The LeConte Center at Pigeon Forge is bringing a new sport to this Great Smoky Mountains resort destination – beach volleyball. It is part of a series of sports tournaments that make up the longest booking in the three-year history of the $45 million facility. Franklin Fieldhouse, a sports company in Franklin, Tenn., has contracted the LeConte Event Center for ...

Sevierville’s Department of Parks and Recreation is now accepting registration for the Spring Adult Softball season. Leagues are available for men’s ($275/team) and co-ed ($200/team) divisions. Games will be played at Sevierville City Park on Tuesday and Thursday evenings beginning April 19, 2016. Registration materials are available at the Sevierville Community Center front desk or on the website’s softball page. ...

The Mill, which is located one half mile north of the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee North Carolina, provides an opportunity for park volunteers to assist in educating visitors about the general role of milling in the Smokies and specifically the turbine wheel at Mingus Mill. Mingus Mill, built in 1886 offers visitors a unique look into see the inner ...

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is exhibiting works by current Artists-in-Residence in Not to Scale – the final exhibition from Charlie Ryland, Drew Davis Johnson, Julia Gartrell, Sarah Rachel Brown and Skye Livingston. The Artists-in-Residence Program provides early career, self-directed artists time, space and support to experiment and develop a new body of work in a creative community environment. Each year, five artists of different media ...

Charlie Bob Smith of the Smith Family from Pigeon Forge, winners of The Mountain Press Readers’ Choice Award seven times and “Entertainer of the Year” in 2009, will perform in a brand new show called the Smith Morning Variety Show at The Smoky Mountain Opry Theater in Pigeon Forge starting March 22, 2016. Also appearing with Smith will be nationally ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting roving volunteers to assist park visitors along the Oconaluftee River Trail, Mountain Farm Museum, and fields along Newfound Gap Road near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center. Volunteers are needed from mid-April through mid-November and typically work one four-hour shift per week. Oconaluftee roving volunteers provide information to visitors about park regulations that best protect ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Appalachian Piedmont Zone fire staff plan to conduct a series of controlled burns in Cades Cove on Monday, March 7 through Friday, March 11, 2016. Weather depending, these prescribed fire treatments will take place in four field units totaling 502 acres between Sparks Lane and the Cable Mill Visitor Center area. “These controlled ...

Pigeon Forge Hospitality Association is presenting a panel discussion on the Labor and Affordable Housing crisis in Pigeon Forge and Sevier County at the March 10, 2016 meeting hosted by The Holiday Inn Convention Center. Panelists will discuss the challenges facing companies, employees, developers, and the community while exploring ways to work towards solutions. The panel will include: Nancy Brown, ...

Vocalists from around the world will converge on Dolly Parton’s hometown of Sevierville, Tenn. this spring to compete in the annual Mountain Soul Vocal Competition, honoring the songwriting of the country music legend. The event will feature contestants singing songs written by Dolly Parton in their own style (country, rock, rap, bluegrass, etc.). Contestants may enter in the 13 and ...

The Sevier County Democratic Party will host its Democratic Party County Delegate Convention on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at the King Family Library to select delegates from the county to attend the District Convention, at which delegates will be selected to serve at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this summer. The doors open at 12 p.m. and the Convention ...