After a leak of nitric acid at Nuclear Fuel Services around noon on Monday, NFS spokesperson Lauri Turpin said the plant has taken all the appropriate precautionary measures and plans to resume normal operations soon.
“We’re currently transferring the acid out of the containment area into recovery vessels,” Turpin said Monday afternoon. “We’ll continue to do that until it’s complete and then we’ll look at going back to normal operations.”
Turpin said no one was injured in the leak, which occurred within an outdoor bulk chemical storage area, a statement from the company said. More...
Although a new county commission district map with different boundary lines has been adopted, voters heading to the polls in March will report to the same voting locations as they did during the last election, Administrator of Elections Sarah Bailey reported on Monday.
Bailey said members of the state’s Election Commission advised local election officials at a December conference that they should hold off on sending out new literature to notify voters of changes to their districts and precincts.
“They advised it would be best if we did not implement our new county plan until after the March election in case there were holdups with the state,” Bailey said. “So, right now, our plan is to implement our new precincts and districts after the March primary.” More...
Updated January 10, 2012 06:03:34 PM
GOP maps out changesGOP maps out changes
As it currently stands, a proposed change to state House and Senate legislative district lines by Tennessee Republicans would shuffle the legislators who represent Unicoi County, namely Sen. Steve Southerland, of the First Senate District, and Rep. David Hawk, of the Fifth House District, Elections Administrator Sarah Bailey said Monday.
According to the state’s website, proposed redistricting legislation in the Tennessee House of Representatives would move Unicoi County from Hawk’s Fifth House District into District 4, currently represented by Kent Williams.
Previously, Williams represented only Carter County, which constituted its own congressional district. The proposed change would place only the northern half of Carter County in the same district as Unicoi County, with Carter’s southern half moved to District 3. More...
