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The Iraqi prisoner abuse fiasco is the last straw for Donald Rumsfeld. The sooner he resigns the sooner the Bush administration can put this embarrassment behind them. The president cannot afford the media dragging this story out any longer,...
Mem-orial Day is the traditional time when you’ll find editorials penned by all and sundry telling you to support our men and women in uniform, because without them we wouldn’t have a free country with a free press in which to express the...
Al Gore let Ralph Nader sabotage his presidential chances in 2000 by vacating the environmentalist niche that had sustained him for his entire political career. By sublimating his greenish agenda to more “mainstream” issues like Social Security,...
“Opportunists” and “looters” said to have desecrated two burials at Middle Creek site Carl “Two Feathers” Whitaker, Principal Chief of the Native American Indian Movement, has planned a protest of “burial abuse” at a construction...
Qualify seven athletes for NCAA Outdoor Championships Dee Dee Trotter, Kameisha Bennett and the 4x400m relay set meet records Saturday, and the seventh-ranked University of Tennessee women moved three other individuals on to the national championship...
What were they thinking? NAS-CAR that is. What could the powers that are be thinking when they told Arnold Motorsports, owners of Derrick Cope’s number 50 Dodge, that he couldn’t run a sponsor named Redneck Racing.Com, but allowed a Busch...
Learning center kicks off summer reading The Sevierville Sylvan learning Center is sponsoring five summer reading kickoff events at area public libraries during the month of June. These events featuring Book Adventure, the free online reading...
Popular Governor’s Palace show to offer special promotion Producer and director of Come Celebrate America, the popular show now playing at the Governor’s Palace in Sevierville, has announced that Sevier County residents who wish to attend...
Al Gore let Ralph Nader sabotage his presidential chances in 2000 by vacating the environmentalist niche that had sustained him for his entire political career. By sublimating his greenish agenda to more “mainstream” issues like Social Security,...
The Iraqi prisoner abuse fiasco is the last straw for Donald Rumsfeld. The sooner he resigns the sooner the Bush administration can put this embarrassment behind them. The president cannot afford the media dragging this story out any longer,...
Qualify seven athletes for NCAA Outdoor Championships Dee Dee Trotter, Kameisha Bennett and the 4x400m relay set meet records Saturday, and the seventh-ranked University of Tennessee women moved three other individuals on to the national championship...
Jake Ginter was interviewed after his heat race and spoke with confidence that he would win more than one race this year in his Mini Charger, but no one in the grandstands thought he would come out in the feature and pull away to a full straight...
Bluegrass beat echoes throughout Valley By Susan Pitt As the sun set on the Dumpling Valley Camperfest grounds, the audience settled in for a relaxing and entertaining evening and weekend, to the Blue Grass music. The Camperfest event started...
Termites and carpenter ants have similar skills and behaviors. Both live in nests and are organized in castes of workers, soldiers, and queens. Once a year, queens and males leave their nests to mate and set up new nests, extending their territory....
Bear Hunter’s Barbeque benefits Friends of the Smokies with charity auction The Eleventh Annual Bear Hunter’s Barbeque in Gatlinburg, hosted by Earl and Margit Worsham at their lovely home proved once again that when the bear hunters throw...
Woman injured when tree lands on car At 4:58 pm on Monday, May 31, a 44-year-old female driver from Gatlinburg was injured while traveling on Ridge Road in Sevierville. The 1984 Honda Accord she was driving was struck by a tree at 1515 Ridge...
Counselor Eric Bohanan of Pigeon Forge High School was recently awarded a United States flag by representatives of the Woodmen of the World. Pictured are Eric Bohanan (left) student Ben Lethco (center), and Woodmen representative Rocky C. Hall...
Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center has announced that renovations to its emergency department are complete. Construction began in mid-February and was completed on schedule in three phases. Phase I renovations included work in the Fast Track...
Termites and carpenter ants have similar skills and behaviors. Both live in nests and are organized in castes of workers, soldiers, and queens. Once a year, queens and males leave their nests to mate and set up new nests, extending their territory....
Mem-orial Day is the traditional time when you’ll find editorials penned by all and sundry telling you to support our men and women in uniform, because without them we wouldn’t have a free country with a free press in which to express the...
