This summer, Roane State Community College is participating in the Obama Administration’s Summer Jobs+ program, which is part of the American Jobs Act.
As part of the program, Roane State will offer free life-skills and work-skills classes to 50 people age 16-24. These classes will include training in money management, conflict resolution, how to apply for a job online, resume writing, and others.
It’s been a great week for Oak Ridge Today. We posted our first two advertisements, had our first 1,000-view day, and passed 10,000 views total since our launch on March 29.
We have added an opinion section; this is our first post in that section.
National Park Service employee Jeff Durbin, left, outlines three options for preserving the North Tower at East Tennessee Technology Park, the former K-25 site. Also pictured, at right, are Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan and, second from right, City Manager Mark Watson.
A decade worth of discussions over whether to preserve a part of the historic K-25 uranium-enrichment building in west Oak Ridge could conclude at the end of this month.
A final plan has not been presented, but a final memorandum of agreement could be drafted by May 31, said Susan Cange, acting manager of the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management program in Oak Ridge.
Dog owners in Oak Ridge can vote in a contest to build a dog park in our city. PetSafe is having a contest called “Bark for Your Park” in which the winning city is given $100,000 to build a dog park, according to an Oak Ridge Recreation and Parks Department press release.
The first phase of voting ends June 13.
Bill Issel, Donna Stephens and Christy Gipson sort donated items for a Free Market on Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church.
Grace Lutheran Church is hosting their second annual Free Market on Saturday. The event will be open from 10 to 2 p.m. Grace Lutheran is offering this free-of-charge, special opportunity to assist those in our community who are in need.
Market-goers will be able to register for door prizes and three lucky winners will be mailed a Kroger gift certificate. The drawing will be held immediately after the free market closes.
OLIVER SPRINGS—The Oliver Springs Town Council has picked the son of the city’s former mayor to become city manager.
The Council agreed in a 4-1 vote Thursday night to have Oliver Springs Mayor Chris Hepler negotiate with Eddie Kelley Jr. for the position. Kelley is the son of former Oliver Springs Mayor Ed Kelley, and he is also the city’s part-time parks director.
Mardee Miller, the former principal of Willow Brook Elementary School, was removed from her position on May 7. The school's front entrance is pictured above.
It’s still not clear why former Willow Brook Elementary School Principal Mardee D. Miller was removed from her job last week, but a letter released by the Oak Ridge school system Thursday provides a few details.
In the May 7 letter, Oak Ridge Superintendent Tom Bailey told Miller he was placing her on paid administrative leave after an investigation of “inappropriate treatment” of a student during state testing.
“I have come to the conclusion that I no longer have confidence in your ability to effectively or efficiently perform the duties of an elementary school principal in the Oak Ridge schools,” Bailey told Miller in the hand-delivered letter.
Regional leaders rank community issues during a recent PlanET forum at the Flatwater Grill in Oak Ridge.
Union County Mayor Micheal Williams wants the county to withdraw from a regional planning organization that recently held a series of public forums and drew some opposition from property rights advocates, including in Oak Ridge and Anderson County.
Named PlanET, the five-county organization includes Anderson, Blount, Loudon, Knox, and Union counties. Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan is chair of its board of mayors.
“Union County is a rural county and is much smaller, as far as demographics are concerned, than the other counties which make up PlanET,” Williams wrote in a May 1 letter to the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization. “I feel that Union County would be better served if we promote ourselves as an individual county instead of grouping with the larger ones and being left behind.”
Oak Ridge High School senior Adam LaClair, right, has won a four-year, $20,000 UT-Battelle scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee. LaClair is pictured above with Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason. (Photo submitted by ORNL)
Oak Ridge High School senior Adam LaClair has won the 2012 UT-Battelle Scholarship, a $20,000, four-year award.
The scholarship from UT-Battelle, the managing contractor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is given every year to a graduating senior who has a parent who works at the lab and who plans to study science, engineering or mathematics at the University of Tennessee, a press release said.
The son of Tim and Sabina LaClair, Adam LaClair is a member of the National Honor Society and Spanish Honors Society and is active in the Science Olympiad and Scholars Bowl. He has taken advanced placement courses in calculus, physics, chemistry, and English.
A Y-12 National Security Complex documentary called "A Nuclear Family" is now available online.
An award-winning Y-12 National Security Complex documentary that aired on public television earlier this year is now available online.
The four-part miniseries is called “A Nuclear Family: Y-12 National Security Complex,” and it was broadcast by East Tennessee Public Broadcasting System.
The documentary was conceived and produced by Y‑12 Historian Ray Smith and Y‑12 Video Services, a press release said.
“It gives viewers never-before-seen glimpses into the world-changing work done in Oak Ridge, Tennessee,” the release said.
Firefighters from three departments respond to a blaze on Dellwood Drive in Oliver Springs on Wednesday morning. The three departments were Oliver Springs, Oak Ridge, and Blair. (Photos by Tom Scott)
The 8:40 a.m. blaze reportedly caused major interior damage.
When the fire started, Oliver Springs Fire Department was preparing a demonstration at the nearby Oliver Springs Elementary School, so the department was able to respond quickly.
