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A 22-point deficit was too much for the Kingston Lady Jackets to overcome as they fell to the Dresden Lady Lions 53-47 at the Lenoir City Holiday Classic. Kingston had an 11-9 lead at the end of the first period, but a 21-5 Dresden run in the second quarter made the score 30-16 at half-time.
Dresden started off the third period on an 8-0 surge, but the Lady Jackets came swarming backwith a 12-4 tilt to make the score 42-28 at the end of the third period.

Know where your loved ones are at all times.

Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said that’s his advice for people who have a sex offender living in their neighborhood.  

“Particularly if you have children,” Stockton said. “Always know where they are.”

A search of the Tennessee Sexual Offender Registry shows 91 sex offenders living in Roane County.

That’s more than Loudon (79), but less than Cumberland (114).

It’s been a big year for Roane County’s resident thespian.

Muse Watson, the actor who calls the area home and whose passion for the arts helped save Harriman’s Princess Theater, spent the majority of 2010 working steadily in California.

“We have a home out there, and so we’re out there 90 percent of the time,” he said during a recent pre-holiday respite in his Harriman home. “We used to spend a third of the year here in Roane County.”

More than 150 people were helped during the 16th annual Coats for the Cold.

The charity, spearheaded by Dennis Ferguson, starts with coat collections by the public. The outerwear is then cleaned and made available to the public.

“We gave coats out to people in the community that needed them," said Ferguson, who began the humanitarian effort during his longtime stint in the Tennessee General Assembly. “We didn’t want anybody to go cold.”