Crossville Woman Dies In I-40 Crash
A Crossville woman died and a passenger suffered injuries Friday morning in an accident along Interstate 40. 36-year-old Krista L. Brock died when the 2005 Jeep she was driving went off the right side of I-40, went down an embankment and struck multiple trees. Brock traveling westbound around 9:00am on I-40 near the 312 mile […]
Renovations On Jets Football Stadium Begin Next Week
A pre-construction meeting with the contractor completed Friday, work will begin on renovations to the Cumberland County High School Football Stadium next week. Upland Design Group’s Kim Chamberlin said crews will begin arriving Monday to get setup for the renovation project. “We’ll see work on that starting soon and that’s got a 90-day time period […]
Drug Take Back Event Saturday
Your chance to help reduce the Upper Cumberland’s Opioid problem comes Saturday. The spring Drug Take Back event will happen in Putnam, Overton, Dekalb, and Jackson Counties Saturday. Law enforcement will be setup at locations across the region accepting old prescriptions you no longer need or use. More than 456 tons of prescription medicine were […]
TVA Reschedules Planned Power Outage In Jackson County
The Tennessee Valley Authority has rescheduled a planned power outage in Jackson County. Originally scheduled to take place this Saturday, the planned outage will now occur Saturday, May 12th. TVA plans to disconnect power to Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation members served from the Gainesboro Substation that reside in the communities of the Town of […]
Clay Co. Schools Purchase New Chromebooks For Students
Director of Schools Matt Eldridge says technology has certainly changed the style of teaching and the way children learn. Eldridge said that’s why the schools system recently purchased some 175 Chromebooks laptops for students. “I spoke to a group of Tennessee Tech students the other day in education and I said we’re performers, they want […]
State Funding Restored For Warren Co. Driver Testing Center
The state has agreed to restore funding to the Warren County driver testing center after three years of not doing so. The state budget includes $48,000 in recurring money to keep the center open. Jimmy Haley is Mayor of McMinnville. “It’s been a work in progress and the General Assembly recognized the importance of this […]
TN Tech Students Name Martian Crater
Tennessee Tech students and researchers named a Martian crater Garu. Jeannette Wolak is the assistant professor of Earth Sciences. “We have a grant at Tennessee Tech University to map part of Mars that hasn’t been mapped before, and the map will be very high resolution,” Wolak said. “So it included a crater in the middle […]
Funding E-911 Center No Easy Task For Smaller Counties
As Pickett County begins work toward building its own E-911 center, it can learn some lessons from Van Buren County. The week’s news was dominated by the finding of irregularities inside the Overton/Pickett E911 District. Those issues have led Pickett County Executive Richard Daniel to call for his county to pull out of the 16-year-old […]
Bruce “Honored” To be New Provost At TTU
Tennessee Tech officials introduced Dr. Lori Mann Bruce as the university’s new provost Thursday afternoon. Bruce the first woman to hold a top academic position at Tech. With a background in electrical engineering, Bruce said used to being one of the only females or first females into the arena. “I didn’t even know I was […]
Number of Excused Absences Could Decrease In Cumberland Co.
Cumberland County students would only be allowed six excused absences under a revised policy approved by education officials Thursday night. The Cumberland County Board of education approved the controversial policy on first reading as a way to get compliant with a new state law. the measure passed with a 5-3 vote. Board members Shirley Parris, […]
