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People across East Tennessee will come together with Louise Mandrell to honor Pigeon Forge City Manager Earlene Teaster for her leadership and community spirit when the Boy Scouts of America recognize her with the Sevier County Good Scout Award on March 24, 2015. The occasion is the Fifth Annual Sevier County Good Scout Award Dinner that benefits the Sequoyah District ...

Sevierville’s Bob Foster will become the first American to participate in the Muskathlon and run 60 kilometers – that’s 37.3 miles – in the 4th Musketeer Muskathlon supporting Compassion International– where participants run, bike or walk to help release children from poverty in the name of Jesus. Foster’s run will take place in June in Kenya, but Compassion, a Christian ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting volunteers to assist park visitors by roving the Oconaluftee River Trail, Mountain Farm Museum and the fields along Newfound Gap Road around the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee, N.C. Volunteers are needed from mid-April through mid-November and typically work one four hour shift per week. Roving volunteers provide information to visitors regarding park ...

Spring is not even here yet and the Sevier County Humane Society is already in need of fosters for puppies and kittens. The Sevier County Humane Society’s Fosters for Furry Friends is looking for puppy or kitten foster care volunteers for their expanding foster care program. While dogs and cats reproduce year round, shelters typically see a large influx of ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting volunteers to help provide visitor information at Clingmans Dome. The information center sits at 6,300 feet in elevation providing a unique opportunity for park volunteers to assist in educating visitors about high-elevation spruce-fir forests, while also providing recreational, trip planning, and directional information. The information center, constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps, originally ...

“Where should we go?” is an annual family vacation question across America. It also is the title of a TV commercial promoting the Great Smoky Mountains destination of Pigeon Forge, Tenn., that just won an Emmy Award. Pigeon Forge and its agency, BOHAN Advertising in Nashville, received the Emmy Award at the annual celebration of the Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of the ...

The Gibson family is counting their blessings and staying with family tonight after a fire destroyed their home. The Gatlinburg Fire Department received a call at 3:30 p.m. today for a house fire on S. Boogertown Rd. in Sevierville and arrived first on the scene. The Pigeon Forge Fire Department and Catons Chapel Richardson Cove Volunteer Fire Department also responded. ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management crew plans to conduct a prescribed burn on a 1,876-acre forested area northwest of Cades Cove between March 9 and March 31, 2015. The Stony-Arbutus Ridge fire operations will occur over a period of several days. The total area to be burned is divided into three subunits that will be ignited separately ...

A Sevier County man already being held for child sex crimes now faces thirty-four additional counts of child rape. According to a release by the Sevierville Police Department, 30-year old Jonathan Ryan Lewis of Kodak has been charged with thirty-four counts of rape of a child involving a boy under the age of thirteen. The charges are the result of ...

The City of Sevierville Police Department (SPD) will be hosting several public training courses presented by the Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security (TNOHS). The courses are designed for individuals, businesses, schools, organizations and other private entities. The courses will be held at the Sevierville Civic Center on Thursday, March 19, 2015 from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. There ...