Anderson County Schools will be closed Tuesday, January 10, due to icy conditions on county back roads and buses that aren’t able to run routes safely. The Central Office will follow the inclement weather procedure.
Clinton City Schools will also be closed Tuesday, January 10, due to weather conditions.
Roane County Schools will be operating on a two-hour delay. The Central Office will report at the normal time.
Using X-ray diffraction, ORNL’s Radu Custelcean analyzed the molecular structure of the simple guanidine compound and was surprised to find carbonate, a crystal that forms when carbon dioxide from air reacts with water. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
By Sara Shoemaker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a simple, reliable process to capture carbon dioxide directly from ambient air, offering a new option for carbon capture and storage strategies to combat global warming.
Ambient air is air that completely surrounds.
Initially, the ORNL team was studying methods to remove environmental contaminants such as sulfate, chromate, or phosphate from water. To remove those negatively charged ions, the researchers synthesized a simple compound known as guanidine designed to bind strongly to the contaminants and form insoluble crystals that are easily separated from water.
In the process, they discovered a method to capture and release carbon dioxide that requires minimal energy and chemical input. Their results are published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition. [Read more…]
Progressive Martial Arts Academy in Oak Ridge has a free women’s self-defense seminar on Saturday.
The seminar starts at 2 p.m. Saturday. It’s a two-hour edition of the course, and space is available, said David Corrigan, owner and chief instructor at Progressive Martial Arts Academy.
Details are available here.
See the event flyer here.
Information from WYSH Radio
Two people were taken to an area emergency room early Saturday following a house fire in Claxton.
The fire was reported at a home in the 600 block of Foust Carney Road in Claxton at around 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Claxton firefighters and Anderson County deputies responded to the scene, as did members of the Anderson County EMS. [Read more…]
Jefferson Middle School and Robertsville Middle School will play their rescheduled basketball games on Monday.
The girls’ junior varsity game tips off at 4:45 p.m. Monday at Wildcat Arena at Oak Ridge High School. Varsity games will follow.
The games were postponed due to the weather on Saturday.
Members of the Oak Ridge Interfaith Dialogue group each have at least one favorite book that they find important and interesting, and at a Monday meeting, they can share these books with interfaith friends.
All those who attend will be encouraged to bring a book with them to display for the meeting. A few members have agreed in advance to present on a selected book at the meeting, which will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, January 9, in the Entry Forum of the Jewish Congregation at 101 West Madison Lane in Oak Ridge.
Among the selected books are the following: [Read more…]
ADFAC volunteer Carol Smallridge, left, and Burchfield’s Food and Beverage Manager Walter Duebler are pictured above. Burchfield’s, located at the DoubleTree in Oak Ridge, has been a loyal supporter of ADFAC for many years, and ADFAC says it’s proud Burchfield’s is participating in “A Year of Dine & Donate!” (Photo courtesy ADFAC)
Starting on Monday, 12 local restaurants will participate in ADFAC’s “A Year of Dine & Donate.”
On Dine & Donate Mondays (the second Monday of each month), the restaurants listed below will donate a significant portion of their daily sales to ADFAC.
In Clinton:
In Oak Ridge:
Both Subways in Clinton will participate and so will the Subway at 1968 Oak Ridge Turnpike in Oak Ridge, and the Subways in Oliver Springs and Rocky Top. [Read more…]
Ed Westcott, right, was the only official photographer in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project in World War II, a top-secret project to build the world’s first atomic bomb. Westcott is pictured above with D. Ray Smith, Y-12 National Security Complex historian and newspaper history columnist. (Photo courtesy D. Ray Smith)
A Tuesday program will focus on the construction of the city that is now Oak Ridge through Ed Westcott photographs.
The program is titled “The Building of the Atomic City—the Ed Wescott Photographs.” It will be presented by Emily Hunnicutt, Ed Westcott’s daughter, and Don Hunnicutt, Westcott’s son-in-law.
Westcott was the official photographer for the federal government in the city, which was once known as Clinton Engineer Works, during World War II. Oak Ridge was built as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project, a program to build the world’s first atomic bombs, before Germany could.
The Tuesday program is at noon at the University of Tennessee Resource Center at 1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike. It includes a lunch, and it’s sponsored by Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, or FORNL. This meeting is open to the public. [Read more…]
A new cross is installed at First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge in November 2016. (Photo by Julio Culiat)
First United Methodist Church has an open house today to celebrate a recent renovation.
The open house is from 5-7 p.m. Sunday, January 8.
During the $600,000 renovation, the church upgraded audio visuals in both worship spaces, erected two new signs, and completely renovated the youth loft, second floor restrooms, hallways, welcome center, and classrooms. [Read more…]
Pictured above are Oak Ridge cross country coach Allen Etheridge, center, and assistant coaches Ed Wright, left, and Tom Sauer at the Class AAA cross country meet at Percy Warner Park in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was updated at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 7.
Allen Etheridge has resigned as cross country coach at Oak Ridge High School after 13 years as head coach and six state titles.
His resignation is effective today (Friday, January 6). Etheridge was an assistant cross country coach for five years before he became head coach.
“I just have the sense that with cross country this was the end of the road,” Etheridge said. “I don’t know that I could bring anything new to the table.”
Besides the six state titles, Etheridge’s teams have won five runner-ups, three third places, one individual state championship, and 15 regional titles. The state championships were in 2005, 2006, and 2007 for the boys, and 2007, 2009, and 2010 for the girls. The individual state champion was John Sharpe in 2009.
The boys’ team finished second in the state meet in 2015 and third in 2016. The team won the Region 2-AAA meet for the third year in a row in October. [Read more…]
Snow will move into the area later Friday evening and night (Jan. 6, 2017), and this map shows the current forecasted snowfall totals expected. Snowfall accumulations will be greatest along the Northern Plateau of East Tennessee and the Cumberland mountains of Southwest Virginia. With surface temperatures below freezing, snow will accumulate on untreated roads. This may result in in negative travel impacts to motorists. (Image courtesy National Weather Service in Morristown)
Note: This story was last updated at 11:15 a.m. Jan. 6.
A few inches of snow are possible in the Knoxville area from Thursday through Saturday, according to the National Weather Service in Morristown.
The potential snowfall ranges from 1.7 inches in Norris to 3.0 inches in Knoxville from Friday to Saturday morning, the NWS said.
The forecast calls for a possible 2.2 inches in Kingston, 1.6 inches in Wartburg, 3.7 inches in Maryville, and 5 inches in Gatlinburg.
A winter weather advisory was in effect from 7 p.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday.
Then, a winter storm watch is in effect from 1 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday. [Read more…]
