Jasper Clarence “J.C.” Scarbrough
Jasper Clarence “J.C.” Scarbrough, age 94, of Clinton, and formerly of Oak Ridge, went home to be with our Lord on Monday, Sept. 3, at the home of his daughter, Mary Hackworth.
He was born March 25, 1918, in Harriman, the son of Franklin and Roxie Ova Farr Scarbrough.
Kroger Marketplace Site Plan
Note: This story was last updated at 12:09 p.m.
A Kroger Marketplace store could be the primary tenant at a new $30 million shopping center on the northeast corner of the intersection of Oak Ridge Turnpike and Illinois Avenue.
The new 113,000-square-foot store could open in the spring of 2014, according to a Thursday morning press release from the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce.
The announcement ends months of community speculation about what was being proposed at the busy intersection.
Terry Frank
New Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank announced staff changes Tuesday and pledged to focus on jobs and economic prosperity.
Frank said she will no longer work at her family-owned business, Nature’s Marketplace, and will push to make government more transparent while trying to cut illegal drug use in Anderson County.
Frank is Anderson County’s first female mayor. She was sworn in Friday evening and took office at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1.
Note: This story was updated at 1:49 p.m. Sept. 6.
The new director of the protective force at the Y-12 National Security Complex has been reassigned after a federal inspector allegedly found papers in a patrol vehicle that included answers to a test scheduled to be given to guards as part of an investigation following an unprecedented July 28 security breach.
A U.S. Department of Energy official said the stack of papers found last week also included a copy of a test designed to quiz a random sample of a few dozen guards on policies and procedures, as well as a “post check” interview sheet. The “post checks” question security officers on procedures and performance tests, such as deploying gas masks. The papers were not supposed to be shared, said the DOE official, speaking on background.
Elizabeth Wilson Diggs
Elizabeth Wilson Diggs, age 75, a resident of the Marlow Community in Anderson County, went home to be with the Lord, Sunday, Sept. 2, at her home.
Mrs. Diggs was born April 27, 1937, in Anderson County. She was a lifelong resident of this area.
At right, Pat Imperato, Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge board president, welcomes her grandchildren, Mia and Luke Pappano, to an earlier pancake breakfast benefiting the museum. (Submitted photo)
The Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge will host a pancake breakfast from 8-10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at Applebee’s, 1213 Oak Ridge Turnpike.
The public is invited to come feast on pancakes in support of the Children’s Museum. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under. Tickets are available at the front desk of the museum, 461 W. Outer Dr., or at the Applebee’s door on Sept. 8. Children’s Museum board members, staff, and members of Knoxville Area Model Railroaders will serve pancakes.
Children of all ages enjoy learning through play indoors and out at the Children’s Museum. Inside the museum, children may explore how children lived in historic Appalachia, wander through a rain forest, delight in a child-sized playhouse, create a puppet play, experience water play in Waterworks, or see model trains travel through miniature landscapes.
The Oak Ridge police and fire departments respond to a small mattress fire on Wednesday morning in the Methodist Medical Center emergency department.
Note: This story was updated at 1:30 p.m.
A patient with a lighter who was experiencing a medical emergency started a foam mattress on fire at Methodist Medical Center on Wednesday morning, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said.
In a statement, the hospital said the small 10:15 a.m. fire in its emergency department was quickly extinguished.
The Oak Ridge Fire Department responds to a Tuesday evening stove fire at a Jasper Lane home. (Photos by Tom Scott)
A Tuesday evening stove fire caused an estimated $50,000 worth of damage to a Jasper Lane home, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said.
The stove was turned off when the accidental blaze started at about 7:35 p.m. Tuesday, Kerley said.
No humans were hurt, but a family cat died, he said.
Rebecca Lois Adamski, 91, of Oak Ridge, died Saturday, Sept. 1, at NHC Health Care Center.
She was born May 15, 1921, in Jackson County, the daughter of Lester L. and Mary Jane Thomas Duke.
Oak Ridge firefighters respond to a car that crashed into the former Keeping Room on Rutgers Avenue early Monday morning. (Photo by Tom Scott)
Oak Ridge firefighters responded to a car that crashed into the former Keeping Room on Rutgers Avenue at about 4:45 a.m. Monday.
On Tuesday, the Oak Ridge Police Department said an accident report is not available yet, but one should be ready later this week, possibly on Saturday.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
WSI Oak Ridge could lose its security contract at the Y-12 National Security Complex if it doesn’t take action to address recent security concerns, B&W Y-12 announced Tuesday.
WSI received a notice of a potential contract termination “for default” on Aug. 31, two days after an unspecified Aug. 29 “on-site personnel incident” that allegedly involved a WSI staff member. However, B&W Y-12 didn’t provide more details in a press release it sent out Tuesday.
“At no time during the personnel incident was there risk to the Y-12 employees, community, or to the special nuclear materials,” the release said.
The hearing date for an Oak Ridge man accused of stabbing another man with a sword has been postponed until Oct. 4, attorney Marty Cizek said.
Cizek said a psychiatric evaluation that was ordered on July 24 for Jeffrey John Smith, 30, is not complete. Smith had been scheduled to have an Aug. 28 hearing in General Sessions Court in Oak Ridge.
