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Gentle reader, I understand that my column of two weeks ago entitled “Both Students & taxpayers are being cheated”, based upon our county’s students’ miserable performance on this year’s (2015-2016) ACT scores, has provoked a complaint from one of the county’s powers-that-be, or big cheeses.

It appears that this big wig opines as how my column was “negative”.

Read yer books, you scalawags.

That was the message Harriman Children’s Librarian Connie Massengill had for kids last week during the library’s “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” with programs for its preschool and homeschool programs.

“We have learned about famous women pirates,” Massengill said. “We learned about Anne Bonny and Mary Read from the 1700s.”

Part of last week’s festivities included a Dress Like a Pirate contest.

A woman wanted in Texas since 2007 was arrested in Roane County on Wednesday. Beth Alison McDonald was charged with being a fugitive from justice.

According to an incident report, Roane County Sheriff’s Office Detective John Mayes received information from Mount Pisgah Christian Academy about a student who had not been in school for three days.

“During this time the father of the child showed up at the school and stated that he did not want the mother of the child picking up the child due to the fact that she was a fugitive,” the report said.

The Oliver Springs Historical Society continues to make progress at its headquarters building located at the intersection of Winter’s Gap Road and Roane Street in downtown Oliver Springs.

“There’s some fabulous history here,” said state Rep. Kent Calfee, who was at the building for an event honoring Richard Davis, an Oliver Springs educator and charter member of the Historical Society.