Dogwood Arts Festival next weekend

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 – SUNDAY, APRIL 28 ~from Dogwood Arts The Dogwood Arts Festival features a fine art market, live music, artist demonstrations, and hands-on activities for the entire family. Established in 1961, this is one of the most celebrated events in...

City of Knoxville schedule for Good Friday

City of Knoxville offices will be closed Friday, April 19, 2019, for the Good Friday Holiday.   Waste Connections will run residential garbage and recycling routes on Friday, April 19.   Downtown trash and recycling will run on its regular schedule...

Driving the Foothills Parkway to Wears Valley

By Mike Steely If you’d like to take the family on a day trip to see views of the Smoky Mountains you haven’t seen before you should consider driving the extension of the Foothills Parkway that opened last fall. Plan to take your time as the speed limit is 35 miles...

Observations

By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve said my stories find me, but nothing found me this week; at least nothing around which to construct an essay. So, as I sit on my porch late Wednesday afternoon, I decided to write about what I see from my porch and my observations of the week....

Perils of Public Places

By Joe Rector Going out in public is good for me. My wife has told me for years. She implores me to venture out past the boundaries of Ball Camp to see what’s on the other side of life. I do so on occasion, but after those trips, I wind up wondering what I was doing...

Remembering a Special Lady and her Kindness

Becky Turner Calfee By Ralphine Major My brother and I were looking for somewhere special in the community to film a television interview.  Channel 10 in Knoxville had called Jan-Carol Publishing to schedule an interview with us when our first children’s book was...

Explaining police reports

By Jedidiah McKeehan Police work is often glamorized and over-dramatized in tv shows and movies.  The police are often in car chases, conducting these really intense interrogations, or using big white boards to connect the dots of how a crime syndicate works. While...

Rick Barnes Stays at Tennessee

By Alex Norman Well, that was interesting… but if we have discovered anything over the past decade, it is that Tennessee fans should expect the unexpected, and fear the worst. Despite losing in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, the future for Tennessee’s men’s...