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Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is exhibiting works by Nelson Ziegler – Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage Artist of the Year. The Pilgrimage is a five-day event, April 19-23, 2016 hosted by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The event offers 144 professionally guided walks and presentations held in the Park and Mills Conference Center in Gatlinburg. The exhibit showcases Ziegler’s ...

Piggy banks created by six Sevier County kids are moving on to compete in the statewide Piggy Bank Pageant. How do plastic bottles, bits of string, paint, glue and ribbon help Tennessee kids learn about money? These are all materials that hundreds of kids across Tennessee use annually to craft handmade piggy banks to enter in UT Extension’s annual Piggy ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management officials will be conducting a 600-acre prescribed burn in the Canadian Top project area adjacent to Cataloochee Valley in North Carolina. Weather permitting, burn operations will begin on Saturday, April 16, 2016. Crews should be able to complete the burn on Saturday. Smoke, however, may be present in the area through Sunday. The ...

Buds Gun Shop & Range, the largest gun store and indoor range in Tennessee, will host its first-ever Precision Rifle Event April 22-24, 2016. Professional shooters from the Precision Rifle Series (PRS) will be on hand to do product demonstrations, conduct a free seminar and meet with shooting enthusiasts. The Precision Rifle Event at Buds Gun Shop & Range also ...

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, ...

A new specialty foods store called Artisan Cheese and More held its official ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, April 11, 2016 and members of the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce were on hand to help celebrate. Artisan Cheese and More sells local to international cheeses, seasoned and candied nuts, jams, jellies, fruit butters, pickled relishes, mustards, hot soft Bavarian pretzels and ...

Beef production, management, and marketing, current UT forage and beef research, and updates on new technology and equipment for the beef industry are topics to be discussed during the Southeast Tennessee Beef Summit on April 29, 2016 at the McMinn County Expo Center (inside Athens Regional Park) in Athens, Tenn. The Expo will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at ...

Gluten Free? What does that mean? It seems like everyone knows at least a few people who are no longer eating gluten. For many it is a choice, but for others it is a necessity. Celiac Disease (sometimes also called gluten intolerance) is an autoimmune disorder that affects an estimated 1 in 133 Americans. People with celiac disease have an ...

Police say a man committed suicide Monday by jumping from the Space Needle in Gatlinburg. At about 5:40 p.m. on April 11, 2016, police received a call that someone had fallen from the Arcadia Space Needle. Officers responded to the scene at 115 Motor Nature Trail where they found a deceased white male in his late fifties on the sidewalk. ...