Today's News

The U.S. Department of Energy recently appointed seven new members to its Oak Ridge Environmental Management advisory board.

Chris Hepler of Oliver Springs and Scott Stout of Rockwood are among the new members filling vacancies on the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board, a volunteer citizens’ panel that provides advice and recommendations to DOE on its environmental cleanup operations on the Oak Ridge Reservation.

Big things often come in small packages.

That’s the case for Harriman’s Haylee Goins as the Blue Devils senior CF recently signed scholarship papers with Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens.

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency legal counsel Sheryl Holtam said Wednesday she had yet to see the complaint Roane County Attorney Tom McFarland filed against the agency in chancery court.
“It’s kind of hard to comment since I haven’t seen the complaint,” she said.
The complaint accuses the TWRA of blocking a county road. Holtam said the road in question is more of a trail than anything else.
“It looks like a creek bed,” she said.

A University of Tennessee fan with ties to this area found an unusual connection to the area — just in time for the start of football season.
William H. Grant, who is retired and living in Oklahoma, but whose mother lives in the area, grew a ”Mr. Stripey” heirloom tomato with  a surprise inside.
When the colorful tomato, most often known for its tiger stripes, was sliced for sandwiches one day, in its middle it revealed a “Power T,” the nickname for the University of Tennessee-style “T.”