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The Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge has a Sevier County Days special going on for residents and workers in Sevier and surrounding counties. People who live in Knox, Jefferson, Blount, Cocke or Sevier County can visit the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge for an area appreciation days reduced admission price of just $9 per person now through January ...

A Sevierville teenager has been missing since late December and the family is asking for the public’s help in locating her. Missing 16-year-old Annelise Justus was last seen on December 29, 2014 in Sevierville, Tenn. wearing a black hoodie, blue jeans and grey moccasin shoes. She is 4′ 11″ tall and weighs 103 pounds. Her eyes are hazel in color. ...

The beautiful weather Monday brought a large turnout for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Sevierville. Joined by local elected officials, about 100 people marched through downtown Sevierville then attended the “I Have a Dream Commemoration” at the First Baptist Church in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.   The program began with video presentation featuring imagery from ...

The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration will be held Monday morning in downtown Sevierville. “I Have a Dream Commemoration” is a tribute to civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. planned for Jan. 19, 2015 at the First Baptist Church in Sevierville. The event will include a march through downtown Sevierville. Civil rights activist, historian and ...

The University of Tennessee Sevier County Extension Office will be offering several classes and workshops for area farm families during 2015. The following is a list and brief description of classes being offered. 2015 Advanced Master Beef Producer Class The University of Tennessee Sevier County Extension Office is announcing plans for the 2015 Advanced Master Beef Producers class. The class ...

NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced Monday the eleven members of the Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments that will recommend candidates to the governor to fill vacancies for Tennessee trial and appellate courts. The council was established by executive order following the November 4, 2014 passage of a constitutional amendment creating a method for selecting judges of the Supreme ...

January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, a day for Americans to acknowledge the very real problem of human trafficking in this country and learn how we can all be a part of stopping it. Textbooks teach us that slavery in the United States ended with the Emancipation Proclamation and ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park welcomed over ten million visitors in 2014 for just the fourth time in 80 years, and the first time since 2000. In 2014, 10,099,275 visitors enjoyed the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an 8% increase over 2013. The numbers were spurred by strong July and August visitation as well as the highest October visitation in ...

Local business Tanger Outlets Sevierville hosted the Knoxville Comprehensive Breast Center van Thursday to provide free mammograms. The mammograms were offered to 10 uninsured, at risk women from Sevier County. Tanger Outlets partnered with Relay For Life of Sevier County and Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic for the event as a continuation of the Pink STYLE Campaign. Relay For Life ...

“Art is the child of Nature,” said American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A new grant initiative created in partnership by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service celebrates the intersections between the two in honor of the NEA’s 50th anniversary in 2015 and the National Park Service’s centennial in 2016. Imagine Your Parks will provide $1 ...