HOME TOTALLY DESTROYED BY FIRE IN ROANE COUNTY
Dudley Evans A Mobile Home was destroyed after catching fire early yesterday (12-22) morning east of Kingston . According to The East Roane County Fire Chief, one person was transported to the hospit ...
STUDENT LOAN PAYMENTS DELAYED UNTIL MAY 2022
The Biden administration on Wednesday extended a student loan moratorium that has allowed tens of millions of Americans to put off debt payments during the pandemic. Under the action, payments on ...
TN DEPT OF HEALTH: OMICRON SPREADING RAPIDLY IN TENNESSEE
The omicron variant is likely now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in Tennessee, according to State Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey. She estimated 80% of active cases to be from Omicron. She predi ...
THP: CAP’N CRUNCH CEREAL BOX WITH HEROIN, METH FOUND DURING TRAFFIC STOP
Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers on Sunday discovered methamphetamine and heroin inside a cereal box during a traffic stop in Union County. Around 5:45 p.m. Sunday, THP troopers pulled over a car on ...
ROANE COUNTY EXECUTIVE RON WOODY NOT SEEKING REELECTION
Dudley Evans Election Day is Aug. 4, next year but already some local leaders are saying they may not seek re-election One is County Executive Ron Woody The policies could change depending on who sit ...
VEC WANTS TO LOWER ELECTRIC RATES, TVA WONT ALLOW IT
Volunteer Energy Cooperative President Rody Blevins said he is disappointed in a federal ruling continuing limited utility access to TVA’s transmission system. Blevins said Volunteer Energy is still ...
FEMA PROVIDES UP TO $9,000 COVID-19 FUNERAL REIMBURSEMENT
COVID-19 has killed around 18,000 people in Tennessee since the start of the pandemic, as of Tuesday. For those families, paying for the cost of a funeral can be difficult and traumatizing. A federal ...
Blount County Sheriff’s Office looking for owner of missing class ring
They believe the ring belongs to a man and who attended the former Walland Middle School, according to the post. Officials looking for owner of missing ring(Blount County Sheriff's Office) ...
SUNNY WEDNESDAY
Wednesday is going to be sunny and cold with the temperature not getting much above 40 degrees and then dropping to near 20 Wednesday night. The warming Trend starts Thursday as we climb above 50 degr ...
Lillie Elizabeth Lewis, 86
Lillie Elizabeth Lewis, age 86, of Pleasant Hill, TN, passed from this earth at 6:35 AM on this the 18th day of December, 2021 at Cumberland Medical Center, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s. S ...
CASEY’S GENERAL STORES PURCHASE 40 PILOT CONVENIENCE STORES
An Iowa-based convenience store chain has completed the purchase of 40 stores from Knoxville, Tennessee-based Pilot Corporation. Casey’s General Stores, Inc. announced in a news release that it had c ...
UPDATE ON HUGE FLATROCK MOTOR CLUB COMING TO WESTEL COMMUNITY
Rusty Bittle, developer and founding partner of Flatrock USA, was featured speaker at the Cumberland County Commission work session last night to update the Commission on the upcoming development in t ...
