Garden party set for Mabry-Hazen House

Patrick HollisOur Town Outdoors

Join Mabry-Hazen House for Dusk in the Dogwoods, the new annual fundraiser and spring season celebration, on Thursday, April 11, from 6-9 p.m. The museum invites everyone to join friends, …

Health advisory for Mead’s Quarry Lake

Jay FitzOur Town Outdoors

Don’t go playing in a pink pond.
Mead’s Quarry Lake at Ijams Nature Center is experiencing a temporary bloom of Planktothrix rubescens, a cyanobacterium that produces microcystin, a metabolite that can …

STEM camp with solar

Anne BrockOur Town Outdoors

What does it take to build a sustainable school these days? A group of third through fifth graders in South Knoxville accepted the challenge as part of their spring break …

Renewable energy research

Anne BrockOur Town Outdoors

How can the world more efficiently harness the clean energy it needs from the sun or other sources? What will renewable energy systems look like another decade from now? Will …

Semi-tractor trailers and me

Cindy ArpOur Town Outdoors

The morning in 1993 that I pulled out in front of an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer, missing him by inches, I knew I was going to have to do something to make …

Knoxville as a ‘trail town’

Sandra ClarkOur Town Outdoors

The city of Knoxville will soon “begin the process of developing a new parks and recreation master plan,” according to Parks & Rec director Sheryl Ely. “Community input will be …