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 …
Carol Evans: Patching the budget hole
Carol Evans is a Knoxville treasure. She was on Joan Cronan’s team that raised funds and promoted women’s sports at UT. Susan Richardson Williams was the third amiga. They built …
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 …
Go wild for birds
The coming week offers several opportunities for learning about area birds and wildlife. Get out and play!
On Sunday, Jan. 3, Seven Islands State Birding Park is partnering with Ijams Nature …
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 …
Plenty of hikes to start the New Year right
This holiday weekend provides some guided hiking opportunities, but plan now to get started on those “more steps” New Year’s resolutions with all the first day hikes at area parks. …
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 …