Former Lake City Mayor Virgil E. “Buck” Wilson died Sunday at the North Knoxville Medical Center in Powell. He was 83.
Wilson was a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Korean War and later served two terms as Lake City’s mayor, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
Girls Inc. has received a $46,000 state clean energy grant to replace the roof at the former National Guard Armory on Oak Ridge Turnpike.
Tennessee officials have announced a $46,164 clean energy grant to Girls Inc. of Oak Ridge to replace the roof at the former National Guard Armory.
The roof renovations will prepare Girls Inc. to complete other projects at the building on Oak Ridge Turnpike, such as installing a solar panel array and high-efficiency heating and cooling systems, lighting, and energy-efficient windows, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said in a press release.
Congressional hearings on bills to set up a Manhattan Project park that includes Oak Ridge can be watched online Wednesday and Thursday.
A Senate hearing on the bills that starts at 3 p.m. Wednesday can be watched live at http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/live-webcast, the nonprofit Atomic Heritage Foundation said in a press release.
A House hearing that starts at 10 a.m. Thursday can be watched at http://naturalresources.house.gov/Live/.
State authorities are investigating a midnight joyride by two Stardust Marina employees who wrecked a tenant’s personal watercraft on Norris Lake this past weekend, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
The workers allegedly took a watercraft belonging to one of the marina’s tenants and crashed it into a floating sign anchored along the marina harbor’s “no wake” line, WYSH reported.
Oak Ridge Utility District Operations Director Jeff Patterson, center, explains a new compressed natural gas fueling station to Breakfast Rotary Club members. (Photo by Nick Morris)
Oak Ridge Utility District has installed a compressed natural gas fueling station behind its office on South Jefferson Circle to power a growing fleet of vehicles that can run on natural gas or conventional fuel.
ORUD already has a Ford Fusion car and an F-150 truck that can use either fuel, and a second truck will be converted this week, General Manager Ben Andrews said.
Mayor Tom Beehan will testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, advocating for a Manhattan Project national historical park that would include Oak Ridge.
Beehan will represent Oak Ridge and two other Manhattan Project cities—Hanford, Wash., and Los Alamos, N.M.—as well as the nonprofit Energy Communities Alliance.
He will testify before the National Parks Subcommittee on a bill filed by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat. That bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, would set up a national park for Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Los Alamos.
David Bowman
The Oak Ridge Tennis Club Board has announced that David Bowman is stepping down as president after several years of leadership.
Bowman has been instrumental in increasing youth participation in tennis and in restoring tournaments for youth and adults in Oak Ridge, according to a club release.
The last of three candidate forums at the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday features a Democrat and Republican running for Anderson County mayor.
Tuesday’s “Coffee with the Candidates” starts at 7:30 a.m, and it features Terry Frank, a Clinton Republican, and Warren Gooch, an Oak Ridge Democrat.
Anderson County Democrats, including former party chair Richard Dawson, standing at center, celebrate the grand opening of their headquarters on South Illinois Avenue on Thursday. (Photos courtesy of John and Mary Norris)
Anderson County Democrats have a “better-than-average” chance of taking back the county mayor and state House seats in the August and November elections, a party official said Monday.
In particular, Democrats believe they can beat first-term legislator John Ragan, an Oak Ridge Republican, said Richard Dawson, Tennessee Democratic Party executive committee member in Senate District 5.
Bids on the project to expand and renovate the Anderson County Jail came in within the expected price range when they were opened Thursday, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
The apparent low bid of $9.66 million was submitted by Rouse Construction of Knoxville, WYSH reported. The other five bids were said to be competitively priced as well.
Volunteers make free repairs for homeowners who are elderly, disabled and/or low-income during ADFAC’s annual Summer Repair Fair. (Photo submitted by ADFAC)
More than 800 teenagers and adult volunteers have come from across the county to make repairs to homes in Oak Ridge and Anderson County.
The work is part of the 16th Annual Summer Repair Fair organized by Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties, or ADFAC.
The fair started June 17 and ends June 30. The volunteers could make repairs to as many as 84 homes, an ADFAC press release said.
Rogers Group operator Randy Wilkerson dumps gravel for a sidewalk in front of DoubleTree Hotel on South Illinois Avenue as laborer Dustin Hawkins spreads it.
Money from Oak Ridge’s four traffic camera systems is being used to build five new sections of sidewalk along South Illinois and Jefferson avenues.
The city is using roughly $217,000 from a special programs fund set up for the traffic camera money to build the sidewalks and install crosswalks, pavement markings, and pedestrian push buttons at traffic lights, Oak Ridge City Engineer Steve Byrd said.
