Category Archives: (WOWF 102.5 WOW COUNTRY) Local News
Cumberland County’s COVID-19 Deaths At 75
Cumberland County recorded two more deaths from COVID-19 bringing the toll to 75 on Thursday, January 21, 2021. Active cases continue to decline and are now at 422. Positive cases rose by 29 from Wedn...
Ronni Chase Jan 21, 2021
Cumb. Co. Schools Resume In-person Learning Next Week, Jan. 25-29, 2021
Cumberland County Schools will resume in-person learning next week. Because the number of Active COVID-19 cases have declined to 422, Director of Schools Dr. Ina Maxwell says this moves the school sys...
Ronni Chase Jan 21, 2021
UT Hires New AD
(WVLT/Peg Broadcasting News) The University of Tennessee has hired Danny White as Athletic Director to replace the Phillip Fulmer who announced his plans to retire on the heels of the firing of Head C...
Ronni Chase Jan 21, 2021
Plateau Road Convenience Store Burglarized
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department was dispatched to the Plateau Road Exxon early Monday morning in reference to a burglar alarm at the convenience store. The front window had apparently been ...
Ronni Chase Jan 21, 2021
Routine Traffic Stop Nets Two Wanted Supsects
A routine traffic stop Wednesday morning (1/20/2021) led to the arrest of two wanted suspects. According to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department, a vehicle driven by 30-year-old Brian Keith Prin...
Ronni Chase Jan 21, 2021
TN COVID-19 Data For Wednesday, January 20, 2021
(TN Dept. Of Health) The total COVID-19 case count for Tennessee is 694,291 as of Wednesday, January 20, 2021 (up 4,483 from Tuesday) including 8,556 deaths (up 86), 2,653 current hospitalizations (do...
Ronni Chase Jan 20, 2021
Coffey-McNally Building Temporarily Closed At Roane State’s Oak Ridge Branch
Due to a recent increase in self-reported COVID-19 cases on the Oak Ridge Branch Campus of Roane State, the Coffey-McNally Building will be closed temporarily as a precautionary measure. The building ...
Ronni Chase Jan 20, 2021
Increase in Boating Traffic, Incidents Reported by TWRA Officials in 2020
(TWRA) After a record-low year of eight boating-fatalities in 2019, the most boating-related fatalities in 37 years with 32 occurred on Tennessee waters in 2020, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Re...
Ronni Chase Jan 20, 2021
High School Basketball
The SMHS teams traveled to Cookeville Tuesday night for District games. In action aired live on Mix 99.3 the Lady Panthers suffered their first District loss of the season and had their 14 game winnin...
Jan 20, 2021
Cumberland County Commission
The Cumberland County Commission met in regular session Tuesday by electronic means. Resolutions approved included the acceptance of the 2021 Cumberland County Road List. The list includes 1,752 roads...
Ronni Chase Jan 20, 2021