TDOT Halts Lane Closures During Holiday Travel

Thanksgiving travelers will not be delayed by construction on Tennessee roads during this holiday. TDOT will halt all lane closure activity on interstates and state highways in anticipation of higher traffic volumes across the state. All construction-related lane...

I Hope Everyone Has A Happy Thanksgiving

I Hope Everyone Has A Happy Thanksgiving By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was the pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City from 1932 to 1984. He died on Christmas Eve in 1993 at the age of 95. He wrote The Power of...

Visiting Hot Springs, North Carolina

Visiting Hot Springs, North Carolina A Day Away by Mike Steely I’ll bet you didn’t know that the French Broad River, which joins the Holston River in Knoxville to become the Tennessee River, gets some of its water from a very strange source. In the mountains of North...

Do You Want to Be a County Historian?

Do You Want to Be a County Historian? By Jedidiah McKeehan How would you like to be the resident historian for your county? There might be an opening! Tennessee Code Annotated section 5-18-101 states, “The legislative body of each county shall appoint some person of...