The Knox County Commission this month is expected to approve a contract with the Boyd Family Foundation that will lead to five new county dog parks.
The effort is part of …
Dog parks grant heads to Knox commission
Tree clean-up and snow preparedness
This year’s Holiday Festival of Lights at the Cove at Concord Park set a record for non-perishable food items donated—enough to fill 16 barrels. A total of $7,428.49 was also …
Christmas Eve snow creates massive cleanup
Cleanup, Cleanup, cleanup! That’s mostly what our folks in the Knox County Parks & Recreation and Engineering & Public Works (E&PW) departments have done for the past week. Road crews …
Virtual birding program ahead
Winter is an excellent time to look for birds. Join natural historian Stephen Lyn Bales in a virtual program presented by the University of Tennessee Arboretum Society on Thursday, Jan. …
Holiday lights and busy work crews
The annual Holiday Festival of Lights at the Cove will run through Jan. 3 and with a little more than a week left, donations are coming close to matching, and …
Good news ahead for Gibbs
We have a semi-big announcement coming in the next week or so on the Engineering and Public Works Department side. But essentially, we’re partnering with KUB to install lights at …
Plan New Year’s hikes at UT Arboretum
The UT Arboretum trails in Oak Ridge will be open on New Year’s Day for hiking from 8 a.m. to dusk. After holiday food and football, the UT Arboretum Society …
It’s all in a week’s work
Lot of big news in the local Parks and Recreation world.
First, Knox County crews are expected to complete the new House Mountain parking lot that will double the spaces that …