by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “I’m going to do the right thing,” Sheriff Tom Spangler told his volunteers Thursday evening. Hundreds of volunteers gathered at the EXPO Center on Clinton Highway to rally and volunteer to help Tom Spangler be...
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The folks who read this column regularly are some of God’s gentlepeople and highly discerning. That is my opinion, yet I will be positively shocked if a single reader remembers Arthur Wergs Mitchell. One of the most interesting aspects of history to me...
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Bearden High had a 1-2 punch that was too much to handle for Knox County foe Farragut Saturday night in the BlueCross Basketball Championships. Junior post Avery Treadwell’s dominance on the inside with 15 points and 16 rebounds and point...
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The Wall That Heals exhibit opens in Knoxville on Thursday, April 21, with a 10 a.m. opening ceremony. The replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D. C., needs your help, especially if you are a...
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson By Dr. Jim Ferguson I find it easier to write when something comes to mind rather than waiting for perhaps a more noteworthy topic closer to deadline....