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NASHVILLE – Tennessee’s modern tradition for the top baby names continued in 2014, with Emma and William taking the number one spots for a fourth consecutive year as the most popular names given by new Tennessee parents. William has been the number one name chosen for baby boys born in Tennessee for eight straight years. Emma repeats as the most ...

The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration will be held Monday morning in downtown Sevierville. “I Have a Dream Commemoration” is a tribute to civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. planned for Jan. 19, 2015 at the First Baptist Church in Sevierville. The event will include a march through downtown Sevierville. Civil rights activist, historian and ...

The University of Tennessee Sevier County Extension Office will be offering several classes and workshops for area farm families during 2015. The following is a list and brief description of classes being offered. 2015 Advanced Master Beef Producer Class The University of Tennessee Sevier County Extension Office is announcing plans for the 2015 Advanced Master Beef Producers class. The class ...

Local police and fire departments will compete against each other in lumberjack sports at the Lumberjack Feud during Climbing for Hope, a fundraiser benefiting Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic. Lumberjack Feud in Pigeon Forge will host the third annual Climbing for Hope on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. In preparation for the competition, police officers and firefighters have been training alongside ...

The Hatfield and McCoy Dinner Show in Pigeon Forge will get a unique, custom-built aquarium during an episode of “Tanked” this Friday. The popular television series “Tanked” will replace an old moonshine still in the lobby of the local Hatfield and McCoy Dinner Show with an aquarium in an episode titled, “When the Moon(shine) Hits Your Eyes” airing Friday, Jan. 16, ...

NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced Monday the eleven members of the Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments that will recommend candidates to the governor to fill vacancies for Tennessee trial and appellate courts. The council was established by executive order following the November 4, 2014 passage of a constitutional amendment creating a method for selecting judges of the Supreme ...

January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, a day for Americans to acknowledge the very real problem of human trafficking in this country and learn how we can all be a part of stopping it. Textbooks teach us that slavery in the United States ended with the Emancipation Proclamation and ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park welcomed over ten million visitors in 2014 for just the fourth time in 80 years, and the first time since 2000. In 2014, 10,099,275 visitors enjoyed the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an 8% increase over 2013. The numbers were spurred by strong July and August visitation as well as the highest October visitation in ...

Local business Tanger Outlets Sevierville hosted the Knoxville Comprehensive Breast Center van Thursday to provide free mammograms. The mammograms were offered to 10 uninsured, at risk women from Sevier County. Tanger Outlets partnered with Relay For Life of Sevier County and Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic for the event as a continuation of the Pink STYLE Campaign. Relay For Life ...

“Art is the child of Nature,” said American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A new grant initiative created in partnership by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service celebrates the intersections between the two in honor of the NEA’s 50th anniversary in 2015 and the National Park Service’s centennial in 2016. Imagine Your Parks will provide $1 ...