SHARPS CHAPEL — Ronnie Atkins and Pam Seiber empty the moonshine kettle that marks the line between their properties every April. The last inch stays in the bottom.
South Knoxville man with 40 shares of Pepsi keeps calling investor relations about the plant
KNOXVILLE — Floyd Ledbetter, 71, a retired machinist, has called PepsiCo’s investor relations line five times since Monday, and each time he has been told the company is doing very well.
Butler post office keeps slot for Old Butler, which is cleared by Monday
BUTLER — The post office has a brass slot in the lobby wall with a hand-lettered card reading OLD BUTLER, and something goes into it about twice a year. By Monday the bin is empty.
Halls man has not set oven clock back in November since state passed daylight time law
HALLS — Dwight Cate, 66, retired from the Knox County Schools bus garage, will leave the clock on his kitchen oven alone when Tennessee falls back on Nov. 1, as he has every November since 2019.
Maryville man lists Sunsphere window for sale, asks that buyer not bring up the fair
Cody Whitlock, 24, of Blount County is selling a gold glass window from the Sunsphere for $200 or best offer. The buyer has to remove it, and he would rather not discuss the fair.
Woman shoots 74 on redeveloped municipal golf course at her kitchen table
Teresa Boggs, 52, of Fountain City, shot a 74 on the version of the Knoxville Municipal Golf Course that City Council’s memorandum says the city will explore, using a marble and the map from the agenda packet.
Planning counter clerk recognizes stroller woman in developer’s “completed” photo
KNOXVILLE — Carol Ann Whaley, 59, who works the Planning intake counter, accepted a developer’s photo of a finished apartment building and recognized the woman with the stroller from two other renderings.
Mosheim man brings 1788 tax receipt to Greene County trustee to see if it’s still owed
MOSHEIM — Lyle Carrigan, 71, found a State of Franklin tax receipt stamped “received, pending” in a hymnal and took it to the Greene County trustee to see whether anything is still owed.
KUB foreman spends lunches measuring Gay Street doorways for awning found underneath it
KNOXVILLE — Ray Dockery, 62, a KUB foreman, has spent nine lunch breaks measuring Gay Street doorways for the door that goes with a 1912 awning his crew dug up. Nobody asked him to.
Neyland gift shop clerk answers Smokey questions by nodding, then holding still
KNOXVILLE — Lorraine Beeler, 57, has been asked about forty times since Friday whether the Smokey statue nods now that a bobblehead of it is on the way. She nods for the bobblehead and holds still for the statue.
Union County man has replaced same porch step 11 times, has not thrown one out
MAYNARDVILLE — Delbert Coker, 73, has replaced the front step of his house eleven times since 1985, and every board that has come off is still there, nailed in under the one that replaced it.
Retired road department man offers Tazewell Pike study from his garage again
KNOXVILLE — Harold Sneed, 79, called the city this week to say he still has the 1994 Tazewell Pike study, the whole thing, and that anybody working on the new one is welcome to it.
McClung archivist finds Loyston plat with a lot set aside for a church supper
KNOXVILLE — A reference archivist at the McClung Historical Collection unrolled a 1933 plat of Loyston with one lot marked “Reserved, church supper.” No church claims it.
Residents keep sending drivers to the Jungle Arby’s, which is now an Arby’s
SOUTH KNOXVILLE — Gary Pitner, 61, told a pizza driver on Tuesday to turn in at the Jungle Arby’s, and the driver asked where the jungle was. The city cleared the lot earlier this month.
Fort Loudoun sailing club confirms water still present
LENOIR CITY — Earl Pettus, 68, walks down to the dock every Sunday and looks at Fort Loudoun Lake before he writes “Water: present” in the sailing club’s log, as someone has done since 1958. He would like it noted that he is not avoiding the chairs.