counts in U.S. District Court last week.

    He faces one count of mail fraud, 12 counts of wire fraud and 15 counts of money laundering.

    According to the indictment, from December 2006 to December 2009, Ross devised a scheme to defraud people who bought real estate for his business.

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  • Man pleads guilty to selling cocaine near school zone

    A man serving time for a drug-related crime has a lengthier sentence after entering a guilty plea last Wednesday for the sale of less than 5 grams of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school zone.

    Assistant District Attorney Bill Reedy said the state was ready to go with a jury trial for Jovan Ivy, 26, but Ivy decided to plead guilty.

    “He pled to eight years to serve consecutively to the sentence he is already serving,” Reedy said.

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  • Fun time at Ridge View career fair

    Ridge View Elementary School students had a front-row seat to a number of interesting jobs during a recent career fair at the Rockwood school.

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