Lifestyle

Pet owners should check a list of pet foods recalled due to contamination with metal pieces that could pose a choking hazard to their pet if eaten. Certain varieties of Wellness, Blue Buffalo and Grreat Choice pet foods are being recalled as a precautionary measure because they may contain pieces of metal. PetSmart first announced a voluntary recall of 13.2 ...

As the 2016 Experience Your Smokies Tennessee class graduates, applications for the Experience Your Smokies Tennessee Class of 2017 are currently being accepted. The Experience Your Smokies Tennessee 2016 graduation event, which occurred on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 marks the sixteenth year of Experience Your Smokies leadership classes in Tennessee. The program, which is a collaborative endeavor between the Great ...

Classes will soon begin for gardening enthusiasts who wish to become a Master Gardener. Do you have desire to share the joy of gardening with others? Or maybe you just want to learn and share information about gardening and nature while giving volunteer time back to your community? If you answer yes to these questions, then the Sevier County Master ...

Congratulations are in order for two LeConte Medical Center nurses recognized with the Silver Lamp Award for outstanding contributions to their field. Anissa Adcox, RN, Surgery, and Donetta Sinard, RN, Critical Care, were recently chosen as LeConte Medical Center’s Silver Lamp Award winners for 2017. The Silver Lamp Awards are presented by The Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee to ...

Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries just gave away its sixth donated vehicle in a program to help wildfire victims recover. Jaclyn and Brandon Nussbaum’s Gatlinburg house survived the wildfires, although it did suffer a lot of smoke damage. They were lucky. Not so lucky was the family car. It was damaged beyond repair by road debris as they escaped the ...

4th grade 4-H Club members are invited to enter a recipe in the National Cornbread Cook-Off Competition. It is exciting when a child successfully manages to prepare a simple dish. Cooking helps youth develop self-confidence and skills. It requires hands on use of math concepts, planning, thinking and management. It also requires youth to be attentive to details and following ...

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The question has been asked for many years. For the 4-H members involved in the 4-H Chick Chain project it may be irrelevant, because there are plenty of chickens and potential for lots of eggs. The 4-H Chick Chain gives 4-H members the opportunity to develop an understanding and working knowledge for ...

For more than 35 years, the King family, owners of Ye Olde Steak House in Knoxville, has been closing its doors to the public on a special Sunday in December to host a private Christmas lunch for residents and staff of the Smoky Mountain Children’s Home. Although Mrs. Helen King passed away some 13 years ago, her children (Nancy Ayers, ...

A whitetail buck harvested in Sumner County, Tenn. during the recent muzzleloader season, has completed a step toward becoming a world record for a non-typical deer rack. Boone and Crockett officials spent several hours Jan. 9, 2017 scoring the 47-point buck called the “Tennessee Tucker Buck” at the Nashville headquarters of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. 26-year-old Gallatin resident Stephen ...

All Chipotle Mexican Grill locations in Knoxville, Oak Ridge, and Sevierville will host a fundraiser for wildfire relief efforts benefiting Friends of the Smokies on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Proceeds from the fundraiser will help meet the greatest needs of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, beginning first with emergency relief efforts from the recent ...