by design | Apr 20, 2026 | The Daily Focus
Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site will be hosting its 2nd Annual Gala and Benefit Dinner on Friday, May 22, at 6 p.m. The financial challenge of maintaining 47 acres of historic property that includes eleven historic buildings, a cemetery, a museum and education...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Sheriff Tom Spangler Endorses David Amburn for Knox County Sheriff By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com In a significant move for Knox County’s law enforcement community, Sheriff Tom Spangler has officially endorsed David Amburn for the position of Knox...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Democrat-Socialists talk about affordability, but actions, as always, speak louder than words. With perhaps as much as $10 billion in taxpayer money lost to fraud in Minnesota, Democrats in the state legislature stopped an effort to investigate the...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay As the weather warms in East Tennessee, athletes usually head outside to compete in baseball, softball, soccer, tennis, track and field and flag football. High school gyms have largely been empty except when inclement weather forces teams to work out...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Eleanor Roosevelt was no ordinary First Lady. Separated from her husband, at least emotionally if not literally, by past mistakes, Mrs. Roosevelt set out to recreate herself while living in the White House. If her husband was known worldwide, then quite...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Development was expected following the four-lane expansion of Schaad Road from Oak Ridge Highway to Middlebrook Pike. What some residents there didn’t expect was a new Walmart complex about midway along the route. At...
