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Task force to consider changes to Secret City Festival

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Secret City Festival Kix Brooks June 2014

Country music artist Kix Brooks, who was part of the country duo Brooks and Dunn, performs during the 2014 Secret City Festival. (Photo by Rob Welton)

 

A new task force is scheduled to discuss potential changes to the Secret City Festival on Thursday, including shifting the annual festival to small events from mid-October to November 11 (Veterans Day), creating a nonprofit organization to run the festival (and possibly other special events), and voting on changing the date of the festival and whether it should be a one- or two-day event.

The new task force will also discuss unique opportunities for a festival theme and could develop a list of potential entertainment venues to be used throughout the city for the festival, consider other potential festival dates, and develop a list of potential partners.

The meeting of the Special Events Advisory Task Force starts at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in the Oak Ridge Recreation Center’s Craft Room at 1402 Oak Ridge Turnpike. [Read more…]

AC task force studying animal shelter to meet Tuesday

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The new task force set up to consider the possibility of an animal shelter in Anderson County will meet on Tuesday.

The meeting has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday, February 17, in Room 118A at the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton.

See previous story about the task force and its work here.

Anderson task force allegedly finds crack, marijuana, revolver during search

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An Anderson County task force serving a search warrant on Waltham Lane on Feb. 1 allegedly found 46.2 grams of purported cocaine base, or crack cocaine, in a kitchen drawer, authorities said.

The task force also allegedly found 8.3 grams of purported marijuana in the kitchen drawer, court records said, and a fully loaded chrome Trooper MK III 357 caliber Colt revolver was found in a master bedroom closet. A small digital scale that had allegedly had marijuana and white residue was found on the kitchen counter, according to affidavits filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court.

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