If you’ve noticed green lights on landmarks across Tennessee this month, there’s a good reason why.
Green is the color Tennessee has chosen to recognize Child Support Awareness Month.
Every August the Tennessee Department of Human Services raises awareness of the services available through the Child Support program and the positive impact it can have on families and children in Tennessee.
Across the state, the Tennessee Department of Human Services employees work more than 368,000 child support cases.
The Roane County Anti-Drug Coalition has received $175,000 to continue substance abuse prevention efforts in Roane County.
“The timing was a blessing,” said Sarah Harrison, Coalition executive director.
Without such grants the organization would have a hard time fulfilling its mission of increasing awareness and fighting drug abuse in the area, she said.
The Coalition received a $150,000 community-based coalition enhancement grant through the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
A lot of theories about what’s going on with aquatic plants this year on Watts Bar Lake have been brought to light on social media.
TVA officials report they’ve heard a number of rumors — from high-water flows, commercial plant management companies killing weeds lakeside, property owners dumping dangerous chemicals to TVA has herbicide pipes under the lake.
That’s why TVA’s aquatic plant management expert Brett Hartis was asked to weigh in. Here’s what he had to say:
Rockwood 2000 is hosting a public candidate forum at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at Rockwood Electric Utility, 341 Rockwood St.
The purpose of the event is to introduce the public to candidates running for County Executive, County Trustee, County Clerk, Register of Deeds and County Commission District 1 candidates.
Those running for the positions are:
County Executive — David Morgan and Ron Woody;
County Trustee — Christopher Mason and Nicholas Forrester;
Cornstalk Heights Historical Community Board is hosting a meet the candidate forum at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 8, at Killeffer Park on Cumberland Street in Harriman.
It will be a question and answer session and opportunity for residents to meet local candidates for Harriman City Council and District 2 candidates for the Roane County Commission.
Other candidates for other offices are welcome to attend and mingle.
People should bring a chair. Water will be provided.
Roane County has a type 2 diabetes rate of 13 percent, according to County Health Rankings provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Identifying and connecting with people at high risk of type 2 diabetes is critical to preventing it. And those who already have diabetes, can improve their health and may even be able to reverse type 2 diabetes with a seminar starting Monday.