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Growing up in New England, my dream was always to play left field for the Boston Red Sox. The only sports idol I ever had was Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived (how's that for starting a debate?). When I played baseball in...
Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Prosecutor Bill Mason, in his May 2 closing in Fernando Newcomb's aggravated murder trial, urged the jury to consider the fact that Newcomb refused to take the stand in his own defense. Mason hasn't explained why...
District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn announced that on May 21, 2007 agents of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant on The Sportsman's Club a/k/a/ The Sportsman's Cafe located at 571 West Broadway in Newport,...
Teachers, Sevier County Sheriff School Resource Officer David Layman, and 100 students set off for a three-day space camp on Monday from Seymour Middle School. The group will be traveling from May 21st thru May 23rd to spend three days at the...
Dear Editor: As we wrap up the 3rd Annual Bloomin' Barbeque & Bluegrass event, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of the people who helped make Bloomin' Barbeque & Bluegrass an incredible success for the City...
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate...
The Seymour Citizens are having a follow up meeting to their May 6th meeting with the Seymour commissioners. The Commissioners have signed an agreement to let a 5 member Optimist Club develop 14 acres of land in a residential area for the...
Your voices are heard The story that developed as a result of the county signing a 20 year lease with the Optimist Club, as we say in the industry, "has legs". If you read the Herald, you surely are aware of the four articles written...
SEVIER COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM STORY TIME Seymour Branch Library Summer Reading Program Coming Soon! The Seymour Branch Library will not have a regularly scheduled story time on June 4 as the library will be preparing for the Summer Reading...
THE IMPORTANCE OF BICYCLE SAFETY: SOME SIMPLE TIPS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW With school out and summer weather encouraging children to play outside, bicycles become a preferred daily transportation mode for children around neighborhood streets. ...
Couty Mayor Larry Waters, District Attorney General James B. Dunn are just a few of the planned attendees to be at Memorial Day Ceremony to take place at Sevier County Court House on Monday, May 28, 2007, 11:00 a.m. County Mayor Larry Waters...
The Sevierville Police Department investigates many car break-ins each year. Often these crimes of opportunity could have been prevented by sound security practices. Besides the loss of their personal property, victims also have to contend...
According to Sevier County Sheriff, Ron Seals, the burglary of a Seymour church has been solved. Seals states that in the early morning hours on Saturday May 12th, 2007 the St. Paul Episcopal Church located at 1028 Boyds Creek Rd. was burglarized...
BUDDY IS A 3 YR OLD MALE JACK RUSSELL TERRIER MIX. HE WOULD PREFER A HOME WITH NO SMALL CHILDREN DELILAH IS A 1 1/2 YEAR OLD FEMALE WALKER HOUND MIX BOTH ARE $100 ADOPTION FEE WHICH INCLUDES AN UNCOMLICATED SPAY/NEUTER, MICROCHIP AND THE FIRST...
NASHVILLE – Tennessee's unemployment rate for the month of April is 4.4 percent, down from the seasonally adjusted March 2007 rate of 4.7 percent, Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today. ...
Armed Robbery Suspect Arrested In West Virginia The Sevierville Police Department (SPD) was notified yesterday evening, Wednesday, May 16, 2007, of the capture of 31-year old Michael Ray Brewster of Oceana, West Virginia. Authorities allege...
The Sevier County High School Alumni Association foundation will award $29,000 to twenty-five graduating seniors in the 2007 class. The foundation, a rarity among public school systems in the United States, was founded in 1997 by Principal...
John Wayne Blair, who was recently sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 22-year-old Kelly Sellers on English Mountain in Sevier County in April 2004, is recovering from wounds obtained while in prison. Dorinda Carter, Communications...
Pigeon Forge, Tenn., May 15, 2007 – Miss Ellie is so ugly, she's cute! And she's out to prove it as a contestant in the 19th World's Ugliest Dog Contest. Miss Ellie, a dog from Gatlinburg, Tenn., who is a member of The Comedy...
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has signed into law the National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed legislation to prevent the confiscation of firearms and ammunition from law-abiding Tennesseans during a future state of emergency or natural disaster,...
