Wilderness at the Smokies is hosting Football Saturdays and Sundays at the Wilderness Hidden Trail Restaurant.  Tailgate parties every Saturday during the college football season from 12-5pm and every Sunday from 12-8pm during the NFL football season.  The game will be presented on 8 HD flat screen TVs and $10 all you can eat buffet.  Wings, pizza, hotdogs, chili, nachos & variety of salads.  $1 off draft and drink specials   Read More ...

September 28, 2009 – The City of Knoxville Solid Waste Office is partnering with the Knox County Solid Waste Office in sponsoring a Backyard Compost Bin and Rain Barrel sale on Saturday, October 3, that will allow residents to buy the environmentally-friendly devices for less than half of their usual retail prices. The one-day event is set for 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the West Town Mall parking lot   Read More ...

September 28, 2009 – Staff members from the City of Knoxville’s Department of Policy & Communications and from the Metropolitan Planning Commission will moderate Fort Sanders Long-Range Planning Subcommittee Meetings which involve stakeholders in the Fort Sanders area on 3 p.m., Thursday, October 1st. The meetings will be held at the Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 Worlds Fair Park Dr. The reception desk will direct participant’s to the meeting location.   Read More ...

Ellen Wilhoit, President and CAO of Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center, has been named to BusinessTN magazine’s list of 25 Top Hospital Operators in Tennessee. The list, which appeared in the 2009 September/October issue, is compiled from peer review and input from other sources across the state. According to the BusinessTN article, the profiled leaders “are part business executive, part community leader and, from some perspectives, part healer. They .   Read More ...

September, 2009: With the release of the new H4D-60, the first H4D camera and most recent addition to the Hasselblad H System, Hasselblad marks the beginning of a new chapter in the history of medium format DSLRs. The H4D-60 will feature True Focus with APL (Absolute Position Lock), making auto-focus substantially easier and more accurate for photography professionals. As part of the celebration honoring the first manned lunar landing and   Read More ...

COPENHAGEN, September 28, 2009 – Phase One, the world’s leader in open-platform medium format camera systems and solutions, today announced the Phase One 645DF camera. Engineered in partnership with Mamiya Digital Imaging for superior quality image capture and ease of handling, it sets a new standard for high flash sync speeds – up to 1/1600 of a second. Also today, Phase One announced the availability of three new high performance   Read More ...

The third annual City of Knoxville CrossKnox 15K and 5K Walk will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, October 11, and, as always, will travel across Knoxville, east to west. The 9.3-mile point-to-point race is run completely on greenways beginning at the Alex Haley Statue in Morningside Park in East Knoxville and ending at Bearden Elementary School in West Knoxville. The City’s Parks and Recreation Department started the race in   Read More ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn., Sept. 25, 2009: Through the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce, the newly re-opened Christ in the Smokies hosted a Business During Hours event at their attraction at the old Christus Gardens location on River Road. More than 130 Chamber members came to tour the recently enhanced dioramas on a narrated tour through the museum, which features life-size depiction of the life of Jesus Christ. Every attendee went on the   Read More ...

- A national survey released today showed 86 percent of licensed U.S. drivers described handheld texting while driving as “very dangerous,” with 93 percent supporting a nationwide ban on texting – Despite strong support for a nationwide handheld texting ban, only 42 percent of respondents believe drivers would stop texting if banned. More than 75 percent believe there would be more compliance if hands-free or voice-activated technologies were widely available   Read More ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Red Cross sheltered more than 420 people in Georgia and Tennessee overnight, a signal that even though flood waters are slowly receding, many are still unable to return to their homes. The Red Cross has more than 200 volunteers and staff and 18 Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs) in the area with more on standby. Clean up and comfort kits are being distributed and   Read More ...