Anderson County is still seeking qualified applicants to complete the unexpired term of the Circuit Court Clerk, and the deadline to apply has been extended, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
The Anderson County Commission agreed Monday to extend the deadline for applications and resumes until Sept. 21., WYSH said.
Commissioners are expected to select the next Circuit Court Clerk during a special-called meeting at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 1.
Channel 95, Anderson County’s public television station, will have a live broadcast during the Aug. 2 election, providing updates on voting results and interviews with candidates and community leaders.
The station is working with the Anderson County Election Commission to produce the broadcast, which starts at 8 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m. Aug. 2.
David Morgan
Teresa Kirkham
If it wasn’t already, the race for Roane County property assessor has grown heated.
There are allegations that the incumbent threatened to beat up her challenger and questions about who owns a website address that was once used by the incumbent but now appears to point to unfavorable articles about her.
The two candidates, incumbent Teresa Kirkham and challenger David Morgan, also disagree on whether property assessment values can be lowered more often than every five years.
As the city sewer lines are smoke tested, the crews will start handing out notices of damaged sewer lateral clean-out assemblies. This assembly is where the drainage system exits the building, then turns into the city sewer line.
The clean-out gives access to the private sewer line so that it is able to be cleaned.
Sewer laterals are the responsibility of the property owner and damaged clean-out assemblies can allow unwanted water and/or debris into the sewer system that can cause the sewer system to back up and overflow in private lines, as well as the city’s main sewer lines. Damaged clean-out assemblies are also a violation of the Sewer Use Ordinance.
A contractor demolishes a West Outer Drive home that city officials allege has had code violation problems for a decade. (Photo submitted by City of Oak Ridge)
Demolition work started Monday at a West Outer Drive home that Oak Ridge officials say has had code violation problems for a decade.
“The owners refused to comply with repeated requests to bring the property up to code,” a city press release said Tuesday.
It said the Board of Building and Housing Code Appeals declared the home at 759 W. Outer Drive unfit for human occupation and ordered it demolished in June 2011.
The number of voters casting ballots on the first day of early voting Friday was up from 2010, the Anderson County Election Commission said.
Elections Administrator Mark Stephens said 642 people voted Friday, up 146 from 2010.
A substation problem knocked out power to a significant number of customers on Sunday evening, the Oak Ridge Electric Department reported on its Twitter feed.
However, city workers later reported that temporary repairs had been made and power restored.
Still, there was a higher risk than normal of more power outages, the city said.
Residents and businesses reported outages on Wade Lane, West Hutchison Circle, West Outer Drive, Pennsylvania Avenue, and at Cinemark Tinseltown movie theater and the businesses around it.
Early voting began this morning for the Aug. 2 county general election and state and federal primary elections.
There are three early voting locations in Anderson County, one in Oak Ridge, a second in Clinton, and a third in Andersonville.
Oak Ridge officials on Thursday warned utility customers to be aware of a new multistate utility scam that has affected Tennessee residents.
A city press release said scammers have told victims that President Barack Obama has approved special funding through the Federal Reserve Bank for utility bill help. But there is no such funding.
The victims are given fraudulent bank account and routing numbers to use when paying their bills, but only after they give their Social Security number and other personal information, the release said.
The second of two political forums this week will feature Roane County candidates for property assessor, road superintendent, and school board districts five and six, as well as candidates for Oak Ridge City Council.
The forum starts at 7 p.m. today in the Oak Ridge Civic Center A-B Room.
Ridge City Ramblers
Anderson County Democrats are having a public rally and picnic at 6:30 p.m. today to celebrate the start of early voting Friday.
The rally and picnic have been moved from Gibbs Ferry Park to the Claxton Elementary School cafeteria because of the weather.
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.
