Today's News

Volunteer Energy Cooperative’s VECustomers Share board member Alton Lingerfelt presented a $1,000 grant check to L.K. “Butch” Barding of the South Roane Volunteer Fire Department. VECustomers Share is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization covering VEC’s 17-county service area, including Roane County’s South of the River area.

According to a resolution on Roane County Commission’s tentative agenda, a major industry is finalizing plans to construct a distribution facility in the Roane Regional Business and Technology Park.

Roane County Executive Ron Woody, who submitted the resolution, would not disclose the identity of the industry.

The county commission meets today – Monday – at the Roane County Courthouse in Kingston at 7 p.m.

The resolution is to apply for an industrial access road grant to service the unnamed industry.

Phase 1 of the first TVA ash spill trial concluded last week, but the work is not done for the lawyers involved.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan instructed the parties to provide the court with their proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law along with closing argument briefs.

The briefs will allow each side to expand upon or reiterate what they told Varlan during verbal closing arguments last week. Varlan asked that the briefs be limited to 25 pages.

He also instructed the parties to submit summaries of the witness testimony.

Any confusion Tina Nicole Goldberg had on why officers were looking for her was cleared up on Oct. 10.

According to a Rockwood Police Department arrest report, Goldberg flagged an officer down on North Gateway Avenue and asked him why the police wanted to talk to her.

“I advised her she was being investigated as the suspect in a robbery of a business in Harriman,” the report said. “Dispatch did verify the warrant was in hand, and I arrested Tina Nicole Goldberg.”