A look at the Smith-Powers race + Chamber launches Talent 2030 + Notes
What separates Noah Smith and Dennis Powers? Almost 50 years and over 4,000 votes. Powers, who...
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Category: Let’s Talk
Kodak library gains national acclaim
The Kodak branch library in Sevier County is one of 15 new and renovated libraries featured in the...
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Wesley House + Vivian Shipe + Timothy Hiles + Ellie Bernstein + Chase Eubanks
Wesley House is Knoxville asset I visited Wesley House a couple of years ago when AT&T donated...
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Learning to work camera … learning to write ‘law’
Hey, folks. This will be my final Monday column for a while. I need the day off. Not Monday, but...
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Mountaineer Folk Festival + Master Gardeners + Music in the Grove ++
Great trip, close to home. It’s the 48th annual Mountaineer Folk Festival at Fall Creek Falls...
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Hero’s Hill + Knox PBA + R.I.P. Danny D. Turley, Dale E. Smith ++
John Ewart, executive director of Associated General Contractors Knoxville region, was all smiles...
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Meet Breyauna Holloway + Food City boosts Norwood ES + South College adds programs ++
Breyauna Holloway: Expect some noise Let’s talk a minute about Breyauna Holloway. She’s...
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Big boost for Tremont + Zavisca kicks off 2027 campaign + Pooch Plunge at AJCC ++
Friends of the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont gathered recently to raise $324,000 and...
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Saying so long to Jacobs, Spangler and Biggs + Fleischmann secures research grant ++
Eight years flies when you’re having fun. Tomorrow, September 1, 2026, starting at 10 a.m. at the...
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Scarbro 85 Monument + New state park + Halls dog park ++
Scarboro 85 Monument coming to Oak Ridge Let’s break ground for the $4.2 million monument to the...
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Sobieski won’t quit + Wishart gets state appointment + Memoriam: Charles Foriska, Don Fowler ++
The 16th annual Febb Burn Banquet sold out as over 400 leaders gathered to hear keynote speaker...
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Safety tops KCS agenda + Hero’s Hill + In memoriam ++
With more than 120 armed uniformed officers, the KCS school safety department is one of the...
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