KKB Volunteers to Clean First Creek This Saturday

On Saturday, September 19, 2020, Keep Knoxville Beautiful will host its September Saturday Spruce Up cleanup event at Broadway Shopping Center 2001 N Broadway.  The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to Noon.   Volunteers will be cleanup up First Creek as it goes...

Gay Street Bridge to close Thursday night

Beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, Knoxville Utilities Board crews will be performing maintenance on Neyland Drive power lines. The work will require the overnight closure of the Gay Street Bridge and the two right westbound lanes of Neyland Drive.   The bridge and...

September 11, 2001

  By John J. Duncan Jr. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was in my office in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington when Bert Robinson, a member of my staff from Athens, opened the door and told me to turn on the television because a plane had just...