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.
New Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank has named newspaper reporter Leean Tupper as her administrative assistant, a press release said.
An Anderson County native, Tupper has worked as staff reporter and lifestyles editor at The Oak Ridger since November 2004. She previously worked for more than five years at the Courier News in Clinton. Between the two jobs, she has covered Anderson County government and local schools for 13 years, the press release said.
“I am so excited to add Leean to the operations of the mayor’s office,” Frank said. “In addition to being a wonderfully kind and professional woman, Leean brings to county government a great understanding of the history of Anderson County from her years as a reporter.”
Lawmakers criticized federal officials and contractors during congressional hearings this week on the July 28 security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex, demanding to know who had been fired and who had been responsible for repairing critical cameras that didn’t work.
“This level of intrusion into the perimeter of a highly secure nuclear weapons facility is unprecedented—and it is completely unacceptable,” said Mike Turner, an Ohio Republican who chairs the U.S. House Strategic Forces Subcommittee. “It is outrageous to think that the greatest threat to the American public from weapons of mass destruction may be the incompetence of Department of Energy security.”
Legislators took aim at federal officials and the “mind-boggling incompetence” of contractors. They wanted to know how an 82-year-old nun was able to reach the “Fort Knox” of uranium, a building inside a high-security area at Y-12 surrounded by fences and protected by alarms and cameras—and where deadly force is authorized.
Tommie Turpin Ferguson, age 80, of Knoxville, passed away Monday, Sept. 10.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gene Ferguson; by an infant son; and by an infant granddaughter.
The U.S. House of Representatives has a second hearing this afternoon on this summer’s security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
Today’s 2 p.m. hearing is before the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, and it can be watched live online.
Today’s hearing follows one yesterday by the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. During that hearing, House members called the July 28 security breach at Y-12 “appalling” and an “all-out failure,” and they asked who had been fired and who was responsible for various problems—such as security cameras that didn’t work.
Johnny Alley
New Anderson County Property Assessor Johnny Alley said he wants to increase the number of hours his employees work each week, cross-train employees, and build a website that could help answer public questions.
A Republican, Alley has been a real estate agent for more than eight years and an Anderson County commissioner for about 2.5 years. He defeated Democrat Rick Marlowe in the Aug. 2 county election.
He took office Sept. 1.
