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Bobcats rally, fall short against Eagles

A fast start by the high-flying Oakdale Eagles proved too much to overcome for the Oliver Springs Bobcats as Oakdale would punch their ticket to the District 4-A Tournament Finals via a 55-51 win on Saturday night.

Following a 5-5 start to the first period, the Eagles left the Bobcats seeing red with a 12-5 tilt to close out the opening period with a 17-10 lead.

Tyler Steinmentz (7 points) led Oakdale in the opening period while Aaron Noe (4 points) guided the Bobcats early on.

Winter weather causes district, region basketball tournaments to be pushed up

With the week of wintery weather resulting in district basketball play across the state being rearranged, the Tennessee Secondary School Athletics Association has also made changes to the region tournaments.

Harriman Happenings February 23

A Valentine’s murder mystery titled “Who Killed the Love?” was produced and directed by Barbara D. Moore. The play was at Jamieson Development Center.

This was a show and dinner.

The play was great, and all who attended really supported Barbara.

The dinner was delicious.

More than 100 people attended.

After the play and dinner, several stayed for the after party, which included dancing to some of their favorite music. The DJ did a great job.

Congratulations to you, Barbara. You did a great job!

Driver in chase that ended with shots fired out of hospital, in jail

Christopher Lee Powers faces several charges from the police chase that ended with him shot multiple times.

Powers, 34, was booked into the Roane County Jail on Feb. 18.

Warrants taken out by Roane County Sheriff’s Office Detective A.E. Wolff charge Powers with DUI, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, speeding, evading arrest and driving on a revoked license.

The police chase occurred on Feb. 9.

Weather won’t affect tax deadline

People shouldn’t look for an extension on the amount of time they have to pay property taxes because of bad weather.

Roane County Trustee Wilma Eblen said the deadline is still Feb. 28.

“I guess we’re going to have to watch the weather, but the taxes will become delinquent March 1,” she said. “That’s what the state says.”

Eblen said she’s basing that on past experience.

OES truck in crash

A Roane County Office of Emergency Services vehicle was involved in a crash earlier this month.

It happened in Harriman near the Dollar General Market on Feb. 13.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol investigated the crash because it involved a county vehicle. That’s common in those situations.

The county vehicle was a 2008 Ford F15 driven by OES employee John Rayburn. The other vehicle was a 1996 Ford Crown Victoria driven by 88-year-old Josephine Smith of Harriman.

Another record for TVA production

Arctic temperatures that averaged in single digits across much of the Tennessee Valley on Thursday, Feb. 19, resulted in record electricity demand of 694 gigawatt-hours for the 24-hour period.

That’s the most energy ever required over a one-day period during February in Tennessee Valley Authority history and the third most overall for a 24-hour period.

The all-time one-day record occurred last year when demand reached 703 gigawatt-hours on Jan. 7.

Another huge cleanup in Roane County

The cleanup of TVA’s massive coal ash spill is winding down near Kingston this year, but another massive effort is gearing up in the northeast corner of Roane County.

Federal officials are down to the last cell in a Bear Creek Road landfill set aside for the demolition of contaminated K-25 buildings on the Oak Ridge Reservation.

Little left to be done after 2008 ash spill

Cleanup of one of the worst environmental disasters in the country has ever seen continues to wind down in Swan Pond.

Craig Zeller, remedial project manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said an inspection was conducted at the TVA ash spill site on Jan. 29. The final inspection is expected to occur this spring.

“We have a few loose ends,” Zeller said.

Man beaten with tree clippers

A Harriman man was taken to University of Tennessee Medical Center earlier this month with a fractured skull he suffered in an alleged assault.

Kingston police charged Joshua Morgan, 23, with aggravated assault and aggravated burglary in the incident. Morgan allegedly used “a pair of long-handled tree clippers” to beat Matthew Honeycutt.

The incident happened at 814 S. Kentucky St. in Kingston.

Honeycutt was found laying in the front yard bleeding when police arrived.