August 29, 2026
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Hamblen County School Nutrition Director receives Southeast recognition
Jennifer Buchanan, School Nutrition Director of Hamblen County Schools, is the second Hamblen County Schools nutrition employee being recognized in consecutive years by national officials.
MU Board of Commissioners appoints Brandon Stubblefield as General Manager
The Morristown Utilities Board of Commissioners has announced the appointment of Brandon Stubblefield as the utility’s new General Manager. Stubblefield will succeed Jody Wigington who retired last fall after over 30 years of service. The board utilized Tennessee’s Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS) to assist in a comprehensive regional search aimed at finding a leader with a strong background in electric, water, wastewater, and broadband services.
Lakeway Area
Lakeway Area students named to Cumberlands’ Dean’s List for Spring
Sanctis receives degree from Alaska-Fairbanks
Sanctis receives degree from Alaska-Fairbanks
Lakeway Area
Lakeway Area students named to Cumberlands’ President List for Spring 2026 Semester
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.
Pentagon begins releasing new files on UFOs and says the public can draw its own conclusions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions on 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' like an object that a drone pilot says shone a bright light in the sky and then vanished.
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.