Today's News

A lot of time in prayer, sleepless nights and friends pulling her both ways.

Roane County Board of Education member Marjorie Earick said those were some of the things she endured when pondering what to do about Director of Schools of Toni McGriff’s contract.

“I finally had to come to the point to, Marjorie, what do you think is right?” she said. “What’s right for this county is for me to vote for Dr. McGriff for another year.”

The original point of this column was to complain — bitterly, I might add — about the recent rains.

The rain that flooded my basement early last week.

The rain that poured down in buckets near Chattanooga where I spent an otherwise fun weekend.

And Wednesday, what did we get?

Here’s my checklist: more dreariness, more cold, more flood advisories — more rain. By quitting time, my sorry, soggy soul was saturated.

Manson Family killer Bruce Davis waived his parole hearing earlier this year and remains behind bars in a California prison.

Davis, 68, graduated from Roane County High School in 1961.

He hooked up with Charles Manson after making his way to California.

Manson and his followers went on a violent killing spree in California in 1969.

Davis' attorney Michael Beckman argues that his client's role in the Manson Family was small.

Dr. Silvia Mende discusses functions of the eye during a recent visit to two of Vivian Harris’ after-school science classes at Midway Elementary School.

She explained the parts of the eye, showed replicas of eyes and talked about the most common objects that injure eyes.

Afterward, the students dissected the eyes of cows and looked at the different parts.