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Yager wins special election for Anderson County Commission, District 8

Posted at 9:38 pm August 4, 2016
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Phil Yager

Phil Yager

 

Note: This story was last updated at 12:05 a.m.

Phil Yager beat two other candidates to win a seat on Anderson County Commission in District 8 in Oak Ridge on Thursday.

The special election for the District 8 seat was held along with the county general election and state and federal primaries on Thursday, August 4. District 8 includes the Emory Valley, Hendrix Creek, and Woodland voting precincts in Oak Ridge.

Yager finished with 542 votes, compared to 239 for Angeleque McNutt and 227 for Myra Mansfield, according to unofficial results posted on the Anderson County Election Commission website.

The final results from all 27 precincts, plus early, absentee, and write-in ballots, were posted at 10:41 p.m. Thursday. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Anderson County, Front Page News, Government Tagged With: Anderson County Commission, Anderson County Election Commission, Anderson County School Board, Andy McKamey, Angeleque McNutt, county general election, Dail Cantrell, District 8, early voting, election day, Emory Valley, Glenda J. Langenberg, Hendrix Creek, Herman Collins, John K. Alley Jr., John S. Burrell, Michael McKamey, Myra Mansfield, Phil Yager, Rickey Rose, Robin Biloski, Scott Daugherty, Shain Vowell, special election, Tennessee House of Representatives, voting, Woodland, Zach Bates

Contract with Parrott, the next director of schools, approved by AC school board

Posted at 12:24 pm March 17, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Tim Parrott

Tim Parrott

Information from WYSH Radio

Meeting briefly on Monday, the Anderson County Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a four-year contract with the next director of schools, Tim Parrott, who will take over for the retiring Larry Foster on July 1.

Parrott currently serves as the system’s deputy director of curriculum and instruction, and he will earn $134,000 a year plus a $750-a-month car allowance.

A committee made up of school board members Scott Gillenwaters and Dail Cantrell along with the schools’ finance director, Jim Woodward, conducted contract negotiations. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Board of Education, Dail Cantrell, deputy director of curriculum and instruction, director of schools, Jim Woodward, Larry Foster, Scott Gillenwaters, Tim Parrott

With Foster retiring, AC school board approves search committee

Posted at 3:26 pm January 18, 2016
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Larry Foster at Anderson County Commision

Larry Foster, Anderson County schools director, is retiring at the end of June, and a search committee has been formed to find his replacement. Foster is pictured above during a July 2015 meeting of the Anderson County Commission. (File photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

 

Information from WYSH Radio

Anderson County Board of Education Chair John Burrell announced at last week’s school board meeting that he has appointed a search committee to find the next director of schools. The next director will replace Larry Foster, who is retiring at the end of June.

The board voted unanimously to approve the makeup of the committee, which will be chaired by Gail Martin, who is also the committee’s representative for Claxton. Curtis Sexton will represent Rocky Top, while Glenda Langenberg will represent Oak Ridge. Jim Stewart will represent Clinton, Dail Cantrell will represent Andersonville/Norris, and Robert McKamey will serve as the representative for the Anderson County Commission, Dutch Valley, and Norwood. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Board of Education, BOE, Curtis Sexton, Dail Cantrell, Gail Martin, Glenda Langenberg, Jim Stewart, John Burrell, Larry Foster, Robert McKamey, school board

Follow-up: Comptroller to examine potential conflict

Posted at 2:16 pm March 25, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Information from WYSH Radio

Following up on a story WYSH broke last week, Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank said she has asked the state Comptroller’s Office to look into whether or not any rules have been broken regarding School Board member Dail Cantrell’s ownership of a recycling company that has done business with the county government on an informal basis in the past.

Cantrell is a 25 percent owner of Scrap Metal Solutions in Clinton, and the company was slated to receive scrap metal generated as part of the school system’s energy efficiency project. After Cantrell divulged his ownership stake in the company, Scrap Metal Solutions was removed from the contract under consideration, and attention shifted to a verbal agreement between the company and the county’s Solid Waste Department under which SMS would collect scrap metal from the county’s convenience centers and take it to a recycling facility. That agreement has been suspended until the direct or indirect nature of Cantrell’s ownership has been examined by the county law director. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Education, Government, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County, Comptroller's Office, Dail Cantrell, Pamela Cotham, recycling company, Sal Varsalona, school board, scrap metal, Scrap Metal Solutions, SMS, Solid Waste Department, Terry Frank

Frank, Iwanski, Hope lead in early election returns

Posted at 8:51 pm August 2, 2012
By John Huotari 3 Comments

Terry Frank

Terry Frank

Business owner Terry Frank, a Clinton Republican, has an early voting lead over attorney Warren Gooch, an Oak Ridge Democrat, in the race for Anderson County mayor, according to early results posted Thursday evening on the Anderson County Election Commission website.

Results continue to be tabulated, but Frank has been collecting about 56 or 58 percent of the early, absentee, and election day votes, compared to about 42 to 44 percent for Gooch.

Also taking an early lead was City Council candidate Charles J. “Chuck” Hope Jr., who had about 58 percent of the vote around 8:42 p.m., compared to 42 percent for Trina Baughn.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Government Tagged With: Anderson County Commission, Anderson County mayor, Anderson County property assessor, Bob Corker, Buzz Patrick, Chuck Fleischmann, Chuck Hope, Dail Cantrell, Jim Hackworth, John Ragan, Johnny Alley, Myron Iwanski, Oak Ridge City Council, Rick Marlowe, Terry Frank, Trina Baughn, U.S. House of Representatives, Warren Gooch

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