by Ralphine Major | Sep 30, 2019 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com Corryton’s Annual Possum Chase is set for October 12… but, the preparations started long before then! The Tennessee Valley Machine Knitters held a knitting workshop on August 6 at the First United Methodist Church of Alcoa....
by Mark Nagi | Sep 30, 2019 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Tennessee’s football program is a historical powerhouse. Six national championships. Thirteen SEC titles. One of the 15 winningest programs in the history of the sport. But these days the Vols bear little resemblance to those glorious past. The...
by Steve Williams | Sep 30, 2019 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams When Jeremy Pruitt said late last season that he needed better players, the first-year Tennessee football coach was criticized by some, although he was just being brutally honest. When he said last week in his open date press conference that his team...
by Steve Hunley | Sep 29, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Folks in the Parkridge community are upset their community isn’t being treated fairly. What Parkridge residents are angry about is the use of land right next to Caswell Park as the site for a three-story apartment complex for the homeless. The City of...
by Ray Hill | Sep 29, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Joseph Wellington Byrns was almost surely the most popular political figure inside Tennessee’s “Hermitage District.” That was the Congressional district in Tennessee which encompassed Nashville and the “Hermitage”, home of General Andrew Jackson. For...
by design | Sep 23, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes I feel like the crowd behind the Pied Piper of Hamelin. You recall the legend of the Piper whose job was to remove rats from a town in Germany. Then, when the town’s people refused to pay the Piper, he spirited away the children of the...
