The Powell Playhouse has set “Dinner and a Show” for Thursday and Friday, Nov. 2-3, at Jubilee Banquet Facility. The variety show will be hosted by Phil Campbell. Tickets are …
Volunteers, students restore abandoned cemetery
Volunteers and students are working to pull an abandoned cemetery back from the brink. Weaks Cemetery, an African-American cemetery dating back to at least 1907, was overgrown and used as …
HPUD Citizens Academy gets utility crash course
Water and wastewater systems aren’t something most people think about. That is, until those systems fail. But eight local folks have taken the plunge to learn everything you wanted and …
Powell History Club sets Thursday meetings
The Powell History Club has reset its meetings to 7 p.m. each third Thursday at the Community Center, 1708 W. Emory Road. The group previously met on Wednesday afternoons at …
Powell Elementary welcomes families
Powell Elementary School welcomed kids, parents and siblings at an ice cream social Friday evening. Many of the teachers brought their own children to the event.
Principal Denise Blefko and assistant …
Services today for Colbert Petree
Funeral services are scheduled for this evening (Sept. 15) at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church for Colbert Petree, 85, former Knox County teacher and choir director at the church for …
Food City thanks customers
Food City customers raised over $400,000 for Hurricane Harvey relief in Houston. Powell store manager Donny Rector said, “Our customers here in Powell and the Knox area were a big …
Workshops available at The Painted Woods
Take two creative sisters whose maiden name is Woods, combine it with their love of finding a hidden treasure, transform it with paint into a one of a kind piece …