CLAY COUNTY-The Tennessee Highway Patrol recently released sites and dates for drivers license and sobriety checkpoints here and in neighboring Jackson County over the coming weeks.

A total of six checkpoint dates are scheduled, a THP news release said, with two set for Clay County and four for Jackson through December. 

Clay County

• Friday, October 16–Drivers license checkpoints set for State Route (SR) 53 at Langford Lane from 10-11 a.m., and SR 52 at the New Hope Road from 1-2 p.m.,

• Friday, November 27–Sobriety checkpoints set for SR 53 at Neely’s Creek Road from 5-6 p.m., and SR 52 at the east end of the Cumberland River Bridge from  8-9 p.m.

Jackson County

• Friday, October 23–Sobriety checkpoints set for SR 135 at Putnam County line from 6-7 p.m., and SR 56 at Mile Marker 3 from 9-10 p.m., 

• Friday, November 6–Drivers license checkpoints set for SR 56 at the north end of the Cumberland River Bridge from 9-10 a.m., and SR 85 at the Greenwood Ridge Road from 12-1 p.m.,

• Friday, December 4–Drivers license checkpoints at SR 290 at the Putnam County line from 10-11 a.m., and SR 135 at the Putnam County line from 1-2 p.m.,

• Friday, December 18–Sobriety checkpoints set for SR 290 at Putnam County line from 5-6 p.m., and SR 56 at Mile Marker 1 from 8-9 p.m.