Welcome to the Blount Partnership Media Room. Below you will find resources from the Blount County area from our chamber and industry events and partners.
Give the gift of employment by joining Express Employment Professionals’ Pay It Forward Holiday Hiring Drive as we strive to place 100 job seekers in the Blount County area, during the weeks of December 9, 2013 through December 20, 2013. Being out of work during the holidays can be particularly tough, and we would like to make sure as many people as possible earn a paycheck just in time for the holidays.
Provision Healthcare Foundation is proud to announce the inaugural Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice show, Friday, December 6, at 6:00 pm at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum.
Local Shoney’s Restaurants are featuring a Thanksgiving Day Buffet on Thursday, November 28th, Thanksgiving Day, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Dancing Bear Lodge & Restaurant suffered extensive damage today (Nov. 14) to its main lodge as part of a fire. We are grateful that there were no injuries to either guests or staff and can report that there were no guests in the lodge at the time of the fire. The safety and well-being of our guests and staff are our first priorities.
King University has joined the East Tennessee Economic Council (ETEC). ETEC is an organization comprised of private businesses, government entities and other local economic development groups that utilize federal funding in science and security to promote development and explore growth opportunities within the East Tennessee region.
Alcoa, Tenn. – As the nation celebrates the 16th annual America Recycles Day, local companies and organizations are celebrating the continual success of recycling efforts at the 2013 Foothills Fall Festival. Alcoa Inc., DENSO, Keep Blount Beautiful and Spectra worked to make this year’s festival the “greenest” ever.
MARYVILLE, TENN. – Ripley PR, a business-to-business (B2B) public relations agency, owned by Maryville, Tenn.-native Heather Ripley, has announced it has moved to a new location in downtown Maryville’s historic Preservation Plaza building located at 200 East Broadway Ave., Suite 515.
This spring, working adults in East Tennessee will have the opportunity to complete their associate, bachelor’s degree or master’s degree from King University.
