Powell’s Schubert to play for Lee

Sandra ClarkFeature, Powell

Powell High School senior point guard Haley Schubert has signed to play basketball for Lee University. Former PHS player Tori Lentz also plays for the Flames.
Family and friends gathered in …

Farmers return to New Harvest

Betty BeanFeature

Neither a gusting wind nor a gaggle of politicos daunted the crowd that turned out at New Harvest for first day of the 2018 market season.
Some 20 vendors had their …

News from CRJA

Sandra ClarkFeature

Cliff Brooks has been promoted to associate principal at CRJA, a landscape architectural firm in Knoxville. A 13-year practitioner at CRJA, Brooks has worked on projects including streetscapes and historic …

‘Middlemarch’ celebrates spring

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

 
Claudia Stevens told WBIR-TV that she is “too old to worry about how it’s going to turn out.”
Stevens is the librettist for Allen Shearer’s “Middlemarch in Spring,” which the UT …

Larsen Jay campaigns in Powell

Sandra ClarkFeature, Powell

Justin Bailey hosted his first (but probably not his last) political event at the Bailey Barn in Powell. The honoree? Larsen Jay, candidate for Knox County Commission at-large, Seat 10. …

Pianist Fei-Fei Dong spices up KSO concert

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

If it hadn’t been for pianist Fei-Fei Dong’s exuberant encore of contemporary Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos’ rambunctious arrangement of Mozart’s “Turkish Rhondo,” last night’s Knoxville Symphony Masterworks Concert at the …

Get Out & Play: Birding

Carol EvansFeature

Did you know that birdwatching is one of the fastest-growing outdoor activities in the country, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? About 50 million Americans plan an outing …