Around Town

Festive Fantasy

Rebecca Whalen 0
The famous ETCH holiday gala has returned After years of existing in a variety of different forms, East Tennessee Children's Hospital is bringing back its holiday gala to accompany the hospital's ever popular community fundraiser, the…
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Healing & Horses

Rebecca Whalen 0
Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding, or STAR, provides hundreds throughout the region with healing and hope through equine therapy George Morgan was 16 when his parents first took him to see the horses. It was 1989, and a lifeguard…
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Knoxville’s Best Idea

Gary Wade 0
The birth of our treasured sanctuary During the next calendar year, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, far and away the nation’s most visited of the “crown jewels,” will celebrate its 90th birthday. Most of us take for granted our…
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Meet Bodie

Robert Pryor, Sr. 0
The puppy has arrived at the Pryor residence. The clothes and furniture are in trouble. Against the advice of everyone who knows us, my wife and I have adopted an eight-week-old Golden Retriever puppy. We are not new to dogs, especially…
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A Mission of Service

Phil Newman 1
Former Air Force leader and Vietnam veteran Jim O'Brien gives back to his adopted Knoxville community When 591 American prisoners of war arrived back on U.S. soil from Vietnam in early 1973, Jim O’Brien was midway through his studies at…
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