Lifestyle

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are pleased to announce that several of our dedicated Volunteers in Park (VIP) received regional and national recognition for their outstanding service. The Cades Cove Bike Patrol team and Robert E. (Bob) Lochbaum were selected for their exemplary service from over 240,000 volunteers across the nation that donate their time, skills, and talents to ...

Sevier County 4-H members Nor Alkhasali and Hannah Carr recently took part in the State Junior High 4-H Academic Conference at the University of Tennessee. They were selected to attend based on their 4-H Project Work. Nor attended in the Line & Design Project and Hannah in the Companion Animal Project. Both will be freshmen this Fall at Sevier County ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will continue accepting comments through July 12, 2016 on a proposal to increase fees at frontcountry campgrounds and picnic pavilions along with proposed changes to the management of three campgrounds by adding them to the national reservation system through Recreation.gov. The proposal, titled “Recreational Fee Proposal Information Document,” has been available for public review since ...

Stages West, located in the heart of Pigeon Forge, Tenn., “returned home” with the grand reopening of its beloved store on Thursday, June 30, 2016. In August of 2015, fire heavily damaged the store’s infrastructure, causing it to close its doors for nearly a year. After months of rebuilding and preparation, Stages West officially reopened today, and it’s bigger, better, ...

Nearly every day, our agents get calls from people who are renting and want to buy their own home, often for the very first time. That is so exciting! I encourage you to follow your dream of home ownership. There is a time for everything under the sun, including renting. But there is also a time to step out into ...

Youth baseball and softball teams that participate in the National Sunglasses Day Essay Contest could win free sunglasses from Under Armour Eyewear for every player on their team. Under Armour Eyewear, the leader in performance sunglasses, is proud to announce an exclusive partnership in honor of National Sunglasses Day on June 27th with Ripken Baseball. This collaboration highlights Under Armour’s ...

The Gatlinburg Police Department will hold its annual Kids’ Camp Monday, July 25 to Friday, July 29, 2016 at the American Legion Building in Gatlinburg. The action packed week includes bike and firearms safety, alcohol and drug awareness, presentations by K-9 and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officers, self-defense and violence response, physical-fitness obstacle course and team building exercises, whitewater rafting ...

Five spirits produced by Old Forge Distillery, including a chocolate moonshine, won awards recently at the world’s largest consumer tasting competition. Old Forge Distillery’s 1830 Original Chocolate Moonshine, a 60-proof chocolate-flavored moonshine inspired by homemade desserts made at the Old Mill Candy Kitchen and Pottery House Café, and its Old Forge Reserve Bourbon, an eight-year-old whiskey aged in charred white ...

Seniors with Alzheimer’s or dementia who live at Dominion Senior Living in Sevierville find pride and purpose in an art program. When someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia, a family member’s first instinct might be to take away or limit the activities and hobbies their loved one once enjoyed. At Dominion Senior Living of Sevierville, seniors and those with ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host the annual Women’s Work Festival at the Mountain Farm Museum on Saturday, June 18, 2016. This festival honors the vast contributions made by the women of Southern Appalachian and showcases lifeways that women used to keep their families going in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The event is from 10 a.m. ...