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Mobile home park rents at Lake Onota Village will increase by $30 a month for one year under a compromise agreement reached by the Pittsfield Mobile Home Rent Control Board

PIGEON FORGE — City Commission approved a guaranteed maximum price of $16.5 million for the new fire building Monday, which would bring it in slightly below the number they had

PIGEON FORGE — City Commission is being cautious as it looks to sell city-owned property, tabling a motion to sell land behind the vacant Smoky Mountain Opry so they can

Adams Community Bank President Charles P. O’Brien says the institution worked for 18 months to find the right spot for its first foray into a new market.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Adams Community Bank's (ACB) parent company, Community Bancorp of the Berkshires, MHC, announced the Bank's expansion into Pittsfield with its new branch opening...

PIGEON FORGE — Just 123 people cast ballots in the city’s municipal election Tuesday, as there were no contested seats on the city commission. Commissioner Kevin McClure got the largest vote total in the election, with 121 votes in his favor, but was also the only candidate to have write-in votes cast against him. There were two of those, meaning that everyone who cast ballots in the election voted on Commission Seat A. Commissioner Jay Ogle, in Seat B, got 115 courtesy votes. Commiss...

PIGEON FORGE — The city will have a new set of sign ordinances before its moratorium on sign permits ends, after commissioners voted 4-1 Monday to approve the new regulations. The city first announced its plans for a moratorium at its Feb. 22 meeting, approving it on first reading. The moratorium started on March 8, and with approval of the new ordinances will end April 27. Commissioner Ken Maples, who had already expressed reservations with the regulations at a workshop, cast the sole dis...

10 hrs ago SEVIERVILLE — Sevier County residents will not be able to get Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine for COVID-19 for an undetermined amount of time after the federal government recommended a “pause” in distribution of the vaccine. The Tennessee Department of Health announced Tuesday that it would follow federal recommendations to hold off on administering the vaccine while federal officials review reports of rare but dangerous blood clots in a handful of patients who have r...

SEVIERVILLE — The list of candidates for this year’s municipal elections continues to take shape, as most incumbents have returned petitions to run again and so have some challengers. Would-be candidates have to pick up petitions from the Sevier County Election Commission to run for office, and they have to return a petition by noon on Feb. 18 to be considered for this year’s ballots. After that date, the commission will meet to verify that each candidate had at least 25 signatur...

SEVIERVILLE — Candidates are starting to return petitions to seek office in the upcoming municipal elections for Sevierville, Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. To run for office in one of the city elections, candidates have to pick up a petition from the Sevier County Election Commission and then return it with signatures from at least 25 people registered to vote in their city. They have until noon on Feb. 18 to return a completed petition, so it can be reviewed and certified by the election c...