Browsing Tag

2023

Sweet Indulgence

Denise Stewart-Sanabria celebrates products of desire in her paintings It’s hard to study Denise Stewart-Sanabria’s paintings and not crave a jelly doughnut. Or a fresh piece of fruit. Or a crisp French macaron. Stewart-Sanabria’s
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The Musicians

The Chillbillies are making a change in our community, both on the stage and within their day jobs The Chillbillies' history dates back to the 1980s. At a concert for a gospel group in 1988 that year, founding member George Massengill
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The Most Hated Tax

Pay your debt and keep your home. Simple, right? It’s possible for a Tennessean’s house to be sold out from under them – even if they’re paying their mortgage. The reason: property taxes, or rather, property tax non-payment. On one
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Festive Fantasy

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

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

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

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

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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