Diamond Rio, the multi-award-winning country music band that marked 25 years together last year, is helping Pigeon Forge’s Patriot Festival on July 4, 2015 mark its 25th anniversary of celebrating Independence Day. Diamond Rio – a member act of the Grand Ole Opry that has sold 10 million albums and won multiple Country Music Association Awards, a Grammy Award and a ...

Where do trained pigs, parrots, housecats, dogs, and a mini-donkey all perform together? The answer is at The Comedy Barn Theater® in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., where The “Comedy Critters Pet Show” has returned for a second summer season of furry fun. The show just opened in the matinee slot at 2 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and will ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced the temporary closure of the Cosby entrance road due to flood damage. On June 22, 2015 at approximately 4 p.m., flash flooding along Rock Creek spilled over the banks damaging road shoulders along 1,500 linear feet of the Cosby entrance road. Underground electric and phone lines were exposed along most of the road ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials received DNA results from the bear attack occurring at backcountry campsite 84 where a 16-year old male from Ohio was seriously injured by a bear on June 6, 2015. Immediately following the report of the attack, rangers and wildlife biologists implemented an action plan that included clearing the Hazel Creek backcountry area of hikers ...

Mike Werner, mayor of Gatlinburg, was elected to the board of directors of the Tennessee Municipal League during the League’s annual conference recently held in Nashville. Curtis Hayes, mayor of Livingston was elected President. A five-member nominating committee composed of municipal officials statewide nominated Werner as a director at large. He was then elected for a one-year term by a ...

The Gatlinburg Farmers Market will hold its second in a series of Kids Days on Saturday June 27, 2015 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Covered Bridge in the Great Smoky Arts and Crafts Community. Scheduled for the day are several activities: The Girl Scouts – Smoky Shadows Troop will demonstrate and help kids make “seed bombs” to take ...

The following service and facility holiday schedules for the City of Sevierville will be in effect in observance of the Fourth of July holiday period. Sevierville City Hall will be closed Friday, July 3, 2015. The Sevierville Community Center and Sevierville Civic Center will be closed Saturday, July 4, 2015. The City Park Family Aquatic Center will be open normal ...

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is among several organizations launching a campaign to help save monarch butterflies and offering free seed packets to individuals, school groups and organizations that would like to participate in the Save the Monarchs Campaign. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, along with the National Wildlife Federation, Tennessee Wildlife Federation, Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation, Mississippi River ...

The season of summer fun has arrived in Gatlinburg, and it comes with no shortage of activities for the whole family. This summer, visitors will have the chance to spend their evenings enjoying live entertainment, attending award-winning Independence Day festivities or getting a firsthand look at unique items hand-crafted in Gatlinburg for generations. Gatlinburg’s award-winning 4th of July Midnight Parade ...

Motorists using I-40 Exit 407 for destinations such as Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Great Smoky Mountains and other local areas should be aware of changes to the traffic pattern as the new Diverging Diamond Interchange opens. The Tennessee Department of Transportation will open the new I-40 Exit 407 Diverging Diamond interchange to traffic on the morning of Tuesday, June 30, ...