Museum dedicates new brick walkway
Betty Sue Parks, left, and her daughter, Loretta Garner, look over bricks in the new section of the Coal Creek Miners Museum’s walkway that mention Parks and her grandfather and great-grandfather. - G. Chambers Williams III
Dozens of supporters of the Coal Creek Miners Museum in Rocky Top turned out for a ceremony Saturday morning (Aug. 2) dedicating the newest section of its Memorial Brick Walkway. This special walkway features bricks engraved with the names of many former miners and their family members. This represents the second phase of the walkway, which is the product of a museum fundraising campaign that involved donors buying the engraved bricks to recognize the role of coal mining in the area, and memorialize those who lost their lives in two major mining disasters nearby in the early 1900s. There was a similar unveiling of the first section of the walkway in 2024, as supporters and local officials turned out on Independence Day to get their first look at the bricks. The bricks are permanently set into the sidewalk outside the museum’s entrance across from Rocky Top City Hall. The museum began the fund-raising campaign in fall 2023 to help pay for upgrades, including a new second floor of exhibits. The bulk of the money for the work for the upgrades came from a $50,000 grant from the state of Tennessee in 2023.
Read MoreClinton Farmers Market will hold Thursday session
The first Thursday edition of the new Clinton Farmers Market will be held tomorrow (Aug. 7) in the new downtown parking lot at North Main and North Hicks streets from 4-7 p.m. Organizers said there will be more than 15 vendors set up for this session, offering locally raised pork, beef and lamb; fresh baked goods and sweets; embroidered shirts and other non-food goods; handcrafted art; locally made hot sauces and spices; tallow products, and more. There also will be a coffee truck and a shaved-ice truck on hand. The Clinton Farmers Market will return to the Anderson County Fairgrounds for another session on Saturday, Aug. 23, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information about the Clinton Farmers Market, visit its Facebook page.
Read MoreNorris eyes $20 sewer hike next year to help fund state-mandated upgrades
Although nothing has yet been formally proposed, the city of Norris is looking at a plan to raise the base rate for residential sewer service by $20 a month, possibly in $5 increments spread out over a year to help pay for state-mandated system improvements. That would raise the base sewer rate to $75.01 a month for the first 2,000 gallons, with usage over 2,000 gallons billed in addition to the base rate, City Manager Adam Ledford said. Sewer charges are added to the base water bill, which is now $26.96 a month. Norris residents also pay a $15 trash-collection fee and a $3 stormwater fee added to each month’s utility bill. Altogether, residents who have water and sewer service already pay a monthly minimum utility bill of $102.60. Individual bill totals would vary, however, for households that exceed the 2,000-gallon minimum each month, Ledford said. Norris has about 700 water customers, but only about 570 also have sewer service, and only those would be charged the higher sewer rates. During its July 21 meeting, the Norris Water Commission – whose members also are the five City Council members -- discussed raising the sewer rates by the $5 increments every three months until the $20 figure is achieved.
Read MoreCounty owed $600K in delinquent taxes
Anderson County has collected about 99% of its property taxes from 2023, but there is still $630,850 that hasn’t been paid. County Trustee Regina Copeland gave that figure at the County Commission’s July 21 meeting, adding that she was “pretty pleased” that the county had collected most of its taxes already. The statistics about 2023 came as part of a routine measure that the county performs, relieving Copeland of liability for these taxes now that a tax attorney has filed suits in the Chancery Court. In her comments to the commission, she said one hotel property owner near the interstate had failed to pay more than $100,000 and was two years behind. “They’ll be treated like everybody else,” Copeland said of this hotel property. She added they’ll receive the summons, and if it is not paid, the property will be sold by the delinquent-tax attorney.
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