by design | Oct 19, 2025 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
County unveils monument to honor Tucker Blakely By Ken Lay The Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the Powell Community honored one of their own early last week. The county unveiled a stone memorial monument to honor fallen sheriff’s deputy Tucker Blakely on Tuesday...
by design | Oct 19, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
John G. Townsend of Delaware By Ray Hill While serving as Delaware’s governor, John Gillis Townsend Jr. was a reformer; while he served in the United States Senate, he was a stalwart conservative. A highly successful business entrepreneur, John G. Townsend was a...
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GCA gets big region win at CAK By David Klein In a Division II-AA East rivalry game, the Grace Christian Academy (GCA) Rams moved into second place in the region with a 35-14 win at the Christian Academy of Knoxville (CAK) Warriors. The Rams used an effective running...
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Central pulls out 38-35 win in Black Oak Ridge rivalry By Steve Williams High school football games don’t get much better than the one Central and Halls had Thursday night. The lead changed hands eight times before the Bobcats headed back over Black Oak Ridge with a...
by design | Oct 19, 2025 | The Daily Focus
City Leaf Collection Begins Nov. 3 ~ from City of Knoxville, Office of Neighborhood Empowerment The City of Knoxville’s Public Service crews are wrapping up Brush Pick-Up with one last cycle that will start on Monday, Oct. 20. After that, crews will switch over to...
by design | Oct 18, 2025 | The Daily Focus
Not Quite Roots: Finding My Immigrant Ancestors WHEN: October 29, 2025 @ 12:00 p.m. WHERE: East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902 Knoxville, Tennessee (October 16, 2025) – If black, it is almost impossible to find one’s immigrant...