Larry Kelly
Larry Kelly has been named manager of the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office.
Kelly has been serving as acting manager since April. He was the third acting manager at the Oak Ridge Office since former manager Gerald Boyd retired in April 2011.
Kelly had previously served as the acting deputy manager and the assistant manager for Environment, Safety and Health.
George Norman Hildreth
George Norman Hildreth, age 90, of Oak Ridge, passed away Wednesday, July 18, at his home.
He was born in DeKalb County, Tenn., on Sept. 4, 1921. Though he grew up in Alexandria, Tenn., home to him was Oak Ridge for more than 63 years.
David Morgan
Teresa Kirkham
If it wasn’t already, the race for Roane County property assessor has grown heated.
There are allegations that the incumbent threatened to beat up her challenger and questions about who owns a website address that was once used by the incumbent but now appears to point to unfavorable articles about her.
The two candidates, incumbent Teresa Kirkham and challenger David Morgan, also disagree on whether property assessment values can be lowered more often than every five years.
Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan, center front, introduces Stephanie Criswell, third from left, and Tiffany Haines, fifth from left, the owners of Emma Lou Bakery and Cafe on South Illinois Avenue. Also pictured from left are Zachary Criswell, Hailey Whitaker, Emma Haines, Nicholas Criswell, Charles Gluck (partially obscured), Oak Ridge Police Officer Daniel McFee, and an unidentified man.
After they graduated from culinary school in December 2011, sisters Stephanie Criswell and Tiffany Haines decided Oak Ridge needed a store that sold fresh, homemade doughnuts and cakes.
So, three months ago, they opened Emma Lou Bakery and Cafe off South Illinois Avenue, next to the Oak Ridge Bowling Center.
On Wednesday, they celebrated with local officials and residents at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Besides doughnuts and cakes, the bakery sells pastries, quiche, and bread. Light lunches are also available on weekdays.
Meghan Millwood
Oak Ridge Associated Universities has a new compensation and benefits director.
Meghan Millwood, who has been ORAU’s manager of human resources operations, has been promoted to the position, a press release said.
“Throughout Meghan’s more than 10 years here at ORAU, she has capably served in a variety of progressively responsible positions within the human resources office,” said Dan Standley, ORAU vice president of human resources. “We are very pleased to now have her contributing in her new role as a director on the management team.”
A contractor demolishes a West Outer Drive home that city officials allege has had code violation problems for a decade. (Photo submitted by City of Oak Ridge)
Demolition work started Monday at a West Outer Drive home that Oak Ridge officials say has had code violation problems for a decade.
“The owners refused to comply with repeated requests to bring the property up to code,” a city press release said Tuesday.
It said the Board of Building and Housing Code Appeals declared the home at 759 W. Outer Drive unfit for human occupation and ordered it demolished in June 2011.
Local officials and community leaders meet at the International Friendship Bell in Oak Ridge to talk about the city and some of its history in a live international webcast that was part of Saturday’s World Bell Festival. Pictured from left are Ray Smith, Shigeko Uppuluri, Katy Brown, Charlie Hensley, and Jeanie and Bill Wilcox.
A few dozen people turned out Saturday to celebrate the World Bell Festival in Oak Ridge.
The International Friendship Bell in Oak Ridge represented North America during the festival, held in Apolda, Germany.
Local organizers used the Internet to connect to the festival and televise the ringing of the Friendship Bell. They also broadcast a short ceremony with Oak Ridge community leaders on Saturday afternoon at A.K. Bissell Park.
Oak Ridge firefighters battle a blaze in a basement at a Wadsworth Place home. (Photo by Tom Scott)
Oily rags might have started a fire in a basement at a home on Wadsworth Place on Monday afternoon, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said.
He said residents who were home when the fire started at about 3:40 p.m. Monday smelled and saw smoke, and they initially thought it might have been from an electrical box in the basement.
But he said the fire, one of three in Oak Ridge on Monday, might have been started instead by cleaning rags that were improperly stored downstairs and spontaneously combusted.
Firefighters battle a blaze at a Lawton Road duplex Monday morning. No one was home when the fire started. (Photos by Tom Scott)
No one was injured in two separate fires Monday morning, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said.
The first fire happened at about 10:15 a.m. Monday after tires blew out on a truck on South Illinois Avenue near Rutgers Avenue, Kerley said.
Then, at about 10:30 a.m., firefighters responded to a fire at a duplex at 114-116 Lawton Road.
An Oak Ridge man was allegedly stabbed in the back with a sword on Friday night after a fist fight at Van Hicks Place, according to Anderson County court records.
Jeffrey John Smith, 30, of Van Hicks Place, is accused of stabbing Michael Showalter, who was transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with a stab wound that punctured his lung, an arrest warrant said. Showalter survived, Oak Ridge Police Chief James Akagi said Monday morning.
The number of voters casting ballots on the first day of early voting Friday was up from 2010, the Anderson County Election Commission said.
Elections Administrator Mark Stephens said 642 people voted Friday, up 146 from 2010.
Jake Goodlaxson, 14, shows the first-place trophy he received on Saturday in the Atomic Kids Triathlon in Oak Ridge. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Goodlaxson)
Close to 75 young athletes swam, rode bikes, and ran in the Oak Ridge Atomic Kids Triathlon on Saturday.
Now in its 11th year, the triathlon includes a 200-meter swim, a two-mile bike ride, and one-mile run.
It started and ended at the Oak Ridge outdoor pool Saturday. The swim was in the pool, the bike ride on Providence and Robertsville roads, and the run on Providence Road.
Awards were given to the top male and female finishers as well as to the top three male and female in the following age groups: 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, and 13-14.
