Healthy Living

If your child does not know how to swim, or needs to improve swimming skills, sign up for children’s swim lessons now and be ready for the summer season. The City of Sevierville Department of Parks and Recreation is offering children’s swim lessons at the Community Center’s indoor pool. These classes follow the American Red Cross curriculum and instructors are ...

Government safety regulators are looking into the fire and fall risks of hoverboards, one of the hottest gifts given last Christmas. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that engineers at its National Product Testing and Evaluation Center in Rockville, Md. are investigating dozens of fires involving hoverboards, also called smart boards. Despite numerous videos of hoverboard fires circulating online ...

Researchers from Vanderbilt University are looking for veterans exposed to combat-related trauma during operations in Afghanistan or Iraq to participate in a paid research study entitled “Neuroimaging Study of post-traumatic stress disorder.” The study’s purpose is to investigate the effects of combat-related trauma on brain structure and function. The study requires two trips to Vanderbilt. The first visit will be ...

The City of Gatlinburg Recreation Department recently completed construction of a greenway around the Rocky Top Sports World Complex and Mills Park, achieving the long-term goal of tying all the fields together with one unified walking trail. “Since the planning phase of the sports complex, the City and Rocky Top staff have envisioned a walking trail to tie all the ...

More than 32,000 drivers in Tennessee and North Carolina are giving back this holiday season with Friends of the Smokies specialty license plates. Sales of full-color specialty license plates in Tennessee and North Carolina support critical projects in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Projects supported by the license plate fees include Student Conservation Association internship positions as well as Parks ...

The Southeast Tourism Society has named the Gatlinburg Beans ‘n Cornbread Festival Presented by Bush Brothers & Company as one of the ‘STS Top 20 Events’ in the Southeast for May 2016. The STS Top 20 Festival and Event Awards have highlighted programs around the Southeast since 1985. Travel industry experts select 20 events per month, and STS publicizes them ...

LeConte Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR). MRI of the breast offers valuable information about many breast conditions that may not be obtained by other imaging modalities, such as mammography or ultrasound. “We’re so proud of ...

Jones Cove Elementary Students (K-2) tasted vegetables and fruits weekly for one month during the Tasty Days Program. UT Extension, Sevier County Master Gardeners, and Gatlinburg Food City sponsored the event. Whitney Hammonds, PE Instructor, coordinated the classroom schedule to allow children to sample fresh produce each week, including kiwi, spinach and tomatoes. In addition to tasting, children were taught ...

Area Veterans and those who attend the VA Outpatient Clinic in Sevierville are invited to a Veterans Town Hall at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 at the Sevier County Courthouse. The Executive Leadership Team from Mountain Home VA Medical Center will be there to answer Veteran’s questions and hear their concerns. Veterans and their families are invited to ...

Governor Haslam’s proposed Insure Tennessee program will be the topic of public discussion at a gathering in Sevierville on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. The discussion is hosted by the Sevier County Democrats and the public is invited to attend and participate. Insure Tennessee is the Governor’s proposal to offer Health Coverage for those whose incomes are under 100% of the ...