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The Knoxville Focus for December 23, 2019

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Pension Board may be added to lawsuit By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Chancery Judge John Weaver quizzed attorney John Owings Thursday morning about the Knox County Retirement and Pension Board entering the lawsuit between Knox County Citizens and...

Study of Knoxville Center Mall approved, extended to entire area

by design | Dec 22, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “I’m going to veto it,” Mayor Glenn Jacobs told the media following the first vote by the Knox County Commission to authorize a feasibility study on Knoxville Center Mall. The motion, introduced by Commissioner...

Elks Lodge 160 make veterans’ holiday season merrier

by design | Dec 22, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Bill Howard The Christmas holidays can be a happy and joyous time with family and friends. Or they can be anything but, for those who are alone, or need regular care. It can be an especially difficult time for the elderly or infirm. Because of the generosity...

Angelic Ministries has the Christmas Spirit… Do you?

by design | Dec 22, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Tuesdays and Wednesdays are busy days for Angelic Ministries. On those days, every week, people in need come there for food, furniture, linens, kitchen supplies, clothing and personal care items. In the Christmas...

Tennessee and the League of Nations, II

by Ray Hill | Dec 22, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Colonel Luke Lea, away in Europe during the First World War, had never gotten along with John Knight Shields when they were colleagues in the United States Senate. Lea’s newspaper, the Nashville Tennessean sided with Shields’ opponent, Governor Tom Rye in...

Halls High makes Christmas brighter for many families

by design | Dec 22, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Williams Cheri Duncan’s cheerleaders did their part in helping Halls High School make Christmas brighter for many families this year. The cheer squad “adopted” a family for Christmas and provided gifts for them. The adoption was part of the school’s...

The Knoxville Focus for December 16, 2019

by design | Dec 15, 2019 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Emerald Youth opens doors on community center in Lonsdale By Ken Lay The Emerald Youth Foundation opened a community center in Lonsdale last week. The new Haslam-Sansom Ministry Complex officially opened Thursday. It’s located on Texas Avenue between Stonewall and...

Has Mayor Jacobs stacked the Charter Review Committee?

by Steve Hunley | Dec 15, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley In politics, it is hardly unusual when a politician stacks the deck before dealing the cards. Mayor Glenn Jacobs has certainly done that with the announcement of his appointments to serve on the Knox County Charter Review Committee. Every ten years,...

Tentative plans announced for old Standard Knitting Mill

by design | Dec 15, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com An overflow crowd pushed into a room at Pellissippi State College on Magnolia Avenue Thursday to hear Peter Davis of WRS talk about what the new owners of Standard Mill hope to do with the old skeleton of a...

Tennessee and the League of Nations

by Ray Hill | Dec 15, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Tennessee had been staunchly for Woodrow Wilson, both in his 1912 campaign for the presidency and his 1916 reelection campaign. Tennessee’s junior United States senator, Kenneth D. McKellar, had been a fervent admirer of President Wilson as a member of the...