Archive for: March, 2010

Beware of IRS’ 2010 “Dirty Dozen” Tax Scams

     The Internal Revenue Service issued its 2010 “dirty dozen” list of tax scams, including schemes involving return preparer fraud, hiding income offshore and phishing.     “Taxpayers...

 

My hat’s off to them

It’s been a long and hard fight fought in congress and according to our president, we deserve an up or down vote.I submit that we are way past the up or down vote.Seems to me like the people have spoken, yelled, picketed, posted, and pontificated...

 

Seymour Baseball Opens with win over South-Doyle

Seymour Baseball Opens with win over South-Doyle

The Seymour Eagles baseball team opened the 2010 season at home with a win over the visiting South-Doyle Cherokees by a score of 4-2. It was their first win in the IMAC Conference over a 2-AAA District opponent.Brandon Timmerman started on the...

 

Community Shows Support of Prayer

By Brooke StevensonBrooke@seymourherald.com    Hundreds of Sevier County residents attended this month’s Sevier County Commission meeting to show their support of the Lord’s Prayer.     Monday's...

 

This Week with Doug Overbey

Bill seeks to curb illegal drug activity from out-of-state “pill mills” The Senate and House Judiciary Committees approved legislation this week to attack a major source of illegal drug activity in Tennessee.  The bill, Senate...

 

Campaign Signs Taken

    The presence of campaign advertisements have become common place in the Seymour area over the last few weeks with the Sevier County Election close at hand.    However, several of one of the 6th District candidate’s...

 

Seymour Baseball Banquet

Seymour Baseball Banquet

By Brooke Stevensonbrooke@seymourherald.com     The Seymour Eagles Baseball Booster Club held their Lead Off Banquet last Saturday at Seymour Heights Christian Church.     “It was to kick off the season,”...

 

EA Available for Tremont Proposed Improvements

    Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have announced the release of the Development Concept Plan/Environmental Assessment on the proposed improvements to Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (Tremont). ...

 

Park Recruits Volunteers

Park Recruits Volunteers

     The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Volunteers-in-Parks program once again is enlisting volunteers to assist with managing people and elk in Cataloochee Valley, N.C.     The “Elk Bugle Corps”...

 

UT’s Marco Institute to Host Symposium on Medieval France

UT’s Marco Institute to Host Symposium on Medieval France

     "The Building Blocks of France" is the topic of a symposium hosted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 26 and 27, at the Howard H. Baker...

 

A Message from St. Paul Episcopal Church

     Palm Sunday, also known as Passion Sunday, commemorates the beginning of Holy Week and Jesus’ final journey to the cross.       St. Paul Church will re-enact Jesus’ return to Jerusalem...

 

CNB Receives Award

     Citizens National Bank was selected as the winner of the 2009-2010 Outstanding PEP Bank Award by the Tennessee Bankers Association.      Personal Economics Program (PEP) is a national volunteer education...

 

Sevier GOP Celebrates Heritage

     The Sevier County Republican Party looks back on its history and forward to the future with the annual Lincoln Day Dinner on March 25, at the MainStay Suites in Pigeon Forge.      The evening event...

 

Family Reading Night

    Seymour Primary School will host a family reading night at its library on March 18 from 3 to 6 p.m.     The purpose of the night is for families to share their love of reading, said Librarian Robyn Robb.   ...

 

Seymour Soccer Prepared for Opener

Seymour Soccer Prepared for Opener

The Seymour Eagles High School Soccer team is finished with pre-season and is ready for its first official game.Although shortened by inclement weather, the Eagles did get in some pre-season games to help prepare for the real season.The Eagles...

 

SMS Golf Ready to Tee it up

SMS Golf Ready to Tee it up

Seymour Middle School Golf is ready to begin another season in the East Tennessee Golf Association.  As with many other sports in the Seymour School system this year, the team will have a new coach.   Seymour Middle will be coached...

 

Numerous Windows Broken

Numerous Windows Broken

    Over the last several weeks there has been a rash of vandalism throughout Seymour.     Several windows in commercial buildings and car windows have been shattered by what appears to be a BB gun pellet.    ...

 

Giving Back to Fight Hunger

     From noon to 4 p.m. March 20, Walmart associates in Sevierville and Knoxville will volunteer their time hosting a food drive to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee.       Volunteers...

 

Man Charged with Burglary

Man Charged with Burglary

     A Kodak man has been charged with burglary, according to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals.      Seals said that a home located on N. Bryan Rd. was burglarized on March 9and several guns were taken....

 

Seymour Association Reestablished

Seymour Association Reestablished

By Brooke Stevensonbrooke@seymourherald.comSeymour business owners are in the process of revamping a local association. Three local business owners, including owner of Salon 101 Veronica Sharp and her mother Al Baker, are working to restore...