Paul Edward Carter, 73, of Knoxville, died Thursday, Sept. 13, at Tennova North Medical Center in Powell.
He was born January 24, 1939 in Harlan, Ky., the son of Wymer and Maymie Reynolds Carter.
Mr. Carter was a 1957 graduate of Oak Ridge High School.He served with the U.S. Navy from 1958 to 1961.
Jane Haywood Higgins
Jane Haywood Higgins, age 89, formerly of Oak Ridge passed away Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Shannondale Health Care Center in Knoxville.
Jane was born in Cornersville, Tenn., on July 13, 1923, to the late Shelby Marsh and Margaret Burgess Haywood.
Note: This story was last updated at 3:39 p.m. Sept. 15.
As originally drafted, the proposed policy change would have required anyone who wanted to use a camera, camcorder, or other photographic equipment at an Oak Ridge school board meeting to first seek permission from the board.
But education officials suggested it went too far. While school board members approved it 4-0 on first reading last month, they asked Oak Ridge Schools Superintendent Tom Bailey to revise it.
“I don’t think we want to ban it,” Bailey said, referring to the use of cameras. “I think we reserve the right to is the right language.”
Workers wrap up the demolition of the K-25 east wing, pictured at left, in this Sept. 5 photo. The north end is in the foreground. (Photo submitted by UCOR)
One month after a historic preservation agreement was signed, a federal cleanup contractor announced Friday that it has completed demolition work on the east wing of the K-25 Building and is preparing to demolish the north end.
Historic preservationists had lobbied for years to save the north end, but its deteriorated condition made that option unfeasible, a press release said.
Clinton police seized a Chevrolet Tahoe and arrested four people Thursday morning after authorities and a police dog allegedly found a coffee filter with drug residue that tested positive for methamphetamine.
Inside the Tahoe, authorities also allegedly found several syringes, lithium batteries, and razor blades, a Clinton Police Department report said. Clinton Police Officer Bradley Kidwell said the search also found a CVS Pharmacy bag that contained new makeup items but no receipt.
News Sentinel court reporter Jamie Satterfield will discuss her struggles as a female covering crime during the past 24 years in a Tuesday talk at “Lunch with the League.”
Satterfield’s talk is titled “A Man’s Game.” It starts at noon Tuesday in the Social Hall of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church.
Daniel Hoag
Two National Nuclear Security Administration officials have been reassigned after the July 28 security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
Daniel Hoag has been temporarily reassigned to the Oak Ridge Site Office, NNSA Administrator Thomas D’Agostino said in an Aug. 7 staff memo. Hoag has been deputy manager of the new NNSA Production Office, or NPO, which oversees nuclear production missions at Y-12 in Oak Ridge and the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas.
Hoag’s appointment was announced in July, shortly before the security breach. He served as the chief operating officer for Pantex and Y-12, reporting to NPO Manager Steven Erhart in Oak Ridge.
Despite the objections of one official and one resident, the Oak Ridge City Council on Monday agreed to spend $128,000 to renovate 29 bunkers, or sand traps, at Centennial Golf Course.
The Golf Course Fund will be used to pay for the repairs at the city-owned course. The work will be done by First Place Finish Inc. of Oak Ridge and Signet Golf Associates.
“Vase with Tulips” by Oak Ridge Camera Club President Mike Slay. (Submitted photo)
The Oak Ridge Camera Club is seeking entries for its 64th annual photographic salon. Still lifes, like the elegant “Vase with Tulips” pictured at left, are an exciting part of the annual salon, a press release said.
The press release said all East Tennessee photographers are invited to submit their best digital and print images. Entries will be hung at New Hope Center during November and December.
Digital images to be shown on screen must be submitted from Oct. 14 to 21. Print images (both black and white, and color) will be accepted on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 2 and 3. Visit the Club’s website at oakridgecameraclub.org/ and click in the middle panel on “ORCC 2012 Salon” for entry forms and detailed salon rules.
In celebration of Constitution Day, Roane State Community College will screen Alexandra Pelosi’s documentary “Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip” on Monday, Sept. 17, at the college’s Oak Ridge campus.
Pelosi visited all 50 states and interviewed dozens of immigrant Americans on the day they took the oath of citizenship. The screening will be held at 1 p.m. in the City Room.
Wilbur Joseph Hitchcock
Wilbur Joseph Hitchcock, 89, of Oak Ridge, passed away, Friday, Sept. 7, at the Methodist Medical Center.
Mr. Hitchcock led a long challenging, adventurous life and never met a stranger. He is a product of the South’s Golden Age of lumbering.
Harold DeWillis Cofer
Harold DeWillis Cofer, age 85, of Oak Ridge, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 11, at NHC Health Care Center.
He was born May 24, 1927, in Chattanooga, the son of Tincie Murphy Cofer and Paul W. Cofer Sr.
