Is your favorite zoo animal a zebra, a monkey or a giraffe? Adopt a Zoo Knoxville resident for your favorite animal lover and the gift helps Zoo Knoxville provide care …
Strawberry Plains barn is 44th ‘Everywhere You Look, UT’ mural
Painting on the 44th “Everywhere You Look, UT” mural has begun in Strawberry Plains.
That adage and sentiment being painted in all 95 counties in the state is one that owner …
Aging Adult Resource Fair this Friday
Questions, questions, questions! “What to do with left-over medications when a prescription changes? What to do with credit card offers or paperwork that can be tossed but it has personal …
Natalie Wood earns $10K scholarship
The Girl Scouts’ highest and most prestigious honor is the Gold Award earned by high schoolers who address issues they’re passionate about by planning and implementing a project that produces lasting change …
Chilhowee Park, dynamite and Louis Armstrong
The cutline for the accompanying photo read “and the band played on.” No, this wasn’t the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The headline read “Explosion Rocks Park Concert by Satchmo.”
For …
Basket exhibit celebrates Cherokee, Southern Appalachian artists
Cherokee basketry and Southern Appalachian basket styles are on display now at Pellissippi State Community College’s Strawberry Plains Campus.
The “All the Eggs in One Basket” exhibit curated by Art Professor Jeffrey …
Zebra dies from twisted bowel
Zoo Knoxville has announced the death of Die Toekoms, an 8-year-old Hartmann’s mountain zebra, due to complications from a torsion or twisting of the small intestine.
Caretakers noticed Die Toekoms was …
Services today for Dr. Robert Kirk
Dr. Robert H. Kirk, 92, passed away September 25, 2023, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dr. Kirk joined the faculty at University of Tennessee in 1967 as an associate professor, and he later …