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Great news for those underserved internet access communities in Roane County, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Financial Stimulus Accountability Group recently announced $61 million will be awarded in Tennessee Emergency Broadband Fund grants to improve access to broadband internet across the state. The grants are funded through the State’s …

UPDATE (4:54PM): We now have confirmation and a bit more on the story we first brought you on Monday’s news concerning an person in custody of the Harriman Police Department, who was unresponsive upon arrival in the parking lot of the Roane County Jail Monday Morning. That individual was transported …

Between Monday, August 24, and Tuesday, August 25, 2020, Roane State Community College received at least two reports of COVID-19 positive test results with multiple other tests still pending. The reported cases are all among students on the Roane County campus. The college is assuming the pending tests are positive …

OAK RIDGE, Tenn.– During the period September 8-18, 2020, the U. S. Department of Energy will be conducting repair work on Bull Bluff Road in Oak Ridge which will require closure of the road.  Please note that vehicle access to Clark Center Park will not be possible during this time. …

CLINTON – Applications are being accepted to fill a vacancy on the Anderson County Conservation Board. The Conservation Board oversees operations of the county parks.  Members are appointed by the County Mayor and confirmed by County Commission, and members (who must be Anderson County residents) serve five-year, staggered terms. Anyone …

Today is Tuesday, August 25th and this is a Tuesday morning update. I’ll be reporting Covid-19 numbers as of Monday, August 24th. We’ve got some good news again. Yesterday, we reported only one (1) positive case. The last time we had only one (1) was July 11th, some 44 days …

MEDIC Regional Blood Center MEDIC Regional Blood Center continues to screen all donors for COVID-19 Antibodies. Antibody testing is an effort to identify COVID Convalescent Plasma (CCP) donors to increase inventories to meet the demand of regional hospitals.  MEDIC is NOT performing COVID-19 virus testing for people with COVID-19 symptoms.  …

Roane State President Chris Whaley will sign a proclamation Tuesday, August 25, designating September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in observance of the 20th anniversary of the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network. The event will be held at 11 a.m. in the atrium of the Coffey-McNally Building on the Oak Ridge …

On Friday, deputies with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office and agents with the 8th Judicial District Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at the home of 30-year-old Aaron Crowley on Davis Chapel Road in LaFollette. In a press release, the CCSO says that complaints from neighbors brought attention to …

According to our news partners at WYSH Radio and Oak Ridge Today, a judge on Friday ordered a mental evaluation for one of two people accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering a Knoxville woman. 52-year-old Sean Finnegan is facing charges of first-degree murder, aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, abuse of a …