Archive for: October, 2009

The Sevier County Middle School Volleyball Concludes The 2009 Season

The Sevier County Middle School Volleyball Concludes The 2009 Season

The season was very competitive and there were many exciting matches at every meet. The competitive level of the league grows with each passing year and with the addition of Boyds Creek it was amped up even more. The regular season was not decided...

 

Seymour Middle No 1 Third Year In A Row

The Sevier County Middle School Volleyball Concludes The 2009 Season The season was very competitive and there were many exciting matches at every meet. The competitive level of the league grows with each passing year and with the addition of...

 

Withheld Records Raise Questions

Withheld Records Raise Questions

By Brooke Stevenson        Whether the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department is subject to the Tennessee Open Records Act has been cause for potential legal violations by the SVFD Board and potential legal.    ...

 

Bob’s Mountaineer Closes Door

The restaurant located at 10321 Chapman Highway has long been a gathering place for Seymour citizens. The Lions Club, several local community clubs, local politicians and The Shiloh Riders Club are just a few groups who depended on the friendly...

 

School bullying common via computer

MADISON, Wis. – Internet technology has taken the age-old problem of bullying to a new and troubling level.Long gone are the days when the school bully was just the kid who calls a bespectacled student “four eyes” or annoyingly...

 

Battle of the Border, No battle at all.

The so-called 'Battle of the Border,' actually turned out to be no battle at all for the Seymour Eagles Friday night as they physically 'ran' away with a 35-0 victory over the South-Doyle Cherokees.On a field that normally, never...

 

Two Arrest In Connection With Stolen Guns

Two Arrest In Connection With Stolen Guns

Two Sevier County men have been charged in connection with two residential burglaries and a large number of stolen guns have been recovered.The burglaries occurred in the Richardson's Cove community and one in the Bird's Creek community...

 

UT Full-time MBA Program Invites Prospective Students to Info Session on Nov. 5

KNOXVILLE — The University of Tennessee full-time MBA program will host an information session for prospective MBA candidates on Thursday, Nov. 5.The session will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on the fifth floor of the James A. Haslam II...

 

Walter State Tops List

Walter State Tops List

The Walters State Community College Foundation continues to set the bar when it comes to private support for Tennessee community colleges. The foundation received more in private giving than any other Tennessee community college during the past...

 

TFA Meeting New Location

The Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Firearms Association will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, at the IHOP restaurant in front of Lowe’s, on Chapman Highway in South Knoxville.  The group will gather...

 

Tennessee Town Hall

NASHVILLE  TN -  Tea Party Cooperative, www.teapartycoop.com and Change The Congress In 2010, www.changethecongressin2010.com are pleased to announce the launching of  our joint Tennessee Town Hall website forum at www.tntownhall.com...

 

The Mindful Family

Crystal Ball ThinkingTry this sometime: Make a list of the top ten things in life that you worry about. How many things on your list involve events that happened in the past? If you are still stressed about things that happened in your past,...

 

Flu Shots @ Stokely Hospitality Enterprises

Flu Shots @ Stokely Hospitality Enterprises

Stokely Hospitality Enterprises provided flu shots to all employees on Thursday, September 24th.  Mobile Diagnostics sent three of their personnel to the administrative offices of Stokely to give the shots to Stokely’s employees who...

 

Honest Quality Service for Twenty Years

Honest Quality Service for Twenty Years

“If you don’t get good service, you’ll go somewhere else.”  These are words that Barry Montgomery stands behind every day.  He is the owner of Chapman Enterprises, Inc., an auto repair shop and salvage yard...

 

Costume Party and Beach Music at Art Museum

The Knoxville Museum of Art’s Alive After Five series of live music performances presents a costume party and the Carolina beach music of Boys’ Night Out on Friday, October 30, from 5:30-8:00 pm.Boys’ Night Out is one of the...

 

Annual Senior Center Market Holiday

SENIOR CITIZENS MARKET GROUP will hold the annual HOLIDAY MARKET sale on Thursday, November 5, 2009, from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., at the O'Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona Street, Knoxville, TN. Please note the sale is for only one day this...

 

How’s the Change Going for You?

Change – that’s apparently what many in the country wanted. Well, how is that change going for you? If you’re like most, the change isn’t what you expected. Right here in our own little Seymour world, the only change...

 

SEPTEMBER UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Falls to 10.5 PERCENT

NASHVILLE – Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee’s unemployment rate for September was 10.5 percent, down 0.2 percentage point from the August revised rate of 10.7 percent.“Tennessee’s...

 

The economy is on the upward slope, but the climb is going to be a steep one.

That’s the good news — and the bad news — described in "The Tennessee Business and Economic Outlook: Fall 2009," a report just issued by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee,...

 

UT’s Baker Center to Host Lecture about ‘Renegade Presidential Electors’

As a follow-up to its recent program on the Electoral College, the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will present a lecture by a UT alumnus who is serving on a national committee looking...