Today's News

Carolyn Clemmons, her friend and son spent last weekend in Asheville, N.C., visiting her sister, Virginia.
While there, they visited other family members and some friends.
The following ones who are celebrating their birthdays this June are friends who play bingo at Harriman Community Center every second and fourth Mondays: Peggy Gunter, Ernell Renfro, Geraldine Harmon, Tom Collins and Mrs. Woods.
Happy birthday to all of you.
To my friend Lydia Yette McKeldin and nephew Dana Thompson, I hope your day was a great one. God bless.

Volkswagen’s new Southeastern Regional Distribution Center in Roane County is looking to do something that none of the car company’s other warehouses have done.    
“We are going for LEED certification,” said John Kutz, senior manager of the facility.
“It will be the only Volkswagen LEED certified warehouse in our entire network.”
LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

By GENE POLINCINSKI
First Amenedment Center
An irony of timing twice has put U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning in the headlines at critical moments in gaining congressional approval of a federal shield law that would protect journalists and their confidential sources.
On Capitol Hill, there’s new-found  White House support and congressional action behind  proposals to for the first time provide legal means in federal courts for journalists to keep secret their confidential sources and unpublished information.

Lauren Treadway of Calvary Baptist School, Kingston, was recognized for her photography skills on a national level in a competition sponsored by the American Association of Christian Schools at Bob Jones University, Greenville, S.C.

Treadway won third place in the national contest in the senior high animal photography category.

She is among the Calvary Baptist School students who advanced to the national competition by winning first-place honors in March at the Tennessee Fine Arts Competition in Murfreesboro.