Robert Wilson

• Lincoln Day Dinner Published 04/12/2010 at 10:13 a.m.

  The three Republican candidates for Tennessee governor offered a contrast in style at the Blount County Lincoln Day Dinner, if not particularly in message. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam all advocated the ...

• Touching others Published 03/04/2010 at 12:14 p.m.

  Artistic Dance Unlimited of Alcoa is a business in motion in more ways than one. Certainly teaching dance to young people keeps both the staff and students moving. But one particular routing performed by ADU students has moved a national ...

• From public to private Published 12/09/2009 at 2:56 p.m.

  David Bennett, 41, Blount County’s finance director and assistant county mayor, is leaving government to become CEO of an unnamed company in the private sector. Bennett’s departure was announced Wednesday at a news briefing in the office of County Mayor ...

• Smoky Mountain memories Published 09/08/2009 at 11:07 a.m.

  Bobby Conley remembers rumbling over the mountain in the back of a pickup truck the first time he came to Newfound Gap for the dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Wednesday, he did it again, but this time ...

• Sheriff’s office renews search for Hearon Published 01/15/2009 at 11:47 a.m.

  Fulfilling a promise he made in late summer, Blount County Sheriff Jim Berrong today resumed the backcountry search for Michael Hearon, who disappeared without a trace from a family home in the Happy Valley community. Berrong said in late August, ...

• Corker says country’s economic future to get ‘darker’ Published 10/22/2008 at 6:33 p.m.

  The nation’s economic future will get “darker before it gets brighter,” U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told the Blount County Economic Development Board Tuesday.

• Open for business Published 09/11/2008 at 12:43 p.m.

  With an eye toward the discerning buyer, The Market at Washington and High opened Wednesday, offering an alternative approach to food shopping that is unique in Blount County. Five separate vendors under one roof will be selling meats and poultry, ...

• Blount homebuilder still missing Published 09/03/2008 at 6:25 p.m.

  The possibilities as to where Mike Hearon is are almost too many to fathom. The one thing that is known is that he is gone, disappeared like one of those people in a witness protection program. A massive - an ...

• Blount County honors fallen Marine on final journey home Published 08/20/2008 at 6:54 p.m.

  Blount County, in fact a nation, delivered the message Monday: All is well, Sgt, Ferschke, safely rest. With all the dignity and solemn ceremony these things generate and deserve, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Michael H. Ferschke, Jr. was buried Monday, ...

• For ‘Mr. P’ Published 05/21/2008 at 5:48 p.m.

  Come this fall, four Alcoa High School students will be living the legacy of a man who is remembered in the education community as one who cared and acted on it. The four young people are recipients of the “Mr. ...

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