Residents who have applied with FEMA should be on the lookout for phone calls from unidentified phone numbers. These calls would serve as a follow-up on applications for disaster assistance. Because many emergency assistance workers are teleworking, phone numbers may show up as unknown or unidentified. When workers call, they will provide you with the applicant’s FEMA identification number, telephone ... Read More »

Vandalism over the weekend has prompted Cookeville Leisure Services to close the new Park View Skate Park until further notice. Obscenities were spray painted inside the mens restroom and on concrete outside. Damage also done to the bathroom. A trash can was removed from its base and trash thrown across the park. “It’s not about the expense, it’s about the ... Read More »

Charges pending after a two-vehicle accident Sunday afternoon along US-127 in Cumberland County. 38-year-old Jessie Michael Stephens of Jamestown is in stable condition after being airlifted to UT Medical Center in Knoxville. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Stephens was driving south on Highway 127 at a high rate of speed. As he came over a hill, Stephens swerved into ... Read More »

Power restoration resumes this morning across Dekalb, Cumberland and White Counties after Sunday morning thunderstorms. The number of homes without power in Cumberland County has been reduced to 1196, according to Volunteer Energy. The biggest area of power outages stands along highway 70 between Crossville and the White County line. On the other side of the line in White County, ... Read More »

The White County Health Department will move COVID-19 testing to the White Country Fairgrounds beginning Monday. “It just gives us more room, better traffic flow,” County Executive Denny Wayne Robinson said. Testing will take place from 9:00am to 3:00pm at the Ag Building Monday through Friday. “That will continue until either the governor says it’s time to stop or the ... Read More »

The TBI investigating the death of a woman found in a Livingston shopping center parking lot Sunday morning. Livingston Police called about 6:30 Sunday morning by a passenger in the car saying the girl was not breathing. When police arrived, the woman was dead. The couple is from Michigan. No identities have been released. Attorney General Bryant Dunaway and the ... Read More »

As night fell Sunday night, Volunteer Energy had reduced the power outages in Cumberland County to 2,112. That’s down from nearly 9-thousand at one point Sunday morning. Outages in Fentress and Overton County have been repaired. White County Volunteer Energy customers along the Highway 70 corridor continue to be without power. 906 customers of the utility’s 1200 customers are without ... Read More »

Cumberland County’s damage from Sunday morning’s storm is centered in the area between the White County line, US 70 and Interstate 40. “It basically traveled along Highway 70 from Sparta and then crossed over 40,” Emergency Management Director Rick Williams said. “It’s a small, narrow area with trees down, houses with damage, power lines down.” 10-20 homes and businesses suffered ... Read More »

Caney Fork Utility General Manager Bill Rogers said workers will break at 8pm Sunday night and start fresh Monday morning. Calling the damage across the utility service area more devastating than the 2015 ice storm, Rogers said it will require patience from customers to get all the power restored. Rogers said his workforce has been “all hands on deck” for ... Read More »

No major injuries reported in White County Sunday after storms roared through the county, according to County Executive Denny Wayne Robinson. “We’ve been pretty lucky,” Robinson said. “Overall, most of the damage is downed trees, downed power lines and some structural damage. Fortunately for for us, the good lord has blessed us. There’s been no serious injuries. And that’s the ... Read More »