by design | Jul 28, 2014 | sports, The Daily Focus
On Friday, August 8 and Saturday, August 9, the 2014 Russell Biven Summer Clayfest Tournament will take place at Chilhowee Sportsman’s Club in Maryville, TN. WBIR’s Russell Biven will host and participate in the event. All proceeds from the tournament benefit...
by design | Jul 27, 2014 | News, The Daily Focus
Jovan Haye played for the National Football League for seven years, including three years with the Tampa Buccaneers and two years with the Tennessee Titans. Only 9 in 10,000 high school senior football players ever play for the NFL. But first, Haye had...
by design | Jul 27, 2014 | Archived Editions, Archives
Click here to view this week’s Focus. Passion, experience provide fuel for incumbent judge By Ken Lay Interpreting the law has become a passion for Judge Harold Wimberly Jr. He’s spent nearly three decades as a Knox County Circuit Court Judge since being...
by Steve Hunley | Jul 27, 2014 | Archives, Hunley
By Steve Hunley Voters are already going to the polls and few races are as important as those for the Knox County Board of Education. That is especially true when one considers fully two thirds of every tax dollar in Knox County is spent on schools. In the race for...
by Mike Steely | Jul 27, 2014 | Archives, Steely
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Why are Knox County and East Tennessee so “Sevier?” The region can boast Sevier neighborhoods, Sevierville Highway, the Sevier Homestead, Sevier County, various Sevier Avenues and Streets, Sevier Heights, and Sevier Fuels, just to...
by Ray Hill | Jul 27, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill For years, Ben W. Hooper was the most successful Republican politician in the state of Tennessee, if the measure was the ability to win a statewide election. A fiery and dynamic speaker, Hooper was a successful lawyer, yet he had overcome serious adversity...
