By Steve Williams Central High’s football team went to work early and quickly in pursuit of a second straight TSSAA Class 5A state championship and by evening’s end it had indeed been a Black Friday at Tennessee Tech’s Overall Field. Wearing all black uniforms with...
By Ray Hill The United States was finally catching a glimpse of the end of the bloodiest conflict in human history, World War II, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt vacationed at his cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia. Roosevelt was sitting for a portrait by artist...
By Steve Williams From elementary school through high school, Lee Henson went to Karns. Except for his time in college at Carson-Newman, he’s always been at Karns as a student, player and coach. Fittingly, in his 26th season as a basketball coach at Karns High, he was...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com What developer Rick Dover has done with old Knoxville High School is amazing. If you ever visited the old building before Dover bought and converted it to apartments you’d be absolutely pleased. Dover, who is known...
Tyree honored at World’s Fair Park By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Current and former elected officials turned out Wednesday to honor former Mayor Randy Tyree with the dedication of part of the World’s Fair Park in his honor and the unveiling of a...
By Steve Hunley Who would have thought I would agree with every single word spoken by former president Barack Obama? Certainly not me, but yet I did. Former president Obama, speaking at a symposium at his foundation in Chicago, basically told the “politically woke”...
By Amy Box Fellhoelter Besides the many activities of passing out candy to trick-or-treaters for Halloween, eating Thanksgiving dinner with family members, and an upcoming “Breakfast with Santa” event, the residents of Morning Pointe Assisted Living & Memory Care...
The Strickland Case By Ray Hill “I’m guilty,” were the only words spoken by William “Billy” Strickland, a fresh-faced twenty-eight year old when he revisited the Knox County Court House. Strickland had been engaged in a bitter battle for custody of his four year-old...
By Steve Williams Central is the one still standing. In a knockdown, drag out football slobber knocker worthy to be played on Joel Helton Field, the Bobcats walked away with a 10-0 victory over the West Rebels in the TSSAA Class 5A semifinals Friday night. It was the...
By Ken Lay Josh Ballard says he relishes the chance to play rivalry games against Farragut. “It’s always good to play games against quality teams like this,” said Ballard, West Valley Middle School’s girls basketball coach. “In these rivalry games, you just never know...
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