by Joe Rector | Oct 31, 2016 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector As soon as October arrived, folks were decorating houses and purchasing costumes for the celebration of Halloween. I’ve always been amazed at the keen interest poured out for the day. It wasn’t like that in my world. Halloween was simply a time each year...
by Steve Williams | Oct 31, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Mixed feelings have been circulating throughout Big Orange Country lately about UT men’s basketball coach Rick Barnes. By the way, that’s UT as in Tennessee, not Texas, where Barnes spent the biggest part of his successful coaching career. Some are...
by design | Oct 31, 2016 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I feel like a soldier awaiting the signal to charge enemy lines. I never vote until election day because I don’t trust early voting where ballots might get lost or not even counted unless they’re necessary to decide a close vote. Perhaps I’m being...
by Mark Nagi | Oct 31, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman So a few months back some of my old college friends and I scheduled a get together in the great state of Tennessee. The plan was to spend a couple of nights in Nashville and see an NFL game. We settled on the middle of October and the huge...
by Ray Hill | Oct 30, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Howard Baker had accomplished what most observers had believed to be the impossible by defeating Governor Frank Clement for the United States Senate in the November election in 1966. Baker became the first Republican ever to be popularly elected to the U....
by Ralphine Major | Oct 30, 2016 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major He grew up on Emory Road just west of Fairview Baptist Church, graduated from Gibbs High School’s Class of 1944, and served in WWII. Lynn Tillett of Corryton, Tennessee, passed away October 19, 2016, at the age of 90. I did not personally know Mr....
