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The Storybook Trail of the Smokies will wind against a backdrop of peaceful forest and rushing waterways. NPS photos
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park hopes to help visitors experience the Smokies story in a new way thanks to a partnership with the University of Tennessee Extension Institute of Agriculture and the Great Smoky Mountains Association.
The Storybook Trail of the Smokies, an initiative to promote literacy in nature, will be open to visitors from April 3 to May 30. As they walk the 1-mile Cosby Nature Trail near Cosby Campground, visitors will read a Smokies-themed book via trailside activities and on-the-trail story pages displayed for them to read along the way.
The preliminary agenda does not include details regarding the amount of increase being proposed.
The other 16 new items of business are:
First reading of ordinance to change the zoning of 321 Reagan Drive from tourist
commercial (C-1) to general business (C-2)
Right-of-way requested by Claudia Gudat for a driveway retaining wall at Ownby Circle (street number not provided)
Lease agreement with Great Smoky Mountains Association for space in the Gatlinburg Welcome Center at 1101 Banner Road
Agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service and Great Smoky Mountains National Park for mutual law enforcement assistance
Cooperation agreement between Gatlinburg Police Department and Sevier County Emergency Communications District for emergency communications
The scholarships continue the trade associationâs tradition of supporting education.
In some previous years, the association has offered $200 grants to multiple kindergarten teachers in both counties. Those awarded the funds could use them to purchase any classroom materials.
Great Smoky Mountains Association of Realtors is open to Realtors who do business in Sevier or Cocke counties.
The scholarship and grant programs are named in memory of the late J. Pritchard Barnes, who served real estate clients for decades.
âThis scholarship is open to all seniors going on to higher education,â said GSMAR Executive Kathy Leedy. âAll applicants must have lived in Sevier or Cocke County a minimum of two years and be a U.S. citizen. They must be entering the school as a full-time student. This scholarship may be used toward tuition, books, etc., and the money will be paid directly to the school.â
A mother bear and her cubs make a dangerous journey across Interstate 40. Susan Detwiler photo
Growing up in eastern Kentucky, Frances Figart loved any chance to glimpse the diverse wildlife species roaming those Appalachian foothills except when the sightings occurred after the creatures had become roadkill, something that occurred all too frequently. She felt their deaths keenly.
“I can remember when I was a young driver running over a snake once, and I was so upset by that one individual death that I just turned around and went home and didn’t go to my job,” she said. “I called in sick and I just really took it personally.”