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At a meeting Thursday, the Sevier County Budget Committee considered three options to solve the current animal shelter crisis and recommended taking the property of Sevier County Humane Society through condemnation via eminent domain. Pets Without Parents, who is contracted to provide animal sheltering services to Sevier County and the cities of Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg for the period ...

In an ongoing tug-of-war over threatened tariffs between the United States and the Chinese government, researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have examined potential impacts to U.S. soybean exports at three hypothetical tariff rates. The research indicates that exports are projected to drop by $4.5 billion to $7.7 billion if a 25 percent tariff is imposed, with ...

Perhaps the most important task that the Sevierville Fire Department performs throughout the year is fire prevention. One aspect of fire prevention is inspection of commercial and public buildings. The department is currently focusing fire prevention efforts on commercial buildings to ensure that all businesses are operating within the fire code for the safety of the public and their respective ...

The Sevier County Election Commission has released the following unofficial results for the Democratic and Republican Primaries and Nonpartisan School Board Election held May 1, 2018. These Sevier County Election Results are unofficial until certified by the Sevier County Election Commission. TOTAL VOTES % EARLY ELEC DAY ABSENTEE PROVIS PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 25) 25 100 REGISTERED VOTERS –   TOTAL ...

An Indiana woman died in a single-car accident on Clingmans Dome Road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Wednesday. Park rangers, including the park’s technical Search and Rescue Team, along with Cherokee Tribal EMS and Cherokee Fire and Rescue, responded to the scene of a reported motor vehicle accident approximately 2 miles west of Newfound Gap on Clingmans Dome ...

Sevier County is one of the 19 counties in Humana’s Knoxville Bold Goal market where nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for the 2018 Humana Foundation Strategic Community Investment grant. The Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Humana, is pleased to invite nonprofit organizations in the Knoxville area to apply for a Humana Foundation Strategic Community Investment before Friday, April ...

UPDATE: Nine additional suspects have been arrested as part of the April Fools undercover operation conducted earlier this month. Updated April 30, 2018 to include new arrests. The suspects were included in the indictments handed down by a Sevier County Grand Jury of 87 suspected drug dealers as a result of an undercover operation by the Sevier County Street Crimes ...

The City of Sevierville Police Department announces that Chief Joe Manning from Bluffton, S.C. has been named as the new chief of police. He replaces former SPD Chief Don Myers, who retired March 30 after thirty-nine years of service to the city. Chief Manning is a career law enforcement officer who spent twenty-nine years at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation launched a new, online tool this week that enables citizens to view crime statistics for their communities. The CrimeInsight TOPS (Theme-Oriented Public Site) platform allows users to quickly navigate through key data submitted by the state’s law enforcement agencies through the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System (TIBRS). Users select a law enforcement agency, a year, ...

Registered voters in Sevier County will use a new electronic voting system during the County Primary Election. The Sevier County Election Commission replaced their Election Systems & Software (ES&S) brand direct record electronic (DRE) voting systems with the ES&S ExpressVote® Universal Voting System and DS200® precinct-based scanner and tabulator, just in time for the upcoming County Primary Election. The DRE ...