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TDOT looking for input on extending Pellissippi Parkway out to Lamar Alexander Highway
TDOT is hosting a public virtual design meeting until April 29 to gather feedback on the proposed project. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 10:21 PM EDT April 19, 2021
BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. The Tennessee Department of Transportation is looking for feedback on a proposed 4.4-mile extension of the Pellissippi Parkway that would connect it to Lamar Alexander Highway.
The parkway currently ends at the Old Knoxville Highway. TDOT said the extension would help solve some deficiencies with the roadway, including alleviating traffic along Alcoa Highway at the airport and providing easier road access to the east sides of Alcoa and Maryville.
A Madisonville man is facing a sexual battery charge after he allegedly groped a woman without her consent while in her vehicle.
Edward Aron Wheaton, 45, Madisonville, was arrested by Maryville Police officers at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, and charged with sexual battery. He was released on a $5,500 bond pending a 9 a.m. hearing Dec. 15 in Blount County General Sessions Court.
A 35-year-old woman told an officer she saw a man, who was older and seemed to need assistance, walking on Brown School Road at Old Knoxville Pike. She stopped and asked him if he needed a ride, and he said that he did and got in.