Rocky Top Sports World is pleased to announce the inaugural Phillip Fulmer Hall of Fame Football Camp to be held June 16-18, 2016, in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The Camp is open to athletes ages 7-17, and will feature instruction by Phillip Fulmer, collegiate and high school coaches. Campers will be separated and coached by age group and position. The camp will ...

Covenant Health recently recognized exceptional leaders at its Buscetta Award Ceremony. Mark Conley, manager of Parkwest Therapy Center, has been named winner of the 2016 Buscetta Award, given annually to an outstanding manager within Covenant Health who personifies leadership excellence. The award was presented by Covenant Health President and CEO Tony Spezia. Conley has been an employee for 17 years ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has declared Feb. 28 – March 5, 2016, as Severe Weather Awareness Week to encourage all Tennesseans to make planning and preparing for severe weather a priority. Throughout the week, a number of organizations at the local, state and federal levels will conduct educational activities across the state with a goal of helping people prevent injuries ...

Local dialysis patients will benefit from the East Tennessee Kidney Foundation’s Lucky Kidney Run and Irish Festival presented by Fresenius Medical Care on Saturday, March 19, 2016 in downtown Knoxville. The 5th annual 6K run and 6K/2K walk start from Market Square at 10 a.m., progressing from downtown to the Fourth and Gill neighborhood and back. Registration is now open ...

The Gatlinburg Festival of Trees committee, along with the Gatlinburg Chamber Foundation, presented the Boys & Girls Club of the Smoky Mountains board of directors with a check for $24,904.29 on Feb. 11, 2016. This amount greatly exceeded the expectations of the committee and was only made possible through the cooperative efforts of Hospitality Solutions, Inc., local organizations and leaders ...

As anticipation mounts for the opening of Dollywood’s Lightning Rod, fans now have one more way to satisfy their appetite for the world’s fastest wood coaster—a new Lightning Rod-themed ice cream flavor, thanks to Mayfield. The packaging for Mayfield’s newest flavor, Smoky Mountain Fudge, features colorful artwork of Lightning Rod launching riders to a world-record 73 mph top speed. The ...

Friends of the Smokies has received a $21,500 grant from the Richard Haiman National Parks Foundation to support the Parks As Classrooms program and to resupply backcountry shelters in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Richard Haiman National Parks Foundation has supported Friends of the Smokies since 1999, contributing more than $400,000, nearly half of which has gone to fund ...

Steve Daugherty, who led Rocky Top Sports World through a successful pre-opening and opening process, is leaving his position as general manager to work with Sports Facilities Management in Clearwater, Fla. “Steve Daugherty has provided great leadership in opening of Rocky Top Sports World,” stated Dev Pathik, CEO of the The Sports Facility Management. “In his new role, he will continue ...

Steel recycler Gerdau has named John Rauhuff as 2015 Employee of the Year at its Knoxville mill. He was nominated by coworkers and selected by the administration in recognition of his outstanding work ethic and ability to make good suggestions for process improvement. Rauhuff was honored at a company dinner along with other Employee of the Month winners. “These employees ...

The Dollywood Company, the premier getaway destination in the Great Smoky Mountains, and Ripken Baseball today announced its collaboration as the official entertainment partner of The Ripken Experience Pigeon Forge. Ripken Baseball tournament participants from all over the country will have access to family-fun theme park destinations including Dollywood Theme Park, Dollywood’s Splash Country Water Park, as well as hospitality ...