By Cindy Simpson, Roane County News Advocates of a Boys and Girls Club in Roane County are still passionate about their cause. They hope to see the beginnings of a club soon, too. “Our goal is to have a club in either Rockwood Middle School or Harriman Middle School by the middle of December,” said…
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KINGSTON — An Oak Ridge woman with an extensive criminal record has pleaded guilty to two counts of violation of the state’s Social Host Law by allegedly playing “beer pong,” a drinking game, with her underage son and three other juveniles. Misti Dawn Butler, 38, told the juveniles she was serving them “child’s alcohol” when…
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By Bob Fowler Published: June 11, 2013 KINGSTON — Tennessee has jumped back into the top spot in the nation in what prosecutors and police officers say is a loathsome category: the number of methamphetamine labs found by law enforcement agencies. That dubious distinction, and how to address it, was the subject of the annual…
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The Chance That Children Will Use Alcohol Increases as They Get Older. About 10 percent of 12-year-olds say they have tried alcohol, but by age 15, that number jumps to 50 percent. The sooner you talk to your children about alcohol, the greater chance you have of influencing their decisions about drinking. Parents Play a…
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2nd Annual Positive Peer Pressure (P3) “CAN” Underage Drinking Campaign April is Alcohol Awareness Month- a nationwide campaign intended to raise awareness of the health and social problems that alcohol consumption can cause for individuals, their families and their communities. Throughout the month of April, P3 Clubs across Roane County will be competing to collect…
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By: Bob Fowler KINGSTON — A notorious tavern that reportedly cleaned up its act now finds its beer license on the line again following an undercover operation where a bartender sold a brew to an underage patron. Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton has recommended to the county Beer Board that the license for the Grill…
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Complimentary Workshop Presented by the Tennessee Hospital Association (THA), the Tennessee Health Emergency Preparedness (EP), the Tennessee Methamphetamine & Pharmaceutical Task Force and the National Center for Emergency Preparedness Prescription drug abuse is at epidemic proportions. In 2009 approximately 1 million emergency department visits were attributed to prescription drug abuse. In the 2010 National Survey…
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Students at Harriman Middle School took advantage of an opportunity to spread some holiday cheer. U.S. troops stationed in Kuwait show off Christmas stockings made by Harriman Middle School P-3 Club members. The students sent the stockings and Christmas cards to the troops through the Adopt A Soldier Program. The school’s Positive Peer Pressure —…
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By Matt Lakin KINGSTON — Pills killed more people in Roane County last year than guns, knives, car wrecks or plane crashes. Twenty-one men and women died of accidental drug overdoses here in 2010, according to preliminary statistics from the county medical examiner. That’s an average of about one death every 17 days. The first…
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