CLEVELAND, Tenn.
Free lecture looks at Bradley history
Archaeology buffs have an opportunity Jan. 9 to learn about prehistoric Bradley County.
Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan, curator of archaeology and adjunct professor of anthropology at the Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee and a Cleveland native, will present a slide lecture at the Museum Center at Five Points on “Discovering Bradley County History: Digs, Dams and the New Deal.”
The free 2 p.m. lecture is sponsored by Check Into Cash.
Sullivan’s research interests include Mississippian Period cultures, and she specializes in archaeological material uncovered in the 1930s during the flooding of the TVA reservoirs.
ATHENS, Ga.
Store clerk fatally stabbed
Police are searching for clues in the stabbing death of a 25-year-old clerk at an Athens convenience store.
Athens-Clarke police say Kejuan Charde Hall was attacked in the Golden Pantry Shell station Thursday. Police officers haven’t given a motive, but they said the only thing stolen from the convenience store was the security video footage of the crime.
Hall was found by two customers in the store’s back office.
Family members said Hall was a single mother with an 8-year-old daughter.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.
Effort is made to save rail depot
Discussions are beginning in Washington County toward saving an old railroad depot.
The depot dates from 1906 and was built by the Southern Railway in the unincorporated community of Chuckey.
The Johnson City Press reports the town of Jonesborough, which is the county seat, has been approached by former Alderman Jimmy Rhein as an intermediary for the family who now owns the building and Norfolk Southern, which owns the land on which it sits.
At its December meeting, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen agreed to look for an inexpensive way to dismantle the depot with the intention of storing it and reassembling it somewhere else.
Mayor Kelly Wolfe said Jonesborough also would look at helping any effort in Chuckey to save the depot.
DYERSBURG, Tenn.
Vehicles hauling metal stopped
Dyer County officials say people hauling anything that looks like scrap metal are being pulled over and questioned.
Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box said the move is justified because of numerous metal thefts in the West Tennessee county in recent weeks.
Box told the State Gazette deputies are stopping anyone hauling what appears to be scrap metal, identifying them and taking photos of the load.
The sheriff said his department, the city police in Dyersburg and Newbern and the district attorney general’s office are working together to curtail a rash of thefts.
The Gazette reports a recent example is $2,000 worth of metal from a piece of construction equipment that was taken Dec. 22.