Bob Fowler

• Solar projects springing up on former brownfields Published 02/07/2012 at 6 p.m.

  OAK RIDGE — Two companies and an economic development group are getting on the solar bandwagon on current and former Department of Energy properties, officials said Tuesday.

• Work on new Oak Ridge retail site imminent with TIF approval Published 02/06/2012 at 7 p.m.

  OAK RIDGE — Plans for the city's first tax increment financing venture to fund improvements needed for a new retail center cleared a final public hurdle Monday.

• Former county executives land new jobs on public payrolls Published 02/06/2012 at 2:52 p.m.

  ROCKWOOD — Two area county executives who lost re-election bids in 2010 have secured new public payroll jobs.

• New Anderson task force launches centralized dispatching study Published 01/27/2012 at 9:39 p.m.

  CLINTON — Any move to centralize Anderson County dispatching operations and merge the county's three E-911 Emergency Communications Districts will take "significant time and effort," the chairman of a new task force predicted Friday.

• Owners consider selling Oak Ridge Mall Published 01/26/2012 at 7 p.m.

  OAK RIDGE — Reports that the nearly abandoned Oak Ridge Mall is being put up for sale may be premature but flew around the Atomic City Thursday and may become official today.

• Warrant: Anderson man choked elderly uncle to death Updated 01/26/2012 at 8:24 p.m.

  CLINTON — His girlfriend watched as Norman Lee Follis Jr. choked an elderly uncle to death last month, according to arrest warrants against Follis and Tammy Sue Chapman.

• Solar farm under construction near East Tennessee Technology Park Published 01/25/2012 at 4 a.m.

  OAK RIDGE — A company planning new headquarters nearby is constructing a solar farm on a brownfield site next to East Tennessee Technology Park, and it's calling its project "Brightfield."

• State cites Premium Coal for water quality permit violation Published 01/24/2012 at 6:30 p.m.

  BRICEVILLE — The state on Monday issued a water quality permit violation notice to the coal company that discharged more than 1.4 million gallons of black water into the New River earlier this month.

• Judge denies double-murderer's latest legal move for new trial Published 01/24/2012 at 4 a.m.

  CLINTON — A judge on Monday denied a convicted murderer's quest for a new trial, saying some of the many issues Phillip Douglas Seals raised in his legal maneuver "just boggle the mind."

• Report: Andersonville man says he made bombs as 'stress reliever' Published 01/23/2012 at 8:32 p.m.

  CLINTON — An Andersonville man who told authorities he's been making homemade explosive devices for years as a stress-reliever remained jailed Monday after deputies were told early Sunday he had a pipe bomb filled with black powder in his residence.

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