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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is hosting an online “March Mapness” awareness campaign to share newly developed, digital products and maps with the public. Throughout the month, the park will use social media platforms to showcase how visitors can easily access free data and maps. New interactive maps include point locations for scenic overlooks, historic buildings, cemeteries, waterfalls, and wedding ...

A new dinner theater show that tells the story of Dolly Parton’s family will open this spring in the former Lumberjack Adventure theatre on the Parkway in Pigeon Forge. The musical theater production with its high–flying acrobats and lumberjack competitions at Lumberjack Adventure will not be returning for the 2017 season as show owners announced today that the theater will ...

Appalachia Service Project and the Holston Conference of The United Methodist Church jointly announce a partnership to assist in the long-term recovery of low-income families devastated by the wildfires in Sevier County. This partnership will work in concert with the Mountain Tough Recovery Team and other agencies engaged in the recovery effort. On November 28, 2016, a fire that started ...

Workers unemployed either due to the wildfire or through no fault of their own may apply for jobs funded through a federal grant to aid in wildfire recovery. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) and Walters State Community College have started to distribute a $5.8 million National Dislocated Worker Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor that ...

Red Bank Baptist Church became the fifth in the county to join Hot Meals for Hungry Hearts, a program through Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries. The churches prepare and serve meals to anyone who needs or wants one. Members of Red Bank Baptist Church came together in the fellowship hall for the first event on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, excited ...

Authorities say they captured three suspects in a Sevier County home burglary on Saturday, also finding a cache of stolen items from other area burglaries. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office says it received a 911 call on Feb. 25, 2017 reporting a burglary in progress at a residence on Wye Drive. A relative of the homeowner saw an unknown Ford ...

Legal Aid of East Tennessee and the Sevier County Bar Association will offer a free legal clinic for wildfire survivors. Clinic hours are 1–5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 in the Conference Center at Greystone Lodge on the River, 559 Parkway in Gatlinburg. The Conference Center is at the rear of the hotel complex. Free parking is available behind ...

Popular Little Tikes toddler swings are being recalled after reports of children injured due to the product breaking. Ohio-based Little Tikes is recalling about 540,000 of its pink 2-in-1 Snug ‘n Secure Swings. The manufacturer has received 140 consumer complaints of the units breaking. In 39 of those reports, the product failure resulted in injuries to a child. While most ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced event plans for the Great American Eclipse occurring on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. The park is offering an opportunity to experience the total eclipse through a special, ticketed event at Clingmans Dome as well as informal eclipse viewing sites at Cades Cove and Oconaluftee. The park is partnering with NASA, Southwestern Community College, ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that work is underway in the Elkmont Historic District to preserve four structures and to remove 29 others as specified in the 2009 Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) among the National Park Service, Tennessee State Historic Office, and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. In 2017, park crews will preserve the Levi Trentham Cabin, Mayo ...