Archive for: February, 2003

Titanic exhibition stays afloat

Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies announced today they will display the “Titanic: Island of Life Exhibition” until December 2003. The Titanic exhibition, which opened in May of 2002, was originally scheduled to stay on display through May...

 

Editor

Dear Editor, I have just read the response to my letter of two weeks ago written by Mr. Phillip Parker. His letter was very eloquent and patriotic, and I commend him for it. I was glad to see that my letter stimulated someone to voice his opinion,...

 

Obituaries

Glazner, Josephine June 08, 1914 – January 26, 2003. Funeral Home:  Atchley Funeral Home. Cemetery: Eden Cemetery. Josephine Glazner, age 88 of New Market, died Sunday, January 26, 2003. Survivors: Daughter and son-in-law: Dorothy and...

 

Seymour Primary to help leukemia patients

Students at Seymour Primary School are participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients Program, which raises funds to find cures for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research and for patient services. “Pennies...

 

Children’s Home financially challenged Consultant brought in to advise

The Smoky Mountain Children’s Home in Sevierville, facing a $350,000 loss in contracts for childcare from the state, has brought in a consultant to help them through the financial challenge, said the home’s superintendent, Paul Duncan. “We...

 

Students of the Month Seymour Primary School’s: January

Students of the Month Seymour Primary School’s: January

Congratulations to Seymour Primary School’s January Students of the Month. They are (left to right) Douglas Maples, kindergarten, Bethany Troxell, 1st grade, and Dylan McClure, 2nd grade. … read the rest of the story by Subscribing...

 

Teacher of the Year selections announced

On Feburary 4, 2003, a committee selected the following teachers as 2002-2003 Teacher of the Year. They will represent Sevier County at the district and state levels, competing for the 2004 Tennessee Teacher of the Year. Secondary Teacher (grades...

 

Lady Vols trounce Gators; remain unbeaten in SEC play

Lady Vols trounce Gators; remain unbeaten in SEC play

The UT Lady Vols extended their SEC win streak to 11 on Sunday, February 9th at Thompson Boling Arena by soundly thrashing the Florida Lady Gators 79-40 before a crowd of 16,629. The Lady Vols took control of the game from the opening tip-off,...

 

Eagles win in OT for third place tournament finish

Eagles win in OT for third place tournament finish

Lady Eagles fall in consolation After losing an overtime tilt in the semi-finals of the Sevier County Middle Basketball Tournament, the Seymour Eagles’ Middle School squad survived another overtime thriller over a scrappy New Center Rockets...

 

The King’s Academy sweeps Knoxville Baptist

The King’s Academy sweeps Knoxville Baptist

By Seymour Herald Staff Writer The King’s Academy picked up boy’s and girl’s basketball wins over Knoxville Baptist Thursday night with a 64-27 victory in boy’s action, and a 33-14 win in the girl’s tilt. The Lions (6-10) were led...

 

UT launches search for Athletic Director

KNOXVILLE—The University of Tennessee has launched a national search for an athletic director to succeed Doug Dickey at the helm of one of the nation’s most respected and successful programs. UT President John W. Shumaker said the university...

 

Sports Shorts: sports nutrition myths

By Scott Byrd, ATC/L Fort Sanders Sports Medicine Athletes are always looking for a secret edge against the competition and what an athlete chooses for fuel can help. Because sports nutrition is an evolving area of sports science, it is prone...

 

UT among nine conference teams for Gator Invitational

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee women’s track & field team will have an opportunity to try out the newly-resurfaced track at Florida’s Stephen C. O’Connell Center as well as compete against eight Southeastern Conference...

 

Sevier County Sheriff’s Department arrest report

Eugene Floyd Henry 39, of 711 Burden Hill Road in Sevierville was charged with DUI; $1,500 bond. Joseph Edward Dunn 43, of Newport, TN, was charged with DUI, $1,500 bond. Jacob Rodney Love 21, of Maryville, TN, was charged with public drunkenness...

 

Sevier County Register provides real estate property transfers

The Sevier County Courthouse Register provided the following real estate property transfers for the week of January 30, 2003, to February 3, 2003: • From Clinton Branham to Community Trust Bank, Spout Springs, Lot 7, $49,000. • From Larry...

 

Nominations announced this week

Nominations announced this week

Nominations for the 75th Anniversary Academy Awards were announced Tuesday, February 11 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Frank Pierson and his fellow Academy member Marisa Tomei, recipient of the Best Supporting Actress...

 

What’s happening in Celebrity News

What’s happening in Celebrity News

Mr. Ed coming back The 1961-66 CBS sitcom “Mr. Ed,” about a talking horse and his human pal Wilbur (actor Alan Young, is now 83), is being revived for FOX TV, reports Variety. Rather than a deep almost Southern-drawl-like voice, this...

 

Mobile home destroyed by fire on E. Union Valley Road

Mobile home destroyed by fire on E. Union Valley Road

A fire broke out in a mobile home located at 1668 East Union Valley Road in Seymour. The residence is listed to Gene Scarbro. There were no occupants in the structure and no one was injured. The call came in to 911 operators at approximately...

 

Seymour author appears on CBS’s “Talk of the Town” in Nashville

Seymour author appears on CBS’s “Talk of the Town” in Nashville

Author and co-publisher of the Seymour Herald Michele Karl was in Nashville this past weekend to promote her new book, “Greetings with Love – The Book of Valentines.” Karl was a guest on the CBS daytime talk show; “Talk of the Town”...

 

$20,000 recovered in power equipment theft

$20,000 recovered in power equipment theft

Two arrested Two men were arrested on January 28 and charged with two counts each felony theft as a result of an investigation by Detective Mark Holt into the burglaries of at least twenty thousand dollars worth of power tools and equipment...