Feature, westwordsFlowers and No. 7
Not long ago, track Volunteers from the Chuck Rohe era had dinner together and celebrated dual-sport athletes from their time and place.
Richmond Flowers, Willie Gault, Chip Kell, Karl Kremser, Terry ...
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Feature, PowellRural Metro saves house on Whitcomb
A Sunday (5/27) morning fire in Broadacres was quickly squelched with no injuries reported.
Rural Metro Fire responded at 6:50 a.m. to a report of structure fire at 7824 Whitcomb Road. ...
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Feature, Inside 640Talking county government
Knox County Commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will leave office Sept. 1, but they’re continuing the constituent meetings they’ve been holding since they came into office in 2014. Here ...
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Feature, Fountain CityMidlake Drive home gets Fountain City restoration award
Victor Price grew up down the street from the Barber-style cottage on Midlake Drive. It was the spring of 1951 when his family moved into the neighborhood. He remembers it ...
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Knox Notes
- Honor Fountain City today (5/28) in Fountain City Park. Festivities, vendors and music will start at 10 a.m. with the program at 3 p.m. Carol Evans, executive director of Legacy Parks Foundation, is the keynote speaker. Info here.
- Beat-up golf carts at the city-owned Whittle Springs Golf Course are gone. Sixty new carts are motoring over the course’s three-year-old cart paths – a combined investment of almost $700,000 since 2015. Info here.
- YMCA of East Tennessee is offering two free weeks (May 27-June 9) at area Ys for teachers and staff of Knox County Schools. This includes use of the six pools and a variety of group fitness classes. Info here.
Obituaries
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Warren Jacob Powell Jr.
Click Funeral Home, Middlebrook Chapel
Kathy McLain Johnson Stansberry
Click Funeral Home, Lenoir City
Richard W. “Rick” Phelps Jr.
Rose Mortuary, Broadway Chapel
Betty Story Ownby
Rose Mortuary, Broadway Chapel
Gerald E. Hollingsworth
Berry Funeral Home, Chapman Hwy.
Edith Mamie Starbuck
Berry Highland South
Bobby Eugene “Hop-Sing” Hanshaw
Berry Highland Memorial
Ralph H. Mertz
Stevens Mortuary