Farragut News

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Farragut's Board of Mayor and Aldermen discussed law enforcement for the Town's planned automated red light camera enforcement at its meeting Thursday, June 25.

Two Rivers Church will host its annual 'Fireworks @ the Junction' event Friday, July 3, on the church grounds.

If you live in the Farragut area and are interested in locally-grown, pesticide-free produce, here is something that may be of interest to you.

While some cooks follow recipes with scientific precision, others feel it's more important to improvise and use whatever sounds good at the moment.

The Knox County Redistricting Committee met Tuesday to finish its work by selecting a plan to realign County Commission districts but wound up adding a third proposal to the pool of finalists.

First Tennessee Bank is celebrating its 145th anniversary this year. 'We are going back to basics, a strong bank presence and a strong capital market presence, and in all likelihood a smaller mortgage presence,' First Tennessee media spokesperson Jennifer Holder said.

Deputies are investigating an armed robbery at a West Knox County CVS. Dispatchers say the Farragut store located at 11946 Kingston Pike was robbed just before 10 Saturday night.

Severe weather pounded east Tennessee Wednesday evening, causing flooding, damage and traffic problems.

Mayor Ralph McGill declared the Town's search for means to initiate term limits had come to a temporary standstill at the Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, Thursday, June 11.

Last December, Knox County School Superintendent Dr. James McIntyre unveiled his vision for how to improve education.

Ralph and Marianne McGill pose for a portrait near the Farragut Branch of the Knox County Library.

Fox Den subdivision, the second-oldest subdivision in Farragut, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and marking the 10th year it is host to the Knoxville Open, which begins Thursday, June 11.

In January of 2005, it looked like six historic buildings in the 500 block of Gay Street, located between the Farragut Building to the south and the Fidelity Bank Building to the north, would be lost.

Debbie Jobe, from Stone Cottage Quilts, works on quilt pieces that will eventually become part of a fall quilt during Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee's 29th Annual Quilt Show & Competition held at Pellissippi State Technical Community Colleges'- Kim Johnson/farragutpress Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee held its 28th Annual Quilt Show & ...

All that was missing from Knoxville City Council's public hearing on convenience voting Monday evening was the voice of an average voter.

The Knox County Redistricting Committee on Tuesday reduced the number of Knox County Commission reapportionment plans it's considering from 13 to two.

The Knoxville City Council tonight will take up the topic of "convenience voting," a plan that was used in the recent municipal election in the town of Farragut and has been implemented in some form in a number of other states.

I see [Frank] Leuthold's plan to split Farragut in half failed the requirement to balance the district populations, but succeeds in protecting all the incumbent commissioners.

Knoxville's shopping center market saw varied market indicators between 2006 and 2008 with a 4.8 percent increase in gross leasable space while vacancies reached 9.2 percent area-wide, as detailed in the Metropolitan Planning Commission's recently published 2008 Shopping Center Market Analysis.