Lenoir City News

Lenoir City's Adam Waller had a different spin on the threat of inclement weather keeping the crowd and long lines down at the International Biscuit Festival today in downtown Knoxville.

Hundreds of bins and boxes of bagged food items - rice, pasta, canned goods and meats - filled the loading dock area shoulder high, lined pantry walls and spilled over into the kitchen area Monday at the Good Samaritan Center in Lenoir City.

Loudon County officials have estimated that the certified property tax rate could see an increase in the next fiscal year to compensate for a historic decrease in assessed property values during the latest four-year reappraisal.

The Authors Guild of Tennessee is a newly-formed association of independently-published writers who live in our area.

Completion of the Town Creek Parkway extension is one step closer. On Monday, Lenoir City Council approved a $2.5 million bid to construct the remaining 4,000 feet of roadway.

The Daily Times Charles Blalock and Sons of Sevierville is working on a 1.5-mile project near Lenoir City which includes construction of three new bridges and dismantling the existing bridge over Fort Loudoun Dam.

Deborah Scaperoth of Lenoir City received the Sue Ellen Hudson Excellence in Writing Award at the Tennessee Mountain Writers annual conference in April for her entry "After Reading Hunger Games in the Monastery." The entry had earned Scaperoth first place honors in the Poetry category.

Loudon County Commission hopes to move one step closer to addressing delinquent properties in Tellico Village.

For more than half a century, Allen's Antiques on Broadway Street in Lenoir City has weathered more than a few economic storms as a once bustling corridor flounders amid outpaced growth along Highway 321.

What's 502 miles long, winds through nearly 90 towns in five states and offers junkers and collectors a paradise trove of treasures? The U.S. 11 Antique Alley & Yard Sale, which takes place in May the weekend after Mother's Day each year, will be held May 16-19. Yard sale signs are going up in the county and merchants are gearing up for the event, ... (more)

Elementary schoolers from all around Loudon County gathered together at Lenoir City Middle School for the 24th running of the Robert Towns Invitational Track Meet.

Sequoyah football coach and athletic director Bill Satterfield has been elected as a Class of 2013 inductee into the Blount County Sports Hall of Fame.

A Blount County grand jury will hear the case of a teacher at Greenback school who is charged with solicitation of aggravated statutory rape and sexual exploitation of a minor.

Using a model similar to the Cumberland Region Tomorrow collaborative effort of city and county officials in the Nashville area, Plan East Tennessee developers are working to highlight some of the strong commonalities among the region's five counties as part of an effort to further enhance quality of life and draw newcomers.

Debbie Scarbrough of Lenoir City was recognized for her volunteering efforts during a recent American Red Cross luncheon when she was awarded the Anderson County Red Cross Humanitarian Award.

More than 250 county residents and 1,700 other residents across the region who depend on East Tennessee Human Resources Agency transportation services could be negatively impacted by new federal funding regulations that would not allow ETHRA to offer affordable trips to certain parts of Lenoir City and the city of Loudon.

New jobs and a big capital investment are in the works at the Sevierville facility of Quality Solutions Group .

The global market has not developed according to plans made seven years ago, which has resulted in excess capacity for the company.

The Volunteer Canoe and Kayak Race will bring people from as many as 16 states to Lenoir City April 27-28 as Lenoir City Park will be a checkpoint for many and the finish line for others.

A Nashville child who was born with a severe genetic disorder that prevented her bones from growing properly is improving after an experimental treatment.