Food safety rules could dry up irrigation for local farms

01/28/10 Black Oak Farms owner David Cantrell decided against planting his popular pick-your-own strawberry patch this year due to uncertainty surrounding irrigation pond guidelines in the proposed federal Food Safety Modernization Act.

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Snow making its mark on East Tennessee

01/27/10 The majority of the state of Tennessee is under a Winter Storm Warning for Friday afternoon through Saturday afternoon and a Winter Storm Warning is in effect for southeast Kentucky, also through Saturday afternoon.

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Powell woman killed in Sunday crash

11/24/09 A Powell woman was killed and her 9-year-old passenger was injured in a two-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon on Clinton Highway.

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Mullins family speaks out about increased reward

11/04/09 The family of a slain Corryton store owner is happy that the State of Tennessee has chipped in $10,000 in an effort to find whoever killed Jim Mullins.

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Recent births in Knox County

10/03/09 Recent births in Knox County. University of Tennessee Medical Center n Shawn Cheek and Paula Redmond, Greeneville, a girl, Zelma Serenity n Eric Bradley and Tina Rogers, Jefferson City, a boy, Landen Scott n Joshua Jolley and Molly Kennedy, Madisonville, a boy, Malachai Jericho n Zane and Ashley Ellis, Knoxville, a boy, Emery Joshua n Jorge Rodarte Ortega and Elia Lopez Galvez, Oak Ridge ...

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Rainy weather washing away plans for some corn mazes

09/23/09 One East Tennessee corn maze has had to delay its opening while another is postponing school group tours after days upon days of rainy weather.

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Some Knox County schools facing air conditioning, hot water issues

08/12/09 Nine Knox County schools will start the 2009/2010 year with some sort of air conditioning issue, which more than two-dozen and lacking hot running water at all hand-washing stations.

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Nuclear Reaction: Fear of bomb, proximity to Oak Ridge led families to build fallout shelters

08/08/09 Michael Paskel remembers the fear he felt as a child as he walked to his Corryton home from school. With every step he took, he said he waited for a mushroom cloud to pop up and consume him.

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Rain hits some local farmers in the pocketbook

08/01/09 Black Oak Farms in Corryton lets people pick their own fruit, but the wet weather is keeping many of them away.

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