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      <title>Spring in Farragut: when and where the town blooms</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A West Knox Realtor's hand-drawn map of Farragut spring — dogwood streets, cherry tunnels, the redbud weeks, and the photo spots locals queue up for every Easter.]]></description>
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      <title>Dos Agaves: the Farragut Mexican spot worth knowing</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When you move to Farragut or Hardin Valley, finding your Mexican spot is one of the first decisions. Why Dos Agaves on Parkside earned our Sundays.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Eight East Tennessee day trips from Farragut in under two hours — Smokies, Asheville, Tellico, Townsend — with realistic drive times and what to skip.]]></description>
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      <title>Pre-listing checklist: what West Knox buyers notice</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[West Knox buyers in spring 2026 are rate-squeezed and quick to judge. The pre-listing checklist Hilary Kilgore runs with sellers, through the lens of what buyers actually notice.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Farragut, TN packs more annual family events into a year than almost any town its size — from the July 4 Parade to Light The Park. Hilary Kilgore's month-by-month guide.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A season of big change for Hilary Kilgore in Knoxville — a forever home in Fox Den, family on the mend, and a fresh chapter at Greater Impact Realty Knoxville.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rate-squeezed buyers in Knoxville don't have renovation budgets anymore. Here's the prep that's getting West Knox homes under contract in the first weekend.]]></description>
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      <title>Founders Park at Campbell Station: a quiet walk through Farragut history</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Seventeen acres of trails, bronze sculptures, and 11 heritage markers in the heart of Farragut — plus the Knox County Library next door. A field guide to one of West Knox's best afternoons.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Knoxville summers run 80% humidity and 100°F heat indexes. For a flat-faced dog, that's a different kind of risk. The handful of habits every East Tennessee pug owner should know before June.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you're pulling shots on a Breville Bambino before the I-40 rush, there's one step you're probably skipping that quietly ruins every extraction. The thirty-second fix that changed my mornings.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A first visit to Reef Coffee inside the West End Center, a long counter conversation with the owner, and a bag of Vienna Coffee's Thunderhead beans that rewired my mornings.]]></description>
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