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New Dollar General Market opens on Blair Road in Oliver Springs
Dollar General has announced the opening of its new DG Market at 1645 Blair Road in Oliver Springs. The new DG Market store format features an expanded selection of fresh meats, fruits and vegetables, as well as the same categories, brands and products Dollar General carried by the other DG stores.
Michael Baer: Public servant in family business
Michael Baer has been called into public service his whole life and now he has found a way to bring his family business at the forefront of public service as well. Michael spent 12 years in undercover policing and emergency medical services before joining his Knoxville based family business, K & P Remodeling which operates in eleven states, specializing in kitchen remodels, custom closets, and window replacements.
Todd Helton's Central High teammates surprise him by wearing custom Hall of Fame Jerseys
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Todd Helton was born in Tennessee, played baseball for the University of Tennessee, and now permanently lives in Tennessee after spending 17 years with the Colorado Rockies. For Helton, growing up in Knoxville played a significant role in his journey to becoming a Baseball Hall of...
Tennessee softball transfer class headlined by Fiedler, Mardjetko
Tennessee has won back-to-back SEC regular season crowns entering 2025. However, with the conference growing by adding two powerhouses in Oklahoma and Texas, a three-peat becomes harder. We take a look at how the Tennessee softball transfer class can push the team there. Karen Weekly has to replace the production...
School year prep ramps up at Knox County Schools with leadership meeting
It won't be long until class is back in session at Knox County Schools. Principals and Assistant Principals in Knox County attended KCS's annual Principal Institute Monday morning at Bearden High School.
Mission of Hope to host 'Pack The Bus' for 11th year, helping give school supplies to students in need
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Over the tax-free weekend, families will take advantage of Tennessee's sales tax holiday by shopping for back-to-school items. Mission of Hope wants to use that time and savings to help them "Pack The Bus." The nonprofit said 2024 marks the 11th year Mission of Hope will have a bus outside the Office Max in Turkey Creek to collect school supplies. These supplies are then collected and sent to over 10,000 students in rural Appalachia.
New software provides advanced grid simulation capabilities
Work on developing and scaling up new EMT simulation software to analyze how power electronics in the electric grid will respond to brief interruptions in power flow. Credit:. Power companies and electric grid developers turn to simulation tools as they attempt to understand how modern equipment will be affected by rapidly unfolding events in a complex grid. A challenging and particularly promising type of grid simulation, called electromagnetic transient analysis, or EMT, has the potential to enhance planners' understanding of how modern power electronics will respond when faults interrupt the flow of power. But until recently, EMT grid modeling was so challenging and time-intensive that its utility was limited.
Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a request for proposals (RFPs) last week to advance its leadership in high-performance computing, inviting vendors to submit their plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) exascale (a quintillion or more calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier. The future system,...
Speakers to Discuss National Labor Relations Board at Democratic Women’s Club Meeting
Guest speakers Derek Guy and James Taylor will discuss the National Labor Relations Board and its impact on organized labor and management at the Monday, July 29, meeting of the Anderson County Democratic Women’s Club. The meeting, from 5:30-7 p.m., will be at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
Lady Vols Tabbed All-Academic Team, Five Named ITA Scholar Athletes
KNOXVILLE – The 2024 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division I Women's Academic Awards were released on Monday afternoon with five individuals from the Tennessee women's tennis program earning Scholar-Athlete distinction, along with the group as a whole earning All-Academic Team recognition. The five Lady Vols recognized were Alana Wolfberg,...
Latham, Lenoir and 1965 Football lead Sweetwater’s 2024 Hall of Fame class
Sweetwater High School has announced six new members of the school’s athletic Hall of Fame. The 1965 Sweetwater football team is joined by Kippy Brown, Emily Cleveland-Roy, Heather Lenoir-Ervin, Dustin Latham and Anna Stutts as the Class of 2024. “The tradition here is like none other in any other community I have lived in. How rich and embedded this tradition is, not even in the high school but the community...
Arby's Classic basketball tournament searching for a new home in 2024
BRISTOL, Tenn. (WCYB) — The Arby's Classic basketball tournament is looking for a new place to host its yearly event. Correspondence sent to News 5 from the AES Restaurant Group states that the Bristol, Tennessee school system will reject all proposals and manage the basketball tournament internally. This was...
Community asking for prayers for father and daughter seriously injured in hiking accident
WOODFORD CO., Ky. (WKYT) - For nine months, Captain Logan Forrest was deployed in the Middle East. He was welcomed home by his family and community at the end of May. It was just a little over a month later, when a family vacation turned tragic. “It’s unimaginable. I can’t...
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