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MEDIC Regional Blood Center and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an “urgent call-to-action” for healthy people to give blood amid coronavirus fears. According to MEDIC Regional Blood Center, six blood drives scheduled for this month have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The blood center supplies blood and blood-related products to 25 hospitals in 22 counties, including ...

Dollywood announced that the theme park would open as scheduled this weekend amid coronavirus concerns that closed other theme parks in the country. Dollywood opens on schedule Friday, March 13, 2020 for its season pass holders and on Saturday for general guests after installing hand sanitation stations throughout the park and vowing to clean surfaces more frequently. “We’ll be open ...

Dollywood announced that Rock the Smokies, the park’s annual Christian music festival, will return in 2020 and tickets go on sale this week. Rock the Smokies returns to Dollywood August 22 with a headlining concert schedule featuring TobyMac, Matthew West and Unspoken as the featured artists in DP’s Celebrity Theater. Comedian Heath Arthur serves as the emcee for this special ...

The Sevier County Economic Development Council, along with their manufacturing partners, is pleased to host Manufacturing Week running March 9-13, 2020. This week will showcase the outstanding manufacturers located in Sevier County, along with all of the great career opportunities that are available. “Our manufacturing industry in Sevier County is booming. Many of our businesses have expanded both their buildings ...

Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge is partnering with Beth Holloway and the Natalee Holloway Resource Center to deliver travel safety programs at local schools. It was 15 years ago on May 30, 2005 that Beth Holloway’s nightmare began. Her daughter, Natalee Holloway, went missing in Aruba while on a high school senior trip. While the details of her ...

KaTom Restaurant Supply is growing again, both physically with an expansion and with associates, adding 100 new jobs. “Our focus is on continued significant growth every year,” said founder/CEO/President Patricia Bible. “We are always planning an expansion to accommodate that growth.” Bible runs the family-owned business with her daughter Paula Chesworth and son Charley Bible. Ground was formally broken on ...

U.S. Air Force Veteran Blair Walsingham, of Hawkins County, announced her candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives in Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District. U.S. Rep. Phil Roe, a 74-year-old Clarksville republican who has held the seat since 2009, announced in January that he would not be running for re-election. Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District includes all of Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, ...

Cades Cove biking enthusiasts could see a big change as park officials propose closing Cades Cove Loop Road to motorists all day on Wednesdays and opening Saturday morning access. Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials invite the public to comment through Friday, March 27, 2020 on a proposed change in vehicle-free access days on the Cades Cove Loop Road. For ...

Sevier County leaders, including elected officials and representatives from county emergency services, health departments and school system; cities of Sevierville, Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Pittman Center; healthcare providers and the National Park Service met Wednesday to discuss preparedness plans for potential cases of Coronavirus, Novel COVID-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control, for most of the American public who ...

A young woman died after falling out the window of a moving vehicle on the Foothills Parkway on Tuesday. Park rangers from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park responded to reports of an accident near mile marker 13 of the Foothills Parkway, between Chilhowee Lake and Look Rock, at about 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Deputies from the ...