the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge (FMCOR) open house and ribbon cutting celebration is still ongoing as we just got back from the official ribbon cutting, at its new expanded location, 116 East Division Road in Oak Ridge, (immediately behind Zaxby’s restaurant.) . The open house will be from 4:00 …
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(Oak Ridge Today) An Oak Ridge man who allegedly went on a rampage and broke bedroom windows inside his home concocted a story about a home invasion to try to avoid trouble with his landlord, City Judge Lawrence Tunnell, authorities said. 26-year-old Derek Scott Fitzpatrick has been charged with false reporting, …
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November 8, 2013 By Oak Ridge Today Staff Keep Anderson County Beautiful is having a special recycling program at the Potter’s Clearance Center on Oak Ridge Turnpike on Saturday. During the special recycling event, volunteers will collect old computers and peripherals, televisions (no cabinetry), cell phones, rechargeable and button batteries, fluorescent light bulbs …
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LAFOLLETTE (WATE) – Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officers seized 50 venomous snakes from a Campbell County preacher and reality TV personality on Thursday. Officers say they went to the home of Andrew Hamblin, minister at Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette andstar of “Snake Salvation” on the National Geographic Channel, around …
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On Tuesday, Morgan County voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of turning the former Brushy Mountain Penitentiary into a moonshine distillery and tourist attraction. The measure passed with 2,431 votes to 1,150 votes against. Chattanooga-based Brushy Mountain Group is leading the effort to build the distillery, which could bring more than …
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The latest trial of one of Roane County’s infamous Houston brothers got underway in a federal courtroom in Knoxville on Monday. Leon Houston is charged with using illegal drugs while in possession of firearms and he has pleaded not guilty. A jury was seated Monday. Houston was charged on the …
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LOS ANGELES, CA (November 4, 2013) – Grammy® Award winner Dolly Parton (Nine to Five, Steel Magnolias), to star along with Megyn Price (Rules of Engagement), Brian McKnight (American Dreams), newcomer Desiree Ross (Crossing the River) in the upcoming Lifetime Original Movie A Country Christmas Story, Saturday, November 9, at 8:00 …
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More than 400 people attended Friday night’s bean and cornbread social and informational meeting on a proposal to change the name of Lake City to Rocky Top as the first step toward the creation of a massive Rocky Top theme park. The event was held at Main Street Baptist Church …
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Oak Ridge, Tenn.—Students at Willow Brook Elementary in Oak Ridge were rewarded for their environmental efforts with $1,000 for having one of the top 10 school recycling programs in the state of Tennessee through the Good Sports Always RecycleTM (GSAR) program. Peter Blair and Christian Goethert from Willow Brook were …
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District Attorney General Russell Johnson and Sarah Stevenson, Executive Director of the Roane County Anti-Drug Coalition, expressed grave concerns today after learning that the FDA recently approved a powerful new painkiller, Zohydro ER, will become the first hydrocodone-only opioid. “Prescription pain pills and the pill mills that supply them are …
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