LeConte Medical Center is pleased to welcome Jennifer DeBow, RN, BSN, as Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer. DeBow is transferring to LeConte from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, where she serves as the Cardiovascular Service Line Director, and brings with her over 21 years of professional nursing experience including critical care and cath lab nursing leadership roles. DeBow’s professional excellence has ...

City of Sevierville Police Department detectives are requesting assistance from the public in locating Patrick Feather, a person of interest in a recent storage facility burglary. Officers responded to a reported burglary on Monday, April 13, 2015 at Shaconage Mini-Storage, 1719 Pittman Center Rd. in Sevierville. According to the owner, someone had apparently cut the locks off of eight mini-storage ...

Sevier County will soon be home to popular Southeastern supermarket chain, Publix Super Markets, as the company plans to open a 45,600 square foot store in early 2016 in Pigeon Forge. The store will serve as the anchor tenant of Valley Forge Shopping Center, located at the intersection of Wears Valley Road and the Parkway in Pigeon Forge. “Publix Super ...

Pigeon Forge’s newest attraction offers two wet and slippery attractions, one dry activity, and it plans to add two more adventures this summer. It is Outdoor Gravity Park, a new business on the former Zorb site that features the New Zealand iconic OGO adventure and the spinning-in-place Fishpipe. The OGO is a plastic sphere 11 feet in diameter, with a ...

The Sevierville Police Department is asking for help from the public in locating two suspects with multiple active warrants for their arrest. According to SPD Detective Kevin Bush, 28-year old Amanda Lynn Wells of Sevier County and 53-year old Lawrence H. Bond of Morristown both have active warrants charging them with aggravated robbery and especially aggravated kidnapping. Bond also has ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers and members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol Special Operations and Aviation Section rescued two individuals from the park’s backcountry near the Spence Field Shelter on Saturday. At 6:10 a.m. park dispatch received a call from an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker advising of a pair of hikers in distress near Spence Field Shelter. The hikers, a father and son, ...

Dr. Steven Morse, an economist with Western Carolina University, will address the Sevier County hospitality and tourism industry on Thursday, April 9, 2015. Morse will speak at the monthly luncheon of the Pigeon Forge Hospitality Association in conjunction with the Sevier County Hospitality Alliance. The meeting is open to anyone in the Sevier County hospitality and tourism industry. Lunch is ...

Imagine the twinkling lights of 1,000 fireflies illuminating the night, the echo of water tumbling over a rock-covered riverbed, and the tantalizing aroma of a sumptuous gourmet feast. Add a cool mountain breeze and you find yourself reveling in The Magic of the Mountains, the twelfth annual Heritage Happening fundraising event. Preparations are well underway for this year’s gala and ...

The Gatlinburg Farmers Market, held every Saturday, May 16 – Oct 17, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. at the Covered Bridge in the Glades Arts and Crafts Community of Gatlinburg, Tenn., welcomes vendors for the 2015 season. All farms and artisans providing foods and items grown, raised, or made by that farm or business are encouraged to visit ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will hold its eleventh annual Music of the Mountains celebration Friday, April 17 through Sunday, April 19, 2015. The event tells the story of music in the Southern Appalachians through its diverse history by letting visitors experience a variety of music that was played in the region or represents Old-Time music’s roots. With performances held ...