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Knoxville opens Devil’s Racetrack Bike Trail

by design | Jun 19, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ken Lay Knoxville’s newest bike trail was officially opened in a groundbreaking ceremony Friday morning. The city, along with Knox County and the Legacy Parks Foundation, celebrated the grand opening of the Devil’s Racetrack Downhill Trail and two other trails on...

First Methodist to celebrate 150 years

by design | Jun 19, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com How do you celebrate 150 years of church history? Founded the year following the end of the Civil War the First United Methodist Church of Knoxville has a long and proud history. During the years the congregation has had many...

Thomas P. Gore: Oklahoma’s Blind Senator, Part II

by Ray Hill | Jun 19, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Thomas Pryor Gore had been one of two of Oklahoma’s first United States senators.  Twice reelected, Senator Gore had been decisively defeated inside his own party when he sought reelection in 1920.  Gore’s opposition to the World War and President Woodrow...

Tarwater returns home to play in summer hoops league

by design | Jun 19, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ken Lay Dwight Tarwater enjoyed a homecoming of sorts when he suited up for H3 Sports in its season opener in the Pilot Rocky Top League opener Wednesday night at Catholic High School. Tarwater, a 2010 Webb School of Knoxville graduate, last played in his hometown...

My love for sports … it just came naturally

by Steve Williams | Jun 19, 2016 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams

EDITOR’S NOTE: This was Steve Williams’ Father’s Day column that ran in The Knoxville Focus in 2008. Steve’s father, Mr. Bob Williams, passed away March 5 of this year. Steve wanted to rerun this column and plans to write a follow-up column on his dad for our June 27...

Smiley’s ‘heart’ and Hagood’s ‘attitude’ led Bearden

by design | Jun 19, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Williams State high school championships can sometimes come down to which team wants it the most and has the most heart. Bearden was that kind of team in boys’ soccer this past season and Spencer Smiley had a large part in making it that way. Smiley...
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