by design | Feb 12, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
After a grown-up decision, West twins will go separate ways By Steve Williams West High’s talented football twins, Brayden and Cayden Latham, have always played on the same team, but that will change this coming season. Brayden, a running back, and Cayden, a defensive...
by design | Feb 12, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Robert A. “Fats” Everett lay ailing in Nashville’s Veterans Hospital. For decades the 6-foot-4 congressman, whose weight teetered between 255 and 370 pounds, had been a fixture in Tennessee politics. Everett had learned politics from some of the...
by design | Feb 12, 2023 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Clayton’s Christmas Card By Ralphine Major His Christmas card was postmarked November 23, 2022. It included a picture of him wearing his traditional white cowboy hat. Little did we know that this Christmas card would be the last one from Clayton Sharp. Clayton passed...
by design | Feb 12, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
‘Connection’ with Delta Devils played a part in BHS signing day By Steve Williams Four members of the Bearden High football program signed college scholarship papers Wednesday and one took advantage of a “connection” that first-year BHS Head Coach Josh Jones had with...
by design | Feb 12, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Black Appalachian Storytellers of Tennessee Concert: Celebrating Our Voices Through Story and Song The tradition of oral storytelling will be celebrated this Black History Month at the Black Appalachian Storytellers of Tennessee Concert Saturday, February 25, at 1:00...
by design | Feb 11, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Compassion Closet is opening in the Fountain City area within St. Paul UMC off Garden Drive at 11 a.m. today. Compassion Closet began in 2013 and now has five locations in the East Tennessee area. Compassion Closet serves foster, kinship and adoptive families by...
