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  • Joined: February 25, 2026
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Ronald Walraven

Ronald Walraven, age 78, of Talbott, passed away on Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at his residence. He was a retired New Jersey State Trooper, a proud United States Air Force Veteran, and served his country in the Vietnam war. He was preceded in death by his parents, Carl and Madeline Walraven. He is survived by his wife of fifty-seven and a half years, Juanita Walraven; sons, Gregory (Jennifer) Walraven and Jeremy Walraven; daughters, Jennifer Stepp; sister, Mary Lee (Richard) Miller; grandchildren, Sarah Walraven, Emma Walraven, Savannah Walraven, Dakota Stepp, and Justin Walraven. The family will receive friends from 4:006:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12th at Westside Chapel Funeral Home.

C-N, UT’s Baker School announce transfer agreement

From Contributed Reports JEFFERSON CITY – Carson-Newman University officials and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Howard H. Baker, Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs announced this week a new academic partnership in public administration.

Canvas system used by thousands of schools is back online after a cyberattack disrupted studies

A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final exams. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft. Instructure, the company behind Canvas, said in an update late Thursday that the system was available for most users. Canvas is used to manage grades, course notes, assignments, lecture videos and more. The hacking group posted online that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected, with billions of private messages and other records accessed, Connolly said. Screen shots Connolly provided showed that the group began threatening Sunday to leak the trove of data. By Friday, Instructure and Canvas had been removed from a dedicated leak site created by the ransomware group on the dark web to publish stolen data. Canvas went down Thursday at the worst possible time. Students quickly took to social media, with many panicking that they could no longer view course materials housed within the platform to study for their final exams.