by design | Oct 11, 2021 | The Daily Focus
A record $337,000 was raised through this year’s Rick Barnes Emerald Youth Golf Classic presented by UT Medical Center. The annual event, held at Holston Hills Country Club on September 27, is one of Emerald Youth Foundation’s three main fundraisers and supports the...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Fulton High School alumni honor veteran classmates By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com On a recent bright Saturday morning, more than 100 people attended a ceremony to honor and remember seven Fulton High School alumni who died during the Vietnam War....
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The Austin City Council slashed the budget for their police department by a third. The end result was the loss of more than 150 police officers and the highest murder rate the Texas capitol has ever experienced in its history. The Council reversed...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Bill Howard The monthly meeting of the Concord Farragut Club at Fruition Cafe last Thursday night had an interesting trilogy of speakers. Charme Allen spoke first. Allen, the District Attorney General for Knox County, gave the crowd a general overview of her...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Hazen Kreis is likely a name unfamiliar to the readers of this column, but there was a time when the six foot, five inch gentleman was wildly popular in Knox County. Kreis was elected to three two-year terms consecutively as Sheriff of Knox...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com This past Wednesday, the recently retired head of U.S. immigration said we are now paying $5,000,000 a day for a company to not build a wall on our southern border. There are things that have happened over the last...
