It’s beginning to look a lot like chaos!

Dan ArpFeature

Observations.
Pictured is an image of the miasmatic scene at the Heiskell Post Office. Every day, in the wee hours, pallets of Amazon packages are unloaded for the postal workers to …

Thanksgiving reminders

Cindy ArpFeature

Thanksgiving reminds me of all those turkeys we drew in elementary school. It reminds me of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem, “The Concord Hymn,” a choral response reading that my 1963 …

Small things: A memory bank of love

Cindy ArpFeature

I was once asked if I would participate in a medical research project that required blood work. The laboratory was difficult to find and when I finally arrived, the waiting …

SBA provides disaster loans for August severe storms

Jay FitzFeature

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has made low-interest, long-term disaster loans available in Knox, Anderson, Blount, Grainger, Jefferson, Loudon, Roane, Sevier, and Union counties in response to severe weather …

Keep calm and thank a nurse

Cindy ArpFeature

In my lifetime I have met a plethora of nurses and here’s what I have learned. Nurses know how to calm you down but be prudent with their words. Nurses …

TAMIS receives grant to restore farming films

Mary Pom ClaiborneFeature

Knox County Public Library’s popular historic film collection reveals history in some unexpected ways. In 2019, the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound received two reels of 16mm film shot in …