Ed Marcum

• Duck Dynasty stars do commercials for Clayton Homes Published 05/18/2013 at 4 p.m.

  Phil and Miss Kay Robertson, the stars of “Duck Dynasty,” sliced some sweet potato pie and filled their audience in about Clayton Homes.

• New Weigel's card will connect to checking account Published 05/18/2013 at 6 a.m.

  On Monday, Weigel’s Stores will begin offering a no-purchase gas discount card the company says will allow customers to save up to 10 cents per gallon on their fuel purchases.

• Vanquish Worldwide gets multimillion-dollar EPA contract Published 05/18/2013 at 6 a.m.

  Maryville-based Vanquish Worldwide, has landed a multimillion-dollar contract to store and manage equipment for the Environmental Protection Agency in the northwestern U.S.

• Business "matchmaking" tradeshow set Published 05/15/2013 at 6 p.m.

  The East Tennessee Purchasing Association will hold its annual Business Matchmaking & Tradeshow July 18, with procurement representatives from about 30 government agencies.

• Zombie lawsuit trial set for October Published 05/13/2013 at 1:05 p.m.

  A federal judge has set Oct. 29 as the date for a bench trial in a lawsuit against TVA over its policy forbidding costumes at board meetings.

• Legal moonshine growing industry in East Tennessee Published 05/11/2013 at 4 p.m.

  By summer, Cocke County may be home to what its owners say will be the largest pot still whiskey operation in the United States.

• Roberta Martin opens Twig Children's Boutique Published 05/11/2013 at 6 a.m.

  Bearden has a new children’s boutique, courtesy of Roberta Martin, wife of University of Tennessee men’s basketball coach Cuonzo Martin.

• TVA lakes ready for summer recreation Published 05/10/2013 at 9:04 a.m.

  Thanks to some historic rains, East Tennessee lakes ought to be in fine shape for the summer recreation season, TVA officials said.

• New WNOX will feature local talent show Published 05/09/2013 at 3:05 p.m.

  WNOX, one of the nation’s oldest radio stations, officially began its latest transformation Thursday as it began broadcasting a continuous country music format as Q 100.3.

• TVA prepares for Obama administration review Published 05/04/2013 at 2 p.m.

  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the Tennessee Valley Authority “neither fish nor fowl” when he proposed the federal utility as one of his New Deal programs in 1933.

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