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After a brief, whirlwind courtship, Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters hired Gatlinburg Fire Chief Greg Patterson as the county’s new assistant mayor. Patterson was the lone known candidate for the job that was recently vacated by Curtis...
A fiery meeting of Sevier County politicos was held Wednesday night to discuss the way the elected commissioners will conduct the county’s business in the future. Wednesday’s meeting was called for by the county’s steering...
The Campbell Culture Coalition will be hosting the Second Annual Louie Bluie Festival to celebrate the life of Howard Armstrong from 11a.m. – 9 p.m. on June 14 at beautiful Cove Lake State Park. Admission is free. The Festival prides itself...
The City of Sevierville Police Department's annual Kids Police Camp is June 16-20, 2008. Police Camp provides the opportunity for young men and women, 11-14 years of age, to learn basic police skills in a SAFE , organized and structured...
Seymour High School could be facing transition for its athletic programs after the TSSAA, the governing body of high school athletics in the state of Tennessee, makes its expected overhaul in classifications this week at the state athletic association...
University of Tennessee basketball player Chris Lofton and University of Florida golfer Jessica Yadloczky have been named recipients of the inaugural SEC Sportsmanship Award, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive announced this week. The winners...
Come to the Lid Testing Day on June 21st! Now is the time to have your pressure canner checked! Before you start canning those delicious fresh veggies, make sure that the dial gauge on the lid is accurate. A dial face is marked with a scale...
The Seymour Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to a motorcycle accident at 750 Maryville Hwy, SVFD arrived at 2:34 P.M. to find a 2005 Chevrolet 1500 towing a trailer. A 2001 Harley Davidson Road King was found embedded in the driver side...
L to R: Sgt. Lynn Breeden, tracking dog Jake, Ryan Grub, Marshall Keiffer, Stephen Quilliams, Kevin Campbell, Joshua Gibson, Sgt. Mark Fellin with K-9 Cyklon. Sgt. Breeden & Jake as well as Sgt. Fellin & Cyklon, came out to the Gibson...
According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals a Sevier Co. a woman suffered serious burns after mixing chemicals in her home. Seals stated that at approximately 5:32PM on Monday central dispatch received a 911 call from 586 Parton Hollow Rd....
The Sevier County Board of Education met at 4:30 pm last night for it's regular meeting. The meeting was a minor celebration in the ending of the school year. Dr Parton, however, brought up the fact that he, and by way of the...
Oaka Williams, a reserve end and placekicker on one of Tennessee’s most storied championship football teams, died Wednesday at his home in Bluefield, Va. He was 77. The 1949 graduate of Bluefield High School earned All-State honors before...
For the second straight night, theTennessee Smokies were stymied by a stellar pitching outing by the Chattanooga Lookouts as they fell by the score of 9-2 at Smokies Park. Tennessee fell to 26-39 on the season in front of 2,845 fans,...
Saturday was a big night for Knoxville resident Clyde Stanton. A driver in the Late Model feature race at Seymour’s 411 Motor Speedway, Stanton collected his first win at the legendary dirt oval. He took the checkered flag by holding...
Bruce Pearl, along with eight others, was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Sunday morning at the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center in Commack, N.Y. “It is a great honor to be inducted into the National Jewish...
Monday at 10:36 P.M. the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department was called to a structure fire at 632 Hills Gate Cir just off of North Pitner Rd. Firefighters arrived to find a single story house under construction with fire in a bedroom. The...
Are you addicted to yard sales. Do you have DREAMS about going to yard sales. Do you have the misconception that only poor people go to yard sales or have them. Do you believe that besides saving money, yard sale shopping helps the environment,...
Many wanted to enter the photo contest A Day In The Life Of Sevier County but were unable to because the Photo Packets were all gone and date confusions. The ultimate purpose of this contest is to raise funds for the Smoky Mountain Children’s...
Our front page story last week, “Something’s Got To Be Done” received lots of phone calls with similar situations. One person called, who we’ll call Ned, to complain that his neighbors have been storing vehicles in their...
The Tennessee Smokies (25-34) had one run leads in the bottom of the ninth and tenth innings but could not hold on and lost to the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx (35-23) at Pringles Park, 10-9, Tuesday in eleventh innings. Tuesday’s loss snapped...
