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Rockwood splits with Kingston

By GOOSE LINDSAY

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Lady 'Cats stop Coalfield, 58-51

By GOOSE LINDSAY

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Lady Jackets win in overtime

By GOOSE LINDSAY

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Harriman sweeps Midway

By BROWNIE ROSE

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Bobcats pick up big District 4-A wins

By BRIAN LANGLEY

Morgan County News

The top spot in the district was on the line in both the girls and boys games when Wartburg hosted Oliver Springs on the hardwood Tuesday night.

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Raiders blast Maryville, 87-51

By GOOSE LINDSAY

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Tigers split with Oakdale

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New TVA scrubber will mean cleaner air soon

By CINDY SIMPSON

rccindysimpson@bellsouth.net

Technology that will reduce air pollution across East Tennessee is scheduled to start working at the Kingston Fossil Plant about a year from now.

“We’re on schedule to be on line in early to mid-November ’09; we’ll actually be scrubbing flue gas,” said Robert Rehberg, an official with the Kingston plant.

The scrubber will use a limestone slurry mix to clean the emissions of sulfur dioxide, a byproduct of the coal-burning process the plant uses.

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Former Harriman Mayor Wester Dies

Former Harriman mayor Harold Wester died Tuesday.

In his many years of public service, Wester also had been a member of the city council and a member of the Roane Quarterly Court — the predecessor to the county commission.

State Sen..-elect Ken Yager of Harriman called Wester “a real servant of the people."

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Corker says cleanup costs will be TVA's to bear

By DAMON LAWRENCE

rclawrence@bellsouth.net

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said he spoke at length with TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore during a stop in Roane County on Monday.

One thing that didn’t come up, according to the senator, was whether TVA plans to increase power rates to cover cleanup costs in the area affected by last month’s ash slide at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant.

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