Mountain Press: Keeping their options open: Arrowmont still seeks to buy land or relocate

Keeping their options open: Arrowmont still seeks to buy land or relocate
Arrowmont’s lease with Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women expires in August 2011, and the fraternity “is not willing to extend the lease at this time,” Arrowmont Executive Director David Willard says on the school’s Web site.
“We understand that it is still their intention to [...]

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Mountain Press: Gatlinburg publishes building guidelines

The Mountain Press article on Gatlinburg’s new building guidelines.

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Mountain Press: That massive Gatlinburg project dead

Now that Townsend’s campaign for Arrowmont’s relocation has intensified, the Gatlinburg government folks want to preserve its history in town. Nonetheless, as David Willard stated, the Pi Phis could still sell the land at any moment. While somewhat good news, it’s no time to relax. Emily Tarr still has the land sale $$ in her sites.

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Mountain Press Editorial: Let’s keep Arrowmont where it is

The Mountain Press

In fact the shop isn’t even part of Arrowmont school. To get to the school you have to take the road to the left of the shop up the hill. Do so and walk around the campus and you’ll see what everybody is so concerned about.

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Mountain Press: Friends become foe as future of school hangs in balance

Arrowmont owes its existence to the women’s group. Now it may owe its demise to the same group.

If anyone is in the middle of this dispute, it’s David Willard, the school’s first full-time director who must somehow defend his employer while not saying anything that might further alienate the Pi Phis.
He’s backed by his board, [...]

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Mountain Press: Can it be saved? Arrowmont School is beloved by many who are joining the fight to keep it in Gatlinburg

New article in Mountain Press by Stan Voit
You have to talk to people like Gerda Carmichael, a 78-year-old resident of Birmingham, Ala. She has been a student at Arrowmont many times, often driving by herself to attend a week of classes.

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Mountain Press: Artists: Arrowmont “top-notch” and “feeds your soul”

Residents of Sevier County and the counties that touch Sevier get a 50 percent cut in tuition, and since they can commute they save the housing costs.

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