(Submitted) Military veterans from Anderson County are once again invited to come together for a community Veterans Breakfast to honor veterans. The breakfast, hosted by Anderson County citizens, is locally sponsored this month by Anderson County American Legion Post #172 and American Legion Riders Post #172. The breakfast will be …
Read More »Charges filed after another hoax school threat
Officials with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office say that another juvenile is facing charges after allegedly claiming to have a gun on Thursday. The ACSO says members of its School Resource Unit received information about what has been described as a threat on social media, with a student at Clinton …
Read More »Commodity card sign-ups begin May 8
Anderson County Community Action Commission will be taking applications for the BLUE commodity card Monday, May 8th through Friday, May 19th on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8 am to 12 noon. To sign up you must bring in with you, proof of current household income (not a bank statement) …
Read More »Benefit Spaghetti Dinner & Auction May 13th
The community is invited to come out and show its support to a young man as he recovers from injuries sustained in a firearms-related accident with a Spaghetti Dinner & Auction next weekend in Clinton. Anderson County EMS invites you to join them on Saturday, May 13th from 5 to …
Read More »TVA offering chance to tour its dams
This summer, as part of its 90th anniversary celebration, TVA is offering public tours of some of our dams, allowing you to see inner workings of a dam and learn how the agency produces clean hydropower while ensuring the health of the waterways. Each tour will be limited to 20 people. …
Read More »1st Annual Rocky Top Cleanup Day coming May 20
(Information from the Volunteer Times) Join Rocky Top Mayor Kerry Templin and City Council members for the 1st Annual Rocky Top Cleanup Day on May 20th. The day will start at Rocky Top Community Center at 8 am where officials will go over safety tips, determine participants’ designated cleanup areas, …
Read More »CHS team survives, advances in Club Madness
The Clinton High School Historic Downtown Youth Board survived and advanced in ACTPrep.com’s 5th annual Club Madness Challenge in online voting that wrapped up on Wednesday. Between noon Tuesday and noon Wednesday, the CHS team received 590 total votes to the Stone Memorial Wrestling Team’s 482. Late in the morning, …
Read More »Clinton Schools announce graduation ceremonies
The Clinton City Schools have announced plans for the 2023 sixth grade graduation ceremonies, set for Thursday, May 25th. Students from North and South Clinton Elementary Schools will graduate in a joint ceremony at 9 am, while Clinton Elementary’s ceremony will be held at 11 am. The location for both …
Read More »Y-12 awards grants to promote STEM education
Five East Tennessee schools have been awarded $1000 grants to further STEM education in their classrooms. According to a press release announcing the winners, Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), which manages and operates Y-12 for the federal government says these grants represent “one of the ways Y-12 is investing in the …
Read More »OREM, UCOR turn attention to soil, groundwater remediation at ETTP
(UCOR press release) The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR have shifted to soil and groundwater remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in the homestretch of a cleanup that took down more than 500 aging, contaminated structures. With crews set to finish excavating and removing contaminated soil from …
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