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Home Federal Bank named Sevier County teen Sterling Isaac Fisher and Blount County resident Tom Buchanan 2016 Hometown Heroes and presented $2,500 nonprofit donations in each of their names at a ceremony at the bank’s Seymour office, 11320 Chapman Highway, on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Tom Buchanan, age 87, is a vibrant and faithful volunteer with the Senior Nutrition Program ...

The Pigeon Forge Police Department says a suspect has been charged in the shooting of a man at a local campground last November. Kevin Junior Williams, 41, was arrested at a residence located at 534 Woodvale Lane in Sevierville on Monday, April 25, 2016 and charged with Attempted Second Degree Murder in the shooting of Tony A. Thompson. According to ...

Women are invited to participate in a free Rape Aggression Defense Class instructed by Sevierville police officers. The purpose of the Rape Aggression Defense Class, also known as the R.A.D. Class, is for women to develop and enhance self-defense options, so that they may become viable considerations to a woman if she is attacked. The program is a woman only ...

In honor of the National Park Service Centennial, the baggage claim area at the McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville has been transformed into an immersive visit to nine National Park Service units including Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Obed Wild and Scenic River, Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Stones River National ...

Fire officials say a home in the Glades area was completely destroyed by a wildfire on Thursday. The Gatlinburg Fire Department was investigating reports of smoke in the Great Smoky Arts & Crafts Community at about 1:45 p.m. on April 21, 2016 when personnel discovered a 4-acre wildfire that had spread to a residence at 970 Glades Road. Dark smoke ...

A flurry of activity has begun at the Anakeesta Village development on the Parkway in Gatlinburg as the site is prepared for construction. During the month of March, Layman Construction Company and House Movers carefully prepared the historic Ogle Cabin for relocation to the City of Gatlinburg Welcome Center on the Parkway. The evening of Wednesday, April 20, 2016, after ...

An 8,600 square foot structure associated with the former Wonderland Hotel in the Elkmont area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park burned to the ground on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The fire was reported by a park visitor at approximately 7:15 a.m. The park fire management crew and Gatlinburg Fire Department responded to the area. The Wonderland Hotel Annex was ...

Authorities say a Bluff Mountain fire is 100% contained, but certain roads are closed and people remain evacuated from the area. A structure fire started at a home on Memory Way in Sevierville just before 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 17, 2016 and spread, burning six other homes and 150 acres of Bluff Mountain before firefighters could bring it under ...

A two-vehicle accident Thursday morning in Seymour has left one man dead and another injured. A fatal head on collision occurred between two vehicles on Maryville Highway in Seymour just after 8:30 a.m. on April 14, 2016, closing the two-lane road for hours. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 20-year-old Joseph J. Earnest of Seymour was driving a white four ...

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, Great Smoky Mountains Association has released a list of the 100 most influential individuals in Great Smoky Mountains National Park history, including many who have had a direct impact on Friends of the Smokies. The list was published in a special issue of Great Smoky Mountains Association’s award-winning Smokies Life Magazine, ...