Today's News

The Coalfield Lady Jackets softball team will be hosting a softball camp on Tuesday, July 26 at Coalfield School.
There will be sessions on base running, hitting, throwing, defensive fundamentals, pitching and catching.
The camp will run from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. with lunch taking place from noon until 1 p.m.
All ages are welcome and each session will be broken down by age and will be age appropriate.
The cost for the camp is $40 and registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
For more information, call Lady Jacket head coach Jen Laurendine at 865-850-8523.

For more than a decade, Katherine Walker came to her daughter Harriet’s home in Kingston to help host their Fourth of July party and watch the fireworks. She had one of the best seats in the house at the Race Street residence.

Her perspective will be even closer this year — Mrs. Walker is being shot up in one of the fireworks shells.

Walker, who died in April at 87, was cremated. Her family has been scattering her ashes in the places the Tullahoma woman loved.

Pay raises have become a hot button issue as county officials work to put together a budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year.

“Everything that the employees are buying is increasing, so I feel that the salaries should be increasing as well,” Roane County Trustee Wilma Eblen said. “That’s my personal opinion.”

Despite an increase in the cost of goods and services, trustee office employees and others at the courthouse are looking at another year without a raise.

A touching moment closed the end of the last regular Rockwood City Council meeting Monday.

All the outgoing members were honored for their efforts on the council with plaques listing their years of service and the committees they served on.

Councilwoman Krystal Hennager said she may be leaving her seat but wouldn’t be leaving the council chambers.

Instead, she’ll be where residents sit and working on projects geared for youth.

“Save me a seat,” Hennager said.