.....Advertisement.....
.....Advertisement.....

Today's News

  • Lane changes

    The sound of balls crashing into pins and the chatter of friends and rivals fills the air at Tri-City Lanes in Midtown.
    “Who are you going to find down here?” said Allen Slaughter, who works at Tri-City. “Doctors, lawyers, school teachers, you name it.”
    “We are just one big extended happy family because everyone gets so close to each other,” said Loretta Carrington. She recently participated in the coffee league, one of the leagues that have been around since the bowling leagues started in 1964.

    Click here to read more...
  • Down on the farm

    All Roane County third graders experience farm life at Roane State Expo Center last month.

    Click here to read more...
  • Harriman site on Superfund

    The Clinch River Corp. site, once a paper mill on the Emory River in Harriman, has been named to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
    That means federal help with cleaning up hazardous wastes left behind.
    The site had been recommended previously, but not officially placed on the list.
    An EPA news release said Superfund is a federal program “that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country.”

    Click here to read more...
  • Probation violators fill jail

    District Attorney General Russell Johnson said last week he isn’t ready to soften his stance on probation violators.
    The Roane County Jail faces the prospect of decertification due to overcrowding. Many people are in jail for violating probation.
    “A lot of it is they’re testing positive on drug tests, or they’re picking up new charges,” Johnson said. “That just goes to show why those folks need to be in there longer if they’re not conforming to the rules and re-offending.” 

    Click here to read more...
  • Ash spill meeting scheduled

    TVA, along with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, will hold a public meeting on progress of the Kingston Ash Recovery Project and long-term monitoring plans.
    The meeting will be Thursday, May 30, from 5:30-7 p.m. in the auditorium of Roane County High School in Building B on the school’s Spring Street side.

    Click here to read more...
  • Rocky’s case gets rockier

    Rocky Houston suffered another setback in his criminal case last week. U.S. Magistrate C. Clifford Shirley Jr. issued a report and recommendation, advising District Court Judge Danny Reeves to deny Houston’s motion to suppress pole camera footage.

    Click here to read more...
  • Jim Henry officially DCS director

    Forget the interim part: After a short stint filling in, Kingston’s Jim Henry is now the commissioner of the Department of Children’s Services.
    Gov. Bill Haslam announced the full appointment Tuesday to the beleagured department.
    Henry, the first commissioner of the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, had also been serving as interim director of DCS since February’s resignation of former DCS commissioner Kate O’Day.

    Click here to read more...
  • Midtown annexation IS possible

    The state senate bill that created an annexation moratorium does not necessarily protect all of Midtown’s Hwy. 70 corridor from Harriman’s reach after all.
    Instead, the bill’s moratorium against any city extending its corporate limits by annexation ordinance from April 1, 2013, to May 1, 2014, only extends to property used primarily for residential or agricultural purposes.
    It says nothing about commercial properties.
    Also, the citizen voting requirement for annexation is a no-go.

    Click here to read more...
  • Layoffs coming at Toho

    Approximately 65 employees will likely be out of work by this fall when Toho Tenax America moves part of its operations to Japan and Germany.
    “Despite the hard work and best efforts of TTA’s dedicated and hardworking employees, production at the Rockwood location will be significantly reduced by the end of the third quarter 2013,” said Rob Klawonn, president at Toho Tenax America Inc.
    That would be by the end of September.
    Klawonn also read a company statement:

    Click here to read more...
  • Neighbor denies firing at Tiger Haven

    Toby Dean Rhynehart spent almost 24 hours in the Roane County Jail last week.
    “I shouldn’t have been in there to start with,” he said.
    Roane County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Self charged Rhynehart with reckless endangerment on May 14 after rounds from his firearm allegedly went onto the property of Tiger Haven, a big-cat sanctuary in East Roane County.   

    Rhynehart denied the allegations in Self’s report and said he was merely exercising his Second Amendment right on his own property. 

    Click here to read more...

Copyright © 2013

The Roane County News is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in Roane County and Kingston, Tennessee, and the surrounding area.