Oak Ridge officials say they expect 1,500 jobs will be created by a $755 million stimulus award to accelerate the clean-up of Manhattan Project-era buildings in the East Tennessee town once known as the atomic city.
Archive for March, 2009
Oak Ridge cleanup gets stimulus jump start (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Oak Ridge to receive influx of $755M in stimulus money (Knoxville News Sentinel)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009OAK RIDGE - News of stimulus money coming to Oak Ridge is getting to be old hat, but Tuesday’s announcement was a doozy.
Roofer - Tri-Cities, TN
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Needed Experienced Roofers. Apply at 3216 Memorial Blvd.
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Roofer - Tri-Cities, TN
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Needed Experienced Roofers. Apply at 3216 Memorial Blvd.
From Riverland News - save job, email, more…
North Iredell alum takes coaching gig at Elon (The Mooresville Tribune)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009After the standing ovations ceased and the overflow crowd dispersed, Matt Matheny sat quietly in the same room where he had been embraced with a rousing welcome as Elon University’s new men’s basketball coach.
Teaching teachers: What’s the best way? (WDAM-TV Hattiesburg)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Johanna Klinsky remembers her teacher training ruefully. She loved the theory she learned, but her only classroom experience was 10 weeks of student teaching, which did nothing to prepare her for the chaos she would encounter as a teacher in an inner-city Chicago school.
Congressman Davis briefed at ORNL, Y-12
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009(Atomic City Underground) Following his early a.m. presentation Friday at the East Tennessee Economic Council, Congressman Lincoln Davis got a tour of ORNL and Y-12 and got plenty of attention at each of the Oak Ridge sites…Congressman Davis spent time touring the Spallation Neutron Source, where (ORNL Director) Thom Mason discussed DOE’s plans to construct a second Target Building, lab spokesman Billy Stair said. One aspect of the project will be a large number of construction jobs in Davis’ district….3/30
ORNL, St. Jude track neurons to predict and prevent disease
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009(Firstscience.com) Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are looking at how developing nerve cells may hold a key to predicting and preventing diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease…3/30
TVA gives update on cleanup
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009(Knoxville News Sentinel) Roads are being resurfaced and reopened, river dredging is under way, and a decision on where to permanently place millions of cubic yards of coal fly ash from a disastrous spill is imminent…3/31
Short Deadline: House Letter in Support of 8% Increase for Office of Science
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009(AIP) There is not much time for representatives to sign a letter to the senior leadership of the House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee in support of an 8 percent FR 2010 funding increase for the Department of Energy???s Office of Science…3/30