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Today's News

  • Partnership boosts business incubators

    The Appalachian Regional Commission has formed a new partnership with TVA and the National Business Incubation Association to develop a Peer-to-Peer Benchmarking Review program to help business incubators more effectively nurture small, emerging enterprises.  

    There are an estimated 150 business incubators serving 4,500 emerging firms in the ARC and TVA regions.

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  • Pine Ridge getting traffic light

    Dealing with a backup of traffic trying to exit Interstate 40 in Midtown may be a thing of the past.

    The Harriman City Council accepted an offer by the state to install a traffic light at the mile marker 350 westbound exit at Pine Ridge Road.

    Mayor Chris Mason said the state did a study of the interchange and offered to install a traffic light. The city would be responsible for its maintenance.

    When that light will be installed is not certain at press time.

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  • RMC wants to help you get a good night's sleep

    Sleep apnea affects more than 18 million Americans, many of whom do not realize they suffer a sleep disorder.

    Roane Medical Sleep Center in Harriman provides evaluations to help those in need of sleep.

    The hospital-based sleep center offers advanced testing for sleep disorders within a comfortable and convenient facility.

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  • Y-12 historical bulletins available electronically

    Life in the 1940s at Y-12 — there are those who worked there during the war years, but there are many more who didn’t and want to know what it was like then.

    Now, they can do that by checking out the recently updated Y-12 History website and reading actual Y‑12 Bulletins from the 1940s.

    Coordinated by Jennifer Dixon, B&W Y-12’s National Historic Preservation Act coordinator, and Y-12 historian Ray Smith, this project creates online scanned copies of bulletins chronicling Y‑12 history.

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  • Correction

    In the Monday, Dec. 13, issue of Roane County News, Kaylee Patterson was misidentified as Sara Hamby in the Walnut Hill Elementary Christmas program photo on page 1.

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  • Christmas Hoops Schedule

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  • TWRA News

    The TWRA Region 3 Reservoir Fisheries Crew has completed its annual fall trap netting surveys on Chickamauga and Watts Bar Reservoirs.  Results of these surveys have given a good indication of what levels of crappie spawning success were achieved this past spring.

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  • Coach K picks up 400th win

    Tuesday night was a big night for Rockwood head coach Paul Kamikawa as he picked up his 400th career coaching victory with a 79-22 pasting of Tennessee School for the Deaf (TSD).

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  • Adams signs with MTSU

    Coming into this season, Kingston senior Tyler Adams knew he would be getting a college wrestling scholarship sometime before the season ended. But when he suffered a season-ending knee injury in football it appeared as if that scholarship would go down the drain as many schools backed away from the Yellow Jacket star. 

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  • Contract management courses at RSCC

    Roane State Community College will begin offering courses in contracts management, a field with strong earning potential.
    The first course, Introduction to Government Contracts, will begin Jan. 13. The class will meet on Thursdays from 5:30-9:30 p.m. at the college’s Oak Ridge campus.
    Roane State is also planning to offer two additional courses: Mission Directed Contracting and Mission-Performance Assessment.
    The three courses will prepare students for entry-level jobs in contracts management.

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