If you’re a longtime Knoxvillian, chances are you start to miss Boomsday about this time every year. The downtown Knoxville fireworks extravaganza used to be held on Labor Day weekend.
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Get your Labor Day fireworks fix in Union County
Children’s Center opens new outdoor classroom
The Children’s Center of Knoxville is tucked into a woodsy setting on 301 Frank Street, a block off Sutherland Avenue on the Third Creek Greenway.
“In the heart of the impact …
Myers builds positivity as Bearden High principal
It’s one kind of challenge to take a failing school and turn it around. It’s another kind of challenge altogether to take a school that’s one of the best in …
Blackburn counts on Trump, ‘Fox factor’
Donald Trump is the key to the U.S. Senate race in Tennessee, in one of two ways. He is popular – he carried all but three counties in the state …
Recode Knoxville will affect you
In a previous Recode Knoxville article we confronted the overarching question: Where Are We Going? The focus was on the future vision of our city which the new “recode” purports …
Harkins retires (again)
In the last nine years, Ben Harkins has sat at a computer and watched more than 8,500 hours of videos. He’s sent $50 citations to, among others, a sister-in-law, a …
Change is in the air as employees say ’bye to Burchett
“Typical Tim Burchett,” said one of the county employees who set up the mayor’s farewell party on the first day of his last week in office.
“Vanilla cake and ice water.”
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First Lutheran Church celebrates German culture
The people of Knoxville had a chance to immerse themselves in all things German Aug. 25, at First Lutheran Church’s annual GermanFest. There was a full schedule of events, including …