Today's News

Cookeville freelance writer and newspaper columnist Jennie Ivey will conduct an all-day writing workshop on “When the Byline Loses Its Thrill: Making Money with the Words You Write” on Nov. 9 in the United Way of Anderson County office at 161 Robertsville Road, Oak Ridge.
The event is the Tennessee Mountain Writers fall workshop.
Workshop participants will be taught how to focus on subjects they want to write about and tailor writing to fit markets that pay.

Thanks to an open date, it took two weeks before the Oliver Springs could bounce back from their narrow loss to arch rival Coalfield, but Wiley Brackett’s squad put on a show Friday night with an impressive 47-16 victory over Jellico.

For the third consecutive week, the Midway Green Wave took it to the wire before knowing if they would win or lose. Friday night, Midway kicker Caleb Splawn booted through a 29-yard field goal with two seconds left to give the Green Wave a 17-14 win over district and county rival Harriman.

Teenagers can be vicious, and an ugly message scrawled in a Roane County High School girls restroom last week was one such jab.
When English teacher Linda Choate saw the taunt, she took action.

Soon the room was covered with sticky notes filled with positive and uplifting messages to female students and staff.
“There is a widespread problem with cruelty among teenagers. This was one incident, but it is just one part of a wider problem that made me choose to try to change the perspective,” Choate said.