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Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host the annual Mountain Life Festival at the Mountain Farm Museum on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival preserves the legacy of Appalachian folkways and is a tribute to the many families who lived on lands that would later become the national park. All activities are free and open ...

Schools are back in session and in another local tradition, street rods are rolling into town. The Shades of the Past car show is once again, offering a service this year that has nothing to do with street rods – recycling! As the number of special events that make Sevier County their destination grows each year, the waste generated by ...

Authorities say they are investigating a reported rape of a male student by three male classmates at a local high school in Sevier County. Sevier County School System staff were notified Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 of an alleged rape of a male juvenile student that reportedly occurred on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 on the campus of Sevier County High School ...

Reserve your booth space today for the Sevierville Yard Sale and turn all that clutter in your garage and closets into cash. With the fall sale scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, vendor booth spaces just went on sale for the next Sevierville Yard Sale. Many vendors charge $20 per space and use the event as a fundraiser for their ...

Popular National Public Television series “Family Travel with Colleen Kelly” will be filming in Sevierville on Sept. 8-10, 2016. The widely-watched family travel show will feature Sevierville during its upcoming fourth season. “We’ve been looking forward to this trip for a while now and couldn’t be more excited to experience all that Sevierville has to offer,” said show host Colleen ...

Celebrate National Planting Day locally on Saturday by helping with the Good Earth Community Garden in Sevierville. National Planting Day is a Keep America Beautiful initiative to promote community involvement in the local ecosystems by planting species that are native to the area. In honor of National Planting Day, Keep Sevier Beautiful is having a workday beginning 9 a.m. on ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is hosting two musical performances entitled “Appalachian Range: Old Mountains, New Music” by the park’s Artist in Residence, Jackie Beckey. A classically trained violist, Beckey will perform the mountain-inspired, original music at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016 from 1­–2:30 p.m. and in Cades Cove at the Becky Cable House on Saturday, ...

The fourth annual Comedy Barn Theater Kickin’ Chicken 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk was held on Saturday to benefit Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center. Runner Todd Caldwell of Sevierville won the road race, finishing the course in first place as the male open winner in (18:01.71). Caldwell was the winner of the first-ever Comedy Barn Theater Kickin’ Chicken ...

The Sevierville Police Department has scheduled a 12-hour Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) class for women on October 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2016 from 6–9 p.m. at the Sevierville Civic Center in the City of Sevierville Municipal Complex. Participants must attend each class date; no make-up classes will be available. The class is free of charge and open to all ...

A tree fell upon a vehicle traveling the Spur on Thursday night, killing the driver. According to Dana Soehn, spokesperson for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, rangers responded to a report of a single-car motor vehicle collision on the southbound Spur (US-441/US-321) at approximately 11:23 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. A tree along the roadside appeared to have ...