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The Tennessee Valley Authority is building a substation off Old Edgemoor Lane at Haw Ridge Park, near Edgemoor Road in east Oak Ridge. The construction work is pictured above on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The Tennessee Valley Authority and its work crews will blast rock in the next several weeks to build an electrical substation in east Oak Ridge. The new substation is being built before the Bull Run Fossil Plant, across the Clinch River in Claxton, closes in 2023.
The blasting was scheduled to start Thursday, January 21, but it was delayed due to weather. When it starts, the blasting work could last three weeks, TVA said in a press release. Controlled, low-charge detonations will be used to blast the rock. Blasting will occur periodically between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., and traffic and pedestrian controls will be in place, TVA said.
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Crews with the Tennessee Valley Authority will begin blasting rock using controlled, low charge detonations during construction of the new Anderson substation. Traffic and pedestrian controls will be in place, closing Edgemoor Road, according to a TVA news release.
Blasting occurs periodically between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday beginning today, Jan. 21, and continuing for about three weeks. There will be no blasting on Sundays, the release stated.
The blasting will focus on the TVA Anderson Substation Site, located off of Old Edgemoor Lane near Haw Ridge Park. Traffic blocks will close Old Edgemoor Lane during the blasts.
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Tyrone Partridge
An Oak Ridge man has been charged with a second robbery, this one of a gas station in Claxton.
Partridge, 43, had already been charged by the Oak Ridge Police Department this month with the robbery of J&C Market on East Tennessee Avenue in Oak Ridge.
Now, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office has charged him with aggravated robbery, aggravated assault, and theft in the December 29 robbery of the Marathon gas station on Edgemoor Road in Claxton, a press release said. The felony warrants were obtained by Sheriff’s Office detective Josh Cardwell. Partridge reportedly brandished a firearm and demanded the Marathon employee empty the cash register, the press release said. He fled the scene with cash before deputies arrived, the release said. The Marathon employee was able to provide a physical description and a video recording showing the incident, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Cases from the magistrates court:
Wednesday, 30th December 2020, 3:21 pm
Kayleigh Eccles, age 26, of Leafield Drive, Wakefield, admitted four counts of being over the drug-drive limit for cannabis having been stopped by police on four separate occasions in two weeks while behind the wheel of a Mercedes. She was banned from the road for 12 months, given a community order and told to pay £145 costs.
David Adams, age 40, of West Street, South Kirkby, admitted stealing three handbags from Bee Fashion on Wakefield’s Kirkgate. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge and told to pay £200 compensation.
Simon Brown, age 51, of The Oval, Beal, admitted drink driving by having 130 mcgs of alcohol in 100 mls of breath. The legal limit is 35 mcgs. He was jailed for 12 weeks suspended 12 months, given 200 hours of unpaid work, banned from driving for 29 months and told to pay £213 costs.