Archive for: June, 2006

LOCAL NEWS

Local students to meet with Nobel Laureates Two University of Tennessee students are in Germany attending this week’s 56th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students. Rachel Lynch, a doctoral student in UT-ORNL’s Graduate School of Genome...

 

Sevierville Police Department schedules Child Car Safety Seat Checkpoint

Where:          Larry Hill Pontiac/GMC, 1040 Dolly Parton Parkway When:           Saturday, July 1, 2006 10:00AM – 1:00PM The City of Sevierville Police Department (SPD) has scheduled a Child Car Safety Seat Checkpoint...

 

Seymour sewer project near completion

casey@theheraldnewspapers.com After nearly a decade of discussion, efforts to extend sewer service to some Seymour area businesses should be complete this week, according to one of the project’s organizers. According to Ron French, with Seymour...

 

City of Sevierville Fourth of July holiday schedules

The following service and facility schedules for the City of Sevierville will be in effect in observance of the Fourth of July holiday on Tuesday, July 4, 2006: •       City Hall will be closed. •       The Community Center and...

 

Students attend Governor’s School For Agricultural

Students attend Governor’s School For Agricultural

Students from across Tennessee are attending the annual Governor’s School for Agricultural Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Martin. In its third year, Governor’s School for the Agricultural Sciences gives students the opportunity...

 

Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce welcomes intern Cassie Maples

Maples is a recent graduate of Gatlinburg-Pittman High School where she graduated with honors in the top ten percent of her class.   Maples will complete a three month internship with the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce experiencing all the...

 

Locals prepare for wedding despite setbacks

Locals prepare for wedding despite setbacks

casey@theheraldnewspapers.com Seymour residents Miranda Gadd and Charlie Stuzman are to be wed on Saturday and are hoping for a change of luck following a string of relentless misfortunes that has befallen their family over the past several...

 

Arrowmont receives major state arts grant

State Representatives Richard Montgomery (R- Sevierville) and Joe McCord (R-Maryville) announced yesterday that the state has awarded $50,500 to Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in a Major Cultural Institution Grant. “I am pleased that...

 

Sheriff’s Office seeks assistance in locating suspect

Blount County Sheriff James Berrong, along with Jeff Hedden, U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee, is asking for your assistance in locating a suspect wanted out of Kansas. Sean Gregory Fife, 21, whose local address is listed as...

 

PF approved new fees for garbage pick-up

Pigeon Forge elected officials approved a budget for the 2006-07 fiscal year at their meeting Monday night, including a new fee for both residential and commercial garbage pick-up. “We’ve talked for two years about some kind of minimal fee...

 

PF to require public water, sewer

Casey@theheraldnewspapers.com Pigeon Forge planning officials took their first official action on a proposed change to their subdivision regulations requiring municipal water service and public sanitary sewer systems for all Planned Unit Developments...

 

PF prohibits heliports

PF prohibits heliports

casey@theheraldnewspapers.com To head off a possible loophole that would come once county zoning goes into effect, the Pigeon Forge Board of Commissioners has passed on first reading a ordinance that prohibits heliports within the city limits. Pigeon...

 

Airport awarded $2.8M

Airport awarded $2.8M

Plans for new terminal in place for next year casey@theheraldnewspapers.com The Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport has most recently received $2.8 million in grants to be spent over the next six months, which includes $600,000 to go towards the...

 

Sequoyah Cubs & Bugs weekend

Sequoyah Cubs & Bugs weekend

Bugs, slugs and slimy stuff is what the Cub and Webelos Scouts’ weekend was full of at Kings’ Academy property last weekend. 52 boys registered for the weekend Bug Fear Factor event which entailed arts and crafts, sports and competition...

 

Children’s Home dinner tradition

Children’s Home dinner tradition

First annual dinner nets over $16,000 for Children’s Home michele@theheraldnewspapers.com “We’re very pleased with the outcome of our first dinner.” That was the statement made by the Executive Director of the Cherish the Child Foundation...

 

Seymour sewer project near completion

Seymour sewer project near completion

casey@theheraldnewspapers.com After nearly a decade of discussion, efforts to extend sewer service to some Seymour area businesses should be complete this week, according to one of the project’s organizers. According to Ron French, with Seymour...

 

Locals prepare for wedding despite setbacks

Locals prepare for wedding despite setbacks

casey@theheraldnewspapers.com Seymour residents Miranda Gadd and Charlie Stuzman are to be wed on Saturday and are hoping for a change of luck following a string of relentless misfortunes that has befallen their family over the past several...

 

Developer to restore Van Gilder home

Developer to restore Van Gilder home

Surrounding property could be developed casey@theheraldnewspapers.com The owners of the historic Hereford Van Gilder Farm on Boyds Creek Highway have been looking at several different possibilities for the site and are currently working to...

 

Dr. Jan Moore chosen as new principal

Dr. Jan Moore chosen as new principal

Peggy Oakes named in permanent position michele@theheraldnewspapers.com Dr. Jan Moore, who previously was vice-principal at Boyds Creeks Elementary School and Seymour Middle School, has been chosen to be the new principal at Seymour Primary...

 

Blount Co. HD to begin sliding fees

The Blount County Health Department will begin offering an expanded list of adult primary care services on July 3. The expanded services are part of the state’s Health Care Safety Net to assist uninsured Tennesseans in the local area. Blount...