News

The Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon race weekend is set for Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29, and the 11th annual event marks the impressive beginning of another decade for the largest competitive road race in East Tennessee.

Knoxville Zoo made an exciting announcement today with the news that two of the zoo’s critically endangered Western lowland gorillas are expecting babies in the late spring.

Public officials in McMinn and Monroe counties and the City of Sweetwater joined today with Exit 60 LLC to announce the development of 75 Regional Commerce Park on Interstate 75 at Sweetwater.

East Tennessee’s leading primary care organization, Summit Medical Group, will participate in BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s Blue Network SSM (Network S), effective Jan. 1, 2015.

Today, Rebuilding Together Knoxville announced a collaborative effort among multiple construction companies to provide handicap accessibility for the home of 3-year-old Elijah James and his family. Elijah has rachischisis, the most severe form of a congenital disorder known as spina bifida.

South College graduates, joined by family and friends at the historic Tennessee Theatre, listened to U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. deliver the keynote address Saturday at the commencement ceremony.

Knoxville’s two historic downtown theaters, the Tennessee and Bijou theatres, announced today a new partnership with Ticketmaster, the national’s foremost online ticketing service, to improve the ticket purchasing experience for customers.

Mark Chepses of Searcy, Ark., won the 10th annual Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon on Sunday, March 30. Chepses finished the 26.2-mile men’s full marathon with a time of 2:27:31. Just 24 seconds behind Chepses was Knoxville’s Ethan Coffey, who came in second at 2:27:55. Abraham Kogo of Hebron, Ky., was third with a time of 2:33:06.

Five local teams of architects, engineers and construction companies received the results of Knoxville’s first “Holiday Canstruction” at an awards reception Tuesday at the Knoxville Convention Center, with Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee the ultimate winner.

The Tennessee Theatre announced today that Becky Hancock, recently hired as manager of communications and outreach, will serve as interim executive director following the resignation of Tom Cervone, who is leaving to take a position with the University of Tennessee.