KNOXVILLE LIFESTYLE
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Remington College Online Campus offers two new programs
KNOXVILLE — Remington College Online Campus is now offering students two new ways to pursue higher education from anywhere—with a degree in Digital Graphic Art or a diploma in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC).
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U.S. Cellular offers tips to help cope during Coronavirus
KNOXVILLE – During times of uncertainty, people rely on mobile devices more than ever to stay informed, prepared and connected. U.S. Cellular offers fun and educational tips to help cope while social distancing.
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Medical profession not prepared to meet demands of Alzheimer's, Dementia care increase
Primary care physicians on the front lines of diagnosing and providing Alzheimer’s and Dementia care: half say medical profession not prepared to meet expected increase in demands.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park closes
GSMNP - Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials will close all park areas at noon on Tuesday, March 24 through Monday, April 6. Foothills Parkway and the Spur will remain open.
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Trout Adventure Camp set for June 15-20, 2020
Registration is open now for this year’s camp, June 15-20 at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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National Champion of Bird Dogs crowned
GRAND JUNCTION, TN – The contest that determines the top “pointing dog” in the country has named a new winner.
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 TVA closes select recreation areas, maintains access to public lands, waters
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 UT Gardens’ March 2020 Plant of the month
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 National Park asks for public opinion on Cades Cove biking access
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National Park needs Mingus Mill volunteers
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Emerald Academy names Lauren Moore as school director
KNOXVILLE - Emerald Charter Schools has named Lauren Moore as permanent school director of Emerald Academy.
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Positively Living promotes Kim Lauth to chief operating officer
Kim Lauth has been promoted to the position of chief operating officer for Positively Living, which provides care and support to East Tennesseans living with HIV/AIDS, disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorder and/or homelessness.
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History award nominations sought
The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) invites nominations from across East Tennessee for Awards of Excellence in the field of history.
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Crafters, volunteers needed for Big South Fork Spring Planting, Music Festival
ONEIDA, TN - Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be hosting the 20th annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 25, 2020.
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UT Gardens announces Art in the Gardens project
For the third year in a row, the University of Tennessee Gardens, Knoxville, is proud to announce a new Art in the Gardens project for 2020.
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Professor shares Biblical, modern examples of holding people in power accountable
On the screen was a photo many people who were consumers of news in the late 1980s remember vividly.
The picture showed a man in Tiananmen Square in China June 5, 1989, standing in the path of military tanks leaving that area of Beijing. The day before, the country’s army had killed many Chinese residents after they spoke out about abuses by the Chinese government and expressed a desire for a more democratic form of government.
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12 Step programs freed me from addiction
By Paul Emile
Like all human beings, I’ve experienced my share of pain, and suffered considerably. I was born into a violent, alcoholic home. When the clock struck six, and my father wasn’t home yet, I knew there was going to be hell to pay that night.
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 19th century Appalachia comes alive in Betsy Reeder’s Broomstraw Ridge
Canterbury House Publishing announces the release of Broomstraw Ridge: A Novel by Betsy Reeder. This stand-alone story also serves as a sequel to the Civil War novel, Madam’s Creek. Both tales are set in the New River region and follow the lives of intertwined families.
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 Book by Tennessee author raises sex trafficking awareness
Author Nicole Lynn Synder, breaks into the book market with The Yellow Door, which follows the story of a teenage girl, Hope, who is kidnapped and thrust into a sex trafficking ring.
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 ER Doctor’s ‘Home Alive: 11 MUST Steps for Surviving Encounters with the Police’ book second edition released
Washington, D.C. – Imagine this: your 16-year-old son asks to borrow the family car for an evening out with his friends. You hand him the keys, reminding him not to speed and about his curfew before midnight. 12:15 comes and goes … 12:30 passes also … 1:00 a.m. arrives and still no word from him.
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