Archive for: January, 2010

Emergency Communications Releases Report

By Brooke Stevensonbrooke@seymourherald.com     The Sevier County Emergency Communications District Board has released its addressing report for 2009.      Seymour has 8,050 addresses as of December 2009...

 

Board Changes Punishment Policy

By Brooke Stevensonbrooke@seymourherald.com    The Sevier County Board of Education has changed its policy on corporal punishment.    The previous policy stated, on recommendation of the state, that if corporate...

 

Think Tank Provides Legislature with 45 Ideas for a Prosperous Tennessee

Pamphlet offers a free market idea for each remaining legislative day of the General AssemblyNASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today made available in electronic version its most recent publication, An Idea a Day: 45...

 

Girls Basket Ball Tryouts

The TN Flight Select, an elite girls’ basketball program, will conduct an open gym for girls in age groups 9U and 10U on Sunday, January 24, 2010.  If you are 8-9 years old and are in 3rd-4th grades please attend the 9U session from...

 

Seymour Soccer Sign Ups

    Registration for the 2010 AYSO soccer season is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 23 at the Seymour Methodist Church.     Boys and girls ages 4 through 18 are eligible to sign up for the program.    Registration...

 

Fire Destroys Home Over Weekend

By Brooke Stevensonbrooke@seymourherald.com    The Seymour Volunteer Fire Department spent nearly four hours battling a house fire on Dry Hollow Rd. near Bays Mountain Rd. Saturday night.     The call came into...

 

Body Farm Founder Speaks in Sevierville

    Dr. William Bass gave an enlightening presentation and slide show to a packed audience at the Rotary Club in Sevierville last week.     Bass is a United States forensic anthropologist who is renowned for his...

 

All Aboard!

Girlfriends, grab your flip-flops and a deck chair, and put a little paradise in your life!  It’s time to get onboard for the Girlfriends Unlimited Paradise Cruise – where fun in the sun is always in season!  Book your...

 

Sevier County Mayor Waters Proclaims January Radon Action Month

Sevier County Mayor Waters Proclaims January Radon Action Month

     In order to raise awareness about the second leading cause of lung cancer in America, Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters proclaimed January “Radon Action Month” in Sevier County.     “Citizens...

 

Seymour RV Auction Day

A very cold, gray, cloudy day brought well over one hundred people to the 10:30 AM Saturday auction held at the property at 332 Boyds Creek Highway.“I love days like this for an auction,” stated Todd Thompson, of Thompson Carr, the...

 

This Year Has Started – Are You In It

Here in Seymour how many of us have already broken our New Year resolution?  You know that you made one or some, even if you told no one or wrote it down.  Mine is to lose about fifty pounds, that’s about a pound a week. ...

 

Man Shot in Pigeon Forge

Sunday, Jamuary 10 at approximately 2:30, Officers were waved down on Wears Valley Road by an adult male, (David Bell, 26) that stated that he had shot someone at Mountain View Trailer Park. Following up on the information provided to them,...

 

Seymour Intersection Safety Project to Begin

By Brooke Stevenson brooke@seymourherald.com     Road construction is expected to begin soon on the addition of a traffic light at an intersection located in Seymour.      The $1.2 million Tennessee Department...

 

Warm Up in the Cave

     Escape the cold winter temperatures and come Warm Up in the Cave at Cherokee Caverns.     Cherokee Caverns will be open to the public for guided tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Feb. 6. The whole...

 

This Week With Dolly

By Duane Gordon     Dolly Parton’s four-disc “ Dolly ” boxed set from Sony's RCA Nashville and Legacy imprints took the No. 1 spot of 2009’s best country music album re-issues in the 10th annual...

 

Pets For Adoption

Pets For Adoption

     Juliet is a 5-month-old white Shepherd mix looking for a new home. Paulie is an 8-week-old domestic short hair mix also hoping to be adopted soon.     Adoption fees for cats and dogs is $100 and covers...

 

Coming Up In Tennessee Lady Vol Athletics

Basketball:Thurs. – at Florida in Gainesville, Fla., 7 p.m., CSS (Jan. 14) Sun. – vs. Vanderbilt in Knoxville, Tenn., 6 p.m., ESPNU (Jan. 17) Tennis: Sat. & Sun. – at Michigan Invitational in Ann Arbor, Mich., All Day (Jan....

 

Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition of 2009 Winners Announced

Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition of 2009 Winners Announced

     Three awards totaling $1,000 have been presented to regional artists as part of the Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition of 2009, which is on display through Jan. 29 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay...

 

Mother Commends Seymour Doctor

Mother Commends Seymour Doctor

By Brooke Stevensonbrooke@seymourherald.com    A local mother credits a Seymour Pediatrician with helping to save her young daughter’s life.    Elizabeth Brady, of Dandridge, said that Dr. David Mendez of...

 

Your Opinion of County Officials

By Brooke Stevensonbrooke@seymourherald.com     With Sevier County’s primaries to be held in May, we at the Seymour Herald would like to know what the residents expect from their candidates.     ...