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Today's News

  • MMS knocks off Oliver Springs

    A number of factors have contributed to the Oliver Springs Middle School Bobcats problems this season. Injuries have sidelined several players, and last Thursday, Midway took advantage of the Bobcats problems and rolled to their fifth win of the year, 32-0.

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  • MMS knocks off Oliver Springs

    A number of factors have contributed to the Oliver Springs Middle School Bobcats problems this season. Injuries have sidelined several players, and last Thursday, Midway took advantage of the Bobcats problems and rolled to their fifth win of the year, 32-0.

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  • Lady Tigers blank Harriman, 10-0

    To quote the old Survivor song, the Rockwood Lady Tigers soccer program had the "eye of the tiger" en route to a 10-0 triumph over the Harriman Lady Blue Devils Thursday evening. 

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  • Cherokee rolls over Clinton, 46-8

    Coming into last Thursday's game, Cherokee Middle School boasted an undefeated record and was trying to make it 7-0 against Clinton. The Jackets were also looking to keep the undefeated streak going from last year’s 9-0 Clinch Valley Championship team. The Jackets kept the streak going as they cruised to a 46-8 victory behind star running back Maurice Lane.

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  • Bobcats storm past short-handed Bulldogs, 50-6

    When Harriman Middle School head coach Baron Tapp headed to Wartburg last Thursday night, he was expecting a close battle with the Bulldogs. What he got, however, was an impressive 50-6 victory over a Wartburg team that had been decimated by injuries.

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  • O'Neal remembered by table tennis club

    Tracy O'Neal didn't play table tennis long  at the Kingston Table Tennis Club, but he did leave a lasting legacy.

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  • Whaley gets nod at RSCC

    A longtime Roane State employee, Roane State alumni and Harriman resident has been recommended as the next Roane State Community College president.
    Chris Whaley, currently vice president of student learning and chief academic officer at Roane State, will be recommended by Chancellor John Morgan to the full Tennessee Board of Regents and ask them to approve him in a special telephone meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, at 3 p.m.
    Whaley was grateful for Morgan’s recommendation.

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  • Courthouse to stay voting site in spite of controversy

    The Roane County Courthouse will remain an early voting location for the Nov. 6 election.
    In August, the Roane County Election Commission directed Administrator of Elections Charles Holiway to send a letter to the state, requesting that the county be allowed to use Kingston Community Center instead of the courthouse.
    Holiway said he recently became aware of a state law that would have made the move OK, but after checking with the community center, he decided that it was best for early voting to remain at the courthouse for the time being. 

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  • Mayfield pleads guilty, gets diversion

    Michael Mayfield pleaded guilty in his tire-cutting case Monday morning in Roane County General Sessions Court.
    Mayfield, the son of Mayfield Dairy Farms President Scottie Mayfield, was charged with vandalism under $500 in April.
    Kingston police said he used a pocketknife to cut a tire stem on Tyler Threadgill’s 2005 Audi that was parked at the Roane County Courthouse. 
    Threadgill is a campaign staffer for U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann, who defeated Scottie Mayfield and two other opponents in the Aug. 2 Republican Primary.

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  • Courthouse gala a hit

    More than 100 people attended the Ninth annual Heritage Gala held Saturday evening at the historic Roane County Courthouse in Kingston.
    All funds raised from the event go back into restoration of the 157-year-old building, which is one of only seven antebellum courthouses still standing in Tennessee.
    This year’s gala is the first to be held in the recently refurbished upstairs courtroom.
    “We had planned to last year, but the elevator failed inspection,” said Darleen Trent of the Roane County Heritage Commission.

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