Today's Blount Life

Cake mix bars involve our favorite ingredients

Cake mix candy bars are a very close relative to Hello Dollies, the layered bar we all love to make and eat during the holidays. You can make any changes in the layers that suits your sweet tooth.Read more...

Chilhowee View to hold breakfast Saturday

Chilhowee View Community Center, located at 3229 Wilkinson Pike in Maryville, will hold a fundraiser breakfast from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Vendors needed for crafts fair

The Meeting Place, located at 419 S. Farnum St. in Friendsville, is seeking arts and crafts vendors for it Arts and Crafts Show to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Support Relay For Life, attend Community Day

East Tennessee Medical Group, located at 266 Joule St. in Alcoa, will host its Community Awareness Day, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Items being collected for benefit

The community is coming together to host a benefit for the Stinnett and Jenkins families, beginning at 11 a.m. June 9 at William Blount High School. Items are being sought for a silent auction and cake walk. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Professional team to lead performing arts camps

The children and teens who will be participating in this year’s performing arts day camp at the Clayton Center can expect to pretty much run the show. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Students rewarded for hard reading

Teachers are constantly impressing upon their students the importance of reading throughout their lifetimes, no matter the career path that’s chosen. At Maryville Intermediate School, some fifth-graders also learned that sometimes the rewards for following that advice can be a real hoot. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Home Federal awards scholarships to local UT students

Home Federal Bank recently awarded $13,000 in scholarships to nine local UT students as part of its annual scholarship program at the University of Tennessee College of Business Administration. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

School year ends with lighthearted comedy at MMS

The last big event before Maryville Middle School turns into Maryville Junior High School is nothing other than the spring drama performance. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Everett High Alumni Luncheon set June 26

The annual Everett High School Alumni Banquet will be held June 26 at Heritage High School. All former teachers and graduates of EHS from 1922-1977 are invited. Bring a covered dish and serving utensil, and mark each with name and phone number. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Center needs donated equipment

Do you have a wheelchair, shower seat or transfer bench you no longer need? The East Tennessee Technology Access Center’s ReUse program recycles durable medical equipment to people with disabilities who cannot afford to pay for an item or the insurance co-pay. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Technology center to host summer camps

The East Tennessee Technology Access Center in Knoxville will host two summer camps for children and teens with and without disabilities in June and July. June 18 to 22 cam session from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. is for children from ages 4 to 12. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Ramsey House offers chair caning workshop

Historic Ramsey House in Knoxville is offering a three-day chair caning class May 29-31 that will take participants through the entire process of this wonderful old art. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Friendsville woman loses 134 pounds, vows to continue journey

For Debbie Covert, weight loss was something she could do whenever she put her mind to it. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

15 percent of population suffers from IBS

IBS is a gastrointestinal disorder characterized by intermittent, often crampy, abdominal pain and altered bowel habits, usually in the absence of specific and unique organic pathology. Subscribe to our e-edition to read more. Only $1/mo. for print subscribers!

Focus

A Walk in the Smokies: Hikers fight crowds, weather on Appalachian Trail to see what writer missed

Daily Times managing editor Buzz Trexler and two friends hiked 62 miles in six days along the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to see what writer Bill Bryson missed when he and a friend, Katz, exited the trail at Clingmans Dome.Read more...

The Way We Were, 1972-2012: Maryville High grad recalls 40 years of change

Patti Johnson takes a step back in high school time to share "The Way We Were."Read more...

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