Three Movies I Think You Would Enjoy

Three Movies I Think You Would Enjoy By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com During most of my working career I very seldom ever went to a movie theater and only rarely watched one on television. However, there are two fairly recent movies, “Phantom of the Open”...

Chaos

Chaos We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth. Abraham Lincoln By Dr. Jim Ferguson It was December 1862 and the war was not going well for President Abraham Lincoln. Elected just two years before, he was the first president of the newly formed...

God’s Great Love

God’s Great Love By Ralphine Major It is often celebrated with cards and candy, special dinners, and red roses. The short month of February brings the much-anticipated Valentine’s Day holiday. Love. Songs and stories have been written about it; movies have been made...

Visiting History in Calhoun and Charleston

Visiting History in Calhoun and Charleston A Day Away By Mike Steely Between Athens and Cleveland, Tennessee, are two small towns that hold a world of history. Whether you’re into Cherokee or Civil War history, the adjoining towns of Calhoun and Charleston are worth a...

What is Split Confinement?

What is Split Confinement? By Jedidiah McKeehan If you are charged with a crime, and you are considering pleading guilty, one of the big questions that you will want answered is how you will have to serve your sentence. Your sentence is your period of punishment for...

Lighting Lives

Lighting Lives By Joe Rector With a snowfall that this area hadn’t seen in a long while and the pouring rains that followed gone, I was feeling good about the warm spell that allowed me to be outside. Then over the weekend, a call came to my wife that darkened even...