by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Huge turnout of candidates, voters at Expo Center By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Thursday’s candidate event at the Knoxville Expo Center on Clinton Highway drew most of the candidates. There were no speeches given as the Knoxville and Knox County...
by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley More Needed Than a Name Change and Haircut To thinking people, it is already abundantly clear the Left in this country has lost its tether to reality some time ago. As I indicated in an earlier column, the Left in America long ago divorced Reason and...
by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Farragut High’s 2022 softball team may not be as good as last year’s state championship team, but the current Lady Admirals are still good enough to repeat as state champs. That’s how Farragut Coach Nick Green sized up things after last...
by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For forty years, Brazilla Carroll Reece had been the congressman from the highly Republican First Congressional District of Tennessee with a few interruptions. Carroll Reece had first gone to Congress in 1920 after beating an entrenched incumbent in a...
by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay Spring is here and the Dogwood Arts Festival has returned to Knoxville. The festival, an annual event in East Tennessee for nearly seven decades, officially kicked off Thursday afternoon at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Some gusty winds couldn’t temper the...
by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams When it comes to softball, Macy Belyea is like a Swiss Army knife. She’s very versatile. The Powell senior signed scholarship papers with Chattanooga State Community College in a ceremony at the PHS auditorium March 25. Belyea transferred to...