by design | Jun 13, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Recent changes in the way calls are routed via 211, a help line funded by United Way organizations across the region to provide referrals to local community services, may be causing confusion and some frustration for citizens calling into the service from outside Knox...
by design | Jun 12, 2016 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Sock Hop helps Museum of Education By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Put on your Blue Suede Shoes or your Poodle Skirt and step back into the 50s and 60s next month as the Knox County Museum of Education relives those times. The Museum wants to take you back to the...
by design | Jun 12, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Beginning in July the Knoxville City Council will begin meeting at 6 p.m. rather than the previous 7 p.m. meeting time. The council passed the time change unanimously Tuesday evening and, in doing so, also moved the Beer...
by Ray Hill | Jun 12, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennesseans recall our own two senators named Gore, but there was another, who was apparently a distant cousin, Thomas Pryor Gore. T. P. Gore accomplished much and enjoyed a long and successful career in spite of being blind. Gore had suffered two...
by design | Jun 12, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Mitch Turner has built a strong foundation for the Grace Christian Academy baseball program. The way he sees it – three straight trips to the Class A state finals are definitely something to build on and that’s the plan. The Rams lose five seniors,...
by design | Jun 12, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Makenna Black spent most of the 2015-16 school year leading cheers for Fulton High’s football and basketball teams. This spring, however, she was on the receiving end of the cheers as a leading player on the Lady Falcons’ softball team. For her...