Profiles

Conversations with the men and women building Blount County’s future.

Generations of Singers Come Home for Stacey Wilner’s Final Season

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October 19, 2026

She only gets a few minutes into a discussion of this year’s Homecoming Choir performance before tears well up in the eyes of Stacey Wilner, coordinator of choral activities at Maryville College. Undoubtedly, there will be many of them this academic year as Wilner — director of the Maryville College Concert Choir and the smaller …

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Twenty Years of Smiles: Trinity Dental Clinic Marks Two Decades Serving Blount County’s Underserved

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October 14, 2026

MARYVILLE — On a Friday evening in the spring of 2006, a young man in his 30s arrived at a modest dental …

Supreme Court justice Wiley Rutledge ’14 found ideals that would define his career at Maryville College

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September 17, 2026

MARYVILLE — No one quite knows why Wiley Rutledge 1914 withdrew from Maryville College a year before he was to have graduated, …

Banking on the Mission: Tennessee Military Federal Credit Union Turns 70

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July 13, 2026

The legend goes that it started from the trunk of a car. In 1956, McGhee Tyson was still an active-duty Air Force …

Wells Tavern Brings First Scottish Pub, Rooftop Bar to Downtown

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June 12, 2026

Alice Basler has always trusted her instincts. The Maryville real estate professional once closed on a house the same day she saw …

Ten years in, Louisville Mercantile Owner Sylvia Davis is Just Getting Started

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May 15, 2026

Sylvia Davis did not set out to open a store 10 years ago. She and her husband Barry were driving past a …

‘Let’s Be Blount’ Podcast Bridges Old, New in Growing County

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April 15, 2026

Blount County is growing fast, and with this growth comes struggles. Realtors Brett Heppner and Eric Rice didn’t just understand that growth …

One Week in the Life of a Greenback Family Working Together to Build a Popular Barbecue Food Truck Business

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March 15, 2026

It’s tricky to figure out how many food trucks are operating in Blount County. However, just the city of Maryville reports more …

Walland Man’s Program Gives Aggressive Dogs a Second Chance

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January 15, 2026

Shane Hawkins is a successful entrepreneur, but he got there on the hardest pathway. “Well, I didn’t know any better back then, …

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