Lifestyle

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is celebrating 20 years of conducting biodiversity inventories. Park managers, biologists, educators, and non-park scientists initiated an effort to discover all life in the Smokies through an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) on Earth Day in 1998. The non-profit partner Discover Life in America (DLIA), created in 1998, coordinates the inventory. Over the last 20 ...

Cultural history, natural surroundings, park cemeteries, and sweat-inducing, blood-pumping hikes. These are just a few of the topics to be explored in Great Smoky Mountains Association’s Branch Out activity series this May. Those interested in learning more about our country’s most visited national park are encouraged to join any of these programs set within Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Program: ...

It’s considered to be a crime and it has been said that graffiti is everyone’s problem. It’s an eyesore that typically brings property values down and costs a lot to clean up. In fact, it’s estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency that the national cost associated with graffiti across the country is at least $8 billion per year. To combat ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Officials announced the temporary closure of the Noah Bud Ogle Cabin, Noah Bud Ogle Nature Trail, and associated parking area along Cherokee Orchard Road on Monday, March 19 through Thursday, March 22, 2018. No public access will be allowed during the closure due to tree removal work. The area is expected to reopen to the ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that work crews will remove ten structures in Elkmont beginning the week of March 12, 2018. The removal of these structures, located near the former Wonderland Hotel, marks the end of major demolition work in the Elkmont area which began in 2010 as specified in the 2009 Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) among the ...

Fans of Girl Scout Cookies no longer need to anxiously wait for that knock at the front door from their neighborhood Girl Scout, as the secret to finding the delectable treats is as close as your computer, tablet or smart phone. Local Girl Scouts are selling Girl Scout Cookies at booths across the southeast from March 2-25, 2018. Customers can ...

Almost as often as people who call us because they want to own vacation rental property, we have people call that love the mountains and want to make living in a cabin here their goal, either as a second home where they can come and relax or as a place they can enjoy their golden years of retirement. If living ...

Would you like to a have a beautiful landscaped yard, or maybe some fresh fruit & vegetables grown right in your own garden plot? Maybe you’ve decided to live a “green, clean life” and would like information on sustainable gardening, the Sevier County Area Master Gardener Association is here to help by offering gardening classes. Sevier County Master Gardener Class ...

Home gardeners and growers across the state should enjoy a new resource in 2018 available free from University of Tennessee Extension. The Tennessee Home Garden Vegetable Calendar has been developed by the UT Extension Fruit and Vegetable Workgroup to help users create a comprehensive plan for home vegetable gardens.Tennessee Home Garden Vegetable Calendar offers monthly tips, management templates and more ...

The Christmas meal program is the biggest project the club does. And the most rewarding. Each year members of the Sunrise Rotary Club provide boxed meals at Christmas to dozens of families and people who might not get such a meal. The program began 20 years ago when the club was started, and has grown every year. This year the ...