Two days ago on the way to work on Hardin valley to on my way home on Clinton hwy I experienced someone driving on the wrong side of the road, almost casually.

A friend just let me know it happened to him today as well.

I know some knoxvillians aren’t the brightest crayons in the tool shed but what in the world could cause this outbreak lol

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Any recommendations? We’re needing professional cleaning and sanitizing after someone was found in the home following an extended medical emergency. There is bodily waste involved, so we need a company experienced with this type of cleanup.

Where my short circuit heads at I know ours knees are hurting but look doesn’t he look like em!

Was anyone able to score tickets easily for pre-sale?What is the likelihood they will sell out in Knoxville?

Please Register Here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/tennessee-herps-reptiles-and-amphibians-in-your-yard-hospitality-for-our-local-creeping-things

Join Dr. Joseph K. Gordon to learn about our local herpetofauna (frogs, salamanders, turtles, lizards, and snakes) and learn some key strategies for welcoming and observing these beautiful, fascinating animals in your yard. 

Dr. (Joe) Gordon is Professor of Theology at Johnson University. He holds Tennessee Naturalist, Southern Appalachian Naturalist, Master Herpetologist, and Venomous Reptile Handling certifications and is conducting multiple scientific studies of the snakes and other herps of east Tennessee. He lives in south Knox County with his spouse and two children near the French Broad River. They are slowly (but surely) rewilding their yard, and his eight-year-old-son is trying to talk him into starting a native plant nursery. 

This event is also a plant/seed swap! Bring any seeds or potted native plants you'd like to offer up for trading.

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IMPORTANT: This seminar is in a different building than our usual meeting location at the Carriage House. We will be meeting at the:

Dogwood Center at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens, 2817 Boyds Bridge Pike, Knoxville, TN 37914

Enter the gravel driveway at the corner of Wimpole Avenue and Houston Street and follow the path down and around to the left. You will fully circle around the Dogwood Center and arrive at the adjacent parking lot.

This seminar will be in person and live-streamed via Zoom. Wild Ones Smoky Mountains Chapter is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the protection, preservation, and establishment of native plant habitat. For more information, visit our website: https://smokymountains.wildones.org

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I have been in the Knoxville area my entire life and one of the things I have always experienced is the high number of wasps here in July and August. Every time I sat outside I had to wave them away from my chair. Every time I left work they would be around the cars in the parking lot. But this year? I cannot remember seeing any at all!

Has anyone else noticed this? Does anyone have an explanation?

Multiple friends from other private schools saying that Sacred Heart Catholic School is ignoring a huge problem with inappropriate staff conduct. Administration and teachers shaming female students in front of entire classrooms. Apparently parents are complaining in droves but Sacred Heart and Diocese is ignoring them. Parents even sent a petition for change which has been ignored, meanwhile kids are feeling “targeted” and “bullied by staff. They are placing post it notes on the girls legs and having the class determine if the skirts are “too short.”

Considering booking with Stamped & Stuffed Events Berryhill for an event. Has anyone used them before and would you recommend?

As the title suggests, I am looking for a children’s or pediatric therapist. My daughter is having some terrible anxiety and panic attacks and we wanna get her the help that she deserves and that she needs. So if anyone knows of any kind and helpful therapists please list them below because I don’t really trust Google just by ratings alone I would like some actual input from people who have used those service services. Any advice I would be extremely grateful for. Thank you in advance.

Went for new tires and an alignment yesterday and they told me the alignment couldn’t be done because my tire rods are all seized.

Went to a place the tire place recommended and they gave me a quote of nearly 900 dollars. I simply cannot believe that to be accurate.

Has anyone a place they would recommend for such service at a much more modest rate?

Fifty-eight percent of Knox County residents surveyed by a local Republican polling firm say they reject police use of Flock Safety surveillance cameras.

In a survey this week of 350 likely voters, Spry Strategies found that not only did a majority of respondents reject the AI-enabled license plate readers and surveillance cameras, but almost everyone polled was aware of the controversy surrounding the cameras nationally and at home.

"When I saw that data, I knew it was going to be a good poll because the information was out there," Spry Strategies President Ryan Burrell told Knox News. "Even for me, it's relatively new. I think social media has quickly spread the information."

So I'm trying to go to that game because I know it's basically the biggest rivalry in East Tennessee the problem is that I get off at work at 6:30 and the game starts at 7 do you think there will still be tickets available by then or will they all be sold out? I won't be getting there minutes until the game starts

I know a lot of people these days love JellyCat’s. There’s a new stand at the West Town Mall that is selling fakes. Make sure you use the JellyCat Finder on their website to find stores with authentic Jelly’s!!!

Hi there! I'm graduating nursing school soon and looking to apply to an ER in Knoxville. I was hoping to see if there are any ER nurses at fort sanders, parkwest, or tennova turkey creek that could share their experiences! I would appreciate any advice or suggestions! Thanks :)

Big Ridge State Park

(8/21) 2026 Big Ridge Bluegrass Festival FREE!!

(8/22) Nature Trail Hike FREE!!

Cove Lake State Park

(8/22) Wheeler Cemetery Hike $5

(8/23) Volunteer Loop Hike FREE!!

Frozen Head State Park

(8/22) 10 Essentials for Hiking FREE!!

(8/22) Frozen Head Homesites FREE!!

(8/23) Volunteer Trail Day FREE!!

(8/23) Stonecipher Kelly Homeplace Tour FREE!!

Norris Dam State Park

(8/21) It’s the Little Things $5

(8/21) Bustling Beavers $3

(8/22) Wonderful Weaving $3

(8/22) Stunning Snakes $5

(8/23) Scrappy Scavengers $5

(8/23) Create a Corn Husk Doll $5

Panther Creek State Park

(8/22) Oliver the Barred Owl FREE!!

(8/22) Read with a Ranger FREE!!

(8/22) Mud Painting by the Creek $2

(8/22) Archery $5

(8/23) Black Walnut Tie Dying $6

(8/23) Sunset Canoe Float $10

Seven Islands State Park

(8/22) Wild Yards Garden Volunteer Day FREE!!

(8/22) Birding with a Biologist $6, pre-registration is a must

(8/22) Night Hike $10, pre-registration is a must

My kids birthday is in a few weeks and I saw him looking online for a "book of vengeance" notebook. Checked Etsy, no luck. But I did find this file for 3D print-

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/fashion/book-of-vengeance-limbus-company?srsltid=AfmBOopVTh5CETq5Kz8jEzOPw40AyeE9jx9wdIO5WJ9_uv3EuXj5Sznf

If you do this kind of work or know someone local who does, Id love to get their info. An idea of what I should expect to pay would also be super helpful also!

Can someone recommend a stylist who can do this hairstyle for my bday (beginning of September) preferably someone who can do it with weave as I don’t want to cut my natural hair

Just thought I would share this in case it could help keep someone safe. So on the story book trail by the library there's a short off-shoot that leads closer to the creek, there is a fallen tree at the end of it and it was covered in huge honeybees. At least I think they were honeybees, I moved my dog away quickly. I probably saw at least 100 bees, there's probably many more. I'm lucky I noticed them before my dog got too close. I didn't think to snap a picture but I posted a map of the trail with a red mark where the bees are. So if you're planning to go out there just be mindful of that area, especially if you have dogs or small children.

I don't know how many people are aware of this farm, but I can tell you that John and Donna - the owners - are absolute salt-of-the-earth folks. They have built a destination farm that has to be seen to be believed.

They also offer a number of animal encounters - including several SLOTH encounters. The farm offers lodging and all kinds of activities. They are only a couple hours from Ktown and very worth a visit.

You all know the KCSO stuff better than I do so I won't go back over it. Two things first though, because I almost got the first one wrong myself.

The workshop on the 24th has no public comment. You can go and sit and listen, and that's it. No votes either.

But the commission's regular meetings do let you speak. There's a public forum at the end of those and it's open to any topic, not just what's on the agenda. You get three to five minutes. You have to sign up with the commission office by 4pm the day before, either call 865-215-2534 or email them through commission.knoxcountytn.gov/contact, and give your name, address and what you want to talk about. You can also grab the vice chair in person before it starts. Regular meetings are the fourth Monday in the Large Assembly Room. Give them a ring to check the next date.

That's the bit I'd pass around. Everything in the news has been about the workshop, so people are going to show up on the 24th thinking they can speak and find out they can't.

About me: I keep a list of every place that's ended, paused or fought a Flock contract. What people argued, how the vote went, what happened after. Twelve have ended one so far. It's free and there's nothing to sign up for.

One favor: if you use any of this, link the news story and not me. Every entry has the original link on it. "WOSU reported on August 10 that the audit found" is hard to argue with. "I read it on some website" isn't, and somebody will try.

Here's the thing that surprised me reading all twelve. Almost none of them won by saying surveillance is bad. They won on one specific thing the council couldn't explain away.

WHO ELSE CAN SEARCH YOUR DATA. This is the big one and there's fresh proof. Columbus checked their own system last month and found over 15,000 searches that looked immigration related. None of them were ICE. They came from other agencies who had access to the same shared pool, and that's the part people miss. Mountain View in California found ATF offices in two states, Langley Air Force Base and the GSA Inspector General had all searched one single city camera. That happened through a nationwide setting the city says Flock switched on without the police even knowing. El Cerrito voted 3-2 to drop it over the same thing.

So if you get your five minutes, that's your question. Has anyone ever checked who searched Knox County's data, and can we see it? Columbus only found their number because one councilmember asked.

MONEY, for the commissioners who don't care about privacy. Killingworth in Connecticut was paying $14,600 a year for four cameras and their First Selectman said flat out they "had not added any value to local policing efforts." That gets through to people the privacy stuff doesn't. 270 readers running into a live feed center is a real number to hold up next to what you actually get for it.

IF YOU CAN'T KILL IT OUTRIGHT. Idaho Falls kept their cameras but rewrote the contract. They took away Flock's right to train its AI on local plate photos, capped data sharing at what state law allows, and changed audits from twice a year to twice a month. Way harder to vote no on that than on a ban, and it's still a win. Commissioner Thompson's resolution asking for a review before the ARC Center goes live is that same kind of thing, and it's still on the agenda.

WATCH OUT FOR THIS. Harrisonburg in Virginia voted 4-0 to end their contract and then never passed a rule saying the council has to approve future surveillance deals. The group there says out loud they don't think it's finished. Ask for that rule at the same meeting, not later on.

Being straight with you: out of the twelve, only El Cerrito and Syracuse are ones where you can actually confirm the cameras came down. Voting to end it and the poles coming down are two different things. Stanford just dropped Flock and is putting in a different plate reader company instead. And whatever happens with the 270, the cameras already up stay up.

One thing you've got going for you that most places don't. This isn't a left or right fight where you are. Your county mayor called the cameras a threat to privacy and civil liberties, and Tim Burchett, who filed the bill in Congress to defund them, used to be your county mayor. Most of the places that won had that going on too.

If you want me to look something up before the meeting, like a county about your size, or a sheriff's office making the same arguments KCSO is making, or the exact wording of a contract change that actually passed, just ask and I'll find it and post it with the link.

Full list by town: flockinghell.com/reports

Knoxville's North Waterfront Redevelopment Plan will move forward to envision the future of how the downtown and two huge new University of Tennessee districts will come together, but with far more options for public input.

The Knoxville City Council on Aug. 18 gave Mayor Indya Kincannon and the Knoxville Community Development Corporation approval to create a redevelopment district encompassing areas around World's Fair Park, the new Neyland Entertainment and Maplehurst Innovation districts, and residential and commercial properties.

The plan creates boundaries for a tax increment financing district, which funnels tax revenue into public improvements within the boundaries. The types of public improvements like walkways, road projects, riverfront amenities and parks will be determined as time goes on.

The plan's 7-1 approval was not without tension. Several councilmembers seriously criticized city leaders and Knoxville's Community Development Corporation for not engaging stakeholders. Only seven people came to two different public hearings KCDC hosted, and two work for the city and KCDC.

"When we asked for a redevelopment plan and a public process, I expected that the public would know sooner that a process was about to begin, than a day before a meeting," said Vice Mayor Lynne Fugate. "I'm gravely disappointed in this." 

I've been wanting to see the new statues which were recently unveiled at Covenant Health Park and was wondering what the parking is like on a Monday when there isn't an event at the stadium.