Following a season of hybrid concerts, Oak Ridge Civic Music Association presents the full Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra in its season finale event, at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 6 at the Pavilion Bandshell at A.K. Bissell Park.
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High-end consignment shop Deja Vu will be one of several businesses participating in downtown Franklin’s Love You Back shopping event Feb. 11-13.
Photo provided by Karen Couf-Cohen Public Relations
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FRANKLIN The construction in downtown Franklin has been finished for months now, and retailers are ready to show off the new digs.
They’ll do just that Thursday, Feb. 11, through Saturday, Feb. 13, during the Love You Back shopping event. Shops, most of which are women-owned, will provide refreshments, goodies, gifts and probably a few deals, too.
The goal is to bring life back to the village’s downtown, which has been doubly hit by extensive road construction and the COVID-19 pandemic. But the damage goes back even further, according to Village Administrator Roger Fraser. The loss of downtown “institutions” like the Market Basket and the Farmhouse Coffee and Ice Cream shop has deterr