School leaders brief community at rezoning forum By Ken Lay Knox County Schools hosted a rezoning meeting Tuesday night at Gibbs Elementary School to discuss the impact of two new middle schools. Gibbs Middle School and Hardin Valley Middle are scheduled to open in...
By Steve Hunley Knox County Criminal Court Clerk Mike Hammond apparently isn’t satisfied with running the Criminal courts and the Fourth Circuit Court. The Fourth Circuit Court is Knox County’s busiest divorce court and considering how many marriages seem to dissolve...
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com You may have seen him as he slowly boated up and down both shores with buckets and bags in the boat and a long dip net. Who is that guy out in the boat on the Tennessee River and what’s he doing? Depending on the day the guy in the...
By Steve Williams Central’s football team proved to be human after all. They had an off day. After many magic moments led to an 11-game winning streak and their first berth in the TSSAA state finals in 17 seasons, the Bobcats couldn’t get in the end zone and Memphis...
By Steve Williams Chris Sanders believed the Knoxville Challenger Sports teams gave the Tennessee Vols some motivation. “I think we helped them get cured up and get going,” said Sanders, who was watching the Vols blister Presbyterian in the second half of their 90-50...
Saturday, December 10, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Cookies and apple cider will warm the day at the East Tennessee Historical Society’s Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 10. Entertainment will be provided by the Smokyland Sound Chorus of the Greater Knoxville Chapter...
Teacher Advisory Committee discusses evaluations By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Teacher evaluations and school textbooks were the topics of Tuesday’s meeting of the Knox County Teacher Advisory Committee and Interim Superintendent Buzz Thomas said the meeting...
By Steve Hunley The problem of drug addiction in America is complex, troubling and growing at an alarming rate. Yet I wonder if our country has really made the effort to properly regulate opioid painkillers. Clearly if Walmart can instantly know how and when to...
By Alex Norman The Webb Spartans were looking for its ninth state championship, and fourth in five years. But it would be Lausanne Collegiate School picking up its first gold ball. On Thursday, December 1st, Lausanne edged Webb 12-9 for the Division II-A championship,...
By Ray Hill For much of 1979, Howard Baker was preoccupied with the business of running for president. Senator Baker arrived at the Lyons Township Republican annual steak fry and the temperature was still a broiling 90 degrees as the sun went down. Worse still, the...
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