D Ray Smith News Today

On Sept. 6, 1955, 85 Black students from Scarboro School walked or took a bus to two all-white schools in Oak Ridge - an unknown story to many.

Benita Albert continues Part 2 of her story on Vietnam War vets with Oak Ridge connections: Tommy Etheridge, Jimmy Luttrell, Rick Young and Jim Roper.

Benita Albert continues Part 2 of her story on Vietnam War vets with Oak Ridge connections: Tommy Etheridge, Jimmy Luttrell, Rick Young and Jim Roper.

Join the Cumberland County Center for Lifelong Learning for an array of classes during fall session, Oct. 2-20, on Roane State Community College Cumberland County campus at 2567 Cook Rd.

Registration is now underway and continues for each class up to a week before the class date. Visit https://roanestate.edu/CLL for complete class information and the online catalog.

Oak Ridger Kris Light tells of the lives of the monarch butterflies. The University of Tennessee Arboretum in Oak Ridge to host a festival Sept. 9

A column on Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, written by his grand-niece Barbara Rogers Scollin. Find out about the Sunday Punch.

D. Ray Smith and Carolyn Krause bring the third and final part of the series on the history of Coal Creek, renamed Lake City, now called Rocky Top.

The Fraterville and Cross Mountain mine explosions in the mountains outside Coal Creek led to the deaths of hundreds of miners. They also saved many.

Carolyn Krause continues her research into J. Robert Oppenheimer and the connection to Oak Ridge.