It was a shock when Stephanie Shipley Markowitz Ed.D. heard her name mentioned in the same sentence with Nina McPherson. But she heard correctly when Mike Murphy, PSCC faculty senate …
Weekend festival to benefit RAM
Southern Tequila and Taco Festival is 6 p.m. Friday, July 23, in the JC Penney parking lot at Turkey Creek. The event is a fundraiser for Remote Area Medical.
Sample tequilas, …
Toothache
Dental care is what patients who come to Remote Area Medical’s pop-up clinics need most. They start lining up 24 hours in advance for RAM’s services, which are provided free …
RAM gets ready to ramble
Remote Area Medical (RAM) is gearing up to go back on the road. The COVID-19 pandemic sidelined 24 of RAM’s 2020 clinics that offer free medical, dental and vision care …
Volpe’s RAM support earns Rotary honor
John Volpe is the general manager of Abuelo’s Mexican Restaurant at Turkey Creek. Last week the Rotary Club of Farragut presented him with its Business Person of the Quarter Award. …
Writer pays tribute to Stan Brock
Stan Brock, legendary founder and president of Remote Area Medical and early television host of “Wild Kingdom,” died Aug. 29 at RAM headquarters in Rockford at the age of 82. …
Rotary makes big difference
The Rotary Club of Farragut and the Rotary International theme for this Rotary year – “Making a Difference!” – is a perfect match. And we are making a big difference! …
Wendell Potter takes long route home
Highway 27 between Kingsport and Wise County, Virginia, was Wendell Potter’s Damascus Road.
It was July, 2007, and he’d taken a few days off from his high-powered PR job as mouthpiece …