Today's News

While seven hearings have been scheduled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to consider a classification for coal ash, not one was scheduled in Tennessee, the site of the TVA coal ash disaster in 2008.
A coalition of environmental justice organizations — forming the Citizens’ Coal Ash Hearing Committee — will host a people’s hearing to help ensure that the voices of those who have been impacted have a chance to testify.
The people’s hearing will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday Sept. 2 at the Roane State Community College.

Any newspaper that is doing its job has plenty of bad news in it.
That is part of its role — to shed light on problems in hopes solutions will be sought.
However, in amongst those problems are usually plenty of glimmers — and sometimes, shining beacons — of hope and caring. There are acts of heroism large and small.
We’d like to take stock of a few of those acts in recent Roane County News editions.
Take, for instance, the accident involving a van ramming through a busy Kingston hair salon Tuesday.

The soccer contest between the Kingston Lady Jackets and the Harriman Lady Blue Devils might as well have been a soccer clinic by Kingston's Christina Neal as she scored six goals in a 9-0 triumph over the Lady Devils. 

Time was I was the son setting the time on my dad’s VCR.

The worm, as they say, has turned.

Let’s just say I’ve been humbled more times than I ought to admit in recent months by my techno-savvy kid.

First, it was the VCR/DVD burner combo Santa brought us.

At least I could set the clock. But that was about it.

After re-reading the instructions for something like the millionth time, I gave up and asked my son for help.

In about 10 seconds, he had everything talking to the TV.