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Bobcats suffer heartbreaking loss

So close yet so far. 

That’s the most apt way to describe the Oliver Springs Bobcats having a region berth within grasp before the Oakdale Eagles rallied in extra innings for a 4-3 victory, sending the Eagles to the Region 2-A Tournament and leaving Oliver Springs to ponder what might have been. 

Bolling in as Kingston manager

By Friday morning, Kingston’s list of candidates for the open city manager’s position had been whittled down to David. And David.
By 2 that afternoon, there was only one David left — David Bolling, a former Oliver Springs town administrator and Clinton native whose most recent stopover was a year-long stint in the town of Newcastle, Maine.

Glenn Miller Orchestra to be in Harriman

The famous Glenn Miller Orchestra will be playing this weekend in Harriman’s Princess Theatre.

The Princess Theatre Foundation has lined up the Big Band orchestra, which will strike up at 7 p.m. May 18, and other well-known performers in the coming months to continue supporting the theatre monetarily.

“The foundation’s goal is to raise funds to donate to [Roane State Community College] to continue to keep the doors open,” Harriman Mayor Chris Mason said.

County eyeing Cawood law office property

The county is interested in purchasing Chris Cawood’s Kingston law office.

The agenda for today’s (Monday) Roane County Commission meeting includes a resolution that would authorize County Executive Ron Woody to enter into negotiations to purchase the property.

“It’s one, as we start looking at some other issues, that could be kept,” Woody said.

“That’s something we’ll probably have our building and codes go over there and look at and see what it would take to rehab for office space.”

Tigers down Eagles in region opener, 13-5

The Rockwood Tigers kept their season alive and advanced to Wednesday’s Region 2-A title Monday by knocking off Oakdale, 13-5, at Mike “Brillo” Miller Sports Complex in Rockwood.

Oakdale was making their first region appearance since 1998 and the Eagles seemed to have a case of big game jitters as Oakdale struggled in the early going.

Workshops to give self-publishing tips

The Knoxville Writers Guild is continuing its series of workshops designed to give information to and provide hands-on assistance for writers interested in self-publishing.

The next workshop  is May 18 and will consist of two different sessions.

The first, beginning at 11 a.m., will be a general overview of self-publishing. This portion will cost $20.

The Garden Gate: Spices are the variety of life

From the days of the earliest civilizations, mankind has known and prized the benefits of those seeds barks, buds, roots and berries we call spices.

But until more recent times, there was great difficulty to obtain them because of their exotic sources.

The scarcity of pepper, cloves, cinnamon and other spices caused them to be sought after as treasures, and the quest for them often led to strange and generally unknown lands.

Fun, focus on college savings

Five bucks and some change will give Tennesseans access to some of the state’s best-known family-friendly attractions later this month.
Across the state, people can visit a minor league baseball game, a museum or zoo on May 29 for only $5.29 each. People can also register online to win prizes and perks that day.
It is all part of an effort to raise awareness about the Tennessee Treasury Department’s TNStars College Savings 529 Program, which offers families a low-cost way to save money for college expenses while receiving certain tax advantages.

Santek opening facility in Roane

The old CAST Transportation site on Farmer Road will soon be home to a maintenance facility for Santek Waste Services.
“We did sign a lease on that building,” Cheryl L. Dunson, executive vice president of marketing for Santek, said last week.
Santek is headquartered in Cleveland.
According to its website, the company manages 16 solid waste landfills, three transfer stations and four waste collection companies in a nine-state region that includes Tennessee.
The old CAST Transportation site includes a 20,000 square-foot warehouse.

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