Reliance News

Polk County's unemployment rate was 13.1% in December, up from 12.7% in November and 11.4% in December 2010.

January 17 - Terry Lee Baliles, 41, Turtletown, Possession methamphetamine, possession drug paraphernalia, capias ... Walter Anthony Cook, 22, Cleveland, Possession drug paraphernalia, violation misdemeanor probation ... James Grady Goss, 34, Cleveland, Violation state probation.

Board members spent a majority of the meeting listening to a laundry list of ranging from mold issues to the proper wording on "no smoking" signs on the outside bleachers.

The Taylor family of Springtown is taking one day at a time after a Christmas morning fire destroyed their home.

January 10 - Trevor Crew Nix, 21, Reliance, Violation state probation ... Vickie Edna Shroth, 55, Copperhill, Violation probation ... Sherry Lynn Godsey, 44, Copperhill, Vandalism ... David Stanton Postelle, 67, Turtletown, DUI ... Charles Robert Qualls, 28, Benton, Domestic assault.

This is the 1972 Nurse's Aide Class held at Fannin Co. Vocational High School. Most of these ladies worked at Copper Basin and surrounding areas.

Penny Waldroup, victim of an October, 2006 attack by her estranged husband Brad Waldroup, will appear Monday January 16 on Dr.

Lee University's Encore Program, which offers people age 60 and over the opportunity to take university courses, has a new line up of specially-designed mini-courses for the spring.

Echoes of a time long past, of trading with the Cherokees and mail carried by horseback and rail, live on in a tiny post office nestled in the steep, mountainous terrain of western Polk County.