John Volpe is the general manager of Abuelo’s Mexican Restaurant at Turkey Creek. Last week the Rotary Club of Farragut presented him with its Business Person of the Quarter Award. …
Losing Lexi
With most things in my life, I try for perspective. Events – sad, happy, tragic or joyous – are best accepted and/or enjoyed if kept in the right proportion. I’m …
Services set for teacher Mary Jane Bowman
Visitation for Mary Jane Bowman, 81, will be 2 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at Farragut Presbyterian Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd., followed by a memorial service at 3 p.m. Ms. Bowman taught …
Farragut staff stays lean by working harder, smarter
Town of Farragut Codes Officer/Commercial Plans Examiner John Householder is retiring after 22 years of service, so his co-workers gathered last week to wish him well. He’s one of only …
Interesting authors at Farragut Book Fest
The annual Farragut Book Fest moved this year to Town Hall after heavy rains left infrastructure problems at Founders Park at Campbell Station. The park at the library is a …
Farragut Rotary ‘cleans up’ at conference – and will at creek
These are exciting times at the Rotary Club of Farragut. Busy times. A 100-member milestone is near – for the first time since the club had its first meeting in …
Metamorphosis of a book-buyer
Sometimes I feel like an Amazon lab rat.
Not the Amazon region, rainforest rat. I feel like a Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com, caught-in-the-maze lab rat.
To make it worse, I seem to enter …
Stormwater coordinator educates public, keeps streams safe
Water has been on the minds of Farragut residents since Feb. 23. But water is always on the mind of town of Farragut Stormwater Coordinator Lori Saal.
Saal is in charge …