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Two children were struck by a pickup truck while crossing the street in Sevierville Thursday morning and the driver fled the scene. Sevierville police and fire departments responded to a report of two children being struck by a vehicle near 701 West Main Street just before 7 a.m. on February 20, 2020. Witnesses told police that a pickup truck traveling ...

Sevier County Early Voting has begun for the March 3, 2020 Election. The State of Tennessee Presidential Preference Primaries, Sevier County Democrat & Republican Primaries, and Nonpartisan School Board Election will be held March 3, 2020. Early voting opened Wednesday at the Voting Machine Warehouse in Sevierville and opens Friday at the Seymour Masonic Lodge #334 in Seymour. Registered voters ...

Motorists traveling between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge on the Spur US-321 are being detoured around a mudslide. Large trucks and over-sized vehicles are advised to use other major roads such as TN-416. Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Federal Highways Administration staff assessed the mudslide, which occurred about 10:30 p.m. on February 10, 2020, on the Spur and began clearing ...

The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office says two men face felony charges after they allegedly fired multiple shots into a Kodak residence on Monday. Officers responded to a home on Mutton Hollow Road in Kodak about 11:45 a.m. on Monday, February 10, 2020 after receiving reports of someone firing shots into a residence. Officers found multiple bullet holes in the front ...

A falling tree tore the roof off a van traveling Wears Valley Road on Thursday, injuring four City of Sevierville employees and a killing a teacher from the Sevier County Public School System. According to a release, a City of Sevierville van carrying six city employees and one employee’s spouse was involved in an accident on Wears Valley Road near ...

An off-duty police officer was allegedly shot and killed by his wife during an argument after leaving a local distillery Saturday night. According to the Sevierville Police Department, officers responded to a shooting just before 7:30 p.m. on February 1, 2020 at 3099 Winfield Dunn Parkway in Kodak, the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center. Officers found a male victim, ...

The U.S. Census Bureau is looking to fill Census jobs in Sevier County, including Census takers who will visit households that don’t respond to the Census and interview those residents to collect Census data. The agency plans to hire up to 500,000 temporary, part-time census takers for the 2020 Census in communities across the country to reach its goal of ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park welcomed a record 12,547,743 visitors in 2019, which is 1,126,540 more visitors than in 2018. The park’s three primary entrances near Gatlinburg, Townsend, and Cherokee all had increased use, accounting for about two-thirds of the total park visitation. Secondary park entrances experienced tremendous growth, due primarily to the new section of the Foothills Parkway between ...

Sevier County residents who wish to vote in the next Sevier County Election must register to vote online, in person or by mail before the deadline. The State of Tennessee Presidential Preference Primaries, Sevier County Democrat & Republican Primaries, and Nonpartisan School Board Election will be held March 3, 2020. Voter registration closes 30 days prior to the scheduled election, ...

Sevier County Animal Control is seeking the public’s help for information on a potential animal cruelty case in which a dog was so malnourished it died. According to Sevier Animal Care Center, the intake shelter for Sevier County Sheriff’s Animal Control, the roaming dog was discovered a few weeks ago when it approached people on Alton Drive in Kodak. The ...