Archive for: January, 2011

Payne Earns Award

Payne Earns Award

Gregory Payne, account manager for What to Do Guide, earned the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce Friendship Award for December at the recent Coffee Talk event. Payne has worked with What to Do Guide for eleven years.  “Sevierville...

 

Knoxville Native Joins Medical Center

Knoxville Native Joins Medical Center

Dr. C. Bryce Bowling, a urogynecologist, recently joined the medical staff at The University of Tennessee Medical Center. A urogynecologist is a gynecologist with advanced training and education in the evaluation and treatment of women with...

 

Sparky and Ronda Rucker to Perform

Sparky and Ronda Rucker to Perform

Walters State Community College will celebrate Black History Month with song, words and drums. The month begins with an educational and emotional journey through music and stories with Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, a Grammy-nominated folk duo. The...

 

Joines Announces Retirement

Industry veteran and Dollywood Vice President/General Manager Barbara Joines has announced her plans to retire at the close of the Pigeon Forge-based theme park’s 2011 season.  While Joines will assume the title of Vice President/General...

 

Franklin, Price, Sigilai Chart Wins At Hokie Invitational

Franklin, Price, Sigilai Chart Wins At Hokie Invitational

BLACKSBURG, Va. — The Tennessee track & field teams closed out a strong weekend of development Saturday afternoon, winning three events and adding 16 more personal-record marks on the final day of the Hokie Invitational at Virginia...

 

Defense, Rebounding propel Scots

Defense, Rebounding propel Scots

The Maryville College women’s basketball team earned sole possession of first place in the Great South Athletic Conference standings with a 68-58 victory in Demorest, Georgia against the Piedmont College Lions on Saturday afternoon.Coach...

 

Scots tame Lions

Scots tame Lions

The Maryville College Fighting Scots basketball team used a dominating first half to cruise to a key Great South Athletic Conference victory over Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia on Saturday evening. MC remained the only undefeated GSAC...

 

Lady Vols Come Up Short to Georgia

Lady Vols Come Up Short to Georgia

By Todd Mounce, Media Relations Graduate Assistant The 10th-ranked Tennessee Lady Vol swimming and diving team gave No. 2 Georgia a remarkable effort, sweeping the fly events and setting three pool records, but ultimately fell to the Lady Bulldogs...

 

Keener Indicted for Theft, Misconduct

Former Sevier County Clerk Joe Keener was indicted on Wednesday by a Sevier County Grand Jury on one count of Theft Over $60,000 and one count of Official Misconduct.Keener allegedly stole $94,645.50 from the Sevier County Clerk’s Office...

 

Seymour Icon for Sale

A long time Seymour landmark is now on the market.White Star Market, arguably one of the most well known businesses in Seymour, has recently been put up for sale by owner Phil White.The market was built by original owners Bill and Jane White,...

 

Stolen Civil War Pistol Found in Seymour

A stolen Civil War revolver was recently found in Seymour, according to the Knoxville Division of the FBI.The .36 caliber Spiller and Burr revolver, worth an estimated $50,000, was stolen in 1975 from the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond,...

 

SVFD Receives Nearly 2,000 Calls

The Seymour Volunteer Fire Department recently released its total run statistics for 2010. A total of 1,871 calls were received by the department, and of those calls 1,097 were fielded by day staffing and 4,297 total man hours were spent.Of...

 

Contest Honors Honeymooners

Romance and adventure were in the air when Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912.  Fourteen couples traveling on Titanic were on their honeymoon, including nine in first class.  There were also many young brides-to-be sailing to America...

 

New Novel to be Discussed

Fiction writer and playwright Pamela Schoenewaldt will discuss her new novel, When We Were Strangers, the story of a 19th century Italian woman who is forced to leave Italy and find work in the United States, at the Thursday, February 3 meeting...

 

Staggs to lead Meetings

The Rev. Dr. Al Staggs, a minister, actor and comedian from Santa Fe, N.M., will lead Maryville College’s 2011 February Meetings, scheduled for Feb. 7-8.Staggs, who performs dramatic monologues based on important theological figures, as...

 

This Week with Dolly

By Duane GordonSomeone on the writing staff at NBC's “Saturday Night Live” must be a Dolly Parton fan. Just a month after the show used her classic “9 To 5” for a parody music video, “Stumblin',” featuring...

 

Zoo Fatality Under Review

Knoxville Zoo keeper, Stephanie James, a member of the Knoxville Zoo’s elephant keeper staff, was fatally injured in an incident last Friday.James was transported to The University of Tennessee Medical Center Friday afternoon, where she...

 

Seymour Wrestlers Compete in Halls Invitational

By: Lee Ramseylee@seymourherald.comAfter digging their way out of their igloos with rest of us, the Seymour Eagles Wrestling team dusted off the ice and snow from a week off and got back on the mats in the Halls Invitational at Halls High School.The...

 

Seymour Wins Big District Game

By: Lee Ramseylee@seymourherald.comIf you haven’t been to a Seymour basketball game lately you are missing a treat.The last several games have only been decided by a handful of points.  This time the Eagles (10-5), (2-2) came out...

 

Kobritz’s Corner

It’s safe to say country-rocker Charlie Daniels wasn’t referring to Scott Boras when he wrote and released Devil Went Down to Georgia in 1979.  But many MLB executives who have dealt with Boras have made less flattering comments...