NEWPORT - The Sevierville, TN Chamber of Commerce and the Cocke County Partnership will present 1-40 Open Access: Rockslide Conference on Thursday, September 9, at the Mountain Crest Inn in Newport, TN .

The goals of this meeting, which begins at 9 a.m., are to lay groundwork for developing an emergency response plan to future rock slide situations, which would focus on establishing better communication between DOT officials, businesses and visitors and address potential prevention measures against future slides. This will be a large event bringing together business leaders from Knox County to Buncombe County with local, state and federal elected officials, representatives from NCDOT and TDOT and representatives from AAA.

For more details, please see the latest edition of The Newport Plain Talk.