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Tennessee’s Most Important Players for 2024: No. 11
Now closing in on the beginning of preseason camp on July 31,. is speeding toward the start of the 2024 college football season. After a 9-4 campaign in their third season under head football coach Josh Heupel, the Vols enter a new era of the sport with an expanded SEC and the 12-team College Football Playoff heading in the right direction with 20 wins over the past two seasons, but while some position groups will be relying on a handful of veteran players, other units are turning the page to newcomers or the program’s crop of up-and-coming talent. With SEC Media Days in the books and the offseason nearing its conclusion, GoVols247 this month will be ranking Tennessee’s most important players for the upcoming season.
Tennis court dances recreate wartime event
Monthly dances by the Manhattan Project National Historical Park recreate the open-air tennis court dances that entertained 75,000 workers and their families in the Secret City during World War II. “Put on your dancing shoes, another summer of tennis court dances are kicking off on the Jackson Square tennis courts,”...
More on UACS: Pond Gap School and Randy Boyd
What is a University Assisted Community School? While learning and doing, the UACS came into being in Knoxville, but there are some facets that were essential to creating the existing reality. Anchors: An anchor had to be in place. The University of Tennessee was our anchor. This made sense as...
New officers for Knoxville Rotary
The Rotary Club of Knoxville is pleased to introduce its 2024-2025 board of directors: (front) Andrew Murr, secretary; District 6780 Gov. Rob Dansereau; Vice President Jennifer Sepaniak, vice president; Chris Lambert, president; Shannon Holland, president-elect; Holden Caperton, director; (middle) Bill MacGrath, assistant District 6780 governor; Todd Moody, director; Sally Boven, director; (back) Annette Winston, director; and Janice Mitchell, district governor coordinator. Not pictured are Whit Addicks, treasurer; Jim Alexander, past president; and Susan Dakak, director. (Photo from social media)
North Knoxville ballfields upgraded, to be baseball nonprofit’s home complex
The Christenberry Ballfields in North Knoxville have been renovated through a grant from the National Amateur Baseball Federation. The upgrades include new infields, scoreboards, fencing, and more.
Johnson City dealership donates $52K to Meals on Wheels Northeast Tennessee
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A Johnson City car dealership donated more than $50,000 to an area non-profit that delivers meals to those who cannot travel on their own. Wallace Subaru of Johnson City presented Meals on Wheels Northeast Tennessee with a check for $52,604 on Wednesday. According to Wallace Subaru, the dealership raised money […]
Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast
The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) and the Knoxville-based Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) have announced their joint selection as recipients of the Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products grant, under EPA-R-OCSPP-OPPT-FY2023-001. This $6 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports...
Tennessee HC believes high expectations can fuel the Volunteers
There's a lot riding on the line for the Tennesee Volunteers in 2024.Head coach Josh Heupel has become one of the better coaches in college football — having gone 27-12 over three seasons at Rocky Top with a 2-1 bowl game record — and the hype around starting quarterback Nico Iamaleava is real.As such, the expectation for Tennessee is that they at least make the now-expanded 12-team College Football Playoffs, but they may be even bigger than that amongst the fan base.With expectation comes pressure, but that's not something Heupel is worried about. In fact, he believes his locker room...
Scientists Probe Promising Solid-State Cooling Material
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- A research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has bridged a knowledge gap in atomic-scale heat motion. This new understanding holds promise for enhancing materials to advance an emerging technology called solid-state cooling. An environment-friendly innovation, solid-state cooling...
Elvis Presley’s former jet returns to Memphis as mobile home: ‘All we’ve done is vacuum it, wipe it down’
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On Wednesday, visitors of the Bass Pro Shop at the Pyramid got the opportunity to tour the King of Rock and Roll’s former 1962 Lockheed Jetstar. Elvis Presley bought the jet on December 22, 1976, just shy of eight months before his death. It featured six red velvet passenger seats.
Tennessee’s attorney general says Memphis police policy violates a new state law
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Tennessee’s attorney general said Memphis police policy violates a new state law. State Representative John Gillespie asked the Tennessee attorney general for his opinion on MPD’s general arrest policy. One portion of the policy directs officers not to pull someone over for minor vehicle equipment...
Morristown business owners pleased with survey asking for input on future of downtown
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (WVLT) -The city of Morristown wants to hear from those who live in the area. Officials recently sent out a survey asking people who live in the area about their thoughts on the current downtown area and what they would like to see happen to it in the future.
Honeybee Coffee closes South Knoxville store for 'restructuring' weeks after meltdown
Another Honeybee Coffee store has temporarily closed for "restructuring," according to signs posted at the Sevier Avenue coffee shop in South Knoxville on July 17. The local chain's other two stores in Knoxville – the flagship in West Knoxville near Farragut and one in West Town Mall – have been closed...
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