Today's News

Gov. Bill Haslam and the Tennessee Department of Education encourages educators to participate in the TELL Tennessee Survey.

The TELL — or Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning — survey is the first statewide opportunity for teachers and licensed staff in Tennessee to provide input on their learning environment.

The survey continues through March 11.

School-based licensed educators may anonymously and voluntarily share their perceptions of the teaching and learning environment in their school.

Oliver Springs High School student Dylan Wayne Cannon has been selected as a Daughters
of the American Revolution Good Citizen for Clinch Bend Chapter, NSDAR.

Cannon was selected for the honor by the school’s faculty and students.

He will receive a certificate and pin from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

The DAR Good Citizen is nationally recognized by colleges and employers as an indication of potential for future success.

One of Tennessee’s newest license plates gives relatives of members of the U.S. Armed Forces a way to display their support for the troops.

The plates, issued under a new law sponsored by state Sen. Ken Yager, R-Harriman, are now available to residents whose spouse, parent, sibling or child is serving in the armed forces of the United States at the time of application.

"Today, we live in a free country because of the sacrifices of our nation’s servicemen and women and their families,” Yager said.

When the group I sometimes hike with decided to take on a 10-mile hike at Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, I hesitated.

Ten miles is a long hike, and the long climb to the White Rocks and Sand Cave also is listed as strenuous.

I was well aware of this fact.

I had done this hike several times as a much younger woman when I lived on the edge of the park.

I also knew the beauty that lay ahead.

And so, last Saturday, I went with about a dozen other hardy hikers and began the 1,655-foot climb.