Sandra Clark

Jonathan D. Cooper has succeeded Carlos Yunsan as president of the Knoxville Bar Association (KBA). The gavel was passed at KBA’s annual meeting on Friday, December 13, 2024. Yunsan thanked everyone for their support and presented his President’s Awards to KBA Access to Justice Committee co-chairs Daniel Ellis and Caitlin Torney. Yunsan is both a […]

Vance Burkey revolutionized the way people sold real estate in the Knox and East Tennessee area by introducing a 100% commission-to-agent plan when he launched Realty Executives here in 1977. Previously, commissions were split four ways – listing agent, listing company, selling agent, selling agent's company.

Every 10 years or so I attend the Knoxville Nativity Pageant. Not because I forget the storyline, but because multiple generations of my family participate. My sister, Becky Calloway, claims to have been in every pageant. This year's was the 56th. Becky recruited daughter Katherine Hurst who this year had two of her kids lurking around. Katherine said spotting family members in the choir is like playing “Where's Waldo?”

Mari Richard Weber DeCuir came from Kentucky, but she's lived here long enough (47 years) to be counted as a native – and she is one who will be hard to replace. Mrs. DeCuir passed away on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at age 79.

Fountain City Christmas Parade: Saturday, Dec. 21, at 9 a.m. Starts at Gresham Middle School, continuing to Essary and ending at Central High School. The parade is back but on a different route. This map shows the route. Let’s get a big crowd out to watch. Holiday Festival of Lights – 6-9 p.m. Dec 2-31, […]

Company founders Cynthia Moxley and Alan Carmichael were guests at the Christmas Party for MoxCar Marketing & Communications, held this week at Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Moxley shed spouses and friends to take this photo of MoxCar owners and staff. See all the merriment here.

Hickory Construction Inc. has promoted three team members to key leadership positions. Dawn Pace has been named director of project coordination. She joined Hickory Construction in 2017 as an administrative assistant and has worked to gain knowledge and skills that continue to progress her career at the company. Prior to her most recent promotion, she was […]

April Crawford is living her dream – to bag groceries at Food City. And her hard work was recognized recently as she was named Food City’s Associate of the Year 2024. No one deserves it more. April is one of many clients of Stand Up Inc., a job-coaching service in the state of Virginia, sanctioned […]

Betsi James and Donnie Wells of Food City assisted in the packing of boxes for the 2024 Empty Stocking Fund, sponsored by News Sentinel Charities. Food City was a major contributor. Link here.

Paddle Georgia, the Peach State’s annual week-long canoe/kayak camping adventure, will venture across three states in 2025, with more than 300 paddlers expected to stroke through the Tennessee River basin in Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. The event will highlight the Tennessee RiverLine, a transformative initiative that reframes the 652-mile Tennessee River as a continuous system […]