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Council to discuss postponed stoplight at ORHS, Senior Center lease extension

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Oak Ridge Turnpike and High School Stoplight

The Oak Ridge City Council on Tuesday will discuss the proposed traffic signal on Oak Ridge Turnpike at the High School and a proposal to extend the lease on the Senior Center for five years through 2019.

Those are two of the agenda items for a Tuesday evening work session.

The City Council postponed a vote last week on a contract to install a stoplight on the Oak Ridge Turnpike in front of Oak Ridge High School. The light could eliminate the need for a crossing guard.

City officials had said the light could be installed by August 2015, but the postponement of the contract vote to the April meeting will likely delay the completion date, possibly until after school starts later this year. [Read more…]

Community leader, health care executive, ultramarathon runner dies at 56

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Kerry Trammell and Myron Iwanski

Health care executive, community leader, and ultramarathon runner Kerry Trammell, left, talks to Interim Anderson County Mayor Myron Iwanksi duing a June 2012 candidate forum at the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce.

Kerry Trammell—a health care executive, community leader, ultramarathon runner, and musician—died Thursday. He was 56.

Trammell died of natural causes at his Oak Ridge home, family friend Lori Anderson said Saturday morning.

Trammell was administrator at NHC HealthCare in Oak Ridge and board secretary for the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce. He was also a member of the Elder Citizens Advisory Board and Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club, an emergency medical technician active with the Anderson County Volunteer Rescue Squad, and past chair of the U.S. Department of Energy’s local Site Specific Advisory Board.

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