CMA seniors set to graduate from Pellissippi

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Youth

Ten Knox County high school students will don their caps and gowns three weeks before their classmates, as they graduate from Pellissippi State Community College with their associate degrees before they earn their high school …

Covid-19 vaccines in Blount County

Jay FitzBlount, Our Town Health

Pellissippi State Community College’s Blount County Campus will host a Covid-19 vaccination clinic for the community starting Friday, April 9.
The clinic will be open for appointments 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 …

Ethan Turbyfill: Heading for D.C.

Lesli Bales-SherrodBlount, Our Town Arts

Ethan Turbyfill of Maryville has won the Musical Theatre Initiative competition for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Region 4 and is headed to the National Festival this summer …

Pellissippi plans more on-campus classes

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Youth

Pellissippi State Community College will welcome more students back to campus this fall, with the new Bill Haslam Center for Math and Science opening in August.
The new 82,000-square-foot building on the college’s Hardin Valley …

Production to highlight Black music

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Arts

Pellissippi State Community College invites the community to celebrate Black History Month next week with a virtual concert featuring Knoxville Opera artists.
Knoxville Opera soprano Adia Evans and baritone Michael Rodgers will present The Black American Musical Experience …

Randy Martinez: Honored on Veterans Day

Lesli Bales-SherrodLoudon, Our Town Leaders

Pellissippi State Community College alumnus Randy Martinez was honored on Veterans Day by his alma mater and by the Tennessee Board of Regents, the system that governs the state’s 13 community colleges and 27 technical …

Leila Howell: Alumni volunteer extraordinaire

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Neighbors

Leila Howell has won the 2020 Peggy Wilson Volunteer Alumni Award at Pellissippi State Community College, sponsored and announced this year by Discovery Inc. This honor highlights an outstanding graduate in recognition …

PSCC student is ‘Leader of Promise’

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Youth

Moriah Hall, a new student orientation leader at Pellissippi State, has been named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar. Hall, an accounting major, is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders …