This Thanksgiving, our family drove to Little Rock, Ark., to spend time with my husband's parents. We hadn't been to his childhood home, where they still live, in about seven years; the kids hardly remembered it.

My congratulations to TVA that their new scrubber installed to the Bull Run power plant has eliminated the black color (sulfur dioxide) heavy smoke emission to the white color (water vapor) steam starting in November 2008

Retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Joseph H. Peagler, 55, of Boise, Idaho., died suddenly Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008, in Prescott, Ariz.

Caroline Prizer Hoffman, an Oak Ridge resident for many years, died Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, at Windwood Health and Rehabilitation Center in Clinton.

If the size of the cow at Anderson County High School recently was any indication, Anderson County schools are encouraging recycling and promoting milk consumption in a big way.
 

Students who have signed up for classes at Roane State Community College during the early registration period must pay their fees on or before Dec. 9 to avoid deletion of their class schedules.

The teams from Robertsville Middle School split with Maryville this week in a pair of very exciting basketball games.
 

The Tennessee High School Soccer Coaches Association and the Tennessee Athletic Coaches Association paired up to select this year’s AAA All-State soccer team and  Oak Ridge is very well represented.