Do You Know WHAT This Is?
This Week’s Mystery Pic Send us an email to goodguess@jeffersoncountypost.com Correct answers are announced each week. Congratulations to Gene Dunn! Gene was the first to guess last week’s Mystery Pic correctly. The correct answer was: Helicopter Tail Rotor
Fall training opportunities for beef producers
Consumers are becoming more interested in buying food from local suppliers, including local beef producers. Since beef cattle is among the top commodities produced in the state, with some 950,000 beef cattle in Tennessee, the number of cattle producers interested in marketing beef directly to local consumers is on the rise. To educate producers interested […]
Better Know the Opponent, week three: Brevard
This is the third in an 11-part series chronicling each of Carson-Newman football’s opponents for the 2013 season. Today’s feature is week three opponent Brevard. The Eagles and Tornados open up their conference schedules at 1 p.m. on the banks of Mossy Creek. In 2012, Brevard put a scare into the visiting Carson-Newman Eagles and […]
State Archivists to Visit Knoxville in Search of Civil War Memorabilia
Representatives from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Tennessee State Museum will be in Knoxville on August 15th and 16th to record and digitize Civil War memorabilia owned by local residents for an exhibit titled “Looking Back: The Civil War in Tennessee.” Archivists will be at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. […]
Frozen Treats For Blood Donors
Medic Regional Blood Center reports that there is an emergency need for all blood types and the community blood center has less than a one day supply of blood in inventory for 27 area hospitals. “The summer is always a difficult time for us in keeping up with the need for blood and this year […]
PAULINE MANIS MOORE
PAULINE MANIS MOORE, age 100, of Dandridge, TN passed away Friday, August 2, 2013 at the Jefferson County Nursing Home. She was the daughter of the late Grant and Martha Moore Manis and was a life-long resident of Dandridge and Jefferson County. Preceded in death by her husband, J. Leonard Moore; sisters, Thelma Rankin, Juanita […]
BOYD MICHAEL “MIKE” DOUGLAS
BOYD MICHAEL “MIKE” DOUGLAS, age 77 of Dandridge, passed away Friday, August 2, 2013 at the Jefferson City Health and Rehab Center in Jefferson City, TN following a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer. Mike was a fifty year member of Shady Grove United Methodist Church. As a 43 year member, he was Past Master of […]
New Action Bracelets Makes Memory Making Easy, Fun
Vacations and getaways are about making memories, and at the Wilderness at the Smokies, Tennessee’s largest indoor and outdoor waterpark resort in Sevierville, Tenn., that just got easier. The resort just introduced Action Bracelets, a state-of-the-art photo capturing system that sends pictures directly to the cell phone of the Wilderness at the Smokies’ guest who […]
Undercover Sting Operation Nets Multiple Arrests at Douglas Dam
The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office has rounded up eight suspects on charges of sexual battery and indecent exposure. According to Sheriff Ron Seals, the suspects were arrested on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Douglas Dam Reservation in Sevier County over the past few weeks. Seals said the SCSO and TVA Police have been […]
THE NRA YOUTH HUNTER EDUCATION CHALLENGE THIS SATURDAY
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will be hosting the annual NRA Youth Hunter Education Challenge this Saturday, August 3rd at the John Sevier Hunter Education Center in Knoxville, Tenn. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. YHEC is an advanced hunter education program designed to build and further develop skills taught in basic hunter education courses.Participants will […]
UT Gardens August 2013 Plant of the Month: Common crapemyrtle
Known as the “Lilac of the South,” common crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) is truly a southern garden staple. It’s found in practically every southern landscape and adds multi-season interest to the garden. Depending on cultivar, the showy summer flowers bloom between late spring and early fall and flower colors range from white, pink, orchid, purple and […]
Continuing education conference: stocker cattle management from head to tail
The College of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Animal Science at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture are sponsoring the workshop “Stocker Cattle Management from Head to Tail.” The continuing education conference is for veterinarians, veterinary technicians and stocker operations owners. The conference will be held Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, from 7:30 a.m. […]
JOYCELIN WALKER LARRIEU
JOYCELIN WALKER LARRIEU, of Jefferson City peacefully passed away on Thursday, August 1, 2013. Joyce was born on February 10, 1937 in Knoxville, TN and received with joyful pride by her parents, Luther Benjamin and Marsella (June) Moore Walker. Joyce leaves her devoted husband of fifty-five years, Ronald Larrieu, to cherish the memories of their […]
JCHS Waiting On “All Clear” From Engineers
The Jefferson County Department of Education released the following statement this morning regarding the evaluation process currently under way at Jefferson County High School. In light of the recent roof collapse of building 8, we are taking extra precaution to make sure that we don’t have any structural issues in any part of the main […]
Immediate Cut Off of Security Assistance to Egypt Could Promote Instability, Threaten U.S. and Israel’s Interests
U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor against consideration of an amendment to immediately cut off U.S. security assistance to Egypt, arguing such a decision at this time could promote further instability and put U.S. interests and those of Israel at risk. Corker instead […]
There Are Many Things to Consider When Looking at Immigration Reform
If there’s one thing I’ve learned since coming to Congress, it’s that Washington doesn’t do big well. Just look at what we’re seeing now with Obamacare. Bills that are thousands of pages long are difficult to understand, even for experts, and often come with unintended consequences. Unfortunately, the same is true for the Senate immigration […]