by design | Feb 28, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The Sentinel endorsement certainly doesn’t rank right up there with an Oscar, although to hear some candidates tell it, you’d think it does. Of course if you don’t have anything else to brag about, maybe it helps. All these candidates bragging about...
by Ray Hill | Feb 28, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For a time, there was no more influential Republican in the State of Tennessee than Newell Sanders. Sanders was a Republican at a time when the GOP was at a distinct disadvantage in the Volunteer State, yet he helped to build his party and became a...
by design | Feb 28, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com If you live in North Knoxville and drive Broadway you’ll likely be familiar with Penny Pawn at 4821 North Broadway but you may not know that the popular shop has been there since 1985. Founded by Mildred Mason and now owned by...
by design | Feb 28, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Knoxville and Knox County have produced some national heroes and personalities known around the nation; people who are from here or lived here before becoming famous. Folks like Dr. Bill Bass, founder of The Body Farm and noted...
by design | Feb 28, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Through a lifetime of coaching, Bill Duncan knows something that’s hard to beat. “Everybody talks about winning,” said Duncan, Heritage High’s veteran boys basketball coach. “It’s not about winning. It’s about the will to win.” Duncan said his...
by design | Feb 28, 2016 | The Daily Focus
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture will celebrate Weights and Measures week March 1-7, 2016. The responsibilities of weights and measures inspectors have expanded beyond the simple scales and meters and now include much more than meets the eye. “The...
