By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It is human nature when a holiday comes around to look back on how it was celebrated the year before. Nearly all of last year’s holidays were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, restrictions are being lifted in...
By Jedidiah McKeehan If you ever have to sue someone, and the matter proceeds to trial, and you win, you will be awarded a judgment against the person who you sued. For example, if a credit card company sues someone for not paying their bill, they may obtain a...
By Ken Lay High school region softball championships are never easy to win. So when Farragut High claimed the Region 2-AAA Title Wednesday night, coach Nick Green breathed a huge sigh of relief. “At this point, Powell is the best team that we’ve seen this...
By Steve Williams Powell High’s baseball team looked to be in good shape last week when relief ace Logen Sutton struck out the side in the top of the sixth inning and the Panthers were leading Farragut by one run in the Region 2-AAA championship game. The...
Sheriff Tom Spangler begins campaign for re-election By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “How do you put things in words when you have a crowd here saying they believe in what you’re doing?” Knox County Sheriff Tom Spangler asked Thursday afternoon...
By Steve Hunley By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them Let’s look at Chicago—the last Republican mayor of the “Windy City” was William Hale Thompson who left office in 1931. So, for the last 89 years, Chicago has been governed by Democrats. Now an animal shelter is...
By John J. Duncan Jr. Last week’s column about Richard Nixon brought back the memory of an interesting Knoxville connection Nixon had. Erma Greenwood attended Duke University Law School with him in the late 1930s. Ms. Greenwood was for many years the only woman...
“Live so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” Sign that hung in the business office of Jim Cummings. By Ray Hill James H. Cummings is likely a name unfamiliar with most readers, but during his time he was a power and a man to be reckoned...
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? Satchel Paige By Dr. Jim Ferguson It’s finally over. For an adult, birthdays are not usually treated with fanfare. I guess this is because we’ve had so many. However, turning seventy was an exception for me....
Part 12, Final in series on Wallace Dwight Kessel By Ralphine Major He has led a full and varied life. Knox County’s first County Executive was very active in his church. A member of First Baptist Church Knoxville, Dwight Kessel was elected deacon in 1978, served...
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