Tennessee Tomatoes

Those long awaited locally grown “real” tomatoes are here!  The farmers at the Seymour Farmers Market have a large variety of heirloom tomatoes like Mortgage Lifter, Mr Stripey and Cherokee Purple, as well as some of the standard hybrids like Big Boy.  The taste is...

Celebrating July 4th around the area

By Mike Steely   You probably already know of Knoxville’s Festival on the Fourth happening this Friday at World’s Fair Park, but there are lots of Independent Day celebrations going on in our area as well.   Gatlinburg kicks off Independence Day early Friday...

Second District BOE Seat on November Ballot?

In a press release dated June 24, KCS announced that Indya Kincannon, second district school board member, will step down from the Knox County board of Education after the August 6 BOE meeting in order to accompany her family to Slovenia, where her husband was...