Mayors: Enlarging stadium tax district will benefit East Knoxville

KCHD receives grant funding from the Y-12 FCU Gives Foundation

Knoxville Area Urban League supports students with 20th annual ‘Shoes for School’

Final transition to Pine Ridge substation signals power shift for Y-12 OAK RIDGE, TN -- Y-12 flipped the switch on a new era as crews finalized the process of moving the entire site’s electrical supply to the new Pine Ridge substation. _________________________________________________________________________ Schmisseur begins as UT Space Institute Executive Director KNOXVILLE -- Professor and H. H. Arnold Chair John Schmisseur is serving as executive director of the UT Space Institute. The institute is poised to help meet the needs of the US Space Force in preparing a world-class workforce and advancing technologies and systems to protect US and allied interests in space. _________________________________________________________________________ Shults Pediatrics partners with nonprofit to provide donor milk for vulnerable babies Shults Pediatrics has formed a formal partnership with Mothers’ Milk Bank of Tennessee to become the nonprofit’s 13th Milk Drop Depot in the state. _________________________________________________________________________ Soil remediation brings Oak Ridge closer to completion at ETTP OAK RIDGE, TN -- An area of land in Oak Ridge will be added to the Manhattan Project National Historical Park thanks to EM’s cleanup efforts there. Crews are addressing an area of soil on the massive footprint of the former K-25 building. _________________________________________________________________________ Clayton® and Family Promise redefine how corporations help prevent family homelessness MARYVILLE, TN, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clayton and Family Promise have expanded their partnership strategy, changing the way corporations are helping fight family homelessness. _________________________________________________________________________ New trails to open at William Hastie Natural Area KNOXVILLE -- City officials, Appalachian Mountain Bike Club members and a wide array of outdoor recreation enthusiasts will cut a ribbon on Thursday, Aug. 4, to celebrate and officially open four new trails at William Hastie Natural Area. _________________________________________________________________________ Pantex and Y-12 receive excellence awards OAK RIDGE, TN -- The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Safety, Infrastructure, and Operations recently awarded the 2021 NA-50 Excellence Awards to teams that helped keep production moving at the Pantex Plant and Y-12 National Security Complex. Pastors demand accountability for Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty Area landlords needed to advocate for homeless Veterans Proposed certified tax rate to be lowest since 1974 Fort Sanders summer roundup planned; vehicles must be temporarily moved Faith leaders denounce comments from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline goes live FBI Knoxville Field Office warns of increase in sextortion schemes targeting young boys ________________________________ STATE NEWS Crime In Tennessee 2021 Environmental Stewardship Award winners Follow Me to Tennessee: Tennessee Migration Report KNOXVILLE -- East Tennessee is seeing huge increases in relocation interest in 2022. Chattanooga, Johnson City, Knoxville, Nashville, and Brentwood are experiencing the greatest increases, according to search data from moving company booking website. State officials host grand opening of new lodge at Paris Landing BUCHANAN, TN -- State officials opened a new 91-guestroom Lodge at Paris Landing, an attraction featuring a full-service restaurant and lounge, with indoor and outdoor dining, and conference spaces to serve both business meetings and social functions at Paris Landing State Park.

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Blackburn, colleagues’ legislation addresses pilot shortage Blackburn-Blumenthal Kids Online Safety legislation to be considered __________________________________________ NATIONAL NEWS Women's health care in DOD unchanged by Supreme Court decision Reward offered for information on foreign interference in U.S. elections Fact sheet on U.S. security assistance to Ukraine DOD secures critical material for James Webb Space Telescope By Devon Bistarkey NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently captured the highest-resolution image of the universe in infrared that has ever been seen. Low-cost tech shaping modern battlefield, Socom commander says In his 38 years as a soldier, across theaters ranging from the Middle East to Europe, the commander of Special Operations Command says he never had to look up. But those days are ending.  2022 Trafficking in Persons Report released This week the Department of State released the 2022 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The report is meant to effect positive change and encourage governments to increase and improve their anti-trafficking efforts each year. Victims of Communism Museum opens in Nation’s Capital Cadets participate in combat survival training

UTIA to launch UT Center of Farm Management	National Park continues efforts to eliminate unsafe roadside parking at Laurel Falls Trailhead	NASA reveals Webb Telescope’s first images of unseen universe	Wild Laurel Golf Course in the Smokies achieves Audubon certification
Country Cascades Waterpark Resort making $30 million expansion	Ijams River Rescue removes 21 tons of trash from area waterways	First-Ever MTN DEW® Outpost opens at Doe Mountain in Tennessee	Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center to perform robotic-assisted lung biopsies
$14,000 reward for elk poached in Claiborne County	Beauford Delaney Building to be first residential structure at new stadium	Tennesseans invited to donate in state parks competition	National Park sets visitation record with 14.1 million visits in 2021

• Volunteer firefighter charged in series of structure fires
• Cirrus Aircraft delivers first United Aviate Academy training aircraft
• McNabb Center to open Jail to Work program in Claiborne County
• Beacon releases 2021 Pork Report
• TVA publishes Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Report
• EBCI Tribal Council approves $75 million for The 407: Gateway to Adventure & Puy du Fou partnership
• Hawkins County lawyer censured
• Eight arrested in human trafficking operation in Sevier County
• KCDC fully reopens Love Towers after $6.5 million renovation
• Old City redevelopment momentum: $22 million hotel is latest private investment
• Twenty-Two Tennessee localities file suit against opioid producers and pharmacies
• National Park receives $31 million to repair Foothills Parkway West
• TVA unveils $3M in pilot projects to advance valley connectivity, carbon-free future
• KUB’s first female lineworker inspires ahead of International Women’s Day
• City tests noise-monitoring camera downtown
• Tennessee to be electric vehicle charger manufacturing hub
• Kayaker drowns in Oconaluftee River near Smokemont
• Man charged in cold case homicide from 1996
• Thirteen arrested in multi-agency human trafficking operation
• Drug investigation nets 39 indictments, most offenders are from Knoxville
• Undercover drug investigation gets 33 drug dealers off the streets
• McNabb Center receives $1.1 million to increase children’s mental health crisis services
• Faith leaders called for rejection of proposed racially divisive maps
• Three new playgrounds for Knoxville
• Roane County lawyer suspended
• National Park Service acquires 60 acres of land
• TVA approves Asian carp fish barriers at seven dams
• Stream bank stabilization project set to begin in January
• $2 million dollar Streetscape Road Project
• Cades Cove, Laurel Falls Trail pilot project outcomes
• City announces $35 million in strategic investments, community assistance
• Hillcrest Healthcare’s Beverly Park Place earns spot on Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes 2022
• Knox County District Attorney General launches podcast series, Generally Speaking
• KCDC earns $900,000 grant to support continued Austin Homes redevelopment
• $7.5 million federal grant to bring supportive housing for seniors to Austin Homes site
• Four men arrested, charged in human trafficking operation
• TBI launches new Tennessee Sex Offender Registry
• Populus expands mobility management solution to City of Knoxville
• Tennessee to leverage state lands for tourism in rural, distressed counties
• Memphis regional megasite lands $5.6 billion investment from Ford Motor Company
• City's investment in Austin Homes revitalization reaches $12.5 million
• New sidewalks to be built in Lonsdale
• Council approves City funds to serve at-risk youth
• $2 million committed to Burlington streetscape project
• Smokies nonprofit documents life in understudied area of National Park
• Anti-human trafficking partnership launched by Gov. Bill Lee
• Knoxville earns Tree Cities of the World recognition
• Former officer charged, accused of assaulting juvenile
• AG Crime Unit steps up citations for off-road users in areas of state forests
• Operation Volunteer Strong recovers 150 missing children in Tennessee
• New East Knoxville greenway to connect parks, botanical garden
• City investing $1.6 million to build sidewalks along Old Broadway
• City’s online chatbot available in Spanish
• Service proposes listing for the rare sickle darter fish

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