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City Council approves rezoning for trade school

Posted at 3:37 am January 13, 2023
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A rezoning allows a plumbers and steamfitters union to use a former hardware store on Oak Ridge Turnpike for a trade school. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The Oak Ridge City Council on Monday unanimously approved a rezoning that allows a former hardware store to be used for a trade school.

It was the second and final reading of the rezoning request. The city staff had recommended the change.

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Filed Under: Business, Government, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, Premium Content Tagged With: ACE Hardware, Oak Ridge City Council, Plumbers and Steamfitters Local Union #102 JATC, rezoning, trade school

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Learn Oak Ridge history at Jackson Square on Saturday

Posted at 10:15 pm January 12, 2023
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A historical photo of Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. (Photo credit: U.S. Department of Energy/Ed Westcott)

You can learn about Oak Ridge history at Jackson Square on Saturday.

The free program is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, January 14. It is organized by the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

“Join a park ranger for a walk through Jackson Square,” the National Park Service said.

The program will begin in the upper parking lot of Jackson Square in front of the fountain.

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Filed Under: Federal, Government, History Tagged With: history, Jackson Square, Manhattan Project, Manhattan Project National Historical Park, National Park Service, Oak Ridge

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Council postpones apartment rezoning vote

Posted at 9:54 pm January 12, 2023
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The Oak Ridge City Council on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, will consider a rezoning request that could allow about 400 apartments on about 32 acres along South Illinois Avenue headed toward Knoxville. (Map by City of Oak Ridge)

The Oak Ridge City Council on Monday postponed a vote on a rezoning that could allow a large apartment complex along South Illinois Avenue.

City Council members said a 96-page traffic study for the project appeared to be from July, but they had only received it recently.

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Rezoning could allow homes on Warehouse Road

Posted at 9:26 pm January 12, 2023
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A rezoning could allow about a dozen single-family residential lots on about five acres of currently vacant land on Warehouse Road. A conceptual plan is shown above.

A rezoning that could be considered by the Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission could allow a dozen single-family residential lots on roughly five acres of currently vacant land on Warehouse Road.

The rezoning request, which does not obligate the property owner to build the homes, was presented to the Planning Commission during a non-voting session Thursday evening.

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Filed Under: Business, Government, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, Premium Content Tagged With: Jennifer Williams, Len Hart, low density residential, Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission, residential lots, rezoning, rezoning request, Warehouse Road

Weigel’s proposed at Union Valley

Posted at 8:21 pm January 12, 2023
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A Weigel’s store site plan for about 3.6 acres at South Illinois Avenue and Union Valley Road, as presented to the Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

A new Weigel’s store has been proposed along South Illinois Avenue.

The 6,600-square-foot store would be on about 3.61 acres at the intersection with Union Valley Road.

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New apartments possible on South Illinois

Posted at 4:28 pm January 7, 2023
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The Oak Ridge City Council on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, will consider a rezoning request that could allow about 400 apartments on about 32 acres along South Illinois Avenue headed toward Knoxville. (Map by City of Oak Ridge)

The Oak Ridge City Council on Monday will consider a rezoning request that could allow about 400 apartments on roughly 32 acres along South Illinois Avenue.

The property is bordered by South Illinois Avenue, Mitchell Road, and Centrifuge Way (at the top of the hill headed out of Oak Ridge to Knoxville on South Illinois).

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Power to TRISO at Horizon could cost $13 million

Posted at 4:08 pm January 2, 2023
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This map shows the potential route of 69-kilovolt overhead power lines for the TRISO-X nuclear fuel facility at Horizon Center in west Oak Ridge, starting at the substation (SUB) on the south side of Highway 95/58 (lower right), continuing up Novus Drive (center right), crossing onto Horizon Center land, and then running east (to the right) on the back side of Site 6 (open area at upper right).

Building a new substation and electrical lines to supply power to a nuclear fuel company could cost $13 million, Oak Ridge officials said in December.

The nuclear fuel company, TRISO-X, needs about 32 to 35 megawatts of electricity at Horizon Center in west Oak Ridge. That would make the company the city’s biggest electrical customer. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12 National Security Complex get most of their power directly from Tennessee Valley Authority.)

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TVA reviewing mandatory power outages

Posted at 11:01 am December 30, 2022
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Tennessee Valley Authority offices are pictured above in June 2021. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday said it takes “full responsibility” for the impact of the first-ever mandatory power outages during the cold weather on Friday and Saturday last week, and it is reviewing what happened.

“We at TVA take full responsibility for the impact we had on our customers,” the electrical provider said in a press release posted on its website. “We never want to impact anyone’s energy at any time. This is not the way we want to serve our communities and customers.

“We are conducting a thorough review of what occurred and why. We are committed to sharing these lessons learned and—more importantly—the corrective actions we take in the weeks ahead to ensure we are prepared to manage significant events in the future.”

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Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Government, Slider, Weather Tagged With: cold weather, power outage, Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA

Closures announced due to weather

Posted at 9:31 am December 27, 2022
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Government offices and other organizations have announced they will be closed or opening late Tuesday due to the weather.

The Anderson County Family Justice Center is closed, and Anderson County government offices are closed.

The Seventh Judicial District Attorney General’s Office is closed.

City of Oak Ridge offices are opening three hours late, at 11 a.m.

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City offices opening 3 hours late

Posted at 8:32 am December 27, 2022
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City of Oak Ridge offices will open three hours late on Tuesday because of the snowy weather and icy conditions.

City offices will open at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Essential employees will be required to report at their regular time, the city said.

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TVA: Power supply set record Friday

Posted at 9:26 am December 24, 2022
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The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run Fossil Plant is pictured above at the Clinch River in Claxton on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it delivered a record amount of power on Friday and set a winter record for peak power demand.

TVA supplied 740 gigawatt-hours, or 740 million kilowatt-hours, during a 24-hour period on Friday, December 23. That’s more energy supplied than at any other time in its 89-year history, TVA said.

The cold also produced a winter record for peak power demand of 33,425 megawatts at 7 p.m. Central time, when the region-wide average temperature was 9 degrees, TVA said.

“Record-setting temperatures across the region continue to put intense pressure on the power system,” TVA said in a press release. “The Tennessee Valley Authority and local power companies (worked) around the clock in difficult conditions to meet this extreme demand.”

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Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Government, Slider, Top Stories Tagged With: Don Moul, power, power demand, Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA

Updated: TVA ends rolling blackouts

Posted at 7:32 am December 24, 2022
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Note: This story was last updated at 12 p.m.

Mandatory rolling power blackouts continued in Oak Ridge and across the region Saturday morning. The City of Oak Ridge announced at about 11:40 a.m. Saturday that the power outages had been terminated.

Here is the previous story:

The blackouts will affect 10 percent of customers at a time, and power outages will last about 30 minutes, the City of Oak Ridge said in a press release. That’s a larger percentage of customers who will be affected by the Saturday outages than the ones on Friday, when about 2 percent of Oak Ridge customers were affected.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides power to the City of Oak Ridge, said the blackouts are necessary because of the extreme weather conditions, according to the press release. The power demand is high as temperatures have dropped into the single digits in what has been called a “once-in-a-generation” storm.

TVA said the power demand is among its highest in its nearly 90-year history. Typical power demands for December are around 24,000 megawatts. On Friday, power demands surpassed 33,000 megawatts, TVA said.

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Filed Under: Federal, Government, Oak Ridge, Top Stories, Weather Tagged With: blackouts, City of Oak Ridge, Don Moul, extreme weather, power outages, rolling blackouts, Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA

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