Archive for: December, 2011

Eagles Lose Heartbreaker to Patriots

Eagles Lose Heartbreaker to Patriots

By: Lee Ramseylee@seymourherald.comThey say in sports it’s a game of inches and that’s literally what this game was.In regulation with a second remaining and the Eagles leading by 3 Jefferson County’s Chase McGhee threw up...

 

Seymour Wrestling Holds Eagle Challenge

Seymour Wrestling Holds Eagle Challenge

By: Lee Ramseylee@seymourherald.comThe Seymour wrestling team recently hosted their annual dual wrestling tournament, the Eagle Challenge, at Seymour High School.It was a large tournament with top area teams participating.  There was plenty...

 

Lady Eagles Have Huge Early Success

Lady Eagles Have Huge Early Success

By: Lee Ramseylee@seymourherald.comAfter a tremendous comeback win over Morristown-West, the Lady Eagles came home for an encore over the Jefferson County Lady Patriots recently.Seymour defeated the Lady Trojans of Morristown West 52-45, and...

 

Two Escapees Detained

Two Escapees Detained

Two of three escaped inmates from the Sevier County Minimum Security Jail Annex have been taken into custody.At approximately 9:30 p.m. Dec. 8 three inmates, Roy Ray Herron, 24, Calvin Junior McMahan, 45, and Tommy Ray Kitts, 37, overpowered...

 

Seymour Man Arrested for Robberies

Seymour Man Arrested for Robberies

A Seymour man has been arrested and charged in connection with two armed robberies. Donald M. Black, 34 of Seymour, was arrested last week after being identified as the suspect in two separate robberies of a Dollar General store in November....

 

Departments Join for Good Cause

Departments Join for Good Cause

The Seymour High School Choral Department will join with The Sevier County Choral Department this year to present its 2011 Winter Concert.  The concert will take place on Dec. 16 in the SHS auditorium.  The two award winning choirs...

 

Service Draws Generous Support

Service Draws Generous Support

By Ben Lawsonben@seymourherald.comWhen a volunteer fire department as large the Seymour’s goes into the field, they rely on an equally sufficient support system of other volunteers known as the Support Services Division, a dedicated group...

 

Seymour Business Gives Back

Seymour Business Gives Back

By Ben Lawsonben@seymourherald.comSeymour Computer Repair owners Josh and Kaycie Smith have found success in Seymour thanks to their family-oriented approach to business and it was because of family that they decided to give a little back to...

 

Seymour Says

Seymour Says

Do you prefer to shop online or in a store? Bill Russell: “I shop in the store. It’s just what I’ve always done.” Howard Weeks: “I go to the store. I’m old school.” Mike Louck: “It’s about...

 

Parade This Weekend

Parade This Weekend

The annual Seymour Christmas Parade will be held at 4 p.m. Dec. 10.  The parade route starts where Sevierville Pike enters Chapman Hwy. and proceeds down Chapman Hwy. up to the Kroger parking lot in the Macon Crossing shopping center. It...

 

Toddler Survives Dog Attack

Blount County Sheriff deputies responded to a dog attack in Seymour last Friday that put a three-year-old girl in intensive care.Sheriff James Berrong indicated in a statement that the girl is in stable condition at the University of Tennessee...

 

Seymour Spotlight

Seymour Spotlight

By Carol WurschmidtJewel and Kirk Neeley and their family live in a house that is part museum, but always home for their six children and two grandchildren.  Currently, the Neeleys are preparing their home for a Christmas Open House at...

 

Changes Underway for Centers

Changes Underway for Centers

By Ben Lawsonben@seymourherald.comAfter years of talking, searching and negotiating, the waste disposal problems facing Seymour’s residents have been resolved, leading to some big changes.Back in October, the county renegotiated contracts...

 

Bus Driver Charged with DUI

Bus Driver Charged with DUI

By Ben Lawsonben@seymourherald.comSeymour parents and students alike are shocked after a school bus driver took a sports team on a scary ride while allegedly under the influence.The Seymour High School freshman basketball team was on their way...

 

Grand Opening Held

Grand Opening Held

Technicians at Computer Solutions have recently announced the store’s grand opening will be held Dec. 12.During the grand opening various special discounts and incentives will be offered for the first 25 customers who come in and mention...

 

Soccer Teams Earn Academic Awards

Soccer Teams Earn Academic Awards

The National Soccer Coaches Association of America has announced that the Maryville College Men's and Women's Soccer programs have each been awarded the NSCAA Team Academic Award.Coach Fernandez's squads were one of only 153 schools...

 

Santa on Display

Santa on Display

Santa will be back in Tennessee this year at Knoxville Center and West Town Mall for the annual Santa Photo Experience.Sponsored by ABC Family for seven years, the event will allow children to be photographed with Saint Nick.  As a special...

 

Barnes Named All-South

Barnes Named All-South

Blake Barnes, a senior defensive tackle for Maryville College, has been named to the 2011 All-South Region D3football.com third team for his efforts this season.The three-time All-USA South performer from LaBelle, Florida was a pre-season All-American...

 

Methodist to Defeats Maryville

Methodist to Defeats Maryville

The Scots men’s basketball team fell to future USA South conference foe Methodist 79-78 in MC’s Boydson Baird Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.As Maryville College’s Donald Rucker secured a late lead with a pair of key free-throws,...

 

Scots Takes Initial Great South Challenge

Scots Takes Initial Great South Challenge

A dozen different players deposited points as the Maryville College women’s basketball team opened the 2011-12 Great South schedule with a 63-29 victory over Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia on Sunday afternoon.Maryville’s Tayler...