This Saturday will be the first Breakfast with the FARM Market in Oak Ridge from 8 a.m. until noon. Chef Xavier Presley will serve breakfast using products from local farmers.
Musicians Beau James and Jeff Stewart will play for market guests.
The farmer’s market is also open on Wednesdays from 3 to 6 p.m.
Oak Ridge is in the third week of its citywide brush pickup program. Though the schedule can change due to weather conditions or the amount of brush the city has to pick up, the following is the posted schedule for the week of May 14-18.
Oak Ridge continues its second week of brush pickup Monday. The schedule for the coming week is as follows.
Jenna and the Accidentals, pictured above, will perform Friday night at A.K. Bissell Park
This year’s free Secret City Sounds Concert Series starts Friday night, and it features Jenna and the Accidentals.
Now in its fourth season, the concert series is held at the Pavilion in A.K. Bissell Park.
Firefighters battle a Friday evening blaze in east Oak Ridge that destroyed a home and left a mother and her two teenage sons with minor injuries.
A mother and her two teenage sons suffered minor injuries and their home was destroyed in a Friday evening fire in east Oak Ridge that was possibly caused by an electrical problem.
Vanessa Todd, 42, and her two sons, Takoda Todd, 14, and Tyler Todd, 13, tried to battle the blaze with a garden hose and rescue their two cats and one dog, but the flames were too powerful.
Vanessa Todd and her son Tyler are pictured above with Oak Ridge Fire Department firefighter Mark White. Not pictured is Todd's other son, Takoda.
“The fire just burned my head,” Vanessa Todd said as she watched firefighters extinguish the flames at 413 East Drive. “It was so hot. I just turned around and ran back out.”
The soot-covered family was able to escape the fire, which started just before 5 p.m. Friday, although their hair was singed and they suffered from smoke inhalation. They were able to rescue their dog Kibo and one of the cats, Syrvio. The other cat, Buddy, is still missing.
A potential agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency settling fines for sewer system overflows in Oak Ridge could save the city several million dollars.
The fines during a five-year period ending September 2010 could have totaled between $4 million and $5 million, city officials said this week.
But under negotiations between the city and EPA, the penalties could be lowered to approximately $170,000, Oak Ridge City Attorney Ken Krushenski said Tuesday. The city would have to pay $102,000 in cash and might get a “dollar-for-dollar” credit for spending another $68,000 on a supplemental environmental project, or SEP.
The City of Oak Ridge begins its annual brush pickup program on Monday. Brush includes tree limbs, bagged yard clippings and leaves. This schedule is a general guide, but it can vary due to weather conditions or the amount of brush to pick up.
