Spectra Tech Inc. is sponsoring a free family concert featuring the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra to open the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association’s 74th season at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at Oak …
Gillette plans Mechanicsville Homecoming (among other things)
David Gillette was sitting in the front room of Unchained Bail Bonding talking about the Mechanicsville Homecoming. He kept being interrupted by a ringing telephone.
One call he took was from …
Short plays zoom from laughs to familiarity
There’s a moment in Staci Swedeen’s short, one-act play “The Pennysaver,” part of Flying Anvil Theatre’s one-act play festival “8×10,” which closes this Sunday, that has flashed across the minds …
A tourist in LA LA Land
It wasn’t on the bucket list, but I have now seen Los Angeles.
I don’t really have a bucket list. When I tried to make one, everyone said I didn’t really …
Wise words for business owners
Financial advisor Jeffrey Jeter was talking to a tough crowd at the Fountain City Business and Professional Association meeting Aug. 8. But they weren’t tough in the way you might …
Ballinger challenges Briggs for Senate seat
Jamie Ballinger’s hero is her grandmother, Arzetta England, who lives in Powell and worked for many years at C&S Laundry.
“She’s extremely frugal and can squeeze a nickel until it’s a …
Roy Arthur talks Beaver Creek
Imagine a bald eagle eating a fish on the banks of Beaver Creek.
Roy Arthur saw it one day while inspecting flooding along the creek in Powell.
Arthur was funny, informative and …
Making ‘Rotary memories’
Things happen at Rotary club meetings – and it’s often those unexpected things that create what is called “Rotary memories.” Recently another memory was made at the Rotary Club of …