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Tag: Tennessee

Mack’s mDRIVE transmission wins fans

Highway Transport has always been a big user of Mack Trucks, Edwards says, and the fleet operates 70 percent Mack. He likes the Mack brand for its heavy-duty strength and durability, but there was one catch: As other haulers moved to automated transmissions, Highway Transport balked, worried about specs and driver response.

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Carmen Sisson February 20, 2015 January 6, 2018Content Marketing, Recent Bylines content marketing, Highway Transport Chemical, Knoxville, Mack, Mack Trucks, mDrive, Pinnacle, Randall-Reilly, Tennessee, truckers, trucking industry 0

In Nashville, steel guitars mix with silicon start-ups

Modern Nashville, Tenn., exudes both a trendy and traditional ethos. It has a relaxed, yet professional atmosphere that appeals to young people. The cost of living is lower here than in many cities. By day, Millennials can make their own rules and create their own business start-up culture. At night, they can enjoy the city’s cultural and culinary offerings.

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Carmen Sisson February 1, 2015 March 11, 2015Recent Bylines business, Christian Science Monitor, economy, entrepreneurs, jobs, Millennials, Music City, Nashville, South, start-up, Tennessee 0

Fire department watches couple’s home burn down

Tempers flared inside a northwestern Tennessee courtroom Monday night as residents and local firefighters argued about the expansion of a local subscription-only fire-department policy that has ignited debate across the country.

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Carmen Sisson October 20, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines fire, fire department, Obion County, pay-to-spray, South Fulton Fire Department, Tennessee, TIME, Union City 0

Tennessee fly ash spill survivors worry about toxins

Kingston plant spill

For Tennessee firefighter Chris Copeland, responding to disasters is a way of life, but three days before Christmas, his world was shaken to its foundation when the rescuer found himself in a new role — survivor. Just after midnight Dec. 22, while Copeland lay sleeping, an earthen dike gave way on the north side of Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tenn. Within seconds, 5.4 million cubic yards of fly ash — a by-product of coal combustion — oozed into the Emory River, gaining speed until the glossy, debris-laden sludge roared through the Swan Pond area, leaving three homes destroyed and 42 damaged. Copeland says the sound was deafening; he thought it was a tornado.

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Carmen Sisson January 4, 2009 August 17, 2014Recent Bylines coal ash, disaster, Disaster News Network, environment, Kingston, Tennessee 0

Ken Mink plays college basketball at age 73

Mink wrote to eight schools, knowing it was the longest shot he’d ever taken. Weeks passed. No one replied, not even to say, “You’ve got to be kidding.” Then coach Randy Nesbit called from a small college in Harriman, Tenn., 35 miles away. Mr. Nesbit was willing to give Mink a chance. Most of all, Nesbit was intrigued: He wanted to know if Mink was serious.

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Carmen Sisson November 19, 2008 August 25, 2014Published Favorites, Recent Bylines basketball, Christian Science Monitor, Ken Mink, Knoxville, offbeat, senior citizen, sports, Tennessee 0

After the tornadoes: Rebuilding a campus piece by piece

For a moment, Dockery seems bowed by the sheer enormity, then he squares his shoulders and a faint smile lights his eyes. There were no deaths, and that’s something. A thousand people volunteered to help the very next day, and that’s something, too. Union will rebuild what was destroyed and resume the master plan, more slowly perhaps, but always, always moving forward. “I don’t think we’ve lost hope, and I don’t think we’re Pollyannaish,” he says. “Our deep faith will carry us through.”

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Carmen Sisson February 13, 2008 March 14, 2011Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, disaster, education, Jackson, Tennessee, tornado 0
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