by design | Dec 16, 2016 | The Daily Focus
If you are overloaded on football, food and festivities, the UT Arboretum Society is offering a great alternative: the Third Annual New Year’s Walk at the UT Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge, on Monday, January 2, 2016. Please note that this year’s...
by design | Dec 15, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Manufacturer to create 70 new jobs with $11.9 million expansion Tennessee Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd and Magnum Venus Products, Inc. officials today announced the manufacturer will invest $11.9 million to build a new facility that...
by design | Dec 15, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Only helmets, headlights and rear reflectors are the required gear for participants in one of downtown Knoxville’s most popular and creative holiday traditions. Everything else is up to your imagination. More than 1,000 people on bicycles will don strands of...
by design | Dec 15, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Sites in Knoxville, Sevier County, South Pittsburg and Music Row The Tennessee Historical Commission announced this week the addition of four Tennessee sites to the National Register of Historic Places. “The National Register is an honorary recognition...
by design | Dec 14, 2016 | The Daily Focus
The Anderson County Chamber of Commerce will co-host the East Tennessee Business Growth Conference on Thursday, January 19, 2017, 8:00 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. at the Hollingsworth Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership located at 2135 N. Charles G. Seivers Boulevard in...
by design | Dec 13, 2016 | The Daily Focus
The last intersection in the City’s $17 million Cumberland Avenue reconstruction – Cumberland at 17th Street – will be rebuilt and repaved later this week, requiring detours of motorists on both streets. The work on the intersection at Cumberland and 17th will...
by design | Dec 12, 2016 | Public Notice
Foreclosure notices SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE Sale at public auction will be on January 10, 2017 on or about 10:00AM local time, at the North door, Knox County Courthouse, Knoxville, Tennessee, conducted by the Substitute Trustee as identified and...
by design | Dec 12, 2016 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes I don’t have a lot to say. This may come as a surprise because I’ve been cobbling 1000 word stories together every week for ten years. Some of my detractors may even welcome the prospect of my silence. It has been my modus operandi to...
by Joe Rector | Dec 12, 2016 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The older I grow, the more I come to realize that life resembles a ride on the biggest roller coaster in existence, and it’s a ride that travels much too fast for my taste. Those rides that make stomachs rise to throats and frazzle nerves aren’t things...
by Ralphine Major | Dec 12, 2016 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major The look on her face was one of pain and distress. Her hands clutched her stomach. We thought she was ill. Many years ago, mother and I had nursery duty during worship service. The group of three-year-old children looked adorable in their Christmas...
