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The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has announced the application period for the 2013 Elk and Wildlife Management Area (WMA) Big Game Quota Hunts, the Youth Elk, and WMA Youth will run through July 24.
The elk and youth elk hunts were moved to coincide with the application period for the other Fall WMA/Youth Big Game Quota Hunts. Entries must be submitted before midnight (CDT) July 24.

A special Roane County Chamber of Commerce Speaker Series Luncheon will begin at noon June 19 in the Roane Medical Center Community Room, Midtown.
State Sen. Ken Yager, R-Harriman, and state Rep. Kent Calfee, R-Kingston, will give legislative updates as guest speakers.
The lunch will be $12 per person; RSVP is required by emailing info@roanealliance.org or calling  376-5572.
 

June already has been hot, stormy and steamy, but it is difficult for me to think of it as anything but a gentle month.

The perfume of honeysuckle fills the air. The lawn is a pliable expanse of green and not yet the brittle brown patch that can come later. Gardens – whether floral or vegetable – aren’t yet at their full potential, but their promise, at this point, is solid.

June sets the tone for summer.

I rarely take June vacations, but I love spending time in June planning them.

We had a visitor recently, one that was neither invited nor expected.
It was of the reptilian types, 5 feet long and slim with a mottled gray and black skin. It seems the storm door that has recently been closing slowly, and sometimes not completely, left just the right amount of space for it to slither into our living room.
I saw its tail disappearing as I reached for the door to enter.
“Snake!” I warned, and stepped gingerly into the house. There it was on the hardwood floor, looking around as if to choose which room to inhabit.