Today's News

Roane State Community College’s Advanced Materials Training and Education Center is the recipient of a $5,000 grant from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
ORNL recently won a Gordon Battelle Prize for scientific discovery and technology impact.
As a Gordon Battelle Prize winner, ORNL was given the opportunity to direct a $5,000 education grant to the school (K-12 or higher education) of its choice.

As the Roane County Board of Education gets ready for a discussion on who will lead the schools in the future, the current leader’s most recent performance bonus indicates board members think she’s done a good job.  

Director of Schools Toni McGriff received $15,000 out of a possible $15,000 last year.

It was the highest performance bonus she’s earned since becoming director of schools in 2005.

The bonuses are based on school board evaluations. A point system determines the amount.

At the Roane County Recycling Center, space has become an issue.

“It’s really hard to take care of everything that needs to be done,” said solid waste coordinator Ralph Stewart.

Over the past five years, the recycling center’s intake of cardboard has soared from approximately 20 tons of cardboard a month to 20 tons a week.

Kind reader, we are not unaware of the fact that since the beginning of the new year we have failed to follow our usual pattern of choice of subject matter upon which to write these weekly columns.
From the inception of these columns we have tried, and generally been successful in writing about several different fields.
These have included history, biography, reminiscences, travel, gastronomy, gardening, tributes — both current and post mortem, law, philosophy and politics.