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.
Maryville-resident David Cockrill, CEO of Red Chair Architects, will mark the one-year anniversary of the successful merger of Cockrill Design and Planning and Community Tectonics on Jan. 4, 2013.
Maryville, Tenn. – The Maryville Police Department is taking applications for its Citizen Police Academy scheduled to begin Tuesday, February 12, 2013.
Jazzercise in Maryville is offering a special two-day sale Jan. 7-8. Sign up today for great classes in cardio, strength and stretching.
Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has chosen Alternative A as its preferred route for the proposed Pellissippi Parkway Extension (State Route 162) in Blount County.
Just about half of the plant and animal species living in North America reside in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. More than 70,000 plant and animal species thrive in the 500,000-plus acres of forest in the park.
A tunnel of foliage hugs the roadway as it winds its way up to Cades Cove, one of the best nature-viewing spots in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and among the top five in the United States. Described as an open air museum, Cades Cove is 1,800 acres of open space nestled along the base of the Appalachian mountains in East Tennessee.
Just about half of the plant and animal species living in North America reside in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. More than 70,000 plant and animal species thrive in the 500,000-plus acres of forest in the park.
In August 2007, Senator Lamar Alexander and John L. Nau III, co-chair of the Preserve America Steering Committee and chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, which administers Preserve America programs for the White House in cooperation with the Department of the Interior, officially recognized Blount County as a Preserve America Community.
WHAT: Townsend and Blount County, Tennessee will once again explore the history, heritage and the spirit of the Great Smoky Mountains with the Second Annual Winter Heritage Festival, which was awarded the “Award of Distinction” from the East Tennessee Historical Society, in its first year (2007).
Blount County is home to a new kind of log cabin-one that was designed by 4.2 million votes on DIY Network’s companion Web site, DIYnetwork.com.
