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 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 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 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...
By Joe Rector I don’t gamble. The reason has been told before, but in case anyone might have forgotten why, here is the brief story. As a 16-year-old, I worked at the city maintenance department with other teens. We cut weeds, hauled trash, and cleaned areas around...
Pay raise for deputies before commission By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Today’s Knox County Commission agenda includes a possible pay increase for deputies, a reduction in fines for ambulances arriving late to hospitals, and a final closing date...
By Steve Hunley Candidate Residency Requirements will Change with New Legislation The hot mess that is the race for the 5th Congressional District is only getting messier. As this is written, the Tennessee State Senate and the House of Representatives are poised to...
By Steve Williams Gibbs High’s baseball program picked up where it left off at the end of the 2021 season as the Eagles notched a 2-1 win over rival Pigeon Forge this year. At the Spring Fling in Murfreesboro last May, Gibbs defeated the Tigers 14-8 for the TSSAA...
Tennessee is the only state in the country where the Supreme Court selects the attorney general. In many states, the state attorney general is elected by the voters; some are appointed by the governor and some are elected by legislatures. Tennessee’s state attorney...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The late Alvin Frye would not be pleased. For more than 25 years Frye owned and operated Fountain City Exxon and provided full service, repairs and courteous service. His retirement was celebrated at the...
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