By Steve Williams The First Baptist Academy girls had to be the busiest basketball team on the local scene during the holidays. The Lady Eagles played 10 games between Dec. 15 and Dec. 30 and went 7-3 during that stretch. They played on the day before Christmas Eve...
2021: The Year Ahead By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com While most people are happy to leave 2020 behind, any of its problems are stretching into this new year along with some opportunities. COVID-19 is expected to get worse and not wane until mid-year...
By Steve Hunley Recently the Knoxville News-Sentinel published a nice little article that was more editorial than news story in covering the Knox County Commission’s discussion of whether or not to dissolve the Board of Health. The reporter covering the spectacle of...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Soon walkers and drivers will get the opportunity to pass over portions of something that is more than 100 years old. The Jackson Avenue ramps, leading up to North Gay Street or down to Jackson Avenue in the Old City,...
By Ray Hill As the United States Senate considered the nomination of Judge John J. Parker to serve on the U. S. Supreme Court, a variety of allegations were flung about publicly, not the least of which was a member of the Senate having been offered a judgeship if he...
Longtime TSSAA official is fatal victim of hit-and-run By Steve Williams On a snowy Christmas Eve night in Halls, Gene Mynatt, a longtime TSSAA official in multiple sports, left this world doing what he liked to do best – and that was helping someone. His assistance...
By Tom Mattingly The day was Tuesday, June 2, 1998, when a media release about a significant happening within the University of Tennessee Athletic Department was sent out, accomplished on something called a Fax Expander. “MEDIA CONFERENCE SET FOR WEDNESDAY: The...
Fountain City Auction opens year with Advertisement Auction By Ken Lay Fountain City Auction will soon begin the New Year with its biggest event of 2021. On Saturday, January 2, it will host its 16th annual Advertisement Auction. But COVID-19 has made things a little...
By Steve Hunley Mayor Crazy Bill DeBlasio, whose real name is William Wilhelm, Jr., is the perfect chief executive for a crazy town, because he is clearly the kind of nut-cake that could feed the squirrels of the world for quite some time. Of course these days he has...
By Steve Williams The Battle in Rocky Top youth football tournament turned 15 years old this season and “it’s really grown,” said Josh Jones, who started the tourney in 2006. Jones, a former longtime local youth coach who now is the quarterbacks coach and...
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