by design | Mar 21, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Do you know a person or organization doing an excellent job of sharing and preserving East Tennessee history? Consider submitting a nomination on their behalf today! The East Tennessee Historical Society invites nominations from across East Tennessee for Awards...
by design | Mar 20, 2022 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Racing season has arrived at Knoxville Dragway Outrun the Po Po benefit to be held this Saturday By Ken Lay Racing season is here at Knoxville Dragway, which is just over the Knox County/Union County line. The venue will host its first big event of the year and it...
by design | Mar 20, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Carpetbagger: a politician who takes up residence in a place and runs for office without having strong ties to the area. Any opportunistic or exploitative outsider. Representative Dave Wright has shepherded a bill through the Tennessee House of...
by design | Mar 20, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Bearden battled its way to the finals of the BlueCross Basketball State Championships and even overcame a 15-point deficit in the fourth quarter of the title game, but ran out of firepower in a four-minute overtime period. Tradition-rich Kingsport...
by design | Mar 20, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Many of our fellow Tennesseans are positively football crazy; most of us remember University of Tennessee quarterback Heath Shuler was elected to Congress from North Carolina. Yet there is hardly any person in the State of Tennessee with better name recognition than...
