JayStorm In The House Friday Night
JayStorm was in the house on Friday evening, as Dandridge Pizza and More celebrated their reopening with customers. A favorite on the Knoxville music circuit, JayStorm played to a packed house. The high energy performance was the perfect foil for a late summer weekend and offered locals the opportunity to bring a little of the […]
CHS PLANS TO ACQUIRE TENNOVA
Jefferson Memorial Hospital may be in for another name change, as Community Health Systems has announced plans to purchase Tennova’s parent company Health Management Associates for nearly $4 billion dollars. Both Tennova and Community Health Systems are for profit businesses that are beholden to stock holders. Should the proposed buyout go through, it will be […]
Board of School Commissioners Meet For Work Session
The Jefferson County School Board met in a Work Session on Thursday, August 8, 2013, in the new Patriot Academy. Absent from the meeting was Board Member Lowery. Topics of interest included an overview of non negotiables for the 2013-2014 school year, the partial release of TCAP Scores County Wide and Home School students participation […]
Athletic Talent Showcased Saturday at “Meet The Patriots”
As Football Season opens up in Tennessee, the Jefferson County Patriots introduced their 2013 freshman and varsity team to fans on Saturday. Prior to meeting the Patriots, there were scrimmages between middle schools teams. The teams represented were the Catholic Irish, the Cosby Eagles, Dandridge’s own Maury Hornets, and the Jefferson Middle School Elks. The […]
Back To School Fashions for Teachers
Hello darlings, time for the alarm clock to ring in the new day early, school is starting! The daily lesson plans, the myriad of other duties and always the chore of “what I am going to wear today? Let’s start with the elementary level fun fashion for teachers. The most comfortable clothes are needed for […]
Director Moore Retires From White Pine Library
The retirement party for Mrs. Betty Jo Moore was held on Tuesday at 3:30 – 5:30. Mrs. Moore was the director of the White Pine Library for over 16 years. The library was packed as patrons, board members and friends stopped in to thank Mrs. Moore for all of her assistance and kindness throughout the […]
Honey Mustard Pretzel Chicken
We love to eat chicken in my house, and I’m always looking for new and interesting ways to prepare it. I came across a version of this recipe several months ago and have made it several times since then with rave reviews. It is also wonderful as leftovers, served sliced in a sandwich with lettuce […]
Historical Inn Back And Open For Business
Dandridge’s Grande Dame has been fully restored to her former glory and is open and ready for business. The Shepherd Inn started life as a modest cabin in pre civil war Dandridge. As the County seat and due to an attractive position on the river, the Town was a hot spot of travel in the […]
We have hot glue. Bam! Trump that!
Boy, what a week. It started off with a hot glue malfunction that nearly cost me my thumb. You think I’m exaggerating, but I’m not. I’m dead serious here. Hot glue could very well be the most dangerous substance known to man. I’ve heard the hype about plasma disintegration and solar death rays, but I’m […]
The Buzzz!!
The buzz this week is about the start. The DOE hive has been busy this week as a new hive opened for the first time. Rumors have been flying that the new hive may bee missing some important parts but buzzy bees in the know are buzzing that this time the rumors are off the […]
Change Is Good
Change is good. Well, usually change is good. Sometimes, change is just change and sometimes change brings hard results. The new Patriot Academy opened this week and, for the first time in more than 30 years there is no freshman class at Jefferson Count High School. While I still have my reservations about the concept […]
Lee Child’s: Killing Floor
Having recently seen the Jack Reacher movie, I figured now was a good time to check out the first novel, Lee Child’s Killing Floor. In Killing Floor, ex-military policeman Jack Reacher gets off a Greyhound bus in sleepy Margrave, Georgia, after becoming a drifter for quite some time. Reacher decides to investigate a murder that […]
Give Him Time
My father was a big coin collector and my young son has inherited his collection, however he just doesn’t appear interested. I would like to encourage him but I am just not having a lot of success. Do you have any suggestions? I am sure that your father had a wonderful and, most likely, expensive […]
Piedmont School Open House
The Piedmont Elementary School hosted their back to school open house on Tuesday, August 6. 2013. Over two hundred students and families filled the hallways on Tuesday night. Students and families were able to find out the bus routes, classrooms and new rules that will be enacted this year. Excitement was high as the students […]
Better Know the Opponent, week five: Mars Hill
This is the fifth in an 11-part series chronicling each of Carson-Newman football’s opponents for the 2013 season. Today’s feature opens the month of October with Mars Hill. The Eagles visit the Lions Oct. 5. Mars Hill brings just about everybody back from 2012’s team that finished in a tie for second in the SAC […]
Patriot Academy Ribbon Cutting – Welcome Class of 2017
For the first time in more that 30 years, Jefferson County High School Main Campus is not the home to the freshman class. On Thursday, August 8, 2013 the Class of 2017 became the first class to inhabit the new Patriot Academy. After an early evening ribbon cutting ceremony, the school was opened to the […]