Local News

A door-to-door scam.  An intruder recently gained entrance into a local home under the guise of being a city employee.  They asked to enter the home to check the water. It was determined, however, that the incident was a hoax as the individual did not work for the city.  The City of Springfield reminds residents that any time city employees need to come to a person’s home or office they will always be wearing proper city-issued uniforms and identification. Workers should also arrive in a city-marked vehicle.

There are nearly 22-hundred new coronavirus cases in Tennessee.  The Tennessee Department of Health reported the new cases yesterday, bringing the total since the outbreak began to over one-million-343-thousand.  Over 80 additional COVID-19-related deaths were also reported, with the total number standing at  17-thousand-900.  There are more than one thousand COVID-19 hospitalizations in Tennessee.

A Middle Tennessee community is showing signs of recovery from historic flooding.  The Waverly Cash Saver grocery store is open again, nearly four months after it closed due to damage caused by August’s flooding.  A line of customers gathered outside the store before the doors opened yesterday.  Nearly two dozen people were killed when over 17 inches of rain fell on the area on Saturday, August 21st.

Fishing enthusiasts in Tennessee have a chance to catch cutthroat trout again.  The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is stocking cutthroat trout in waters across the state again for the first time since the 1960s.  Over 25-hundred cutthroat trout were released into the upper portion of Fort Patrick Henry Reservoir on the Holston River below Boone Dam yesterday.  About three thousand were released into the Hiwassee River last week with plans to soon release over 22-hundred more into the Tims Ford tailwater on the Elk River.