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Book Club Meetings
The Sevier County Public Library System invites residents so become involved with a book club this year. The SCPLS Main Library Fireside Book Club reads contemporary, electronic books, the Seymour...
Archive for: May, 2010
New Titles at the Library
The Sevier County Public Library System has recently received several new titles at all three library branches. The new additions in adult fiction at the Seymour Branch include, “Changes:...
Bloomin’ BBQ & Bluegrass
Sevierville's 6th Annual Bloomin' BBQ & Bluegrass festival, held May 14 and 15 in downtown Sevierville, gave 30,000 local and out-of-town guests a great opportunity to enjoy great food and world-class bluegrass...
April Unemployment Rate
Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced Tennessee’s unemployment rate for April was 10.5 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point from the March rate of 10.6 percent....
UT Chancellor Speaks at World Bank
KNOXVILLE — Jimmy G. Cheek, chancellor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an expert in agricultural and natural resources, spoke Monday at a meeting of the International Fertilizer Development Center...
Business Grand Opening
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City gets its own Music Row
Knoxville Habitat for Humanity and the Charlie and Moll Anderson Family Foundation are teaming up with America’s talented musical artists to build a ‘Music Row’ in Knoxville. Only this ‘Music...
Banker Concerned about Government Proposed Financial Controls
By Mel Canterbury R.B. Summitt, President of Sevier County Bank, and community leader for many years, spoke to the Sevier County Republican Party meeting last Tuesday evening. He addressed concerns...
County Government Meetings
The Sevier County Government Committee meetings for June are as follows: Water Committee: 1 to 3:30 p.m. June 1 in Courthouse Room 100; Birds-Eye View Annual Meeting –...
Police Investigate Suspicious Death
Sevierville Police Department (SPD) detectives are investigating a suspicious death that apparently occurred at 1630 Turtle Dove Trail. SPD officers went to that residence just after 10 p.m....
Daisy Award Winner Announced
In celebration of Nurses Week, Children’s Hospital implemented the DAISY Award, which recognizes nurses for the education, training, and skill they put in their work and the compassion with which they deliver care. ...
Emory River to Reopen
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plan to lift the recreational advisory for and reopen theEmory River on May 29 at 7:00 a.m. The main river...
Nightly Park Road Closures
Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have announced that the Elkmont entrance road will be closed to motor vehicles and pedestrian use every night from 5 p.m. until midnight, June 5 through 13, except to registered...
Maze Construction Nears Completion
Gatlinburg – Ober Gatlinburg's newest attraction, a 4600 sq. foot Amaze'n Maze, is scheduled to open for their guests on Memorialweekend. The maze, with all its twists, turns and...
Blasts Continue to Remove Unstable Rocks
KNOXVILLE – Tennessee Department of Transportation emergency contractor Pacific Blasting & Demolition Ltd. used a third trim blast today to focus on the remaining unstable rock on the slide area over U.S. 129/SR...
Flying high and firmly grounded
By Jim Callicott Jenny Cook, her husband Mark and daughter Alyssa have claimed Seymour as home for the past three years. It’s a far cry from Tampa, Florida, which was her home. “We...
Patriotic Event Scheduled
Townsend – “A Patriotic Tribute 2010” will be held at Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend on May 28 to recognize members of all branches of the U. S. Armed Forces. The...
SHS Band Wraps Up Year
By John Staser The Seymour High School Band, under the direction of second year director Rhett Butler, wrapped up their 2009-2010 year with an amazing concert on May 18. Among many exciting events...
Motorcycle Fatality in Park
Shazad Haider, 37, from Huntley, Ill., was killed in GreatSmoky Mountains National Park on May 18 after he crashed his 2003 Kawasaki motorcycle along Little River Road. Haider was traveling west...
Man Arrested for Sevier Co. Murder
A third man has been arrested in connection with a Sevier County Murder. Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals said that Shannon Rodney Baltimore, 32, of 1311 Dorthy Lane, Knoxville, was apprehended on May...
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