Slide shuts down one lane of Route 116 past Briceville
A slide along Tennessee Route 116 in northwest Anderson County has shut the road down to one lane, pending repairs. - tdot photo
Part of the roadway of heavily-traveled Tennessee 116 (New River Highway) slid down the bank of the Ligias Fork River on Monday morning, forcing the Tennessee Department of Transportation to close the eastbound lane. Pending repairs, all traffic will be routed through the slide area on the westbound side, and temporary traffic signals are being installed to accommodate the change, according to TDOT spokesman Mark Nagi. The slide occurred in the area of Grave Hill Missionary Baptist Church, southwest of Briceville in far western Anderson County. “Geotechnical engineers are currently assessing the situation,” Nagi said in an email Monday afternoon. “Crews have set up barriers and temporary traffic signals will be installed. This lane closure will be in place until the slide has been repaired.”
Read MoreFaith and sports
Athletes in Ministry founder Brian Ford’s vision for the organization blended faith and sports to inspire young athletes and create lasting community impact. The Anderson County nonprofit, which began in 2015, has now served nearly 1,000 boys and girls.
Athletes in Ministry founder Brian Ford first discovered a personal connection between faith and sports at a Christian sports camp, Crosspoint, in 1995. “I attended the camp, and until that time, I never knew that sports and God could come together like that,” said Ford, a Clinton native. The memories and impact never left him, he said, even as he went on to play collegiate baseball and raised five children with his wife, Anne. While he had the idea for many years to offer a similar opportunity to others, it wasn’t until seeing a baseball hat advertising 323 Baseball, a sports ministry in East Tennessee, that Ford felt the Lord was giving him a true sign to start a similar program in Anderson County. “I was serving as the youth director for Memorial United Methodist Church at that time, and 323 was our street address,” he said. “I felt that was the Lord telling me to go ahead and make it happen.” Founded Jan. 18, 2015, Athletes in Ministry has seen nearly 1,000 area boys and girls come through its programs. Initially, it offered travel baseball, and it achieved nonprofit status in October 2019.
Read MoreTBI investigating officer-involved shooting on I-75
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has taken over the investigation of the Dec. 26 shooting by law-enforcement officers of a suspect fleeing police on southbound Interstate 75 just south of Rocky Top, according to District Attorney General Dave Clark. Dylan Phillips, 27, was being chased by Campbell County sheriff’s deputies into Anderson County, and was eventually pulled over by an Anderson County sheriff’s deputy, according to a report from Clark’s office. During the attempted arrest, Phillips resisted arrest and used a firearm against the officers at the scene, and was himself then shot multiple times by officers involved in his apprehension. He survived the shooting and was transported to a hospital by a Life Star helicopter, where he received treatment for his injuries and then released into police custody. Authorities have not yet said why Campbell County officers were pursuing Phillips, other than reporting that they had determined he was armed.
Read MoreNorris plans workshops Thursday evening
Special Norris City Council workshop meetings are planned for Thursday (Jan. 9) on how city employees will be compensated in the coming fiscal year’s budget, and on possible new rules about where trees can be planted on city property. At 5 p.m., the council will hear input from the city manager and interested residents about city worker pay and benefits, based on studies comparing Norris’s current pay scales and benefits to other nearby cities with similar populations and staff sizes. “It’s going to be more of a discussion of salaries and benefits – what data we’ve collected and where we got it from,” City Manager Adam Ledford said Monday. “This came out of the last budget session, and we will share the info we’ve collected on market conditions, and go through it on a department-by-department basis,” he said. City leaders have said that retention of staff is a major goal, and that pay and benefits play a large role in that effort. Thursday’s session precedes the coming budget workshops by the City Council that will lay out the framework for the budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. The council is expected to pass the new budget in June.
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