The Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce has organized a Tuesday morning open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony for Pugh and Co., certified public accountants and public advisers.
The ceremony is scheduled from 9-10 a.m. Tuesday at Pugh and Co., which is in the Jackson Plaza, Suite A-404, 800 Oak Ridge Turnpike.
Dallas Marshall Ricker
Dallas Marshall Ricker, age 63, a resident of Clinton, went home to be with the Lord, Friday, Jan. 25, at his home while surrounded by his family.
Mr. Ricker was born on May 17, 1949, in Athens, Tenn. He moved to Oliver Springs during his early childhood and continued to live here until he was 13, when he moved to Columbus, Ga. He moved back to Oliver Springs in 1971.
Dallas was a Christian and he was saved at Moran Baptist Church. He was also a master at repairing anything. His family said, “If it could be made, Dallas Ricker could fix it.”
He co-owned and co-operated Davenport Tree and Landscaping. He was an avid Harley Davidson enthusiast, and he also rode a Can-Am Spyder Motorcycle. He enjoyed fishing the Outer Banks in North Carolina.
Jeffery Wayne Byrge, age 48, a resident of Coalfield, went home to be with his heavenly Father, Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge
Jeffery was born April 13, 1964, in Oak Ridge. He was a lifelong resident of Coalfield.
Mr. Byrge was a carpenter in the construction business. He was of the Baptist Faith.
One person died in a Monday afternoon fire at a home at the corner of Decatur Road and Delaware Avenue. (Photo by Tom Scott)
One person died in a Monday afternoon house fire on Decatur Road, Oak Ridge Assistant Fire Chief Josh Waldo said.
Authorities aren’t releasing the name or age of the person, pending notification of relatives. Authorities also wouldn’t say where the person was in the house during the fire.
The Oak Ridge police and fire departments are investigating the cause of the fire, which was concentrated around the home’s back porch and living room and sent thick gray and black smoke billowing skyward.
Oak Ridge firefighters quickly extinguished a fire at a Decatur Road home on Monday afternoon.
Oak Ridge firefighters quickly extinguished a fire that briefly raged at a Decatur Road home on Monday afternoon, including on the back porch.
Neighbors reported smoke at the home at about 2:45 p.m. Monday.
The Oak Ridge Fire Department appeared to bring the fire under control within a few minutes and later entered the home, which is at the intersection with Delaware Avenue. Firefighters remained on the scene more than 90 minutes afterward.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
Bob Smallridge
The Oak Ridge Board of Education will discuss a plan to possibly add more school resource officers during a meeting this evening.
The board will also consider a new timeline in its search for a new superintendent.
Interim Oak Ridge Schools Superintendent Robert J. Smallridge, who is a former superintendent in the Secret City, said he would like to have one school resource officer, or SRO, in each school. There is currently one SRO at the high school.
Business owners with electronic signs, including Toney Stevens of Rivers Total Car Care in Oak Ridge, objected to a letter they received in December asking them to fix sign ordinance code violations. Since then, the violation notices have been canceled, and the Oak Ridge City Council will discuss the electronic sign ordinance in a work session tonight.
The Oak Ridge City Council will review the city’s electronic reader board sign ordinance during a work session at 7 p.m. today.
The meeting will also include a presentation and report on the city’s economic development programs and possible changes in how the city supports new jobs and companies, improves retail opportunities, and enhances housing improvements.
Changes to the city’s electronic sign ordinance were proposed late last year, but they were pulled from a December meeting of the Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission agenda after a backlash from business owners.
Now mostly demolished, the former mile-long, U-shaped K-25 Building is pictured above. The site could be included in a Manhattan Project National Historical Park. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy)
A bill to create a Manhattan Project national park that would include Oak Ridge died in the last session of Congress, but the legislation could be revived this session.
“It will be reintroduced,” said Cindy Kelly, founder and president of the Atomic Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. “We are very optimistic that the bill will move through the process.”
Besides Oak Ridge, the park would also include sites in Los Alamos, N.M., and Hanford, Wash.
Rheba Hackworth
Rheba Hackworth, age 71, a resident of Oliver Springs, went home to be with the Lord, Thursday, Jan. 24, at her home while surrounded by family and friends.
Mrs. Hackworth was born Sept. 21, 1941, in the Fork Mountain Community in Anderson County. She moved to the lower camp of Windrock Mountain in 1955. Following her marriage, she lived in Louisiana and Georgia before moving back to Oliver Springs in 1960.
Rheba was a loving mother, wife, grandmother, great-grandmother, and special friend to all that knew her. She was a faithful Christian and a member of the Orchard View Baptist Church.
Before her retirement, she was employed at Roane Hosiery, J.C.Penney, Oliver Springs Flower and Garden, and Continuum Courtyards of Oak Ridge.
Frederick “Butch” Cox
Frederick “Butch” Cox, age 71, a resident of Riceville, Tenn., passed away Thursday, Jan. 24, at his home.
Butch was born Nov. 25, 1941, in Oliver Springs. He has lived in Riceville since 1967.
Butch was employed at Bowater in Calhoun, Tenn., for 35 years before his retirement in 2002.
Mr. Cox was a great story teller who possessed a wealth of knowledge of the early Oliver Springs families.
He enjoyed raising cattle, gardening, hunting, camping, and outdoor activities.
Margaret Ruth Kerr
Margaret Ruth Kerr, age 96, formerly of Oak Ridge, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 23, at Vitas Health Care Center in Stockbridge, Ga.
She was born June 10, 1916, in Absher, Mont., the daughter of Henry and Mary Jane Phillips Allan.
Mrs. Kerr retired from the University of Tennessee Agricultural Farm, where she was a librarian. She had also served as a board member of Clinch River Home Health Services.
She was a longtime member of First United Methodist Church and served as a volunteer for the Recording for the Blind, Campfire Girls and CONTACT. She played the piano for the Mello-Dears musical group and sang with the Sweet Adeline’s. She was an avid gardener and loved attending the wild flower shows in Gatlinburg.
The Anderson County Democratic Party will honor and thank volunteers who worked in the campaigns of all Democratic candidates in 2012 elections with a free dinner and party at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, at the Clinton Community Center.
Volunteers throughout the county worked in campaigns ranging from President Obama’s re-election campaign to the campaigns of state and local candidates in 2012.
