Independent Herald

07/11/2025

Oneida Middle School's Jr. Beta Club Marketing Team placed in the Top 10 nationally at the national convention in Orlando last week!

After recording a fourth place finish at the state-level competition in November, Oneida Middle School’s Jr.

07/11/2025

A monstrous, 8-ft. bee hive containing more than 100,000 bees was discovered inside a house being demolished at Norma. Scott County EMS Director Jamie Byrd, who is a beekeeper, was able to save the hive and relocate the bees. PLUS: The Sacred Ground series visits Blankenship Cemetery at Capuchin, and Leah West represents Scott County Crew 333 in New Mexico. This is our newsletter.

You’re reading Friday Features, a weekly newsletter containing the Independent Herald’s feature stories — that is, stories that aren’t necessarily straight news but that provide an insightful look at our community and its people.

07/11/2025

FRIDAY WEATHER: 🌦 There’s a chance of afternoon thunderstorms.

Sunrise/Sunset: 6:27/8:59
Normal Temps: 86°/64° (Records: 93° in 1990, 48° in 1963)
Year-To-Date Rainfall: 35.5" (Normal: 32.8")

🌩️ DETAILS: Rain chances diminish a bit today. There’s a 50% chance of thunderstorms this afternoon; otherwise, we’ll see mostly sunny skies and a high temperature of about 86°, dropping to around 67° tonight. Any remnant thunderstorms will diminish quickly once we get close to sunset.

🌦️ THE REST OF THE WEEKEND: There’ll be about a 50/50 chance of thunderstorms again tomorrow, with a high temperature of around 87°. Thunderstorms will become likely Sunday afternoon, with a high temperature sneaking closer to 90°.

🌩️NEXT WEEK: Thunderstorms will remain likely on Monday, then rain chances will diminish a bit as we move further into the week. It’ll be typical summer weather: a daily chance of afternoon thunderstorms, with steamy temperatures. We will be close to 90° to start the week, though temperatures should back off somewhat later in the week.

🛶 RIVER CONDITIONS: Streamflows are close to normal for this time of year — about 200 cubic feet per second (cfs) at Leatherwood Ford (Big South Fork) and a little less than 40 cfs at Burnt Mill Ford (Clear Fork). Stream clarity was near optimal yesterday afternoon, with water temperature about 84°. Water temperatures were a bit slower to climb yesterday due to slightly cooler temperatures caused by cloud cover. The streamflow at Burnt Mill was beginning to tick up slightly due to some thunderstorm activity further upstream.

07/11/2025

This week's E-Edition is delivered! It consists of 32 pages that includes all of this week's digital content + bonus content. View it here:

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07/11/2025

This week's Words of Wisdom, from Preacher Johnny Polk and the Oneida Church of Christ. Find more at https://www.indherald.com/p/words-of-wisdom

07/10/2025

County Commission’s Intergovernmental Committee this week took the first step towards providing an annual training $400 supplement for correctional officers, while tabling a proposal that would’ve provided them with their own training supplement. Plus, a mile-long walking track is coming to the sports complex at Beat Creek. is our final newsletter of the week.

Plus: Oneida receives nearly $400,000 for walking track at Bear Creek Sports Complex

07/10/2025

Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 4:30pm

07/10/2025

THURSDAY WEATHER: ⛈️ Thunderstorms remain likely.

Sunrise/Sunset: 6:27/8:59

Normal Temps: 85°/64° (Records: 93° in 1980, 48° in 1961)

Year-To-Date Rainfall: 35.4" (Normal: 32.6")

☔️ DETAILS: This “rainy pattern” has thus far been a bust — very little rain to speak of Tuesday and Wednesday, and now rain chances are shrinking for the days ahead. But thunderstorms will still be likely today. There’s a 70% chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. As has been the case the past couple of days, it’ll be difficult to project very far in advance when and where the storms will occur, except that they will start to develop primarily during the afternoon hours and begin to die down quickly after we lose peak heating. Otherwise, we’ll see partly sunny skies today, with a high of about 83°.

🌦️ THE WEEKEND: There’s a 40% chance of scattered afternoon thunderstorms Friday and Saturday with temperatures in the mid 80s each day. The weather will be about as typical as you can get for summer in these parts! Otherwise, we’ll see mostly sunny skies. Sunday may bring a little better coverage of thunderstorms.

🌦️NEXT WEEK: Daily thunderstorm chances will be with us throughout next week, better some days than others. Typical summer weather will continue. We should see the heat slack off a bit towards the end of next week.

🛶 RIVER CONDITIONS: Streamflows are close to normal for this time of year — just above 200 cubic feet per second (cfs) at Leatherwood Ford (Big South Fork) and a little less than 40 cfs at Burnt Mill Ford (Clear Fork). Stream clarity is optimal, and afternoon water temperatures are about 85° — perfect conditions for visiting your favorite swimming hole. We’ll likely see similar conditions persist into the weekend, unless we see significant thunderstorm development in the headwater areas of Fentress and Anderson counties.

07/10/2025

LOSING DAYLIGHT: Today is our last post-9 p.m. sunset of the year.

The difference in today's sunset and tomorrow's sunset is very slight, almost unnoticeable: 9:00:06 tonight, and 8:59:46 tomorrow — a difference of only 20 seconds. But it's a sign of our shortening days and lengthening nights, a trend that will continue all the way through fall. By July 31, the sun will set at 8:46:14 — about 14 minutes earlier than tonight. And by August 31, it'll set at 8:08:43.

07/09/2025

Curtis Meredith was a World War II veteran who was a beloeved husband, father and grandfather. Threads of Life is presented by Jones & Son and West-Murley funeral homes, and is in remembrance of Jewell Boshears, Janice Byrd, Curtis Meredith and Darrell Trammell.

In Remembrance Of: Jewell Boshears, Janice Byrd, Curtis Meredith and Darrell Trammell

07/09/2025

As a coalition of local governments opposed to a new landfill at Bear Creek met for the first time today and voted to retain one of Middle Tennessee's best-known environmental attorneys to work on their behalf, landfill developer Knox Horner pledged that construction on the landfill project will begin in September.

ONEIDA | Knox Horner, the developer who has proposed to build a second landfill and rail transfer station near Bear Creek, said Wednesday afternoon that construction on that project will begin in September.

07/09/2025

Check out this week's great deal at Scenic Foods! This week's sale includes items like 5-lb. bags of boneless breaded chicken for $10.98, and 6-oz. containers of blackberries, 2 for $6. The new sale starts TOMORROW and continues through Tuesday. The store opens at 8 a.m.!