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Home Federal Bank has launched its sixth Hometown Heroes community service awards program, which to date has contributed $125,000 to nearly 40 area nonprofit organizations in honor of outstanding community volunteers who make East Tennessee a more comfortable place for all of us. Potential Hometown Heroes honorees include those who mentor children; support seniors; advocate for the most vulnerable; care ...

The Sevier County Democratic Party will host its Democratic Party County Delegate Convention on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at the King Family Library to select delegates from the county to attend the District Convention, at which delegates will be selected to serve at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this summer. The doors open at 12 p.m. and the Convention ...

Rocky Top Sports World is pleased to announce the inaugural Phillip Fulmer Hall of Fame Football Camp to be held June 16-18, 2016, in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The Camp is open to athletes ages 7-17, and will feature instruction by Phillip Fulmer, collegiate and high school coaches. Campers will be separated and coached by age group and position. The camp will ...

Sevier County Election Results for March 1, 2016. These election results are unofficial until certified. Note that Property Assessor and Non-Partisan School Board results do not include votes cast by absentee ballot. Tennessee Democrat Presidential Primary Election Results Candidate Votes Statewide % Statewide Votes Sevier County Only % Sevier County Hillary Clinton 245,374 66.08% 1,260 49.37% Bernie Sanders 120,360 32.41% ...

A man died on Saturday after being hit by an off road vehicle at the Kodak Off Road Park. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office said it is investigating the death of 52-year-old Jackie Taylor of Kodak on Feb. 27, 2016 at the Kodak Off Road Park on Fortenberry Road. Witnesses told responding officers that Taylor, a spectator at the attraction, ...

The Sevierville Police Department is offering a free self-defense class for women of all ages. The 12-hour Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) class is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques for women. The R.A.D. system is a comprehensive, women-only course that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and risk avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense ...

The Gatlinburg Festival of Trees committee, along with the Gatlinburg Chamber Foundation, presented the Boys & Girls Club of the Smoky Mountains board of directors with a check for $24,904.29 on Feb. 11, 2016. This amount greatly exceeded the expectations of the committee and was only made possible through the cooperative efforts of Hospitality Solutions, Inc., local organizations and leaders ...

Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge Police are looking for a suspect who may have used an Airsoft Gun to commit a string of armed robberies along the Parkway on Tuesday. According to the Gatlinburg Police Department, a male suspect attempted to rob Blaine’s Grill & Bar at 812 Parkway #105 in Gatlinburg at gunpoint just after 2 p.m. on Feb. 23, ...

A head on collision on Chapman Highway over the weekend has left three residents of Sevier County dead. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the accident occurred on Chapman Highway just south of the Simpson Road intersection in Knoxville at about 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. 43-year-old Herman R. Maldonado, of Sevierville, Tenn., was traveling northbound on Chapman ...

The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public not to fall for an arrest warrant scam. Officials said they have received numerous reports of an arrest warrant scam from the public in which a subject identifying himself by various names and claiming to be from the warrants or subpoena division calls on the phone and asks for payment. Sometimes, ...