Target partnered with Sevier County Law Enforcement Agencies to provide dozens of deserving children with a Christmas Shop With a Cop experience they will likely never forget. The Target store located at 5405 Washington Pike in Knoxville recently reached out to the Sevierville Police Department, asking what they could do to help Sevier County children who have been affected by ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials will lift the campfire ban on Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Campfires and open grills have been banned in the backcountry since Nov. 1 and throughout the park and frontcountry areas since Nov.15. Beginning Friday, visitors can have campfires and use grills at established frontcountry and backcountry campsites and picnic areas. Recent rains, along with ...

The Smoky Mountain Opry Theater in Pigeon Forge is getting ready for a big toy distribution for all Sevier County children affected by the recent devastating wildfires in the Great Smoky Mountain area. Toys will be provided for every child, and each family will receive a food/snack box. Special guests will be Santa and his elves. The Fee/Hedrick theaters are ...

The Musicians of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will be performing Music for the Mountains: a benefit concert to support the Gatlinburg wildfire disaster relief — a musician-organized and led event. The performance will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016 at TN Valley Unitarian Universalist Church — 2931 Kingston Pike in Knoxville. The musicians are volunteering their ...

Tennessee Housing Development Agency has made emergency funding available to three locally-based organizations to help persons displaced by the wildfires in Sevier County. The Tennessee Valley Coalition on Homelessness, Helen Ross McNabb Center and Family Promise of Blount County have programs in place to assist households facing homelessness and are administrators of the federal Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program. THDA ...

The Fee/Hedrick Family Entertainment Group has just acquired the former RFD-TV theater in Branson, Mo. The 2,000-seat theater and over eight acres of land were bought from foreclosure auction this week on the Taney County Courthouse steps for $3.2 million. Vinton Commercial Realty, Chris Vinton, represented Fee/Hedrick Family Entertainment. David Fee, president and chief executive officer of the Pigeon Forge ...

Several famous names have been added to the growing list of celebrities set to perform during Smoky Mountains Rise: A Benefit for the My People Fund on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016 at 8 p.m. (EST). Chris Stapleton, Chris Young, Big & Rich, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, LOCASH, Chris Janson and Montgomery Gentry are just a few of the new ...

Devastating wildfires and a previous prolonged drought may affect the quality of drinking water for some Gatlinburg-area residents who rely on home wells, springs and other private sources. While those served by community water systems in the area can rely on water quality assurances from their local utility managers, those supplied by other non-government-inspected sources may want to have their ...

The City of Sevierville Department of Parks and Recreation is now accepting registration and entry fees for the 2017 Co-Ed Volleyball League. Registration packets are available at the Community Center front desk or online at www.seviervilleparksandrec.com on the athletics page. The $125 team entry fee is due by January 12, 2017. An organizational meeting for anyone interested in playing will ...

A Multi-Agency Resource Center will open on Monday to provide assistance to wildfire victims who lost their homes, who were displaced by the fire or businesses who need help. The Multi-Agency Resource Center will open Dec. 12, 2016 at the former Belz Factory Mall, 2655 Teaster Lane in Pigeon Forge, and operate Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. ...