Month: January 2003

Tom and Natalie Parker have three kids, two dogs, and a cat named Scruffy. Their house, on Ferd Hickey Road, features two baths, three bedrooms, and a sizable den. They have been married off and on almost 10 years. “When we got married the first time, we had no idea we’d hate each other within…

An embarrassing mix-up forced the closure of Pappy’s Market on Clinton Highway for almost two full business days, amounting to a loss of income of nearly $75 for the store’s owner. It appears that other locally grown tomatoes were somehow mixed with the much sought after Grainger County tomatoes. Several hours passed between the mix-up…

A new study shows the further decline of Knoxville’s public education system. 9 of 10 students, ages 7-14, could not properly identify the location of the historic Mabry-Hazen House on a map of Tennessee. Although the blame could easily be assigned to inadequate funding for the schools, poor teaching, or inability of the students to…

Knoxville’s Office of Special Events has secured a professional level winter sports competition for 2003-2008. “Knoxville has long been overlooked for winter sports, ” says Dan Myer, Deputy Director “but the convention center has opened up so many new possibilities. Now, new reasons to visit Knoxville pop up daily. If this event goes well we…

Knoxville native Bjorn Knoxley was running some pipes under his house last week when he unwittingly stumbled across what appeared to be the remains of a common housecat. He only suffered minor head injuries and strain to his vocal chords at the moment his flashlight illuminated the cat several feet from his face in the…

Eager local preservation groups, who claim they are not responsible for the city’s pressure on residents to move out so the building could be preserved, are helping to collect plans from developers to come in and rennovate the property. The plans approved by the preservation groups will be submitted to KCDC for final city approval….

In an effort to make sure deceased city employees are still earning a decent paycheck, the city of Knoxville will be implementing a Dying Wage. Similar to a Living Wage, which guarantees that janitors and sewer rat trappers make enough money to put Nikes on their children, the Dying Wage will make sure dead janitors…

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David Keith is teaching a film class through the UT Department of Theatre and is directing a film with that class. They would like to invite you to be an extra in this film. The film is about overzealous developer wants to tear down historic property in a small Tennessee downtown area to build a…