Archive for: March, 2010

Motivational Speaker Visits Seymour School

Motivational Speaker Visits Seymour School

By Brooke Stevensonbrooke@seymourherald.com     Students at Seymour High School attended an assembly featuring a motivational speaker on Monday.    Motivational speaker Dane Bradshaw spoke to the students as part...

 

Hats for Hope Brunch

     Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, Inc. will hold a Hats for Hope Benefit Brunch at 11 a.m. March 27 at the First United Methodist Church, 214 Cedar Street, Sevierville.     The gala event will feature...

 

UT Mini-Summit to Focus on Poverty and Health Care

      KNOXVILLE – "Poverty and Health Care," is the theme of a mini-summit to be held on March 31 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. It is the second of three mini-summits looking at various aspects...

 

Weekly Gas Price Update

     Average retail gasoline prices in Knoxville moved just 0.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.67/g on March 22.      This compares with the national average that has increased 3.3 cents...

 

UT Medical Center Surgeon Removes Large Tumor

     A surgical team led by Dr. Larry Kilgore, a gynecologic oncologist at The University of Tennessee Medical Center, recently successfully removed a 120-pound non cancerous ovarian tumor from a patient.    ...

 

Five IRS Centers Hold Open House

     On March 9 the IRS announced several additional steps it is taking this tax season to help people having difficulties meeting their tax obligations because of unemployment or other financial problems.     ...

 

TFA April Meeting

     The Tennessee Firearms Association Knoxville Chapter will hold its April meeting on April 6.      Their guest speaker will be, Chief Ranger Bill Wright from the National Park Service, who will discuss...

 

Clayton Center Opening to Shine with Celebrities

     A leading senator, a star of country and pop, internationally renowned opera singers and concert pianists, faces familiar on television and film, and David Keith, movie star,  these are the personages who bring...

 

UT Educators Hall of Honor to Induct New Honorees

      KNOXVILLE – Sarah Moore Greene, the 100-year-old civil rights leader and beloved Knox County educator, is one of the seven educators who will be honored on March 25 when they are inducted into the Educators Hall...

 

Sign Up for UT Golden Grads Reunion

     KNOXVILLE – Each year, the UT Knoxville Alumni Association celebrates the 50th anniversary of its graduates. This year's Golden Grads Reunion will take place April 15 through 17 and honors class of 1960 graduates....

 

Two New Tax Benefits Aid Employers

     WASHINGTON — Two new tax benefits are now available to employers hiring workers who were previously unemployed or only working part time. These provisions are part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment...

 

Police Investigate Gunshot Incident

     Sevierville Police Department (SPD) detectives are investigating an incident that reportedly occurred on Sunday afternoon, February 28 at a Shaconage Trail residence.     According to SPD Officer...

 

TDOT Vehicles Running on Cleaner Fuel

     KNOXVILLE – In an effort to conserve resources and to improve air quality, the Tennessee Department of Transportation is celebrating a conservation milestone.  As of this week, fueling stations at TDOT’s...

 

February Unemployment Rate

     NASHVILLE – Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee’s unemployment rate for February was 10.7 percent, unchanged from the revised January rate of...

 

Census Bureau still seeks Workers

     The local census office responsible for 2010 Census operations in three Tennessee counties is still seeking workers. Most of the temporary positions are for census takers, who will go door-to-door beginning May 1 to...

 

The Faith-Inspired Poetry of Joshua Robbins at Upcoming Guild Meeting

The Faith-Inspired Poetry of Joshua Robbins at Upcoming Guild Meeting

     Poet Joshua Robbins will be bringing to light his faith-inspired verse at the April 1 meeting of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild. Robbins will be reading from his work at the meeting, which will also find the writer...

 

UT Schedules Second Organic Crops Field Tour

     KNOXVILLE – Building on the success of last year’s first-ever event, the University of Tennessee East Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center has scheduled its second Organic Crops Field Tour for April...

 

UT’s Baker Center to Host Discussion on ‘Understanding the Recession’

      KNOXVILLE – A panel of business and legal experts from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will discuss the current economic crisis at a program on March 24.     Free and open to the public,...

 

UT Leads Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Great Smoky Mountains

    KNOXVILLE — Every spring for the past 59 years, hundreds of nature lovers from all over the world have descended upon the Great Smoky Mountains as part of the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage.      The...

 

Seymour Students Recognized

Seymour Students Recognized

    For the past few years the Seymour High School Y-teens have volunteered their weekends in November and December to ring bells for the Salvation Army Christmas Effort.      All Together SHS Y-teens have...