Today's News

I’m a firm believer in acknowledging our problems. I believe ignoring things only allows them to fester or blow up.

The good news is, serious concerns, when addressed, can turn into something really positive.

Case in point: the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Did you know that those soaring mountains we all hold dear were on the verge of ruin through logging and poor farm management?

In the 1920s, people started reacting to the threat, and against the odds, the national park was born.

Perceptive reader, you know that perspective is vitally important in matters of art.

It was the discovery of perspective and the means of rendering it in two-dimensional art that made early Renaissance painting in Italy so outstanding.

Well, perspective is also important in many other things than painting and photography; to demonstrate, consider how large our planet earth is to us who live upon it, but consider how relatively small it appears from the space station, and how smaller yet it appears from the surface of the moon.

Traffic was rerouted for several hours Wednesday as Harriman Utility Board workers repaired a gas leak at a 3-inch gas main at the intersection of Scarbro and Ruritan roads, between a car wash and a empty storefront.

HUB Manager Chuck Flora said the utility received calls from people smelling a gas leak in the area sometime before 3 p.m.

Crews were there shortly after, with Harriman Police rerouting traffic around the section of roadway that is near South Harriman Baptist Church and not far from Bowers Elementary.

In what definitely could be called a confidence booster for a young Oliver Springs Lady Bobcats soccer squad, the Lady ‘Cats took a convincing 9-1 victory over the Rockwood Lady Tigers Tuesday night.