Today's News

Kirt Phillippi of Rockwood was a coach of the WSI-Oak Ridge team that won a national shooting competition in 2010.
Last week, it wasn’t his marksmanship that interested Harriman police.
Phillippi was charged with public intoxication on March 19 after police were called about a parking lot urination incident.
According to police records, Officer Michael Cox was dispatched to Kroger on a report of an intoxicated man in the parking lot.

Some old wooden railings at the lakefront in Kingston presented a dangerous problem for the city.
The fix not only shored up the structure, but provided a spirit-lifting work of art, as well as a nod to the many fishermen the water draws.
Rick Ross, who heads Kingston’s parks and recreation department explained how the decorative new metal railing came about.
“The other one was just rotting out, and we needed to replace it for safety reasons,” Ross said.

Kingston City Manager Jim Pinkerton had already proffered his resignation from the post he’d held with distinction for some 12 years on March 13.
A special- called meeting of city council on March 21 made it official.
With a minor change in the wording of Pinkerton’s letter — with his approval, it was altered to say that he was “resigning for retirement” rather than simply “resigning” — council unanimously accepted his decision to step down as the city’s chief administrator.