Car plows into Market Street antiques store
This screenshot from the security camera video inside Trackside Antiques shows the moment the car crashed into the front of the building shortly before 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 4. Store worker Sandy McCracken can be seen on the right behind the checkout counter as the car comes in. Miraculously, no one was injured. - Submitted
A woman drove her car through the front of the Trackside Antiques store at 403 Market St. last Thursday afternoon, but despite heavy damage to the vehicle and store building, no one was injured, according to police and witnesses. The crash, recorded on the store’s security camera inside, destroyed the front glass of the building and one of the entrance doors, and also damaged several merchandise displays inside near the front. Trackside Antiques owner Lerissa Douglas said that Sandy McCracken was working the checkout counter and watched the vehicle come through right in front of her. Douglas said that no one was shopping or working in a booth at the front when the car plowed through the front, and no one was on the sidewalk out front at the time, either. “We were very lucky,” she said. “We have a bench on the sidewalk out front that people like to rest on when they’re walking downtown, but nobody was using it at the time.”
Read MoreBig Dipper bringing ice cream back to former Chunky Monkey site
David Rader, who is reopening the former Chunky Monkey ice cream location on Andersonville Highway as The Big Dipper ice cream and diner, shows the hot dog machine the diner will use. - G. Chambers Williams III
A longtime Norris ice cream shop location, which has been closed since fall 2024, will reopen soon as The Big Dipper, featuring a menu similar to that of its predecessor, the Chunky Monkey. That will bring back to life the small white building along Andersonville Highway close to East Norris Road, which had operated as an ice cream shop and a diner for many years. David Rader of Maynardville, whose family previously operated a Dairy Queen, will be the owner of the new business, at 139 Little Senator Circle. Rader said last week that he plans to have The Big Dipper open within the next month, and that it would offer “46 flavors of ice cream,” along with locally sourced Angus beef hamburgers, hot dogs, and other diner fare.
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Hearing, vote set on data center rules
Potential zoning changes that could allow data centers to locate in designated unincorporated areas of Anderson County will be discussed during a public hearing by the County Commission at 6 p.m. Monday, June 15. The commission will then consider passing three amendments to the zoning regulations during the regular meeting immediately following the hearing, Mayor Terry Frank said. According to a published notice, the commission will hold the public hearing in Room 312 of the Anderson County Courthouse, 100 N. Main St., Clinton, “to consider amendments to the ‘Anderson County Zoning Resolution’ [to] include provisions for Battery Energy Storage Systems, Cryptocurrency Mining Facilities and Data Processing Centers.” A copy of the proposed amendments is available at the Office of Planning and Development, Room 127 at the courthouse, the notice also stated. But the proposed zoning changes are not in response to anyone planning to build a data center in Anderson County, Frank said Tuesday. “These amendments do not mean any of these specific industries are locating here, and currently there are no applicants or planned projects,” she said.
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