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Bredesen rolls out budget today Governor Bredesen will have a little money to play with in the budget he presents to lawmakers tomorrow night. He hopes to free up money by planned TennCare cutbacks. If the cuts go through, the governor is expected...
January is traditionally a difficult month for many Sevier County residents. Tourism decreases somewhat as the cold winter months set in, causing many area restaurants and motels to downsize to a skeleton staff. The Herald Newspapers, wanting...
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Exciting but challenging times lie ahead for Gatlinburg, according to Gatlinburg’s City Manager, Cindy Cameron Ogle. She was referring to upcoming capital improvements that will be affecting the community over the course of the next two years,...
Proposed improvement of US 321 in Gatlinburg The Tennessee Department of Transportation, an equal opportunity affirmative action employer, will conduct a Community Workshop today, Monday, January 31, at the Gatlinburg -Pittman High School, 150...
If you passed by the Big Mama’s Karaoke Café in Seymour Wednesday or Thursday evening, you would have noticed an enthusiastic crowd lined up at the doors. The masses were waiting for admittance to the biggest Karaoke Café contests of the...
According to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD), the service industry makes up 80 percent of the workforce in Sevier County. That service industry consists of restaurants, hotels, motels, and retail stores...
Sentencing has been completed for Former UT Vol and current Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis who was sentenced in Atlanta’s Federal Court Wednesday to four months in prison for using a cell phone to try to set up a drug deal. The...
The Sevier County Trustee’s Office said that 2004 property taxes will become delinquent the end of February. Anyone who has not paid their property taxes by Feb. 28 will be subject to interest and penalty in the amount of 1.5 percent added...
The Sevier County Grand Jury indictment alleging a Russian with murdering two employment brokers nearly three years ago was unsealed on Jan. 27. Yuriy Solovyev was charging him with two counts of murder and two counts of felony murder. He is...
Harry S. (Sandy) Mattice, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, announced that Kimberly Cheryl Pittman, 38, of Chattanooga, TN, has been indicted by a Grand Jury, charged with 15 counts of filing false claims against...
Dear Editor, On behalf of Amigos International, Andy Aryanto, and Andy’s host family, I wish to express our deepest appreciation for everyone who donated funds to allow him to attend college in the United States, instead of returning to...
Dear Rose, I am a 17 year old girl who is dating a 26 year old guy. My mom is having fits and says that he is too old. I say that I am a senior in high school. I work and buy my own clothes. If I did something wrong I would be tried as an adult,...
Crowds of pro-life Americans filled the streets of Washington, D.C. this week to protest the 32 years of bloody infanticide that have followed the immoral Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. March for Life organizers estimated that more than 250,000...
Juan Manuel Alvarez decided that he wanted to die. He and his wife had recently separated and she obtained a court order to keep him away from her and his son. He was using drugs and becoming more and more violent as the days went on and eventually...
U.S. presses Japan to resume beef trade The United States is looking to resume exporting beef to Japan — and it’s pressing the Japanese to set a date to make that happen. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns met for 30 minutes today with...
Bill Swann, jazz pianist and faculty member at Maryville College, will perform several classic jazz pieces and some original compositions from his new CD entitled “Three,” at 8 p.m., Feb. 11, in the Music Hall of the Fine Arts Center on...
“This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home.” Well actually they were “big piggies” and they recently traveled to the Regional and State 4-H Market Hog Shows. Tyler and Jared Bruhin participated in both the...
A day after receiving its highest preseason ranking ever at No. 13 in the first ESPN.com/USA Softball poll of the season, the Tennessee Lady Vol softball team has learned that it will start the 2005 campaign in the 14th slot according to the...
Two members of the Carson-Newman wrestling team are ranked in this week’s NCAA Division II Wrestling Coaches¹ Association poll. In the 125 division, Chonci Houston (Jefferson City, Tenn.) is ranked seventh nationally. Nathan Jones (Cleveland,...
Lady Vols one of four SEC Programs to start in the Top 25 Rankings The defending 2004 Southeastern Conference Eastern Division champion and 13th-ranked Tennessee Lady Vol softball team has been predicted to finish second in the East in a vote...
