Construction work has started on Woodland Town Center, a commercial development that will feature an Aubrey's restaurant on South Illinois Avenue and a larger, relocated Panera Bread.
Construction work has started at a four-acre tract on South Illinois Avenue that will feature an Aubrey’s restaurant and Panera Bread.
The restaurants could be complete by September or October.
More than 150 oral histories of residents who played roles in Oak Ridge before, during, and after the top-secret Manhattan Project are now available online.
The histories are available through the Oak Ridge Public Library’s website, and there will be a May 29 ceremony to celebrate the launch of the online collection. Hosted by the Center for Oak Ridge Oral History (COROH), the reception will be in Oak Ridge Public Library auditorium from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
It’s been a great week for Oak Ridge Today. We posted our first two advertisements, had our first 1,000-view day, and passed 10,000 views total since our launch on March 29.
We have added an opinion section; this is our first post in that section.
National Park Service employee Jeff Durbin, left, outlines three options for preserving the North Tower at East Tennessee Technology Park, the former K-25 site. Also pictured, at right, are Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan and, second from right, City Manager Mark Watson.
A decade worth of discussions over whether to preserve a part of the historic K-25 uranium-enrichment building in west Oak Ridge could conclude at the end of this month.
A final plan has not been presented, but a final memorandum of agreement could be drafted by May 31, said Susan Cange, acting manager of the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management program in Oak Ridge.
OLIVER SPRINGS—The Oliver Springs Town Council has picked the son of the city’s former mayor to become city manager.
The Council agreed in a 4-1 vote Thursday night to have Oliver Springs Mayor Chris Hepler negotiate with Eddie Kelley Jr. for the position. Kelley is the son of former Oliver Springs Mayor Ed Kelley, and he is also the city’s part-time parks director.
Mardee Miller, the former principal of Willow Brook Elementary School, was removed from her position on May 7. The school's front entrance is pictured above.
It’s still not clear why former Willow Brook Elementary School Principal Mardee D. Miller was removed from her job last week, but a letter released by the Oak Ridge school system Thursday provides a few details.
In the May 7 letter, Oak Ridge Superintendent Tom Bailey told Miller he was placing her on paid administrative leave after an investigation of “inappropriate treatment” of a student during state testing.
“I have come to the conclusion that I no longer have confidence in your ability to effectively or efficiently perform the duties of an elementary school principal in the Oak Ridge schools,” Bailey told Miller in the hand-delivered letter.
Regional leaders rank community issues during a recent PlanET forum at the Flatwater Grill in Oak Ridge.
Union County Mayor Micheal Williams wants the county to withdraw from a regional planning organization that recently held a series of public forums and drew some opposition from property rights advocates, including in Oak Ridge and Anderson County.
Named PlanET, the five-county organization includes Anderson, Blount, Loudon, Knox, and Union counties. Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan is chair of its board of mayors.
“Union County is a rural county and is much smaller, as far as demographics are concerned, than the other counties which make up PlanET,” Williams wrote in a May 1 letter to the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization. “I feel that Union County would be better served if we promote ourselves as an individual county instead of grouping with the larger ones and being left behind.”
A Y-12 National Security Complex documentary called "A Nuclear Family" is now available online.
An award-winning Y-12 National Security Complex documentary that aired on public television earlier this year is now available online.
The four-part miniseries is called “A Nuclear Family: Y-12 National Security Complex,” and it was broadcast by East Tennessee Public Broadcasting System.
The documentary was conceived and produced by Y‑12 Historian Ray Smith and Y‑12 Video Services, a press release said.
“It gives viewers never-before-seen glimpses into the world-changing work done in Oak Ridge, Tennessee,” the release said.
Firefighters from three departments respond to a blaze on Dellwood Drive in Oliver Springs on Wednesday morning. The three departments were Oliver Springs, Oak Ridge, and Blair. (Photos by Tom Scott)
The 8:40 a.m. blaze reportedly caused major interior damage.
When the fire started, Oliver Springs Fire Department was preparing a demonstration at the nearby Oliver Springs Elementary School, so the department was able to respond quickly.
Law enforcement personnel from the Oak Ridge Police Department and Anderson County Sheriff's Department stand at attention Tuesday during a National Peace Officers Memorial Day ceremony at the Municipal Building.
A Tuesday memorial service honored law enforcement officers who died while working and paid tribute to those who have died since retiring.
“Their sacrifices will never be forgotten,” Oak Ridge Police Chief James T. Akagi said after the afternoon ceremony at the Municipal Building. “It’s a sacred bond between law enforcement officers.”
Tuesday was National Peace Officers Memorial Day, and this week is National Police Week.
The lack of jobs that pay well is the most serious community problem, Anderson County residents said in a recent telephone survey.
Fifty-five percent of those responding rated it as a major problem, according to a survey summary released Monday by PlanET.
But 76 percent of those surveyed in Anderson County said the quality of life in their community is good or excellent.
The new Brightfield One 828-panel solar farm at Heritage Center in west Oak Ridge can generate enough electricity to power about 20 homes.
A solar array that began operating in west Oak Ridge in April can generate enough electricity to power about 20 homes, officials said during a ceremony Tuesday.
Developed by Restoration Services Inc., the $800,000 solar farm uses four rows of south-facing panels on 1.5 acres at the front side of Heritage Center, the former K-25 site.
“We wanted it right here at the entrance to make a statement about clean energy and the Department’s commitment,” said Rick Ferguson, RSI vice president, referring to the U.S. Department of Energy.
