• Home
  • About
  • Advertise
    • Classifieds
    • Media Kit
  • Archives
    • Archived Editions
    • COVID-19
    • Ray Hill’s Archives
    • This Week’s Focus
  • Find Us
  • Links
  • Public Notices
  • Weather
  • Columnists:
  • Black
  • Duncan
  • Ferguson
  • Hill
  • Hunley
  • Major
  • Mattingly
  • McKeehan
  • Nagi
  • Rector
  • Steely
  • Williams
  • Columnists:
  • Black
  • Duncan
  • Ferguson
  • Hill
  • Hunley
  • Major
  • Mattingly
  • McKeehan
  • Nagi
  • Rector
  • Steely
  • Williams
Marjorie Butler, Georgia point guard, will have final ‘homecoming’ Sunday

Marjorie Butler, Georgia point guard, will have final ‘homecoming’ Sunday

by design | Feb 21, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Williams In a way, when the University of Georgia women’s basketball team plays the Tennessee Lady Vols in Knoxville this coming Sunday afternoon, Marjorie Butler will have come full circle. Butler, a product of Webb School in Knoxville, is the starting...

The Knoxville Focus for February 15, 2016

The Knoxville Focus for February 15, 2016

by design | Feb 14, 2016 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

McMillan Questions State Officials Over Failed Test By Focus Staff Mike McMillan, East Knox County’s member of the Knox County Board of Education, has queried state officials about the failed TN-Ready testing.  State education officials had to advise superintendents...

Who will choose for you?

Who will choose for you?

by Steve Hunley | Feb 14, 2016 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley The Knoxville News Sentinel has dutifully endorsed Grant Standefer (2nd District) and Rueben “Buddy” Pelot (5th District) for the Knox County Board of Education.  They have also endorsed Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong’s opponent in the coming...

Susan Horn: Profile of a Survivor

Susan Horn: Profile of a Survivor

by design | Feb 14, 2016 | Absher, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Sally Absher   Anyone who has ever done so knows that running for elected office can be stressful and demanding. We applaud all the candidates who have stepped up to run in the Knox County primary election March 1. Currently seen as the Fifth District...

Robert A. Taft of Ohio

Robert A. Taft of Ohio

by Ray Hill | Feb 14, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill There are likely more pedigrees in politics than the American Kennel Club and if anyone ever possessed a pedigree, it would be Robert Alphonso Taft of Ohio.  For decades, Robert A. Taft was one of the most prominent members of the United States Senate. ...

Richey becomes first Knight to ink athletic scholarship

Richey becomes first Knight to ink athletic scholarship

by design | Feb 14, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ken Lay When Brent Richey signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball at Chattanooga State Community College, he became the first student-athlete from Knoxville Christian School to receive an athletic scholarship. “This is just absolutely amazing,” said...

Terence Scott: ‘We’ve got to pull together as one for our kids and babies’

Terence Scott: ‘We’ve got to pull together as one for our kids and babies’

by design | Feb 14, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

(This is the fourth and final part of a series on Terence Scott, former Central High football standout who went on to star at the University of Oregon in 2008. Scott crossed many hurdles growing up in Knoxville, and then chased his dream to play Division 1 football....

The Knoxville Focus for February 8, 2016

The Knoxville Focus for February 8, 2016

by design | Feb 7, 2016 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

  Safety Center talks begin again By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com When a mentally ill person is arrested in Knox County, the suspect is taken to jail and housed with other inmates prior to trial. The sheriff’s department has estimated that at least 25% of...

Who will choose for you?

A great day for Gibbs and Hardin Valley

by Steve Hunley | Feb 7, 2016 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley A long-awaited and anticipated day is about to come to pass for two communities in Knox County, and for the people of Hardin Valley and Gibbs, it simply could not be a more joyous occasion. Over the past year, the two communities located on opposite...

John W. Bricker of Ohio

John W. Bricker of Ohio

by Ray Hill | Feb 7, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Few politicians have a career as successful as that of John William Bricker of Ohio; state attorney general (an elected position in Ohio), three times governor and twice United States senator. Bricker came from very humble beginnings, born on September 6,...

« Older Entries
Next Entries »
Click here for State Wide Public Notice
  • Smoky Mountain Home Health and Hospice Celebrates 30 years

    Since 1982, Smoky Mountain...

  • Karns LL teams are battling for state berth

    By Steve Williams Karns is...

  • The Knoxville Focus: Monday, August 13, 2012

    Click here to view this...

  • 92 Boxes of Love

    More than 20 volunteers...

  • South-Doyle Delivers Shutout over Heritage

    By Adam Sullivan It’s not...

  • Rosie’s World

    Rosie Moore celebrated her...

Phone

865-686-9970

Email

staff@knoxfocus.com

Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
© 2022Knoxville Focus

Privacy Policy

Terms Of Use