Vonore News

"I do love this valley and the water that runs through it," said Don Keeble, who spoke Thursday night to members of Watershed Association of Tellico Reservoir in Tellico Village Community Church during the group's annual meeting.

A legislative panel that drew the ire of Gov. Phil Bredesen for delaying approval of a contract to operate a biofuels plant in East Tennessee has now signed off on the funding.

A banner awaits those who attended a luncheon marking the 30th anniversary since the gates of the Tellico Dam were closed.

A University of Tennessee demonstration biofuel pilot plant in Vonore should stay on track, according to Tennessee Gov.

From Staff Reports Originally published: November 10. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 10.

Some Tennessee lawmakers are expressing disappointment over the progress of UT's biofuels initiative, questioning whether the $70-million they approved for the program is being spent the way it should.

State lawmakers say they might pull the plug on a University of Tennessee effort to produce ethanol from switchgrass, after school officials said it has changed business partners, scaled down production and now plans to start out using corncobs, not switchgrass.

Over millennia of time, Native Americans, soldiers, militiamen, colonists, drovers, prospectors, bushwhackers, guerrillas all passed over it.

A would-be copper thief in Vonore suffered a horrible shock and may not survive his injuries, police said.

A Tellico man remained hospitalized at Vanderbilt Medical Center in critical condition Tuesday after he entered an electric substation in Vonore Monday, and was electrocuted by 13,000 volts, blowing a transformer, according to authorities.

The name of Hernando Desoto is forever tied to the southeastern United States, linked to the Spanish explorer's wandering journey through the region in 1540.

A Madisonville woman was injured Tuesday afternoon in a crash on U.S. Highway 411 at the Highway 72 West intersection.

From Staff Reports Originally published: September 24. 2009 12:03PM Last modified: September 24.

From Staff Reports Originally published: September 23. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: September 22.

A January buy/bust deal suspect was arrested Friday on warrants charging him with possession of cocaine for resale.

For a decade now, an East Tennessee contractor has ripped off trusting customers from Athens to Knoxville.

Sequoyah Birthplace Museum is hosting its annual Fall Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Sept.

An Athens man was arrested Wednesday night in Vonore after an undercover drug operation.

Contraband seized by Vonore narcotics investigators included 92 ecstasy pills that were hidden inside a tennis ball, a loaded pistol, marijuana and a smoking pipe.

By Mark Boxley of The Daily Times Staff Originally published: September 06. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: September 06.