by design | May 5, 2013 | Archived Editions, Archives
Click here to view this week’s Focus online. Burchett drills down debt, funds schools without a tax increase By Tasha Mahurin “The budget I present to you today is fiscally responsible, does not require a tax increase, and allows us to continue operating within...
by design | May 5, 2013 | Archives, FOCUS Weekly Poll
By Focus Staff Things must be much better at the Knoxville News-Sentinel, as it recently published an editorial proclaiming the recession appears to be over. It was an interesting question and this week’s Knoxville Focus poll asked voters, “Do you believe the...
by design | May 5, 2013 | Archives
Home Federal Bank named Gregory E. Walters a Hometown Hero and also the program’s 2013 overall winner and presented a check for $5,000 in his name to Friends of Literacy at a ceremony at Home Federal Bank’s Fountain City branch on Thursday, May 2. Now in its third...
by Ray Hill | May 5, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Tennessee was represented by ten men in the U. S. House of Representatives and two in the United States Senate in 1945. This column will provide mini-biographies of Tennessee’s Congressional delegation at that time. Kenneth D. McKellar was Tennessee’s...
by design | May 5, 2013 | Archives
By Ken Lay Jeff Inman had to breathe a sigh of relief Thursday night. “We survived,” Inman said after his Powell High School softball team advanced with a 3-0 victory over Oak Ridge Thursday night in the opening round of the District 3-AAA Tournament at Hardin Valley...
by design | May 5, 2013 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Hardin Valley Academy’s battle cry in last week’s Knoxville Interscholastic League track and field meet could have been “Going the Distance.” When the dust left behind by their strong distance runners had settled, HVA’s boys and girls teams could be...
