To the Editor:
I just wanted to thank Mayor Terry Frank for standing up for the people of Anderson County.
Mayor Frank has been in office since September 2012, and she stepped into a very dysfunctional, unorganized “business” that needs a lot of cleanup and reorganization.
Information from WYSH Radio
The Tennessee Department of Transportation will spend more than $1.2 million to make safety improvements on Highway 116, also known as New River Highway, in Anderson County’s Briceville community.
After a string of accidents, including some fatalities, on the rural road, local officials began trying to find ways to prevent them in the future and those efforts paid off last August when a team of TDOT officials joined Anderson County commissioners Tim Isbel and Zach Bates, members of the Briceville Volunteer Fire Department, and deputies from the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department on a tour of the 11-mile stretch of road from Frost Bottom to the Campbell County line.
Myron Iwanski
Note: This story was updated at 1:40 p.m. Feb. 27.
Anderson County Commissioner Myron Iwanski said the speech given by Mayor Terry Frank on Monday contained some “false and misleading” information.
Frank held a press conference at the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton on Monday, saying she had to respond to accusations that she was taking advantage of taxpayers by using a county car and accepting travel payment.
In her speech during the press conference, Frank said the $400 per month that Anderson County Commission Chairman Chuck Fritts has accused her of receiving is not travel money. Instead, it is a salary supplement that was added to the mayor’s salary back in 1988 when David Bolling was county mayor, Frank said.
The Knoxville Police Department on Friday arrested a Knoxville man suspected of stealing a school bus in Knox County that was later found in Anderson County.
The suspect, Hillman Greenlee, 61, “sold” the 1998 Blue Ribbon Coach Bus for $1,200 to another person while the owner of the bus was out of town, according to a statement from KPD spokesman Darrell DeBusk. The value of the bus is about $2,000.
Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank says the county commission chairman has made accusations against her related to county travel and vehicle policy, but she has violated no laws.
CLINTON—Her honesty has been questioned, and she has been the subject of a politically motivated smear campaign, Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank said.
Anderson County Commission Chairman Chuck Fritts has accused her of taking advantage of taxpayers by using a county car and accepting travel payments, Frank during a Monday morning press conference at the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton.
To the Editor:
Regarding the passage of the “In God We Trust” resolution: I want to be the next to add a sign to the top of courthouse since we can now put signs on the courthouse in Anderson County.
I want to have a sign placed on the top of the courthouse stating that Anderson County is in full support of the enforcement of the ADA civil rights laws (Americans with Disabilities Act) passed in 2011.
Failure to do this will say that you are in opposition to the ADA civil rights laws.
Keep Anderson County Beautiful is having two clean-up kickoff events and litter awareness campaigns in March.
It’s part of the 2013 Great American Cleanup Clean-up Challenge, a press release said.
A school bus reported stolen in Knox County this morning was soon found in Anderson County, authorities said.
Bus 117 appears to have been stolen from its owner’s home on Prosser Road, Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.
Several area students made the dean’s list at Roane State Community College for the fall 2012 semester.
To be eligible, a student must attain at least a 3.5 grade-point average while attempting 12 or more semester hours of college-level courses.
Information from WYSH Radio
Rescue crews located three people reported missing after not returning from an ATV ride uninjured Saturday morning.
Crews from the Anderson and Morgan County rescue squads as well as crews from the Marlow and Briceville volunteer fire departments and others assisted in the search for a grandfather, father, and son who went riding Friday on Windrock Mountain, got lost, and had to camp out in the elements overnight. The trio was located Saturday morning and, aside from one mild case of hypothermia, was safe and sound.
An Anderson County task force serving a search warrant on Waltham Lane on Feb. 1 allegedly found 46.2 grams of purported cocaine base, or crack cocaine, in a kitchen drawer, authorities said.
The task force also allegedly found 8.3 grams of purported marijuana in the kitchen drawer, court records said, and a fully loaded chrome Trooper MK III 357 caliber Colt revolver was found in a master bedroom closet. A small digital scale that had allegedly had marijuana and white residue was found on the kitchen counter, according to affidavits filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court.
Several area students made the president’s list at Roane State Community College for the fall 2012 semester.
To be eligible, a student must attain a 4.0 grade point average while attempting 12 or more semester hours of college-level courses.
