Today's News

Tellico Plains’ Preston Russell and Rockwood’s Cleveland Davidson put on a show Friday night, but in the end it was Davidson’s Tigers outdueling Russell’s Bears, 59-54, in a huge District 3-A showdown for both team.

This year’s county election could impact the search for the next director of schools.

“You cannot appoint 45 days prior to an election or 30 days after an election,” Roane County Board of Education Member Wade McCullough said. “That is by law.”

Election Day is Aug. 2. If McCullough’s interpretation of the law is correct, the new director would need to be in place around the middle of June.

“Otherwise, we’ll have to go into an interim period,” McCullough said.

By Mike Gibson
Refusing to take a back seat to any of its sister cities, Kingston has produced evidence of its very own historically significant ghost.

At the Jan. 10 session of Kingston City Council, council member Tony Brown reported that the GHOST Paranormal Investigations group — the self-proclaimed ghost-hunting outfit responsible for the recent discovery of an otherworldly entity in Harriman’s historic Temperance Building — has now detected the presence of a disembodied spirit at Fort Southwest Point.

The communities of Emory Gap and Childs Memorial may be surrounded by the Harriman city limits but they’ll remain outside them — at least for now.

Harriman City Council failed to approve a motion to move forward in the annexation proposed by Councilman J.D. Sampson, who has been advocating filling in those holes in their limits.

“I would like to at least start with these two neighborhoods and get them in the city, and then we can work on looking at other properties to be annexed,” Sampson said.