Proceeds from a new 4.2-mile greenway run and walk will be used to install benches on local trails.
The first annual Battle for the Secret City Greenway starts Sunday near the Oak Ridge Rowing Association Boathouse and ends at the west end of Haw Ridge Park.
An Oak Ridge board will consider whether to order the demolition of a warehouse on Tuskegee Drive this afternoon.
The city staff has recommended that the building at 400 Tuskegee Drive be declared unfit and either repaired or demolished within 30 days, and that trash and debris be cleaned up with 10 days of the hearing.
Electron microscopy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory confirmed that a carbon nanotube material that exhibits desirable chemical properties has many heavy atoms, such as the iron atoms circled in red. (Photo submitted by ORNL)
A team of researchers that included scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed an inexpensive carbon nanotube material that could help lower the cost of fuel cells and catalytic converters.
The new material could provide a substitute for expensive platinum catalysts.
Tennessee Rep. John Ragan, right, talks to Andrew Kern, left, of Lenoir City, and Ken Wood, of Tellico Village, during a campaign kickoff ceremony Wednesday.
The state House district that includes Oak Ridge and most of Anderson County could be key to Republican plans to maintain a majority this fall–and possibly even gain a supermajority.
“This is one of those races that is going to make or break that supermajority,” said Holt Whitt, a member of the Republican Caucus field staff in Nashville.
Whitt is helping Rep. John Ragan, an Oak Ridge Republican, prepare for the Nov. 6 election, and he attended a Wednesday morning campaign kickoff ceremony for Ragan.
Anderson County commissioners try to resolve a funding standoff with Sheriff Paul White, right, during a Monday night meeting. Also pictured from left are commissioners Johnny Alley, Jerry White, and Rick Meredith.
CLINTON–The sheriff insisted he needs at least 13 jailers to open a new dormitory this summer but the county commission would not raise property taxes again, so a budget standoff remained unresolved after a special meeting Tuesday night.
The Anderson County Budget Committee will wrestle with the budget again during an afternoon meeting next Monday, and the County Commission will hear any new proposals during its regular meeting that evening.
Tennessee Rep. John Ragan will kick off his 2012 campaign for the state House of Representatives during a Wednesday morning ceremony in Oak Ridge.
The ceremony starts at 11 a.m. at Ragan’s campaign headquarters at 103 Jefferson Ave.
Rogers Group Inc. wants to expand its mining and quarry operations in Oak Ridge, hoping to acquire 56 acres at the University of Tennessee Arboretum on Union Valley Road in exchange for 83 acres in Sweetwater, plus $400,000.
The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture-Forest Resources Research and Education Center has already agreed to the exchange, said Mark Stephens, Rogers Group division vice president.
Ronald Smith
Ronald E. Smith, age 76, of Clinton passed away Friday, June 8, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Ronald was born Aug. 16, 1935, in Detroit, Mich., to the late Clayton and Mildred Tait Smith.
Laney Duncan
Laney Byrge Duncan of the Dutch Valley Community entered into eternal life June 10 at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge.
She was born to the late Calloway and Nancy Reynolds Byrge of New River on Feb. 7, 1921.
The Oak Ridge Mall is for sale for $10.5 million, and city officials say redeveloping it will likely require the use of new property tax revenues to help pay for public infrastructure improvements.
Voters said “no” the last time they were asked to consider whether to invest public money into a massive redevelopment of the Oak Ridge Mall.
This time, they might not have a choice.
Potential developers are likely to ask for public money to help pay for infrastructure improvements ranging from rerouted roadways and new traffic lights to building upgrades and property demolition, city officials said Monday.
An Oliver Springs woman has been charged with robbery after she allegedly took her boyfriend’s prescription hydrocodone and threatened to beat him “like a man” if he tried to take it back, Anderson County court records said.
Jayne Marie Davis-Clark, 44, remained in jail Monday afternoon on $50,000 bond.
An Oak Ridge man was charged with aggravated assault after allegedly hitting another man in the head with a baseball bat Thursday, knocking him unconscious, Anderson County court records said.
Bryon John Van Brocklin, 25, also chased another person around a Manchester Avenue home before fleeing, the records said.
An ambulance took the victim, who is not identified in the affidavit, to Methodist Medical Center.
In the affidavit, Oak Ridge Police Officer Matthew Johnston said Van Brocklin went to the house “with the intent of fighting and exited his vehicle with an aluminum baseball bat.”
Van Brocklin remained jailed Monday evening on $100,000 bond, and a court appearance has been scheduled for Thursday.
Arrest warrants list Joseph Eric Kovach and Devon Noel Reed of Oak Ridge as victims or witnesses, but they don’t say which one of the two was knocked unconscious.
