Sewanee News

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation today arrested a former office manager of the Sewanee Utility District for theft and other numerous charges after she was indicted by the Franklin County Grand Jury.

Mason Alexander, managing partner of the Charlotte office of labor law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP recently gave a presentation to Gaston Human Resources, the Gaston County chapter of the Society of Human Resource Managers .

I have been a mentor for the Education for Ministry program since 1984, and I write to say that it is, in my un-humble opinion, the best program of Christian spiritual formation that the church has come up with since, well, whatever you think the best thing is.

James Agee always considered his true vocation to be poetry, and it's difficult to think of another writer whose work lends itself so readily to painterly interpretation.

I buy farm fresh eggs every week or so from a guy who sells them at my office. I know they're farm fresh because every now and again I encounter something that George Carlin described as "not the end of an egg...it's the beginning of a chicken!!" I only pay a buck a dozen for them, so you won't hear a complaint out of me.

A former Baylor School student and three friends are walking from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., to Washington, D.C., to raise awareness of the children affected by a 23-year war in Uganda.

In Monteagle, The elementary student teacher arrested on child pornography charges remains in custody after he waived a bond hearing last week.

Broadway to hold Vacation Bible School, 'Magician's Nephew' put on by WordPlayers, Heritage choral presents 'Grease' and more ... Broadway Baptist Church in Maryville will be holding Vacation Bible School from June 22-26, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. each day.

A first grade student teacher at Monteagle Elementary School has been arrested on child pornography charges.

Cal and Mary Love Porter of Springfield, TN announce the engagement of their daughter, Rita Manry Porter, to Justin Thomas Martin, son of Henry and Judy Martin of Clarksville, TN.

Louise Haynes Burke, age 89, mother of Rev. Jacque Gretchen Steubbel, a graduating senior at the Sewanee School of Theology, University of the South, died of heart failure on Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester.

Sterling House to host jewelry sale May 2, Annual Merry Night May 7, Horse Haven will hold yard sale, and more ... Sterling House to host jewelry sale May 2 Sterling House of Maryville will host its fifth annual jewelry sale to benefit the Alzheimer's Association May 2. Persons who have items to donate may call Connie Evans at 681-1300. Sterling ...

When the 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners were announced at on Monday at Columbia University, Jon Meacham was far from New York at another institute for higher learning.

A student-teacher at Monteagle Elementary School has been arrested after investigators found pornographic images of children on his home computer.

Facing a legacy of crumbling parks infrastructure, ravaged public lands and stunning mismanagement, the new Secretary has plenty to work on.

As if the Skinny Bob's Meat Melt at Shenanigan's in Sewanee, Tenn., wasn't already exquisite this weekend, it was made perfect by the Mason jar of Sam Adams that accompanied it.

The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta named R. Terry Smith its new chief executive officer.

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens will be in Sewanee, Tenn., to promote what he sees as the need to use wind and natural gas while developing new energy technologies for the nation.

Both AUM teams advanced to the finals of the Small College Blue-Gray tournament on Friday.

Cavers are being asked to temporarily give up their hobby to stop the spread of a mysterious disease wiping out bats in the northeast.