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Today's News

  • Spaghetti supper helps Operation REACH

    State Rep. Kent Calfee, left, presents Operation REACH President Randy Ellis with a check for $2,100.

    The money was raised during Calfee’s inaugural spaghetti dinner and dessert auction, with all proceeds from the event going to Operation REACH, a charitable organization that enables children in need to go Christmas shopping every holiday season.

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  • Midtown Elementary honors: First nine weeks' grading period

    Midtown Elementary School applauds students who earned placement on its honor rolls and other achievements for the first nine weeks grading period.

    They are:

    A HONOR ROLL

    Third grade — Eve Alford, Kaylee Babineau, Darrell Barr, Callie Hale, Tyler Harrill, Brady Reynolds, Ryan Ward, Tommy Lawyer, Joe McDonald and T.J. Weatherly.

    Fourth grade — Wesley Morgan, Lance Young and Gwenna McCarty.

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  • RSCC event attracts Roane students

    Roane State Community College recently had an open house for area high school students.

    The students and their parents had opportunities during the event to get a glimpse of college life at Roane State and get pointers on major options, financial aid and more.

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  • Hugh X. Lewis to be at Young at Heart

    Col. Hugh X. Lewis, a BMI Award-winning country music songwriter and performer, will be featured during the Kingston First Baptist Church Young at Heart meeting on Dec. 2.

    The meeting starts at 10:30 a.m. in Kingston United Methodist Church at 212 W. Church St.

    Lewis was designated poet laureate of Christian country music by the Tennessee General Assembly.

    His syndicated television show, “The Hugh X. Lewis Country Club,” was the longest single-sponsored multi-market syndicated broadcast in country music history.

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  • Douglass Family anniversary

    Harriman’s Douglass Family Singers will mark the group’s 54th anniversary with a special concert at 4 p.m. Dec. 1 in Believers Voice of Deliverance Church at 306 Spencer Ave., Harriman.

    Darrell McFadden and the Disciples are the special guests.

    Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for 9 and younger, with proceeds helping to pay for special guest singers and benefiting the church.

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  • Meet the Roane Treasures Class of 2013

    A former Tennessee legislator, a pair of engineers, a retired elementary school principal and a builder make up this year's Roane Treasures.

    The group was recognized by Roane County Executive Ron Woody during a Founders Day ceremony earlier this month.

    This year's Golden Treasure is 96-year-old Ida Lou Nelson.

    Treasures and the County Commission districts they represent are Jack Bowman, 1st; Mitchell B. Ollis, 2nd; Thomas Pickel, 3rd; Leonard Morris, 4th; and Arvel McNelley, 5th.

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  • Slip-sliding roadway reopens

    Rockwood’s Airport Road is now open again, but it may be rough going.
    Roane County Road Superintendent Dennis Ferguson said it was important to get the road open this week before Thanksgiving, but warned that while it is navigable, the road is not paved yet.

    “Because of the weather, we weren’t able to do it,” Ferguson said.

    Rockwood Mayor James Watts announced the news at the Rockwood City Council meeting Monday, thanking Ferguson and the city’s street department, including superintendent Hugh Lee O’Dell.

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  • BOWERS ELEMENTARY: Thanksgiving also provides food for soul
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  • Looseleaf laureate: Be grateful that the truth is more interesting

    I cringe every year at depictions of the first Thanksgiving, with Pilgrims and “the Indians” harmoniously sitting down to break bread together.

    It’s a nice thought, it really is, but it has little to do with truth.

    In 1621, a small group of Pilgrims were celebrating a successful harvest, but the fact that 90 warriors were on hand was not a result of invitation.

    The Wampanoag tribe that is often generically referred to as “the Indians” in the Thanksgiving story has much more interesting — and believable — version.

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  • Kingston library has no-fine December

    December is fine-free month at Kingston Public Library.

    If you have an overdue book or two, but are worried about having to pay fines, now’s your chance at forgiveness.

    The library is making the transition to new Verso library operating software, so it is giving patrons a chance to return their overdue books, audiobooks and DVDs without reprimand or fine.

    Fine Free days are Dec. 1-31.

    Those who ignore their overdue status will no longer be allowed to check out any items.

    Library workers are available to answer questions about the fine status and the Verso software.

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