FAIRMAN AND AYTES HONORED WITH GOVERNOR’S VOLUNTEER STAR AWARD
Volunteer Tennessee honored two from Cumberland County for the service to their community. Wyatt Fairman is the youth honoree. Fairman has been a volunteer for the election commission since then 2020 ...
HIGH SCHOOL ANGLERS TEAM UP FOR LAKE AND BOAT RAMP CLEANUP
Meigs County high school anglers teamed up with Rhea County and Soddy Daisy Saturday for a lake cleanup. Members went to several boat ramps and collected trash to be properly disposed of. The groups w ...
GARRETT ARRESTED FOR FAILING TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER
Rockwood police took 62-year-old Walter Loyd Garrett, Jr. into custody last Friday for failure to register as a sex offender. According to the Roane County jail database, Garrett was initially placed ...
SIX VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON I-40 RESULTS IN AN INJURY
A six vehicle accident on I-40 in Loudon County yesterday morning shut down part of the eastbound lanes of the interstate for over an hour. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says the crash occurred at the ...
PRANK ROBBERY VIDEO FILMED FOR YOUTUBE TURNS TRAGIC
Metro Nashville police says 20-year-old Timothy Wilks was shot and killed in Old Hickory, Tennessee Friday night. The incident happened at the 4300 block of Old Hickory Boulevard at a building with se ...
ANNA FAYE COLLETT, AGE 83
Anna Faye Collett, age 83, of Rockwood, passed away February 7, 2021. She was born on April 19, 1937 in Rockwood. She was a graduate of Rockwood High School and a member of the First Presbyterian Chur ...
TAMPA BAY BUCS DEFEAT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS TO WIN SUPER BOWL LV
Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a dominating Super Bowl LV victory last night with a 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. It is Brady’s seventh Super Bowl ring – more than any player o ...
SUNNY AND WARMER
The northern Cumberland Plateau just had the biggest winter storm that we have seen in the last 10 years with 4 to 7 inches of snow measured from northern Bledsoe through Cumberland all the way into t ...
UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 39,108 active cases (UP 321 from yesterday) in Tennessee out of 744,600 total cases. •705,492 recove ...
SCHOOL CLOSINGS/DELAYS FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Keep coming back to this story and refresh for the latest school closings and delays for Monday, February 8, 2021. (Last updated 4:30 a.m. Monday, February, 8, 2021) The following school systems are ...
COLLISION BETWEEN TRACTOR-TRAILERS CLOSES EASTBOUND SECTION OF I-40
A collision between two tractor-trailers on I-40 in Loudon County this morning resulted in no injuries but eastbound traffic was closed for nearly two hours. The report states 56-year-old Tomas Ortega ...
PICTURES OF SNOW ON THE PLATEAU – FEBRUARY 7, 2021
We have a lot of great photographers who took some wonderful shots of the snow this morning. The following pictures were taken by Cumberland County Mayor Allen Foster, Robert Hebien, Elisabeth Humphre ...
