The East Tennessee Riding Club has a horse show at 4 p.m. Saturday at 470 Tuskegee Drive. (Photo submitted by ETRC)
The East Tennessee Riding Club is having a horse show on Saturday in Oak Ridge.
The show consists of English, gaited, Western classes, and speed events, an ETRC press release said.
Registration will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, and the show starts at 4 p.m. Each class entered will cost $6, but there is no charge for spectators.
Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties in Oak Ridge has its first distribution dates for its annual school supply program for low-income families on Tuesday, July 10, and Wednesday, July 11.
These dates are for Willow Brook students since they return to school earlier.
This program ensures that children from low-income families in Anderson County have the supplies needed to start school. Last year, almost 1,500 children were given necessary supplies such as backpacks, crayons, pencils, paper, scissors, notebooks, and basic calculators, according to an ADFAC press release.
The International Friendship Bell at A.K. Bissell Park in Oak Ridge will represent North America during the World Bell Festival in Apolda, Germany, on Saturday.
The International Friendship Bell in Oak Ridge will represent North America during the World Bell Festival in Apolda, Germany, on Saturday.
Organizers will use the Internet to connect to the festival and televise the ringing of the Friendship Bell as well as a short ceremony with Oak Ridge community leaders. That live broadcast on the Web is scheduled to take place from about 3:53 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. Saturday at A.K. Bissell Park.
Other international bell ringing ceremonies will be held throughout the day and broadcast live from Pollard Auditorium, according to a press release from the Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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.
The half-hour July 4 show in Oak Ridge features many colorful fireworks at A.K. Bissell Park. (Photo by Charles Samuels)
Thousands of people watch the annual fireworks show in Oak Ridge. (Photo by John Norris)
Thousands of people turned out Wednesday in Oak Ridge and Kingston to enjoy Independence Day celebrations and July 4 fireworks.
Here is a compilation of reader-submitted photos and a few taken by Oak Ridge Today.
This image is a famous Ed Westcott photo of the July 6, 1944 Troop Train Wreck at High Cliff near Jellico. This is one of the stories that will be discussed.
Author Allen R. Coggins will discuss Tennessee tragedies in the last 250 years during a July 12 Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association meeting. The public is invited, and the meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Midtown Community Center.
Coggins is the author of Place Names of the Smokies and has recently published Tennessee Tragedies: Grim Reapings of Our Past, which is the first compilation of historical disasters for any state, according to a press release.
Oak Ridge’s annual fireworks show will start at 10 p.m. today at A.K. Bissell Park.
Radio host Jack Ryan from Merle 96.7 will broadcast live in the park at 6 p.m. and will play patriotic music during the fireworks.
The Oak Ridge Community Band will also play its annual Fourth of July concert in the Civic Center pavilion at 7:30 p.m.
The Family Friendly Knoxville website has posted information on other Independence Day events in the Knoxville area, including Kingston’s Smokin’ the Water and the Museum of Appalachia’s July 4 celebration and anvil shoot.
Amateur photographer R.E. McLaren will be teaching a free photography workshop at 9 a.m. Saturday at the University of Tennessee Arboretum Visitor’s Center.
McLaren has been an amateur photographer for many years and has a special interest in wildlife and landscapes, according to a press release.
A North Carolina man who graduated from Clinton High School in 1987 died Sunday in an airplane crash in South Dakota.
Lt. Col. Paul Mikeal of Mooresville, N.C., was killed while fighting massive wildfires when an Air National Guard C-130 crashed in the mountains of South Dakota, WYSH Radio in Clinton reported.
A photo gallery posted on The Atlantic magazine website is generating interest in historical Oak Ridge photos.
The pictures, most of them by photographer Ed Westcott, capture life in Oak Ridge and its federal plants between 1942 and 1966.
The American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge has received an award that recognizes top traveler ratings.
The consistently high ratings from TripAdvisor travelers during the past year earned AMSE a certificate of excellence, a museum press release said.
Girls Inc. has received a $46,000 state clean energy grant to replace the roof at the former National Guard Armory on Oak Ridge Turnpike.
Tennessee officials have announced a $46,164 clean energy grant to Girls Inc. of Oak Ridge to replace the roof at the former National Guard Armory.
The roof renovations will prepare Girls Inc. to complete other projects at the building on Oak Ridge Turnpike, such as installing a solar panel array and high-efficiency heating and cooling systems, lighting, and energy-efficient windows, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said in a press release.
