by design | Feb 21, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Knox County Engineering and Public Works recently completed a $1.8 million project that drastically improves safety on a section of E. Emory Road in Powell. Construction began in April 2021 to realign Bishop Road, Taggart Lane, and Norman Jack Lane to create a single...
by design | Feb 20, 2022 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Cash, Rysewyk make final pitches to BOE By Ken Lay The search for the next Knox County Schools Superintendent has entered its home stretch. The two candidates to replace the retiring Bob Thomas made their final pitches to the Knox County Board of Education Friday in...
by design | Feb 20, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Former Sheriff’s Narcotics Chief Faces Federal Indictment Another one of former Knox County Sheriff Jimmy “J. J.” Jones’ model employees seems to be in a spot of trouble. Actually it could be big trouble. David Henderson, supervisor of the Knox...
by design | Feb 20, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Three school board members, aided by Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, went before the Knox County Commission’s work session Tuesday evening demanding an outside attorney be hired to fight the federal judge’s mask...
by design | Feb 20, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The 1956 Presidential Election in Tennessee By Ray Hill Dwight D. Eisenhower had carried Tennessee in the 1952 election, albeit it only barely, with the final totals being 446,147 for “Ike” and 443,710 for Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson. It was a difference of...
