There are more hurdles to clear before a Weigel’s can be built on South Illinois Avenue, but a city board has recommended that a 1.5-acre parcel south of TNBank be rezoned for the proposed gas station and convenience store.
The Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission recommended the rezoning in a 7-3 vote Thursday.
The Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission will consider a rezoning for a Weigel’s on South Illinois Avenue during a Thursday evening meeting.
A Weigel’s gas station and convenience store could be built next to TNBank on South Illinois Avenue if city officials approve a project rezoning.
Meanwhile, two restaurants that serve chicken and other food have been proposed on South Illinois Avenue. Popeyes is replacing Wishbones on Illinois Avenue just south of Oak Ridge Turnpike, and a site plan has been approved for a Bojangle’s on property just south of the former Dean Stallings Ford, Community Development Director Kathryn Baldwin said Wednesday.
A steel workers union has approved a new four-year contract with UCOR, the U.S. Department of Energy’s cleanup contractor in Oak Ridge, for work at the former K-25 site.
The agreement between UCOR and the United Steel Workers Local No. 9-288 of Oak Ridge includes a 2 percent wage increase in each of the next four years and benefit changes similar to those announced for non-union employees earlier this year, a press release said.
The former vice president of environmental management at B&W Y-12 in Oak Ridge has taken a leadership job at USEC.
Robert Warther has been named deputy program manager for the American Centrifuge research, development, and demonstration, or RD&D, program, a press release said.
ORAU President and CEO Andy Page, seated left, signs a mentor-protégé progam agreement with Elizabeth Bernstein, president and CEO of United Global Technologies. Standing, from left to right, are Sharon Jacobs, Heidi Timmerman, Rebecca Crowe and Cindy Snow, members of ORAU’s procurement and contracts administration department. (Photo by ORAU)
Oak Ridge Associated Universities and United Global Technologies recently signed an agreement for a two-year supportive relationship under a federal mentor-protégé program.
Through this relationship, ORAU serves as a business mentor to UGT, providing consultation on a variety of financial, organizational, and business management topics, a press release said
UGT is an economically disadvantaged, women-owned small business based in Charlotte, N.C., that provides information technology and engineering services. It was founded in 2002 and focuses on the needs of federal, state, and local government agencies, the press release said.
On Thursday, August 30, the Tennessee Small Business Development Center is offering another free seminar for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
The workshop is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce.
To sign up, call (865) 483-2668 or email Jutta Bangs at jbangs@tsbdc.org.
The Chamber is located at 1400 Oak Ridge Turnpike.
Darrel Kohlhorst, president and general manager of B&W Y-12, at right, and Gary Johnson, president of CG Services Corporation, sign a mentor-protégé agreement as Johnson’s wife and CG Services Corporation Vice President Cindy Johnson looks on at the annual Socioeconomic Programs Awards ceremony held at Y-12’s New Hope Center on July 12. (Photos submitted by B&W Y-12)
The Y-12 National Security Complex honored six small businesses last week for “exceptional contributions” to its missions during Fiscal Year 2011.
The businesses were honored at the annual Socioeconomic Programs Awards reception held Thursday, July 12, a B&W Y-12 press release said.
Two Y-12 employees also were acknowledged for their role as small business advocates.
Honored as Y-12 2012 small businesses of the year were:
The two Y-12 employees honored as small business advocates of the year were Kealan Huckabee and Floyd Smith.
Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan, center front, introduces Stephanie Criswell, third from left, and Tiffany Haines, fifth from left, the owners of Emma Lou Bakery and Cafe on South Illinois Avenue. Also pictured from left are Zachary Criswell, Hailey Whitaker, Emma Haines, Nicholas Criswell, Charles Gluck (partially obscured), Oak Ridge Police Officer Daniel McFee, and an unidentified man.
After they graduated from culinary school in December 2011, sisters Stephanie Criswell and Tiffany Haines decided Oak Ridge needed a store that sold fresh, homemade doughnuts and cakes.
So, three months ago, they opened Emma Lou Bakery and Cafe off South Illinois Avenue, next to the Oak Ridge Bowling Center.
On Wednesday, they celebrated with local officials and residents at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Besides doughnuts and cakes, the bakery sells pastries, quiche, and bread. Light lunches are also available on weekdays.
Meghan Millwood
Oak Ridge Associated Universities has a new compensation and benefits director.
Meghan Millwood, who has been ORAU’s manager of human resources operations, has been promoted to the position, a press release said.
“Throughout Meghan’s more than 10 years here at ORAU, she has capably served in a variety of progressively responsible positions within the human resources office,” said Dan Standley, ORAU vice president of human resources. “We are very pleased to now have her contributing in her new role as a director on the management team.”
The Small Business Roundtable will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Soup Kitchen in Oak Ridge.
The Small Business Roundtable is open to any small business, retail manager, or owner.
Four businesses in the county-owned David Jones Industrial Park have filed a lawsuit against Anderson County and the Anderson County Economic Development Association over the proposed relocation of the Glen Alpine Convenience Center.
Plans call for the convenience center to move from its current site on Seivers Boulevard in Clinton to a parcel of land in the industrial park, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
The plaintiffs in the suit are Carton Services, GWDU Leasing Inc., CMH Inc. and Seneca Medical Inc., WYSH said. They are seeking a temporary injunction preventing the move and seeking to rescind the County Commission’s vote from earlier this year to amend the covenants prohibiting trash collection sites in the park.
The congregation of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church will consider a commercial development company’s request to move.
A commercial development firm based in Georgia has asked members of a well-used Oak Ridge church if they would be willing to relocate, moving away from a busy intersection where a shopping center is planned.
The board of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church has agreed to have the congregation consider the offer, which was proposed by Blanchard and Calhoun of Augusta, Ga., minister Jake Morrill said Friday.
