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Proceeds from this year’s Arrowmont Shine, Wine & Dine art auction will help fund community and children’s arts and crafts classes. The Arrowmont 6th Annual Shine, Wine & Dine art auction held on May 26, 2016 raised over $171,000 from sponsorships, silent and live auctions. Funds raised are used to support Arrowmont’s arts and crafts education programs. Ken Farmer, appraiser ...

Visitors and local residents can board the specially designated Gatlinburg trolleys at no charge along numerous stops on the Parkway this summer. For a sixth season, the City of Gatlinburg will offer free trolley service to residents and summer visitors along the length of the Parkway during the peak tourist season. The shuttle service will extend from traffic light #1 ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced the temporary closure of Parson Branch Road due to the concentration of hazard trees lining the roadway. The 8-mile, one-way gravel roadway begins in Cades Cove and exits along US Highway 129. Typically the road is opened each season between April and November. Park crews originally delayed opening the road due to a ...

Three women at a Sevierville massage business have been arrested in connection with a human trafficking sting conducted by a team of local and federal law enforcement. On Wednesday, June 8, 2016, officers from the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit, Knox County Sheriff’s Office Vice Unit and U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted an undercover operation at Chinese Pressure Massage, ...

East Tennessee State University is holding free information meetings at its new ETSU at Sevierville campus. The public is invited to attend any of three drop-in sessions to meet staff, learn about scholarship opportunities and inquire about programs ETSU will offer when the 45,000 square foot facility opens fall 2016. The sessions will be held 5–6:30 p.m. on June 9, ...

Quick action by gas station employees and a fast response by the local fire department prevented what could have been an explosive situation with a car engine fire in Gatlinburg on Monday afternoon. According to employees at the Fastop Market, 1339 East Parkway in Gatlinburg, an incident occurred on Monday, June 6, 2016 when a woman parked her red Dodge ...

A Sevier County High School graduating senior has been awarded the Terry L. Cureton Memorial Scholarship from the Sevierville Police Department. The student, 18-year old Steven Ownby of Sevierville, plans to attend Walters State Community College. Officer Terry L. Cureton began his law enforcement career in 1982 working various assignments including criminal investigation. Terry joined the Sevierville Police Department in ...

The Sevier County School System will receive $1,840,000 in additional funds from state education funding for the upcoming fiscal year. Sevier County School Superintendent Jack Parton and Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters, along with their staffs, have been working with Governor Bill Haslam’s administration to help increase state funding levels to Sevier County. “We appreciate Governor Haslam recognizing the unique ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced temporary, one-lane closures on Newfound Gap Road for 1.8 miles of roadway between Sugarlands Visitor Center and Carlos Campbell Overlook beginning Tuesday, May 31, 2016 for paving operations. The one-lane closures will be managed with flagging operations directing traffic through the work zones. Charles Blalock and Sons of Sevierville will pave the road under ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has announced that it is participating in Partners in Preservation (PIP), a community-based partnership of American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to raise awareness of the importance of preserving historic places, which is embarking on its first national campaign in the program’s 10-year history. In honor of the National Park Service’s Centennial, ...