Twenty-seven of the roughly 143 Flock cameras Knox County is cloth-shielding pending an Oct. 7 removal deadline turn out to have been installed by Knoxville’s own police department. The county’s Vendor Displeasure Matrix gains a seventh tier to cope.
A city task force asks a neighborhood it razed for 1960s urban renewal to choose from seven pre-priced redevelopment options for the site. Putting back what was there isn’t one of them.
A Sevierville arcade owner has slotted the White House’s new border-wall arcade game between Skee-Ball and the claw machine, at the same ticket payout as everything else in the row.
Steve Townsend’s last TDOT review found no red flags in the state’s $9.2 billion Choice Lanes contract. Three days later, he started work for the company that won it.
Knox County Commission approved a $150,000-a-year ground lease for 120 acres of AgriCentre East — the site’s first real document, after $140,000 spent just branding it.
Knox County ordered its Flock cameras removed within 30 days. Three days earlier, the sheriff’s office asked the state for money for 270 more.
City Council votes 7-1 to regulate monkeys with an ordinance written for dogs. “We have one number. The number is four.”
The Greater Knoxville brewery census has again certified a final count of “between 24 and 38, inclusive.” Two breweries have opened since the census ended.
The last known White Stores shopping cart, recovered from Third Creek after roughly forty years, is headed to a museum. “I knew by the handle. You don’t forget the handle.”
A $180,000 feasibility study on reviving Boomsday concludes the city can afford one firework — an eight-inch chrysanthemum, $340 through state contract. “Nobody specified the quantity. It’s the same sky.”
Two weeks after losing the county mayor’s race, Beau Hawk has broken ground on Little Venezuela, raising a flag he describes as legally distinct from any national banner. “I’m older, and the optics are on purpose.”
The fair is “thrilled to explore the next chapter of the fair experience” at AgriCentre East, a branded destination campus that is currently 120 acres of cattle pasture on Rutledge Pike.
Five men charged with drag racing on I-140 executed what TDOT is calling “the smoothest lane closure Pellissippi has seen in a decade” — at midnight, with three sedans and zero barrels.
The contested pedestrian tunnel at the Kerbela site becomes Knox County’s first landmark designated before construction. The draft plaque reads, in full, “ON THIS SITE, A TUNNEL.”
After Sullivan County proposed hanging Flock Safety’s CEO, Knox County advances a measured alternative: shunning him at Rotary, per the county’s new five-tier Vendor Displeasure Matrix.