Kelli McCarter recently hiked some Smoky Mountain trails to see the wildflowers – and to reclaim her life. It was March 2021 and less than a year after double knee …
Trip back in time to Island View School
From 1917-1948 this schoolhouse off Boyds Creek Highway was full of students. Today she sits silent. If walls could talk, would they tell of a stern teacher, rowdy children, lost …
Drew Slemp wears many coats of many colors
With heartfelt apologies to Dolly Parton and her “Coat of Many Colors” signature song, we have an Our Town Hero who wears many coats with many colors. Keeping up with …
Secret oasis in the Smokies
Louisiana? South Carolina? Mississippi? No, this is in the Great Smoky Mountain’s National Park. This area of the park has become one of my favorite places to photograph. The swamp …
Quick Care Ortho at TOC
What to do when you sprain your ankle? More specifically, what do you do when your daughter sprains her ankle?
That was the question one local mom had recently at her …
Friends of the Smokies working on park’s issues
On Sept. 2, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most heavily visited of the country’s 63 national parks, will turn 81 years old. That has caused two major issues …
A life devoted to family, business
A well-known South Knox and Sevier County businesswoman has been taken by COVID-19. Doris Jean McKee McMahan, 77, died Jan. 8. She was born on Dec. 5, 1943, in Maryville.
She …
Former law enforcement leader has died
Thomas “T.J.” Cantwell, 95, of Sevierville, passed away on Nov. 9, 2020. He joined the Tennessee Highway Patrol in 1951 and spent his entire 30-year career in District 1, first …