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      • Small Business Festival to bring Austin startup scene to the region
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      • Richard III provides and experience unlike any other
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      • It’s So Easy: Guns ‘N’ Roses Tribute Band Plays Holston River Brewing on Friday Night
      • The 5th Annual Appalachian Spring Festival
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      • Dancing with the Tri-Cities Stars Celebrates it’s 10th Year!
      • Derby Day
      • Small Business Festival to bring Austin startup scene to the region
      • Kingston Can Inaugural Valley Rally Ride
      • YES, It is a thing! Goat Yoga
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      • Carter Railroad Museum gets ‘Streamlined’
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      • Don Raines: The Interview
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      • Is a 9mm pistol good enough for defensive use?
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Things to Do

Tax Preparation

With the financial support of Eastman Credit Union (ECU), a group of East Tennessee State University (ETSU) business student volunteers, under the guidance of accountancy faculty members Dr. Anthony Masino and Dr. Michelle Freeman, will offer free tax preparation assistance again this year through the Internal Revenue Service Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. As an approved VITA location, the ETSU group will assist taxpayers who had $55,000 or less in income during tax year 2017. Hours have been extended for the 2017 filing season. Volunteers will be available to offer tax preparation services on the following Saturdays –  March 24, and April 7 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sam Wilson Hall, room 318, on ETSU’s main campus.

For more information or to make an appointment, contact Masino at 423-439-4432 or Masino@etsu.edu or Freeman at 423-439-4432 or freemanms@etsu.edu. For disability accommodations, call the ETSU Office of Disability Services at 423-439-8346.


Adult Softball Spring League

What better way to get your exercise this spring and have a good time with friends that by participating in the adult softball program being offered by Bristol Tennessee Parks and Recreation.The Spring League which includes Church, Open, and Recreational teams.  The league will have an organizational meeting on Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 2PM in Slater Center. Slater Center is located at 325 McDowell Street, Bristol Tennessee.The deadline for teams to register is Monday, April 16, 2018.  There is a team fee of $375.00. Games will begin on Monday, April 30, 2018 and will be played on the fields of Whitetop Creek Park located on Highway 394.   Bring your team and play this spring on some of the best fields in the area.For more information contact Freddie Hickman at 423-213-1510 or Taylor Harmon at 423-464-4048 or email tharmon@bristoltn.org.


Virginia Creeper Fest

The Virginia Creeper Fest is a free, family-friendly event celebrating all things outdoors, and now, in its second year, it can add “award-winning” to that list of adjectives.  At the recent American Advertising Federation Awards, SWVA Chapter, Virginia Creeper Fest took home a Gold Award for the Virginia Creeper Fest advertising campaign, as well as the People’s Choice and overall Best in Show.  The festival returns Saturday April 28th to downtown Abingdon. 

Virginia Creeper Fest returns for a second year Saturday April 28, from 10:30am to 5:00pm. With activities like a climbing wall, hammock hangouts, disc dog exhibitions, and field games for the kids, tree identification along the trail and scavenger hunts, there will be plenty to keep the hard-core outdoor enthusiasts and novice nature lovers busy all day.  There will be also be live music, food trucks and local outfitters throughout the day, as well as raffle giveaways. The festival takes place in Abingdon, at the intersection of Green Spring Road and A Streets, near the trailhead.  Additional activities, like nature walks and bike rides, will take place on the trail itself. A full schedule and festival guide will be available on www.vacreeperfest.com beginning April 1st.


The Casual Word Adult Creative Writing Class

Join us for a free, fun, engaging, and different look into writing. In this class, we will not focus on structure, form, or rules, but on the freedom of writing. It is the goal of this class to open the mind to its full creative potential by allowing participants to write what they want, how they want to write it. Sessions will be student lead; we will engage in topics and subjects that are of interest to the students. The atmosphere is casual and jovial. This class is designed for all those 18 and up who wish to try their hand at creative writing. Thursdays @ 6:00 p.m. Jones Creativity Center. Bristol Public Library.


Spoken Word Concert

“An Evening with Andrea Gibson,” a spoken-word concert featuring the first winner of the Women’s World Poetry Slam, will be held at East Tennessee State University on Wednesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. in the D.P. Culp University Center ballroom.

This free public event is sponsored by ETSU’s Multicultural Center as part of the 2018 Student Government Association Civility Series, “Step Into Civility.”

Gibson has headlined performance venues from coast to coast with readings on war, class, gender, bullying, sexuality, love, spirituality and other topics, and has been featured on the BBC, Air America, C-SPAN and Free Speech TV. Gibson has released a fifth full-length album, “Flower Boy,” and a second book, “The Madness Vase.” For more information, call the ETSU Multicultural Center at 423-439-4844.   For disability accommodations, call the ETSU Office of Disability Services at 423-439-8346.

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