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Today's News

  • Volunteer Energy gives grant to Midway PTO

    Volunteer Energy Cooperative’s VECustomers Share program awarded a $2,000 grant to Midway High School PTO in May.
    The program awarded  $2,750 in grants to Roane County organizations during the month. The Tennessee Kidney Foundation received $500; and Roane County United Way was awarded  $250.
    VECustomers Share is a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization covering VEC’s 17-county service area.
    The foundation’s funds come from VEC members who have opted to allow VEC to round their electric bills up to the next whole dollar.

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  • Volkswagen’s aim: Eco-friendly

    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.

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  • Yager, Calfee to speak at Chamber luncheon June 19

    A special Roane County Chamber of Commerce Speaker Series Luncheon will begin at noon June 19 in the Roane Medical Center Community Room, Midtown.
    State Sen. Ken Yager, R-Harriman, and state Rep. Kent Calfee, R-Kingston, will give legislative updates as guest speakers.
    The lunch will be $12 per person; RSVP is required by emailing info@roanealliance.org or calling  376-5572.
     

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  • Nikon Small World exhibit open in OR

    The 20 award-winning photomicrographs and a wide variety of artistic visual concepts and scientific disciplines are revealed in Nikon Small World on view through Sept. 15 at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge.
    Art and science are intertwined in Nikon Small World as the photomicrographs showcase the delicate balance between outstanding scientific technique and exquisite artistic quality.

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  • Beer permit? Would-be bar operator can’t even get beer board hearing

    The Roane County Beer Board refused to hear Roma L. Christopher’s application for a beer permit on Tuesday.
    “Because you all think I’m opening up for Grover Norton,” Christopher told the board.

    Norton, owner of the Grill & Pub, had his beer permit revoked for a year on Feb. 12. Christopher planned to operate from the same location, 2224 Harriman Hwy., under the name 27/61 Grill-N-Pub.

    According to her application, Norton still owns the property.
    The meeting lasted about five minutes.

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  • A VIEW from LICK SKILLET: Edward Snowden may have done us a favor

    The Constitution of the United States, Article 3, Section 3, Sub-section 1, says: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or, in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”

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  • GUEST OPINION: Second try at shield law echoes first

    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.

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  • Oliver Springs teacher lands in trouble

    A mowing job has landed one Oliver Springs High School teacher in serious trouble.
    Special education teacher Amelia E. Drennan is charged with felony reckless endangerment after police said she hired a man to mow at an address where meth labs were found.

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  • Church Calendar: June 15-20

    SATURDAY, JUNE 15
    • Dogwood Baptist Church, Kingston, will have a singing at 7 p.m. in the church on Dogwood Valley Road. The Melodys will be featured.

    THURSDAY, JUNE 20

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  • Calvary students tops in fine arts

    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.

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