Flooding along Windrock Road in Oliver Springs on Sunday afternoon after days of heavy rain.
Days of heavy rain that tapered off Sunday flooded streams and roads in East Tennessee, and caused many cities to reschedule their July 4 fireworks shows.
Here are two pictures of flooding along Windrock Road in Oliver Springs on Sunday afternoon. [Read more…]
Booth Kammann, (center, left), CEO of the Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians, accepts a $2,500 donation from Nancy Johnson, B&W Y-12’s vice president of Business Services and Performance Assurance. (Submitted photo)
Booth Kammann, chief executive officer of the Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians, recently accepted a $2,500 donation from Nancy Johnson, B&W Y-12’s vice president of Business Services and Performance Assurance.
The money will help fund the summer program at Camp Tanasi, located near Andersonville on Norris Lake.
Joining Kammann and Johnson in the picture at left are, from left, Rebekka Range, Anna Vacaliuc, Andrea Range, and Marian Vacaliuc.
Pictured from left are Ed Engel, Chamber Events Council co-chair; Jackie Nichols, Chamber president; Garry Whitley, Education Foundation president; Larry Stephens, Chamber board chairman; and Natalie Erb, Chamber Events Council co-chair. (Submitted photo)
The Anderson County Chamber of Commerce recently presented a check for $750 to The Education Foundation for Clinton City and Anderson County Schools.
The donation represented a percentage of proceeds from the 2nd Annual Tribute to Business held on June 7.
From left, Taylor Eighmy, UT’s vice chancellor for research and engagement; Van Mauney, B&W Y-12 vice president of program management; and Scott McFarland, senior vice president of sales at Stanley Healthcare, sign the formal agreement. (Submitted photo)
Representatives from the Y-12 National Security Complex, the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and Stanley Healthcare signed a cooperative research and development agreement on Wednesday during the Tennessee Valley Corridor’s National Technology Summit at Y-12’s New Hope Center in Oak Ridge.
The three entities are sharing their expertise to fast-track commercialization of an intelligent interactive dashboard that can be used to increase efficiency in manufacturing, maintenance, or the service industry. To learn more about the technology and the CRADA, go to the UTK news release at http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2013/05/29/ut-y12-stanley-healthcare-work-advance-technology/.
It took about 20 minutes to demolish the last section of the North End of the historic K-25 Building in west Oak Ridge on Wednesday morning. Shut down for several decades, K-25 was built to enrich uranium during World War II as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project, and it was once the world’s largest building under one roof.
Watch the last section of the North End crash to the ground in this video:
OLIVER SPRINGS—Here is a short video of the Oliver Springs Marching Bobcats at the Dec. 15 Christmas parade in Oliver Springs.
This is the second video we have posted on our new YouTube channel, which is available at http://www.youtube.com/oakridgetoday.
Enjoy.
Oak Ridge Today has added a YouTube channel. It’s available at www.youtube.com/oakridgetoday.
Our first video features the Oak Ridge High School marching band at the Dec. 8 Christmas parade. Enjoy.
