I learned today that the Blount County Humane Society (BCHS) opposes a $2 dog license fee to help with the operational budget of the Blount County Animal Center, scheduled to open in mid-October. Their opposition is based on the grounds that the center will be a so-called kill center. Blount Countians opposed to the policy [...]
Bill expands rules to cover cemeteries SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) is pleased to support The Bereaved Consumer’s Bill of Rights Act of 2009, introduced as HR 3655 by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.). The bill sets national standards for the protection of funeral and cemetery consumers — a goal FCA’s federation of [...]
Jerry Lynn Burchfield, 38, went to join our Lord on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. He grew up in Maryville. He was self employed for much of his life. He owned a tire business in Maryville before moving to Honea Path, S.C. where he started working in the family’s paint and body business. Preceded in death [...]
Patricia “Patty” Hargett Myers, 48, of Maryville passed away, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 at the family home. She was a member of Riverview Baptist Church. Preceded in death by uncles, Goward Garrison and Jessie Baldwin; aunt, Claudia Wilson; grandfather, Charlie Hargett. Survived by husband of 27 years, Hubert Myers; sons and daughters-in-law, Timothy and Kathryn [...]
Cougars, Tyler Strickland (#10) eludes Heritage defenders. Carpenter’s shut-out the Mustangs, 20-0, in middle school action.
Lori Ann Potter, 43, of Maryville went home to be with Jesus on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. She was a member of Six Mile Baptist Church and employed at Douglas Cooperative. Lori’s love in life was her church, family, friends and her job. To know Lori was to love her and be loved by [...]
GATLINBURG – Great Smoky Mountains National Park plans to close the Foothills Parkway East in Cocke County, Tenn. from I-40 to Cosby, overnight on Tuesday Sept. 22 and Wednesday Sept. 23. Closures will begin at 8 p.m. both nights with the road re-opened by 7 a.m. the folowing day. The closure is being imposed [...]
By Dianne Cserbak aka “Ouiser” MARYVILLE – Foothills Community Player’s, “Steel Magnolias,” opened Thurday evening to an enthusiatic and crowded Capitol Theatre. Producer’s Tom and Carole Ireland stated, “This was the best opening night ever for FCP!” A beauty shop, six women, some of whom have been friends since before Jesus was born, and an upcoming [...]
WASHINGTON (VOA) – U.S. President Barack Obama has awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor to a soldier who died after multiple attempts to save one of his men during a firefight with Taliban forces in Afghanistan. President Obama gave the medal to the parents of Army Sergeant First Class Jared Monti on Thursday in a [...]