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.
Area elementary and intermediate schools will soon be the recipients of Maryville College gift boxes, courtesy of a recent grant awarded to the institution by the Environmental Protection Agency. The $100,000 grant was awarded in September and will allow MC students to create “Out of the Box Community Sustainability” packages that will be provided to…
Area elementary and intermediate schools will soon be the recipients of Maryville College gift boxes, courtesy of a recent grant awarded to the institution by the Environmental Protection Agency. The $100,000 grant was awarded in September and will allow MC students to create “Out of the Box Community Sustainability” packages that will be provided to…
Click to view the online version of the Blount Partnership weekly newsletter for November 14, 2022.
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont has been awarded $250,000 from Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)’s Connected Communities Pilot Program to support the development of Tremont’s second campus. With the funds, Tremont will complete a detailed engineering design to retrofit an existing house into a regenerative education center, the first phase of their ambitious second campus…
Click to view the online version of the Blount Partnership weekly newsletter for November 7, 2022.
DENSO, a leading mobility supplier, and Silicon Ranch, one of the nation’s largest independent power producers, today broke ground on a new solar facility at DENSO’s Maryville, Tennessee, location, along with the City of Maryville Electric Department and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The new solar farm is the first of four solar production facilities the…
Click to view the online version of the Blount Partnership weekly newsletter for October 31, 2022.
Click to view the online version of the Blount Partnership weekly newsletter for October 24, 2022.
“To keep up with her marvelous growth and to make the most of her opportunities, Maryville must have a real Chamber of Commerce. This can be done by the co-operative activity of all of Maryville,” reads a 1920 Maryville advertisement. The newly formed Maryville Kiwanis club founded our Chamber of Commerce on January 25, 1920.…
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Knoxville-based LDA Engineering has made a $500,000 renewed commitment to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and also has dedicated $120,000 in college scholarship funds. The company has invested in STEM and additional engineering education and outreach in all of its markets, and in 2015 pledged to reach…
