by design | Sep 26, 2022 | Columnist, Steely
Discovering the Gray Fossil Museum A Day Away by Mike Steely Sometimes important discoveries are made totally by accident. That’s what happened north of Johnson City in the Gray community during earthmoving for a new road. In 2000 the state was grading in that area...
by design | Sep 26, 2022 | Columnist, Major
Go ‘VOLS’ By Ralphine Major The four letters became important years ago. They are still important today. VOLS, which is short for Volunteers, has long been identified with The University of Tennessee (UT). I do not remember the vantage point where I was standing...
by design | Sep 26, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
Q&A with Webb football coach Dave Meske By Mark Nagi Long-time Webb School of Knoxville football coach Dave Meske has announced that this will be his final season on the Spartans sidelines. Meske has been at Webb for 40 years and the last 38 as head football...
by design | Sep 26, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
A Significant Swagger By Tom Mattingly This is one of my favorite Neyland Stadium pictures, an aerial shot from the 1966 Ole Miss game. It was Homecoming Day in Knoxville, and a near-capacity crowd of 55,206 (57, 122) found its way into the stadium. Here’s the context...
by design | Sep 26, 2022 | The Daily Focus
~ from the City of Knoxville’s Office of Neighborhood Empowerment This year, the City installed speed humps in several neighborhoods as the result of their completion of the Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program (NTSP). The program’s goal is to identify the best ways to...
