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No tax rate hike, but utility increases in proposed Oak Ridge budget
For the fourth straight year, Oak Ridgers' property tax rate is likely to stay the same. That's among the highlights of the proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget presented by City Manager Randy Hemann to Oak Ridge City Council. A first reading and vote on the budget will take place June 3, followed by the second and perhaps final reading and approval of the budget on June 10.
There's passion driving those who shape downtown Knoxville
Downtown development is like my life. You can read that as a lazy expression reflecting just how much I’m absorbed by Knoxville’s growth, or as a simile comparing the city’s evolution to my own ups and downs that led me here in the first place. Either interpretation...
12 Tennessee Communities Receive Grants for Urban and Community Forest Ecosystems
Twelve Tennessee communities will have the opportunity to invest in their green spaces, thanks to grant funding provided by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry (TDF) through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Inflation Reduction Act Grant Program. “Trees play a key...
Ijams: Mead's Quarry Lake, trail closed until experts can assess status following rock collapse
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — UPDATE SUNDAY: Mead's Quarry Lake is closed for the foreseeable future after part of the rock face gave way late Saturday afternoon, sending a wave across the water that shocked onlookers and swept away some of their belongings. Ijams Nature Center announced the closure by Instagram.
Father says he waited 40 minutes for an ambulance that never came, after his baby had seizures in South Knox Co.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — One South Knox County father said his call for help never came after he waited almost 40 minutes for an ambulance while his baby was experiencing a series of seizures in early May. "I don't want any parent to go through what I went through," said...
Will thunderstorms spoil Memorial Day plans? Here’s the Knoxville holiday weekend forecast
Cookouts and barbecues have been planned for the long Memorial Day weekend. But could the traditional unofficial start of summer events be rained out by storms? The bad news is you might have to celebrate parts of the holiday indoors this year in East Tennessee. But the slight good news is that there...
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