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Barker endorsed by Ridenour, Whaley

Posted at 4:40 pm August 1, 2018
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Pictured above from left are Mark "Hollywood" Whaley, Russell Barker, and Lewis Ridenour. (Submitted photo)

Pictured above from left are Mark “Hollywood” Whaley, Russell Barker, and Lewis Ridenour. (Submitted photo)

 

Russell Barker, the Republican nominee for Anderson County sheriff, has been endorsed by his competitors in the Republican primary in May, Lewis Ridenour and Mark “Hollywood” Whaley, for the county general election on Thursday, August 2, a press release said.

In the release, Barker expressed his excitement to have the support of his primary challengers.

“Lewis and Hollywood are great men who truly want to make a difference in Anderson County,” Barker said. “Having their support is truly an honor.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2018 Election, Anderson County, Front Page News, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Sheriff, county general election, Lewis Ridenour, Mark "Hollywood" Whaley, Russell Barker

Exclusive: Two plead guilty in robbery that ends with shooting

Posted at 2:38 pm July 11, 2018
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The Oak Ridge Police Department investigates a shooting on East Holston Lane at about 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The Oak Ridge Police Department investigates a shooting on East Holston Lane at about 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

 

CLINTON—An Oak Ridge man and woman pleaded guilty on Monday to their roles in a robbery that started as a drug deal set up through social media and ended with a shooting that injured one person.

The plea agreements for the two defendants, Nicole Marie Brewer, 21, and Nicholas Rashad Strickland, 27, were entered in Anderson County Criminal Court in Clinton on Monday. The robbery and shooting were reported on East Holston Lane in Oak Ridge on Tuesday, November 15, 2016.

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Filed Under: Anderson County, Courts, For Members, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Premium Content, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault while displaying a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with serious bodily injury, Anderson County Criminal Court, Anderson County General Sessions Court, Anderson County grand jury, conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery, East Holston Lane, especially aggravated robbery, Kevin Angel, Lewis Ridenour, Marvell Moore, Matthew Allen Mashburn, Matthew Tuck, Nicholas Rashad Strickland, Nicole Marie Brewer, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, robbery, Ryan Spitzer, Seventh Judicial District Assistant Attorney General, shooting, Wesley "Bud" Arnold

Updated: Frank, Barker, Lynch win Republican primaries

Posted at 10:19 pm May 1, 2018
By John Huotari 10 Comments

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Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank (Submitted photo)

Note: This story was last updated at 9 a.m. May 2.

CLINTON—Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank narrowly won the Republican Party primary on Tuesday, beating Anderson County Commissioner Steve Emert by 153 votes, according to unofficial results.

Frank, a former small business operator who was first elected in August 2012, had 4,771 votes, compared to 4,618 for Emert. That was a slim margin of 50.8 percent to 49.2 percent.

Frank has served one special two-year term as mayor and one full four-year term. There was no Democratic Party candidate for mayor in the Tuesday primary, meaning Frank won’t have a challenger on the ballot in the August 2 county general election and is essentially assured of serving again.

Emert is a small business owner who has served as Anderson County Commission chair. Like a previous candidate for mayor, former Tennessee Representative Jim Hackworth, Emert had emphasized what he characterized as dysfunction, including lawsuits, in the Anderson County Courthouse under Frank. Among other pledges, he had promised to restore civility to the county government.

But that and other campaign issues weren’t enough to give Emert the win, even if it might have helped to keep the election close. Emert initially had a narrow 63-vote lead after early and absentee voting results were counted. But the lead flipped when Election Day results started coming in from across Anderson County. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2018 Election, 2018 Election, Anderson County, Front Page News, Government, Slider Tagged With: Anderson County, Anderson County mayor, August 2 county general election, Circuit Court Clerk, county clerk, Democratic Party primary, Jeff Cole, Leesa Arowood, Lewis Ridenour, Mark "Hollywood" Whaley, Mark Lucas, Michael Foster, Paul White, Regina Copeland, register of deeds, Republican Party primary, Rex Lynch, Russell Barker, Scott Burton, Scott Gillenwaters, sheriff, Steve Emert, Terry Frank, Tim Shelton, trustee

Emert, Barker, Lynch lead in early, absentee voting

Posted at 8:24 pm May 1, 2018
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Steve Emert

Steve Emert

Note: This story was last updated at 8:48 p.m.

CLINTON—Anderson County Commissioner Steve Emert had a narrow 63-vote lead over Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank in the race for a four-year term as mayor in early and absentee voting results released after primary election polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Emert had 2,997 votes (50.53 percent) compared to 2,934 (49.47 percent) for Frank, who was first elected in August 2012. Both are candidates in the Anderson County Republican Party primary.

Election day votes have not been tabulated, so results could change. The results that follow are from the Republican Party primary. There are two candidates in the Democratic primary, Mark Lucas for sheriff and Ebony Capshaw for trustee, but they are unopposed in the primary election and are assured a spot in the August 2 county general election.

In the three-person Republican race for Anderson County sheriff, Scott Barker, a Clinton Police Department detective sergeant and director of the Seventh Judicial District Crime Task Force, had a significant lead over Lewis Ridenour, an Oak Ridge Police Department officer and former chief deputy. Barker had 2,841 votes (49.88 percent), compared to 1,992 (34.97 percent) for Ridenour, according to the unofficial results. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2018 Election, Anderson County, Government Tagged With: August 2 county general election, Democratic primary, Ebony Capshaw, Gary Long, Jeff Cole, Leesa Arowood, Lewis Ridenour, Mark "Hollywood" Whaley, Mark Lucas, Michael Foster, primary election, Regina Copeland, Republican Party primary, Rex Lynch, Scott Barker, Scott Burton, Scott Gillenwaters, Steve Emert, Terry Frank, Tim Shelton, William Jones

Races on the ballot today include mayor, sheriff, others

Posted at 10:30 am May 1, 2018
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Note: This story was last updated at 11:50 a.m.

Among the races on the ballot in the primary election in Anderson County today (Tuesday, May 1) are mayor, sheriff, trustee, county clerk, circuit court clerk, and register of deeds.

At least three of the races—mayor, county clerk, and register of deeds—could be decided in the Republican Party primary today because there are no Democrats running for those offices. That’s assuming there are no write-in candidates for those races in the August 2 county general election.

The Republican candidates for mayor are Terry Frank, the incumbent, and Anderson County Commissioner Steve Emert. The GOP candidates for county clerk are Jeff Cole, the incumbent, and his challenger, businesswoman Leesa Arowood. Tim Shelton is running for re-election as register of deeds, and he is being challenged in the Republican primary by Rocky Top City Manager Michael Foster.

There are no Democrats on today’s ballot for circuit court clerk, but there is a write-in candidate who plans to run as a Democrat in the August election. There is also a Republican write-in candidate in the race. It initially appeared this election could be decided today, but it now appears there could be the Republican nominee, either incumbent William Jones or former mayor Rex Lynch, plus two possible write-in candidates. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2018 Election, Anderson County, Front Page News, Government Tagged With: Anderson County, August 2 county general election, Circuit Court Clerk, county clerk, Ebony Capshaw, Jeff Cole, Leesa Arowood, Lewis Ridenour, Mark "Hollywood" Whaley, Mark Lucas, mayor, Michael Foster, primary election, Regina Copeland, register of deeds, Republican Party primary, Rex Lynch, Russell Barker, Scott Burton, Scott Gillenwaters, sheriff, Steve Emert, Terry Frank, Tim Shelton, trustee, William Jones

Rally for Second Amendment, Constitution on Saturday

Posted at 3:16 pm April 20, 2018
By John Huotari 2 Comments

Anderson County residents have organized a rally to show support for the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution in Clinton on Saturday.

“Aware of the threat to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of our great nation, some very concerned citizens of Anderson County, Tennessee, have banded together to demonstrate to those who attack our liberties that they will not be successful in their attempts to destroy America,” a press release said.

“While recognizing there is no immediate threat to to our liberties in East Tennessee, we feel strongly that we must stand with those in other parts of our county who are seeing immediate threats to their right to keep and bear arms, a right that is guaranteed and protected by the Constitution of our country,” the press release said.

The rally is scheduled to start at noon Saturday, April 21, on the steps of the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton. It is meant to “show support and solidarity with freedom-loving citizens throughout the United States,” the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Community, Federal, Front Page News, Government, Government, Slider, State Tagged With: Anderson County Courthouse, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Bill of Rights, Ed Williamson, Friends of the NRA, guns, John Ragan, Lewis Ridenour, Mark "Hollywood" Whaley, Mark Lucas, Oak Ridge High School, Paul White, rally, Russell Barker, Second Amendment, Second Amendment Foundation, Second Amendment rally, student-led rallies, Terry Frank, U.S. Constitution

Twenty-nine qualify to run for 16 seats on Anderson County Commission

Posted at 1:38 pm April 7, 2018
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Twenty-nine candidates have qualified to run for 16 seats on the Anderson County Commission in the county general election in August.

There are also three people running for the Tennessee House of Representatives in District 33, a new appointed Oak Ridge school board member running in a special election in August, and a Democratic challenger to Tennessee Senator Randy McNally, an Oak Ridge resident who is also lieutenant governor.

The deadline to qualify to run in the August 2 election, which will also feature contested elections for Anderson County sheriff and trustee, was noon Thursday.

Anderson County has eight County Commission districts, and there are two commissioners per district. The offices are non-partisan, meaning that, unlike some other county offices, they are not part of the Democratic and Republican primary elections on May 1. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2018 Election, Anderson County, Education, Front Page News, Government, K-12, State, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Commission, Anderson County Sheriff, Anthony Allen, Avery Johnson, Ben Stephens, Bob Eby, Bob Smallridge, Cassandra Mitchell, Catherine Denenberg, Chris Silver, Chuck Fritts, county general election, David Queener, Democratic primary, Dennis Powers, Denny Phillips, Denver Waddell, Ebony Capshaw, Felicia Foust, Floyd Grisham, Jeff Cole, Jeff Maxwell, Jerry Creasey, Jerry White, Jimmy Bouchard, John Meyer, John Ragan, Joshua Anderson, Leesa Arowood, Lewis Ridenour, Mark "Hollywood" Whaley, Mark Alderson, Mark Lucas, Michael Foster, Nathaniel Varner, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Phil Warfield, Phil Yager, primary elections, Randy McNally, Regina Copeland, Republican primary, Rex Lynch, Richard Dawson, Rick Meredith, Robert Jameson, Robert McKamey, Russell Barker, Scott Burton, Scott Gillenwaters, Shain Vowell, Steve Emert, Steve Mead, Tabitha Harmon, Tennessee House of Representatives, Tennessee House of Representatives District 33, Tennessee Senate District 5, Terry Frank, Theresa Scott, Tim Isbel, Tim Risden, Tim Shelton, Tracy Wandell, William Jones

Anderson County Chamber hosts county election candidate forum

Posted at 10:34 pm March 13, 2018
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

The Anderson County Chamber of Commerce will host a forum in Clinton this month for candidates in the Anderson County primary election in May.

The candidate forum will be moderated by Gene Patterson, community relations lead for Consolidated Nuclear Security, which manages and operates the Y-12 National Security Complex.

The candidate forum will be hosted by the Anderson County Chamber of Commerce Government/Community Relations Committee. It is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at The Ritz Theater at 119 North Main Street in downtown Clinton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the concession stand will be open, a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2018 Election, Anderson County, Anderson County, Business, Front Page News, Government, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Chamber of Commerce, Anderson County Circuit Court Clerk, Anderson County Clerk, Anderson County Election Commission, Anderson County mayor, Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank, Anderson County primary election, Anderson County road superintendent, Anderson County Sheriff, Anderson County trustee, candidate forum, early voting, Ebony Capshaw, Gene Patterson, Gray Long, Jeff Cole, Leesa Arowood, Lewis Ridenour, Mark "Hollywood" Whaley, Mark Lucas, May 1 primary election, Michael Yarnell Foster, Regina Copeland, Rex Lynch, Russell Barker, Scott Burton, Scott Gillenwaters, Steve Emert, Terry Frank, Tim Shelton, William T. Jones

Ridenour, an ORPD officer & former chief deputy, running for sheriff

Posted at 4:46 pm November 20, 2017
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Lewis Ridenour

Lewis Ridenour

 

Lewis Ridenour, an Oak Ridge Police Department officer and former chief deputy of the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department, is running for sheriff in the 2018 election.

In a press release, Ridenour, a Republican, pledged to only serve two terms if elected as Anderson County sheriff. He cited “great concern” over career politicians when announcing his term-limit pledge.

Ridenour pledged to use his community and law enforcement experience, sound judgment, and “know-how” in office, the press release said.

“During my over 20 years of law enforcement experience in this county, I have gained an understanding of the complexities of city and county government, including its capabilities and limitations,” Ridenour said. “Most importantly, the primary role for the sheriff should be to be to make our entire county safe, while also being an advocate for the taxpayers. There are real issues facing our county relating to drugs and crimes against persons and property. There are also many financial issues that will come before us in the years to come. We need a sheriff with extensive experience as an administrator as well as law enforcement.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2018 Election, Anderson County, Front Page News, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: 2018 election, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, law enforcement, Lewis Ridenour, Oak Ridge Police Department, Republican primary, sheriff

Next Veterans Breakfast in Anderson County on Saturday

Posted at 12:07 pm August 8, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

The next Veterans Breakfast in Anderson County is on Saturday, August 13, at the Clinton Community Center.

Military veterans from Anderson County are invited, a press release said.

The breakfast is hosted by Anderson County citizens, and it sponsored this month by AEG: American Employer Group in Clinton, the press release said.

“Chow line” opens at 8:30 a.m., and there will be a brief program at 9 a.m., the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Clinton, Community, Front Page News, Government Tagged With: AEG, American Employers Group Firm, Anderson County, City of Clinton, Gary Long, James Scott, Lauren Scott Monahan, Lewis Ridenour, military veterans, Ray Varner Ford, Terry Frank, Veterans Breakfast

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