Polk County News

What vegetable grows underground? What meat do you get from pigs? Why are bees important? These are question first-graders learned by attending Polk County's 17th annual Fun on the Farm Day which was held May 18 at the Polk County 4-H Showbarn in Benton.

For more than a century, the large area of Hamilton County which goes by the name of East Brainerd went by the name of Chickamauga.

Tennessee Highway Patrol is in charge of a fatal crash which occurred late Monday evening on Highway 411.

The county commission has voiced opposition to a proposed change in the coon hunting season, which was just approved in the Bear Reserve for this year.

Polk County High School will hold graduation tonight at 6:30 in the gymnasium of the school.

Joshua David Goode, a graduate of Polk County High School , is a senior in Political Science, minoring in Information Sciences at UT.

State and local officials say they'll continue to monitor slide-prone areas of the Ocoee River Gorge's road cut on U.S. Highway 64 in Polk County, Tenn., after a small rock slide near TVA's No.

In 1922, the tenth year of the Polk County High School ended with the graduation of 16 students.

Applications for the 2012 Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement cost share program is now available at the U.T. Extension office in Benton.

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A reminder to all motorists and their passengers is being passed along by members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol about buckling up for safety.

The victim in Thursday's three-vehicle crash in Polk County was 33-year-old Shawn Gregory Hall of Ocoee.

ON collision in Polk County on Old Federal Road on Thursday killed a Charleston man.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested Jesse Elbert Rogers, 60, on charges of bribery of a witness and solicitation to compound a felony.

In the summer of 2011, Robert Beckler asked if I would accompany him to Polk County's Old Dutch Settlement.

ACCEPTING BIDS THE POLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION is accepting bids on 4-78 passenger transit buses without air conditioning, 1 -18 1 handicap bus with air condition, and 1- 66 passenger conventional bus without air conditioning.

Applications for the 2012 Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement cost share program is now available at the U.T. Extension office in Benton.

In 1932, a Majestic radio, complete with tubes, was on sale for $44.50 ... Nine girls received letters at the basketball banquet: Captain Madge Smith, Grace Willson, Katherine Witt, Doris Tankersley, Catherine Love, Mabel Tankersley, Mauvine Brown, Ruth Haskins, and Nadine Wood.

The Polk County School Board met Monday, April 23rd to discuss whether or not to place lights on the Copper Basin baseball field, how to allocate energy savings, the raising of lunch prices, and the feasibility of purchasing new buses.

For nine years members from various agencies in the Polk County Community have been getting 4th graders in the Polk County School system together for a Healthy Horizons, a day of learning and outdoor activities to stimulate the mind and body.