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Oak Ridge Today has uploaded a copy of the city manager’s budget presentation to Oak Ridge City Council. You can see a PDF version of the budget presentation here: City of Oak Ridge (Fiscal Year 2017 Budget).
Council received the PowerPoint presentation during a special meeting on Tuesday.
Here are a few highlights from the Tuesday meeting: [Read more…]
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Thomas Stephen “T.S.” Thrasher
The investigation of the death of an Oak Ridge man in an apartment in December 2014 remains open and ongoing, a state official said Monday.
Thomas Steven Thrasher Jr., 29, also known as “T.S.,” died December 8, 2014. He was found dead in a second-floor apartment when the Oak Ridge Police Department responded to a report of a possible intruder at about 4:40 a.m. that Monday at 615 West Vanderbilt Drive.
Anderson County District Attorney General Dave Clark said that month that a criminal investigation was under way, but there had not been an arrest and no charges had been filed. Clark said at the time that an autopsy had been performed by the Anderson County medical examiner.
“As a result of the circumstances, the Oak Ridge Police and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have been conducting a criminal investigation,†Clark said. “There has been no arrest or charges filed at this time.†[Read more…]
Clinton City Schools will also be closed on Wednesday, January 20, because of the weather, which includes a forecast for a few inches of snow across East Tennessee.
Schools in Anderson County and Roane County have also announced they will close, and so have other school districts in East Tennessee.
Oak Ridge Schools have not announced any plans to close, but Oak Ridge Today will post any updates when we receive them.
See the seven-day forecast near Oak Ridge here. [Read more…]
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Photo by Julio Culiat
The Oak Ridge Community Band performed its annual Memorial Day Concert on Monday, May 25, at at A.K. Bissell Park. Here are pictures by Julio Culiat, a contributor to Oak Ridge Today.
The Monday program included patriotic music and popular American favorites. The 2015 Memorial Day concert had a number of special guest vocalists and a guest announcer, former Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan. Guest vocalists included Charlie Blake, Mike Cates, Lettie Andrade De La Torre, Whitney Denton, Deidre Ford, Robert May, Brill Morrow, Roscoe Shipley, and Melody Turner. They sang “God Bless the USA,†“The Stars and Stipes Forever,†“Battle Hymn of the Republic,†and “The Armed Forces Salute.”
Among other numbers performed on Monday were “Highlights from Showboat,†“The Girl I Left Behind Me,†Sousa’s “Semper Fidelis,†and “Black Granite,†which is a tribute to Vietnam War veterans. [Read more…]
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