It all began when Heather Patton Reyda was a teenager at Bearden High School in the early 1980s. Friends were using and overdosing on crack cocaine. The cocaine epidemic was …
KCR’s Everette Parker is just getting started
When it comes to emergency first responder work, fighting a hot fire, seeing someone die in a wreck or a body after a drowning, Everette Garrison Parker III is just …
Lt. Doug Stiles: From Tuckahoe to KPD and back
Lt. Doug Stiles had two homes growing up – the family home in tiny Tuckahoe and the Knoxville Police Department (KPD). He still calls Tuckahoe home on his eight-acre farm …
Lifeguard’s Anderson excels in people and care
You talk with Dan Anderson. You talk with people who know Dan Anderson. You talk with people who work with Dan Anderson. And you think to yourself: “How can anyone …
Firefighting Fraziers juggle work and triplets
Heroes at work. Heroes at home. Both work.
Erica and David Frazier have their hands and arms full – literally. In May 2019, three little girls joined their family – triplets …
Seymour VFD celebrates expansion of Station 2
The Seymour community is growing, and the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department is growing along with it.
Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs and Ninth District County Commissioner Carson Dailey joined in the …
Jeff Bagwell: He knows the business
He’ll answer to “Bags.”
He is Jeffrey Douglas Bagwell – or Capt. Jeff Bagwell. For the last five years Bags has been the Public Information Officer (PIO) and public face of …
Jimmy Davis: A cop’s cop serving his community
He’s Loudon County through and through. Born 48 years ago and reared by his hard-working parents – Jim and Arbra Davis. And they obviously passed along their work ethic to …