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Perhaps the most important task that the Sevierville Fire Department performs throughout the year is fire prevention. One aspect of fire prevention is inspection of commercial and public buildings. The department is currently focusing fire prevention efforts on commercial buildings to ensure that all businesses are operating within the fire code for the safety of the public and their respective ...

The Sevier County Election Commission has released the following unofficial results for the Democratic and Republican Primaries and Nonpartisan School Board Election held May 1, 2018. These Sevier County Election Results are unofficial until certified by the Sevier County Election Commission. TOTAL VOTES % EARLY ELEC DAY ABSENTEE PROVIS PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 25) 25 100 REGISTERED VOTERS –   TOTAL ...

An Indiana woman died in a single-car accident on Clingmans Dome Road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Wednesday. Park rangers, including the park’s technical Search and Rescue Team, along with Cherokee Tribal EMS and Cherokee Fire and Rescue, responded to the scene of a reported motor vehicle accident approximately 2 miles west of Newfound Gap on Clingmans Dome ...

Sevier County is one of the 19 counties in Humana’s Knoxville Bold Goal market where nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for the 2018 Humana Foundation Strategic Community Investment grant. The Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Humana, is pleased to invite nonprofit organizations in the Knoxville area to apply for a Humana Foundation Strategic Community Investment before Friday, April ...

UPDATE: Nine additional suspects have been arrested as part of the April Fools undercover operation conducted earlier this month. Updated April 30, 2018 to include new arrests. The suspects were included in the indictments handed down by a Sevier County Grand Jury of 87 suspected drug dealers as a result of an undercover operation by the Sevier County Street Crimes ...

The City of Sevierville Police Department announces that Chief Joe Manning from Bluffton, S.C. has been named as the new chief of police. He replaces former SPD Chief Don Myers, who retired March 30 after thirty-nine years of service to the city. Chief Manning is a career law enforcement officer who spent twenty-nine years at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation launched a new, online tool this week that enables citizens to view crime statistics for their communities. The CrimeInsight TOPS (Theme-Oriented Public Site) platform allows users to quickly navigate through key data submitted by the state’s law enforcement agencies through the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System (TIBRS). Users select a law enforcement agency, a year, ...

Registered voters in Sevier County will use a new electronic voting system during the County Primary Election. The Sevier County Election Commission replaced their Election Systems & Software (ES&S) brand direct record electronic (DRE) voting systems with the ES&S ExpressVote® Universal Voting System and DS200® precinct-based scanner and tabulator, just in time for the upcoming County Primary Election. The DRE ...

Sevierville police apprehended an alleged shoplifter on Saturday after he reportedly fled, crashed his vehicle and continued to run on foot, even after being Tasered by an officer. Officers from the Sevierville Police Department responded to a reported shoplifting at the WalMart, 1414 Parkway, just after noon on Saturday, March 24, 2018. The male suspect attempted to flee in his ...

A local man has been charged with reckless endangerment in connection with reports of gunfire in a Sevierville neighborhood earlier this week. The Sevierville Police Department says it received several calls from residents in the area of Turtle Dove Trail in the Mountain Meadows subdivision reporting what sounded like multiple gunshots coming from a red vehicle on the evening of ...