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The Seymour Middle School received a bomb threat this Friday after noon. According to a SMS student, a bomb threat was found in the girls bathroom. "She said she found a note in the first stall and heard ticking in the third stall,"...
East Tennessee Children's Hospital will again host the costume contest at the 7th Annual Halloween in the City, a family-friendly event presented by the Knoxville Police Department at Safety City. Prizes will be awarded to the spookiest,...
The Tennessee Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Office Management Team will hold a public meeting in Sevier County to solicit public comment regarding the Tennessee FSA proposed office restructuring plan in which Sevier County Office is being...
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber today joined officials of the Phenotype Screening Corporation of Seymour, Tennessee in announcing a purchase agreement with the Chinese Institute...
The Veterans Day Program will feature the Seymour High School Concert Choir. The choir is an auditioned group of 50 singers who perform a diverse repertoire of classical, Broadway, and show choir music. The choir consistently earns...
Fall ushers in football season, and with football comes one of the biggest high school events of the year — homecoming, and often the decision whether to drink alcohol. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),...
Authorities have released the name of a Douglasville, Ga., man who died as a result of a construction accident Wednesday. Joey Agan, 32, and a co-worker were installing a beam on an upper level of a condominium development on Gatlin Drive when...
Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee's unemployment rate for September was 4.7 percent, up 0.7 percentage point from August, attributable to a rise in the state's labor force. ...
Tennessee State Bank is pleased to announce the hiring of David Phillips, as the new Community Banking Officer for its Seymour Branch. A Sevier County native, Phillips is a graduate of Sevier County High School as well as the University of...
The Seymour Herald will be featuring a number of articles covering the history of Seymour. Fortunately we have been contacted by Vicki Davenport, who's family history goes back for eight generations beginning with the founders of Gatlinburg,...
The year 2007 has been especially challenging for trees throughout Tennessee and much of the southeastern U.S. An unusually early spring caused leaves and flowers to emerge prematurely in March, only to be followed by several days of below normal,...
From now until midnight, 11 p.m. October 31, the Smoky Mountain haunted Forest, located on 1999 Chapman Hwy, pledges to offer parents and children a good, old-fashioned Halloween scare. According to John Soter, proprietor of the haunted forest,...
According to the calendar, this is Fall. But it certainly doesn't feel like fall. It's 82 degrees outside. How can this be Fall? I am full of questions today. Actually everyday. It's a necessary part of my profession.... read...
The City of Alcoa has filed a "PETITION FOR ABATEMENT OF NUISANCE" with the Blount County Circuit Court seeking to cease the use of the property at 112 E. Newcomen Street, Alcoa, due to nuisance activities. The property is owned by...
Each year, the Miss Food City 500 Pageant is a highly popular event. The 2008 edition showcased 17 young women from across the region. Each girl entered the beautiful Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown Bristol, TN...
Most Americans are patriotic. They love their freedom, independence, and our Constitution. Unfortunately, they put too much trust in their elected and appointed officials. Relatively few know what these officials are really doing.It would surprise...
Jewish groups in India (there are about 5,500 Jews in India, out of a total Indian population of 1.1 billion) are threatening a lawsuit against a home furnishing company based in the city of Mumbai, over their new Nazi Collection of bedspreads,...
A van with a mother and daughter were involved in an accident at Wye Road and Chapman Highway Monday afternoon. The driver of a white van, Tammy Reynolds of Seymour, with her daughter Deanna, were turning onto Chapman Highway from Wye Road when...
The Sevier County Public Library System including the Main Library and Sevier County Genealogy & History Center at 321 Court Avenue, the Seymour Branch Library located at 317 W. Macon Lane in Seymour, and the Kodak Branch Library, located...
Children's cold medicine might kill your child. That news, which hit all the major media outlets last week, would have been more shocking if it didn't represent just the latest minefield parents must avoid in order to raise a healthy,...
