Workshops will be offered and more than sixty exhibitors will be on hand at The Log & Timber Home Show in Sevierville this month. Exhibitors at the show will include log and timber frame homebuilders and architects; manufacturers of building supplies, furniture and décor; and those specializing in log home maintenance and restoration products. They will be on hand to ...
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Pigeon Forge Police Searching for Two Missing Teens
The Pigeon Forge Police Department is searching for two missing 16-year-old girls who were last seen about 8 a.m. on Thursday, March 9, 2017 leaving the Pigeon Forge High School. Cassie Fitch is described as 5’02” tall and weighing 120 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink and purple hoody, purple glasses, ...
Read More »Alleged Drug Dealers Arrested in Operation March Madness
Authorities began rounding up suspected drug dealers this morning in the culmination of a 9-month undercover drug investigation dubbed March Madness. A Sevier County Grand Jury indicted 79 people last week as a result of the March Madness undercover investigation by the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit and agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Officers from Sevier County Sheriff’s ...
Read More »More than 50 Businesses Participating in Sevier County Job Fair This Year
Local governments and the Sevier County Economic Development Council are hosting the Sevier County Job Fair on Tuesday to help match job seekers and local businesses with open positions. The 20th annual Sevier County Job Fair will be held Tuesday, March 14, 2017, at the Holiday Inn Convention Center located at 3230 Parkway in Pigeon Forge (Just past traffic light ...
Read More »Dinner Show about Dolly Parton’s Family to Replace Lumberjack Adventure
A new dinner theater show that tells the story of Dolly Parton’s family will open this spring in the former Lumberjack Adventure theatre on the Parkway in Pigeon Forge. The musical theater production with its high–flying acrobats and lumberjack competitions at Lumberjack Adventure will not be returning for the 2017 season as show owners announced today that the theater will ...
Read More »Labor Dept. and Walters State Hosting Hiring Events to Fill Wildfire Recovery Jobs
Workers unemployed either due to the wildfire or through no fault of their own may apply for jobs funded through a federal grant to aid in wildfire recovery. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) and Walters State Community College have started to distribute a $5.8 million National Dislocated Worker Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor that ...
Read More »Free Community Health Fair Planned in Pigeon Forge
LeConte Medical Center, in conjunction with the City of Pigeon Forge, is pleased to host their annual spring health fair event 9–11 a.m. on Friday, March 24, 2017. The health fair event will feature free health screenings, and reduced-price lab work and is open to the public. Some of the free screenings that will be available are blood pressure checks, ...
Read More »Smokies Seeks Clingmans Dome Volunteers
Great Smoky Mountain National Park is recruiting volunteers to staff the Information Center at Clingmans Dome, from April 1 through Nov. 30, 2017. Volunteers will work at the seasonal information center that includes a bookstore/sales area managed by Great Smoky Mountains Association (GSMA). Volunteers will assist in educating visitors about the park and provide recreational and trip planning information and ...
Read More »Facebook Rolls Out Feature for Business Pages to Post Jobs
A new feature on Facebook aims to help connect businesses with job seekers in their area by allowing them to post jobs right on their social media account. Social media giant Facebook launched a jobs feature on Wednesday that allows admins of Facebook business pages in the United States and Canada to post jobs, and for Facebook users to search ...
Read More »FEMA Offers Free Crisis Counseling for Sevier County Wildfire Survivors, Workers
For wildfire disaster survivors or workers who find themselves fatigued, short-tempered, suffering from depression, loss of appetite, hopelessness or sleeplessness, FEMA has paired with the State of Tennessee to offer free crisis counseling services until March 13, 2017. In the weeks after disaster strikes, the path to recovery can pose many uncertainties. Something as routine as waking up for work ...
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