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Lavender Festival is Saturday, June 17

Posted at 3:04 pm June 7, 2017
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The 19th annual Lavender Festival returns Saturday, June 17, 2017, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. (Photography by Shawn Millsaps)

The 19th annual Lavender Festival is Saturday, June 17, 2017, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. (Photography by Shawn Millsaps)

 

The 19th annual Lavender Festival is Saturday, June 17, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., in Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. The Lavender Festival is a perennial crowd favorite, full of tradition, fun, and always something new, a press release said. The festival celebrates all things herbal, crafts, local foods, and more.

Admission to the festival is free, with plenty of free parking available in surrounding city and business lots, and on side streets, the press release said.

As is tradition, a bagpipe player will open the festival at 8 a.m., playing from upper Blankenship Field into Jackson Square. Also keeping with tradition, Alan McBride will follow with the hammered dulcimer in the bandstand. A complete music schedule is found below.

Also returning for a second year is “A Taste of Tennessee Wines,” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., benefitting the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge. The tasting is hosted by Great Valley Wine Trail, which is made up of four independent wineries in East Tennessee. Your $10 tasting ticket is available at the gate (for those who are 21 with a valid identification). Tasters receive a complimentary wine glass, and if they purchase wine, a six-compartment wine tote. Customers are allowed to enjoy the wine outdoors in the Square during festival hours, with lunch served all day by plenty of food vendors and food trucks, restaurants, and even hors d’oeuvres by Chapel on the Hill. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Community, Community, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Slider, Top Stories Tagged With: A Taste of Tennessee Wines, Alan McBride, Alexander Guest House Assisted Living Facility, Appalachian Region Wine Producers Association, Becky Coleman, Bob Grimac’s Art Spot, Chapel on the Hill, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Children’s International Summer Village, cilantro, Citizens First Bank, coriander, Cowperwood Company, Dan Arp, Danny Whitson, Daylillies, Doubletree by Hilton, Down the Rabbit Hole by Donna Roach, East Tennessee FARM Markets, Erin's Meadow Herb Farm, Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge, Great Valley Wine Trail, Harmonic Journeys, herb luncheon, Herb of the Year, Hip 'n Happening, Honey Rock Herb Farm, Jackson Square, James R. "Rick" Riddle, Jeri Landers, Jericho Farms, Lavender Festival, Midfield Lavender Farm, Midway Tire, Oak Ridge Farmers Market, Rainwater Farm, Signs of the Water Jewelry by Marcia Napier, Stoney Clay Station, Sunlight Gardens, TN Bank of Oak Ridge, Tomboy Organic Skincare, Trans Tech, Wingshuck

Celebrate World Community Day on Friday

Posted at 8:12 pm November 1, 2016
By Gay Marie Logsdon Leave a Comment

Church Women United invites the public to celebrate World Community Day on Friday, November 4, at United Church, Chapel on the Hill, 85 Kentucky Avenue, in Oak Ridge.

The celebration, “Sharing Gifts at the Table,” brings together women from different denominations and different racial and cultural backgrounds to honor the global dimension of the Christian faith through scripture, hymns, and prayer, a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Front Page News Tagged With: Chapel on the Hill, Church Women United, Gay Marie Logsdon, United Church, World Community Day

Manhattan Project public program: Jackson Square, the city center, on Aug. 27

Posted at 10:41 am August 15, 2016
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Historic Jackson Square

Historic Jackson Square is pictured above. (Photo courtesy National Park Service)

 

Join a park ranger for a walk through Jackson Square. Manhattan Project National Historical Park will present a free program on Saturday morning, August 27, at 10 a.m. in Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. The program will begin in the upper parking lot of Jackson Square in front of the fountain.

During the program, park rangers will discuss how routine, tradition, and the comforts of home helped keep Oak Ridge residents focus on the mission and not their hardships, a press release said.

“We will walk to the Alexander Inn Guest House and the Chapel on the Hill during the program,” the release said.

Jackson Square is located three blocks north of the Oak Ridge Turnpike on Broadway Avenue.  If you need directions, maps are available at the National Park desk in the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge or you can call (865) 576-6767. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Federal, Front Page News, Government Tagged With: Alexander Inn Guest House, American Museum of Science and Energy, Chapel on the Hill, Hanford, Jackson Square, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Manhattan Project National Historical Park, National Park Service

CWU celebrates reconciliation, grace, friendship on May 6

Posted at 7:16 pm April 26, 2016
By Gay Marie Logsdon Leave a Comment

Church Women United of Oak Ridge invites the public to its May Friendship Day celebration on Friday, May 6.

The celebration will feature a worship program titled “Finding Grace at the Table.” The program focuses on the table as a place for reconciliation and the need to recognize God presence in every person.

CWU will present Key Woman Awards to Mary Stephens and Judy Cohan for their dedicated service at Oak Valley Baptist Church and United Church, Chapel on the Hill, respectively, in addition to their contributions within the wider Oak Ridge community and Church Women United. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Faith, Front Page News, Meetings and Events Tagged With: Chapel on the Hill, Church Women United, Church Women United of Oak Ridge, CWU, Friendship Day, Gay Marie Logsdon, Mary Stephens, Oak Valley Baptist Church, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, United Church

Planning for national park, Park Service tours Jackson Square, K-25, ORNL, Y-12

Posted at 10:58 am March 27, 2015
By John Huotari 5 Comments

Vic Knox of National Park Service

Vic Knox (Photo by D. Ray Smith)

Note: This story was last updated at 12:37 p.m.

Planning for the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park has started, and federal officials this week toured Jackson Square, the former K-25 site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Y-12 National Security Complex.

Stops included the Alexander Inn, Chapel on the Hill, the former K-25 Building site, the Graphite Reactor at ORNL, and two buildings at Y-12: Building 9731, a pilot plant, and Building 9204-3, also known as Beta 3.

“Several of those sites are just amazing,” said Vic Knox, associate director of park planning, facilities, and lands for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. “They seem like they are just the way they were in 1943. It seems like they take you back in time.”

Oak Ridge was built as part of the Manhattan Project, a top-secret federal program to build the world’s fist atomic weapons during World War II. Besides Oak Ridge, the new national park includes Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington. [Read more…]

Filed Under: East Tennessee Technology Park, Federal, Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: Alexander Inn, American Museum of Science and Energy, AMSE, atomic weapons, B Reactor, Beta 3, Building 9204-3, Building 9731, bus tours, Chapel on the Hill, Clark Center Park, Colin Colverson, Congress, Graphite Reactor, Hanford, Heritage Center, Jackson Square, K-25, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Manhattan Project National Historical Park, National Nuclear Security Administration, national park, National Park Service, NPS, Oak Ridge Civic Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, open house, ORNL, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Interior, Vic Knox, Waren Gooch, World War II, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex

About 100 people evacuated after pickup ruptures apartment gas line

Posted at 1:37 pm May 10, 2013
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Broadway Apartments Gas Leak

The Broadway Apartments on East Madison Road were evacuated Friday morning after a pickup truck rolled down a small hill and ruptured a two-inch gas line. (Photo by Tom Scott)

Emergency workers started evacuating about 100 people at an apartment complex and day care center on Friday morning after a pickup truck ruptured a two-inch natural gas line in central Oak Ridge.

The apparently unoccupied pickup truck, which might have popped out of gear, rolled down a small hill at Broadway Apartments on East Madison Road and into a gas meter, which was attached to the gas line, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said.

“It made a pretty significant leak,” he said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Alexander Inn, Broadway Apartments, Chapel on the Hill, Darryl Kerley, East Madison Road, gas line, leak, natural gas, Oak Ridge Fire Department, Oak Ridge Utility District

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