Maryville College alumnus and acclaimed tenor John Wesley Wright will return to his alma mater later this month as the College’s Distinguished Alumni Artist-in-Residence.
Wright, who graduated from the College in 1987 with a degree in music,...
February 21, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Sevier County is applying for a $500,000 state grant to extend a water line to more than a 100 homes located in the southern part of the county between Pigeon Forge and Sevierville on Jayell Road. If the county is awarded the grant, it would...
February 21, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Questionnaire for perspective jurors
introduced
Sevierville, TN — Lawyers in the Shane Bacon murder case discussed motions in the case of the State of Tennessee vs- Christopher Willingham Friday, February 18, at the Sevier County Circuit...
February 21, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
t was indeed a night to remember. The Music Road Convention Center was the site Saturday evening of the Fourth Annual 2005 Valentines Dinner and Dance: ‘A Special Evening …With Special Friends, For a Special Cause….’
The cause was to...
February 21, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Sevier County Sheriff’s Department working in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized more than $15,000 worth of illegal narcotics and arrested a Sevierville man Thursday morning.
Jerry Lynn Seaton, 51, of 1140 Middle Creek...
February 21, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Great Smoky Mountains National Park managers have announced a series of meetings at which they will provide detailed information regarding the five alternatives being studied to resolve the future of a proposed new Park road on the north shore...
February 21, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
President Dwight Eisenhower was an avid painter. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was crying days after her husband Jack was assassinated in Dallas. First Lady Bess Truman was very cost conscious with taxpayer money.
These are just a few of the...
February 21, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Sevierville Police (SPD) was notified Thursday, February 17, of an attempted burglary of an ATM in the Governor’s Crossing mall. SPD Officer Steve Ford responded to Governor’s Crossing.According to SPD Detective Robbie Ball, it appears that...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Track, Softball standouts tie for honor after being named National Athletes of the Week
Track & field long jumper Tianna Madison and softball pitching ace Monica Abbott have been chosen Lady Vol Co-Athletes of the Week,...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
The Carson-Newman Lady Eagles held the Tusculum Pioneers to only 12 points in the second half as they took a 59-36 win Wednesday night in South Atlantic Conference (SAC) action.
The Lady Eagles remain in second place in the conference standings...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
The Tusculum Pioneers shot an amazing 81% (25-31) from the field in the second half and posted 62 points as they rolled to an impressive 101-78 win over Carson-Newman Wednesday night at Holt Field House.
With the victory, Tusculum improves to...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
NHL
cancels season after agreement cannot be made
There will be no hockey games this season for the National Hockey League (NHL) fans to watch. The players union and the NHL could not come to terms on a new contract and the deadline has now...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Right now someone is watching you. If you use the internet someone knows every site you have gone to and every person you chat with. All your phone calls are being monitored and your cell phone can be tracked. If you have OnStar in your vehicle...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Everybody is all juiced up over Jose Conseco. Baseball is all upset because Conseco has gone public about his own use of steroids. Why that came as a surprise is hard to understand, but organized baseball is acting as if they are aghast at the...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
If you’ll look up the word, you’ll find funk n. “music that combines traditional forms of music (as blues, gospel, or soul) and is characterized by a strong backbeat, 2 : the quality or state of being funky, or 3: a depressed state of...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
“Chemical Ali” faces the consequences of his actions
A New York human rights group aptly named “Human Rights Watch,” has accused General Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali,” for the massacre of at least 34 Shiite men in...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Mark Giroux, assistant professor of astronomy and physics at East Tennessee State University will present a lecture entitled “Unraveling the Mystery of the High Velocity Clouds” at Walters State Community College. The lecture begins at 7...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Daniel Berry, WUOT 91.9 FM program director and host of the station’s popular Morning Concert, will perform with Pianist Ellen Raines on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Admission...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Tennessee receives grant to develop study
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has received a $31,500 federal grant to develop and communicate the Cumberland Plateau Feasibility Study. The study is a first step toward making...
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments
Knoxville was chosen by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America for a second year in a row as the worse city for people with asthma to live in. The American Lung Association rated Sevier County at an “F,”the worse possible score.
Dr....
February 18, 2005 12:00 am / no comments