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Oak Ridge has new water source option: Stokesdale Winston-Salem OKs talks to begin by GERRI HUNT OAK RIDGE – After years of trials and errors in pursuing a municipal water supply for Oak Ridge residents, a solution may finally be headed down the pipeline. Stokesdale Mayor Randy Braswell announced at the Nov. 12 Stokesdale Town Council meeting
that Winston-Salem, the Town’s water supplier, is receptive to the idea of Stokesdale selling water to Oak Ridge. “Randy’s question of WinstonSalem came out of a conversation we had a couple of months ago,” said Oak Ridge Mayor Spencer Sullivan. “Winston had initially refused to commit to sell us water when we asked around 2005,
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The issue has been dormant until recently. Last year, I had the thought that we could begin our system with community well systems serving the new subdivisions being developed.” Oak Ridge Mayor Spencer Sullivan
IN THIS ISSUE News in brief......................... 3 Your Questions ..................... 4 Summerfield Town Council ...8 Around Town .......................11 Community Calendar ....... 12 Bits & Pieces ....................... 13 Celebration ........................ 13 NWO Real Estate ................ 15 Persimmon Festival/ Meals of Hope ................... 27 High School Sports ............ 28 Student Profiles .................. 29 Youth/School news ........... 30 Letters/Opinions ................ 32 Grins & Gripes .................... 33 Crime/Incident Report ...... 34 Classifieds .......................... 35 Index of Advertisers .......... 39
Fallen Summerfield soldier remembered James ‘TC’ Crosby was killed by enemy fire in Vietnam by GERRI HUNT STOKESDALE – This year’s Veterans Day Service at the Veterans Monument on U.S. 158 was local by all accounts, from the venue to the visitors to the guest speaker – and the soldier whose story he told. Rev. Tony Dowdy, active duty with the U.S. Marines and retired sergeant major with the U.S.
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Rev. Tony Dowdy tells the story of his high school classmate, who was a casualty of the Vietnam War.
Photo courtesy of Army.TogetherWeServed.com
PFC James “TC” Crosby, kneeling, was killed in September 1969 as he was patrolling the Michelin plantation in Vietnam.